Polly's Pointers Run Hot Water to Soften Brushes
Polly suggests softening stiff toothbrushes by boiling briefly or running hot water before brushing. Readers share tips on removing embroidery marks from fabric slips and rolling rugs after wash. A homemaking column notes cuff stitching to save time, outdoor cooking hacks with a candle in foil, weighty foil plates to prevent blowing, and cookie cutters from juice cans with inverted muffin tins for cooling.
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Polly
Lily
Sylvia
Lois
Helen Help Us Dear Helen Untangling Family Help and Untouchables
A public advice column features Aunt Helen addressing family friction. Topics include a sister who never washes or hosts without pay, an abusive partner, and a call for social change. A reader proposes a button campaign on major issues, while another shares tips for lonely mothers seeking community. Untouchables as cooks in India is noted as a parliamentary demand to remove untouchability.
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Helen
Mom
J.K.F
Nancy T
Helen Bottel
Pecos
New Delhi
Horoscope for September 8 1970
Your sign section notes Aries through Pisces readers receive tailored guidance. The piece highlights personal focus areas, from practicality and investigation to restraint, creativity, and diplomacy, ending with notable birth dates like Ariosto, Richard I, and Peter Sellers.
Madera Valley Water Supply Wins FHA Construction Grant
Farmers Home Administration approves a 137000 grant and 152000 loan for a new rural water system in the Sand Lake area north and west of Pecos. The project includes two pressure stations, storage tanks, 80 miles of pipeline, and serves about 130 families, totaling roughly 500 members across 200 miles of pipeline. Construction aimed to begin soon with bids sought and completion in about five months.
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Madera Valley Water Supply Corporation
Farmers Home Administration
City of
Pecos
Sand Lake
Texas
FHA
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BY Frances Drake
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Taurus
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Mars
Sagittarius
Aquarius
Lodovico Ariosto
Ital
Richard I
Lionhearted
England
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Alger Hiss
Whitaker Chambers
Madera Valley Water Supply
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Dick Turner
National Automobile Dealers Association
Osteset Organization of Amerca
New Car and Truck Dealers
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N.A.D.A
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