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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1959
Page
10
Weekend Dividend presents Sunday reading for families with curbside advice, moral snippets, and light features. The column blends gentle essays with practical tips aimed at a broad audience, inviting shared values and wholesome entertainment.
Milan's Edison Birthplace Museum showcases a 22 inch talking doll named Thomasina loaned by Mrs. John Eyre Sloane of West Orange New Jersey. The doll, a rare original from the 1880s, contains a miniature phonograph mechanism and once spoke nursery rhymes for 30 seconds. First patents were filed in 1888 and copies of the design were discussed with German doll makers.
A chaotic diary style observation notes a Do Nothing Day proclaimed in a humorous tone with references to Edison voices, talking dolls, and the writer’s visit with cheerleaders at a Chronicle Telegram sponsored Class AA contest. Mentions rail derailments and travel dreams across the US and Canada with weather and vacation plans interwoven.
In a Vanderbilt era column, South faced a tricky no trump contract after West opened diamonds. Declarer deduced West held four spades and led the jack of spades. A precise spade and diamond sequence followed, the heart discard and final club play sealing the fate of the contract as the declarer made suboptimal decisions.
The text explains portrait lighting to reveal personality using a two-light indoor setup a high lamp and a camera level lamp positioned about 60 degrees apart. It covers placement distances from the sitter and suggests adjusting timing to capture the model’s best look, with notes on achieving depth and natural daylight effects. It also includes a historical digression on the 1862 USS Monitor versus CSS Merrimac battle and John Ericsson’s role in Civil War naval innovation.
Fragmentary instructions describe joining a fit side flange and tying a spool with one end taped, then assembling Ariel. A subsequent step mentions turning against an emery wheel or rod to form a finished surface. The readable text outlines basic mechanical preparation and finishing actions without full context.
In a candid chat at Don Biel VA the elder Sage answers readers’ questions about the cost of living school integration peace and space. He jokes about coffee and recalls past winters insisting readers think and write on broad topics while musing that balance comes from within.
The Elyria chapter joins National Red Cross Month with an educational drive rather than fundraising. Volunteers and nurses conduct First Aid and Home Nursing classes across the area to teach preventive care and disaster readiness, highlighting the chapter’s ongoing community services and support during emergencies.
A high thrust rocket motor, with over a million pounds of thrust, is being developed by Rocketdyne for the American space program. The effort aims to match Soviet advances and enable deep space travel, despite testing, plumbing, and control challenges from an eight motor cluster design.
Readers ask about scoring honors in Auction Bridge when a side is declarer and rules for misdeal in Canasta. Answers clarify honors scoring by the side dealt, no misdeal for missed turns, and no general prohibition on burying cards in Auction Pinochle with one rule allowing removal of used meld cards.
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