This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1954
Page
6
New York fashion feature highlights fall wear with small furs in rainbow hues. Pink mink and beaver, golden fox, and blue ermine lead a bloused bolero silhouette paired with long waist coats and versatile stoles and capes in long hair furs.
Kay Sherwood explains turning back yard space into a cleaning workroom with sawhorses a plank and a hose. She details washing shower curtains lamp shades and metal items outdoors using water soap and quick drying methods while enjoying summer weather and shade.
Readers discover affordable ways to modernize kitchens with coordinated towels cloths and curtains. Designers Scott Wilson and Fritz Foote showcase linen towels tablecloths and yard-goods printed with vegetables fruit and floral motifs in bright avocado charcoal beige coral and orange.
If the tapes and cords on your Venetian blinds are shrinkproof you can wish them quite easily by putting them into a bathtub full of warm soapsuds. If they're not, leave the blinds in place and wipe each slat with a sudsy sponge, and rinse each one the same way with a clean damp cloth.
Instructions advise washing bedding and towels from a sick room in very hot soapsuds and rinses. The sick room laundry should be kept separate from the general family laundry to prevent cross contamination.
Owners should wash electric blankets with care to protect insulation and wiring. Avoid twisting or wringing during cleaning to prevent damage to delicate wires and insulating materials.
A padded bra should naturalize the bustline and fit proportionally to the waist and hips. Larger figures need careful selection, with longline options, while smaller figures may use a bandeau or bralette. The goal is firm, youthful contours, not exaggeration.
Advice to add a small amount of soap to wallpaper paste to ease application and prevent cracking and peeling. The tip emphasizes smoother handling and longer lasting results when installing wallpaper.
Homeowners convert a 11 by 20 foot carport into a screened in space adjacent to the kitchen. Aluminum screens and roll up basswood shade panels add privacy and coolness, creating a flexible outdoor room for family use.
A campus wardrobe article explains making stylish accessories at low cost using buttons and trims. It covers enhancing sweaters with ribbon and buttons, trimming Bermuda shorts, decorating rainwear, belts, and hats with decorative buttons, and creating affordable clutch bags with gold ball buttons.
Buying off list expands as discounts and loss leaders reshape the auto and retail markets. Manufacturers push against price cutting while discount houses and buying clubs proliferate. Trade groups and presidents highlight the shift as workers gain wholesale access via clubs and auctions spread nationwide.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.