Needlework care tips from Newton experts for delicate fabrics
Experts from Maytag advise on how to care for needlework and similar items. The guidance covers cotton linen and silk embroideries washed on regular cycles with warm water, colorfastness of dyes, and how to handle synthetic yarns. It recommends swatches for loose fabrics, mesh bags for protection, and air drying or blocking to original size.
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Newton
Iowa
Maytag
Consumer Information Center
Dime a loaf bread outraged buyers in 1946
Attributed to Louise Cook, the report notes bread averaging ten cents a loaf alongside lettuce at twelve cents a head and hamburger at thirty four cents a pound. The piece frames 1946 as a year of slipping inflation and rising costs, describing consumer outrage over prices.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Consumers League
Labor Department
The
Tax Foundation Inc
Washington, D.C
Consumer Reports Q&A on safety marks and used car value
The column explains how CSP C and CPSC notices guide toy safety and why USDA grades on potatoes may mislead. It advises inspecting potatoes in-store, choosing Grades beyond U S 1 when available, and highlights double insulated drills for kid gifts. It also notes how to estimate trade in value using NADA guides and reviews inflation trends from 1946 to 1979, stressing real purchasing power over time.
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Consumer Reports
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
CSPC
CPSC
Maryland
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Washington, D.C
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
U.S
NADA
National Automobile Dealers Association
Consumer’s Union
Heart attack and mental alertness and exercise guidance
Q and A on heart attack effects on alertness and management of ischemic heart disease. A reader with diabetes asks about weight loss injections. answer cautions against pills or injections and promotes diet and exercise via Weight Watchers. Another reader asks about exercise bicycle use. advice suggests consulting manufacturer tables and always confirming with a physician for safe schedules.
Questions of the Heart Editor's Note for Living Page
A new Living page feature titled Questions of the Heart debuts in cooperation with The Coronary Club Inc. Readers are advised to seek heart care guidance from the club and maintain physician contact. Q asks about chocolate on a low fat diet. A recommends low fat substitutes and notes chocolate is high in saturated fat. A discusses nitroglycerin use before activity for angina and addresses underuse due to fear of overdosing.
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Consumer Reports
Dcb
Consumer Union
Washington St
Mt. Vernon
N.Y
Coronary Club, Inc
Green Road
Cleveland
Ohio
Ontario doctors win grants for respiratory study work
Two physicians receive $200 000 grants from Ontario Lottery funds to study respiratory failure and control factors in asthma and bronchitis. Dr Nestor Muller will conduct work at Hospital for Sick Children Toronto while Dr Clive Davis leads research at McMaster Medical Centre Hamilton.
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Toronto
Ontario Thoracic Society
Nestor Muller
Hospital For
Clive Davis
McMaster Medical Centre
Hamilton
Weird News Tales From Readers and Courts
A reader apologizes for accusing the editor of fakery after hearing a story about a woman awarded 864000 by a jury due to a plastic surgeon’s botched belly button shift. Other real-life oddities include a California youth bitten by a pet python during TV night and a D C physician charged with beating a Canada goose to death on a Congressional Country Club green.
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California
Washington, D.C
Federal Wildlife Authorities
Congres
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