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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 06, 1973

Page

5

Dear Abby column venting on messy homes and nosy neighbors

A reader asks Abby how to tell a friend to clean her filthy, crowded house where boxes and clutter block rooms. A second letter condemns nosy spectators at a heart attack victim’s ambulance scene. A third wonders how to address future in laws properly amid marital blur.

Abby Jane John Lauderdale

Bridge Hands and Family Letters Bring Out The Gags

A fragment includes a bridge hand from a six spades slam tale by S Munchausen and a humorous mailbag with Abby-like advice about what to call in-laws and a San Diego doctor's office sign about morticians and smokers. It mixes high card play with light etiquette jokes and reader questions.

S. Munchausen Abby San Diego

Pleasantview Benefit Sale Adds Special Item Clock

The 1973 Pleasantview Home Benefit Sale in Kalona features a handmade walnut grandfather clock as a special item. The clock will cross the block at 8 pm on September 18 at the Kalona Sale Barn, amid quilts, crafts, baked goods, antiques, and farm items.

Eugene Way Kalona Pleasantview Kalona Savings Bank Kalona Sale Farmers Savings Bank Pleasantview Home

Pleasantview Benefit Sale plans and aging facility upgrade

The notice highlights Nearing completion of a facility expansion to add 49 beds for a total of 130 guests, stressing continued skilled nursing care. It praises Pleasantview’s community effort, urges attendance at the Benefit Sale on Tuesday September 18 with selling from 10 to 4, a 6 to 8 window, and all items sold thereafter.

Pleasantview Willard Alta) Marner Mercy Hospital Iowa City Wallace Gascho Gale Gascho Evanston Ill Harold Yoder John John Schwartzendruber

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