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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1942
Page
6
Wartime advice stresses practical hands over glamor. Daily care includes protective creams, regular manicure, cuticle pushing, and simple hand exercises to keep fingers flexible and nails neat for busy work, sports, or defense tasks.
In a wartime era piece, Zelina de M Brunschwig explains converting two rooms into cohesive modern spaces using simple fabrics. She preserves color family themes, adds bright chintz, and repurposes furniture, turning a mannish bedroom and cluttered living room into unified, lighter, contemporary rooms.
A young mother voices frustration over talking predominantly about children while seeking social time. She notes conversations among mothers center on formulas and behavior problems, limiting engaging topics. The piece cites wives and husbands present in social gatherings as bored by the single minded chatter. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Pidcock hosted a chicken dinner in New Marshfield honoring son Charles on a furlough from Camp Chaffer Arkansas. guests included Emory Coen and son, Jane McHarg, S. Sickles, Sam and George Pidcock, and Eleanor Pidcock.
Rev and Mrs E L Pielow of Mt Lebanon Pa visit Miss Grace Stickney and Miss Bertha Stickney in Athens. Prof and Mrs Frank Gullum announce birth of daughter Linda Ann in Pittsburgh. Carl Ferguson hosts Mrs O G Hawk from Marietta. Jesse White on furlough from Alaska visits family. travel and illness linked to relatives across Ohio and Kentucky.
Mrs Ernest McGraner of 1-2 W Union St is swamped by more than 1500 donated magazines from county families and schools to aid soldiers on trains. Magazines pour in from Glouster Trimble Guysville Coolville Stewart Frost Albany The Plains Carbondale and university libraries. space runs out as requests continue.
Announcement invites all to the Mulpas Reunion on Sunday August 23 at the D. M. Sawyer picnic grounds with a welcome extended to everyone. The item also includes a Dill Pickle recipe from The Messenger and notes a Coolville tent meeting led by Rev. Fred Fields with 8:00 p.m. services nightly.
The Catholic Church receives scaffolding upgrades while the Theta Chi and Delta Tau Delta houses get facelifts with stucco and washed façades. EF State and Elmwood clash with a runaway pig halted traffic as locals chase it. Dwight Riley, a West Point cadet and Ohio University graduate, missed maneuvers due to chicken pox while Kenny Barnett reports enlistment and transfer within the Air Force.
In a Hotel Lanafield suite in New York Madge Graham and her father Charles Spencer discuss a mysterious man who approached Madge in a restaurant. The man warns of danger to Olga and Olina, and Spencer plans to meet him to uncover his true identity and possible leads in the Marion Morton case.
This page offers social etiquette guidance asking five questions about courtesy and image sharing, including handling photographs and guest behavior. It also describes a wholesome outdoor dining centerpiece using a victory garden harvest with chicory parsley watercress eggplant tomatoes peppers and fresh vegetables.
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