Dear Philly and the 13 year old rape letter
A reader recounts impulse to vandalize after a parking space dispute and sends $10 to a charity, seeking redemption. Dear Ann Landers points to the Rehabilitation Institute in Chicago for the first act of restitution. A separate letter from a 13 year old rape survivor is introduced for response.
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Ann Landers
Philly
Rehabilitation Institute
Chicago
E. Superior St
Ann Landers on rape from a reader's plea for help
A 17 year old rape survivor hides the assault for 13 years, blaming herself. She seeks therapy for obesity and relationship issues and learns to talk about the trauma with sensitive counselors. The exchange urges contacting rape hotlines for immediate free counseling and support.
Make newspaper logs with a soaked roll method
Readers share a DIY log making method using folded newspaper rolls soaked in a lime copper sulfate solution and dried before burning. The process includes rolling stacks, using a tuna can end caps, avoiding strings, soaking for 3 to 4 weeks, and storing dry. Also notes giving small bake-and-ship gift cake tips.
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Heloise
Michele Jensen
Michele
Help for Parents in a Battle Over Child Support
A reader details a custody dispute with a ex husband failing to maintain medical insurance and pay child support. Susan Deitz suggests using the Parent Locator Service to enforce payments and cites state and national efforts to promote support enforcement, including forthcoming awareness months and requests to lawmakers.
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Susan
Indy
Indianapolis
Ind
I.R.S
Dean Dobbins
State Department of Public Welfare
South Merridian St
Chid
Maryland
Elaine Fromm
OECS
Organization For the Enforcement of Child Support
Nicodemus Road
Reisterstown
Senate
House Representatives
Doyle as Piltdown hoax suspect fueled by science myth
Winslow argues that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could have orchestrated the Piltdown hoax using his geology skills and social access. He cites Doyle's visits to the site, connections to Dawson and Woodward, and Doyle's interest in spiritualism as motive, while noting skeptics and peers dispute the theory.
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Dawson
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Stephen Jay Gould
Harvard
Piltdown
Gould
Doyle
Winslow
William Mitchell
Holmes Society
London
Conan Doyle
Dr. Watson
Charles Waterton
Crowborough
British Museum
Arthur Smith Woodward
Britain
Woodward
Woodward and
Geological Society
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Piltdown Man
Decipher Pass puzzle offer promises big prize
Pente Games Inc markets Decipher a 150-piece cipher puzzle with a $100,000 prize for the correct English solution. Players pay $12, register, and mail entries by March 1, 1984. Warren Holland created the game, with risk insured by Lloyd's of London and a New York insurer for $4,500.
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Pente Games Inc
New York
Warren Holland
Virginia
Newt
Holland
Smithsonian Magazine
Thomas Jefferson Beale
Beale
Blue Ridge Mountains
Halland
Hasio
England
Dallas
Deripher
Lloyd's of London
Scotland Yard
New York Insurance Company
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