Memory of Mary Holmes On Elm Street Lingers
Editorial Saturday Notebook recalls Mary Holmes, longtime neighbor on Elm Street. The piece details her sharp humor, colorful past including Dodge City life, and influence on local family and friends. After 40 years, she plans a California move but may return in the fall, leaving a lasting impression of warmth and wit.
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American Express
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Richard Nixon
Ottawa
Jack Harris
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Elm Street
Dear Dr Thosteson Cast Injury Question From Mother
A reader asks a physician about an athletic leg injury in her son. After a leg cast, the boy reports ongoing pain and concern that the bone may be misset. He resists follow up visits to avoid delaying cast removal. the mother seeks guidance on next steps.
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MacDonald
Imaginary playmate and medical Q&A column notes
A reader asks about a three year old with an imaginary friend named Elsie and candy sharing. A pediatrician calls it normal, offering control benefits and companionship. The column also discusses cast pain exams, high blood pressure heredity linking weight, migraine suppositories, shingles scars, and fingernail regrowth times with brief patient letters and prayers.
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Dr. Thosteson
Ottawa Cedar Area Subscription Rates Listing
The Ottawa Cedar newspaper shows subscription rates for trade area by mail with various term options and prices including six months and one year. Rates outside trade area are listed with a 3 percent deduction for out of state charges and the piece notes Associated Press attribution for published news and dispatches.
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Welin
Publiqner
Hornbeck Relives Morning Mayhem in Twilight Zone Style
A humorous riff on morning misfortune recounts Hornbeck late to everything. The narrator laments dawn discomfort and recalls razor mishaps, lumpy cereals, and a chaotic bus ride with a talkative driver and a curious child as chaos erupts from an ordinary wake up.
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Hornbeck
Farm Electric Sales Jump as Rural Rates Rise
AP Farm Writer DON KENDALL reports that 1976 saw a 9.1 percent rise in electric power sales to farmers and rural consumers despite higher bills. Residential use up 6 percent, industrial 14 percent, irrigation up 95 percent. Rural co-ops faced 24 percent higher wholesale energy costs, pushing retail rates about 19 percent higher than 1975.
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Don Kendall
Washington
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Ting
Association
U S trade gap hits new April record
The Commerce Department reports April opened with a $2.62 billion trade deficit, the fourth straight monthly record. For 1977, the deficit runs about $8.55 billion, well above 1976 totals. Officials foresee some decline ahead, citing broader monetary system stability and current account projections of $10 to $12 billion for the year.
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Kristin Goff
New York
United States
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Commerce Department
iByen
Shayn Much
Wore
Aval Commerce
Courtenay Slater
Chael Blumenthal
U.S
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