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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1950
Page
9
A detailed guide shows homemakers how to renew chairs, bassinets, and headboards with latex foam. It outlines patterning, cutting, tacking tape, cementing, and finishing steps to achieve a professional look using simple tools and common materials.
Tuesday afternoon events feature Ames Bern and Plains Vocational Home Economics Classes presenting a manners skit and a style show in Grange Hall. Wednesday to Thursday include Albany Rome Canaan Troy groups with home economics students. judges and Junior Fair Board members from Athens and surrounding areas listed. 4-H and FFA activities coordinated by a team of volunteers and leaders.
Dennis O Keefe mocks a star who claims he never fears box office flops while Clark Gable shows misery after a bad picture. Insiders note Betty Hutton wealth influences her marriage, and Gloria Swanson seeks a Sunset Boulevard follow up. Lila Leeds health worries, Schulberg’s new Dis enchanted proofs spread in Hollywood. An ice cream social closes the page.
Local society notes recount travels and visits of residents and relatives. Professor and Mrs. Beckert and daughter Patricia return from Washington DC Williamsburg and Charlottesville with guests from Piqua, plus Dayton stopovers.
Ordinance 1077 designates portions of North Court Street South Court Street and West Union Street in Athens as congested and loading zones for commercial trucks. It sets hours 7:30 am to 5:00 pm daily and authorizes the Director of Public Service Safety to post signs and enforce loading constraints with penalties of 5 to 25 dollars.
Dr. Crane weighs Eugene T. 17, high school senior, his father and risk of liability. He advises against ownership without adequate insurance and compares costs of buying versus using the father's car and dating alternatives. The column urges careful consideration of savings, expenses, and maturity before purchasing.
The record lists a full day's meals with breakfast items such as green apple sauce ready to eat cereal French toast honey coffee and milk lunch featuring kidney bean salad sliced tomatoes sweet onions English muffins stewed plums peanut cookies tea and milk and dinner including boiled tongue horseradish sauce mashed potatoes buttered snap beans onions cucumbers bread margarine or butter and fortified margarine plus fresh peach ice cream and coffee
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