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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1929
Page
9
Winifred Black argues a chauffeur’s practical maturity vs the rich young man’s self centered drift. The chauffeur, balanced by work and responsibility, contrasts with his master who travels to California and hides no real drive. The piece extols worked people as models for better living.
Vera Winston highlights three new Spring hats with felt construction. A beige turban features elk fringe, a bright green brimmed model rolls into a semicircle, and a Re noux inspired felt hat shows distinctive ear flaps. Felts remain fashionable and popular.
Helpful hints cover flour storage warming for baking damp flour leads to heavy cakes keep flour dry and warm before use. Reuse cast off curtain rods as shoe racks inside a cupboard with heels hanging on rods. Make emergency soup from water left from vegetables with milk egg salt and celery or onion. Don’t discard worn rugs. cut best portions to make bathroom or bedroom rugs. Fill leaking hot water bottles with hot sand or bran for kneeling when cleaning. Wax jelly tops can be preserved by vinegar steeping. Buy enamelware in bright colors to brighten the kitchen atmosphere.
A reader asks how to attract boys and be popular. The response suggests listening more than speaking, showing genuine interest in their hobbies, and avoiding overt pursuit. It also answers four questions about dating, ink color, and a hostess leaving a party to ride.
A guidance piece on string beans as greens in the diet and several testing and cooking methods. It compares snapping the middle, trimming tips, boiling then stringing, and Frenching for tender delicate texture, noting older beans require longer cooking and that flavor remains strong.
This daily forecast notes eccentric planetary influences shaping many realms of life. It predicts unusual, sometimes unsettled events in labor, contracts, personal affairs. a versatile child may become a genius, with rewards and new arrangements expected amid possible financial peril.
Workmen restoring Peterborough’s seventeenth century Guildhall discovered a clutch of hen’s eggs in the roof nest. The eggs are estimated to have been laid about a century ago. Five million people in the United States are unable to read or write.
Home-Kitchen by Alice Lynn Barry offers two bean recipes. One blends string beans with cream, salt, and pepper after boiling until tender, served hot. The second toasts onion and tomatoes with beans, lemon rind and juice, ginger and fat, cooking until beans are tender with juiced tomatoes and occasional water additions.
In this 1920 account, New Guinea is described as Earth’s largest island with sparse population and pockets of cannibalism. The Papuan tribes are depicted as tall, frizzy haired and cultural practices include nose piercing, body painting and adornment from natural materials.
A 1929 health feature by Dr. Copeland stresses fatigue as a warning sign. It warns that morning tiredness with no clear cause signals possible hidden infection or poor nutrition, and advises medical exam for teeth, diet, kidneys, and digestion plus eye strain and posture issues.
In a staged negotiation, Adele Garrison’s Love's Awakening reveals Harry Underwood debating with Madge and Lillian about Philip Veritzen's plan to back Noel's musical drama. They fear Veritzen aims to secure a throne-linked fortune for Noel, threatening Noel's independent path and Mary’s freedom, amid talk of G and B producing the project.
Knart and companions drift ten thousand miles by yeast powered flight and shadows nearly drift astray. A little girl and a fan rescue them, blowing the shadows back to their proper rooms for supper as Knart plots a safe return.
A fragmentary passage discusses virtue and wisdom with scattered aphorisms. It references gentility and gender, notes on prudence, and a wary view of fools, attributing sayings to familiar voices like Swift. The text reads like a miscellany of proverbs and reflective statements.
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