Missionary Miss Wysner Opens Christmas Tea Talk on Kabele Tribes
Miss Glora Wysner spoke at a Christmas tea about the Kabele tribes of North Africa and Algiers, describing veiling customs in North Africa, the fez change signaling a youth movement, burnous use as both clothing and carrier, and the spahi soldier uniform. She highlighted jewelry habits and ancient pottery and weaving. The tribes are agricultural, valuing olive and fig trees, with land held jointly and transfer issues arising, and farming done with a primitive wooden plough.
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Glora Wysner
North Africa
Algiers
Faculty Women's Club
Turkey
Cairo
Miss Wysner
Abraham
Cultural Ambassadress Olga Andre charms South America
Olga Andre, known as a cultural ambassadress, broadcasts five weekly programs in Spanish from New York, explaining North American life and the working wife to South American listeners. She recalls her Belgian upbringing, lists her shows, and cites letters of appreciation for fostering goodwill.
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South America
Broadway
Funnyman
Ed Wynn
Olga Andre
Belgium
Costa Rica
New York
Miss Andre
Andre
Ariza
Hollywood
Religions and life in North Africa shape society and progress
Miss Wysner discusses how Christianity and Islam influence North African life, noting that Islam blends politics with religion and village centered conduct. She cites disease and fatalism as hindrances while highlighting a youth driven move to purify Islam.
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Rome
Tertulian
St. Augustine
Miss Wysner
Wysner
Rufus Putnam School
Grace Morley
Engagement of William Kircher and Hilda Espel Announced
At a dinner party celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary, Mr. William Kircher and Miss Hilda Espel were announced as engaged to wed. The couple will marry at St. John's Church in Cincinnati on January 20, with Kircher serving as managing editor of the Mt. Healthy Recorder and College Hill Post.
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William Kircher
Hilda Espel
Clarence W. Billett
Highland Ave
Mary Catherine Kircher
Edward Moorman
Cincinnati
Dorothy Kircher Dent
Dick Kircher
John Kircher
Charles P. Kircher
William Espel
St. John’s Church
Kircher
Mt. Healthy
College Hill
Central School children donate milk fund in Christmas spirit
True Christmas spirit shone as Central School pupils volunteered their annual treats to raise money for milk for undernourished children. Miss Mildred Colville, the school health nurse, explained the Community Chest and Child Protection Committee milk fund and PTA funds had run low, prompting a parent to address each grade with the need.
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Mildred Colville
Community Chest and Child Protection Committee
P.T.A
Christmas club and society events fill Tuesday plans
Local clubs hold Christmas parties and meetings across town from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Host families, gift exchanges, and toy or clothing drives accompany gatherings at the Presbyterian Manse, East Side Auditorium, Red Men Hall, and churches as residents prepare for the season.
Choir Sings Cantata The Herald Angels at United Brethren Church
The senior choir directed by James Horwell performed the cantata The Herald Angels by Carrie B Adams at the Sunday evening service to a large audience. Mrs Walter Prather accompanied the choir. Separately Sir Henry Irving declined knighthood in 1883 but accepted it in 1895.
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Sir Henry Irving
Kappa Phi Members Celebrate Christmas Party at Miss Marian Coe's
Miss Marian Coe hosted the Kappa Phi Alumnae at 102 Lancaster St for a Monday night gathering with 18 members and one guest Mrs George Coe. The event featured a potluck dinner, a program on Christmas traditions, readings, a poem, and Santa Claus gift distribution.
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Marian Coe
Kappa Phi
Lancaster St
Edith Miller
George Coe
Carl Roberts
Eunice Snyder
Franklin C. Potter
Keep Giving Toys If You Can Plea by WPA Toy Shop
Workers in the Athens County WPA toy shop repair 2000 toys for Christmas amid hopes to reach 6000 needed. The project, in a former factory, will continue for eleven months with post Christmas loans of repaired items and ongoing clothing preparation for needy families.
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WPA
Athens County
Crand
Shafer
John Powell
Christmas Program at Carbondale Honors St Pauls Visit
A Christmas program at Carbondale Tuesday night at 7 30 honors St Pauls Wayside Cathedral. Neighborhood House will be blessed in a ceremony by the Girls Friendly Society with Marjorie Malone singing. Rev Robert G Purrington will give the greeting as Songs of Christmas are dramatized and The Christmas Story staged. The Great Story by Bishop Hobson will be read. A party at the House will honor school children with stockings of candy prepared by club women. Eleanor E Gifford directs Neighborhood House. Attending with the Wayside Cathedral are Reverend Smythe M Lindsay and Charles Ayers.
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Carbondale
St. Paul's Wayside Cathedral
Girls Friendly Society
Marjorie Malone
Robert G. Purrington
Episcopal
Hocking Valley
Bishop Hobson
Southern
Ohio
Friends of the Church
Eleanor E. Gifford
Neighborhood House
Wayside Cathedral
Smythe, M. Lindsay
Charles Ayers
Athens Women Democratic Club Meets At Mrs Haning Home
Athens County Democratic Women held a meeting at Mrs. Ora Haning's Richland Avenue home with 35 members present. After the business session, Mrs. Louis Tyroler spoke on Christmas customs in France. Members contributed gifts for the Athens County Children's Home and refreshments were served.
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Athens Women's Democratic Club
Ora Haning
Richland Ave
Louis Tyroler
France
Athens County
Persian Palm Leaf Books Still Handwritten
A note describes native interior Persia practices where books are made on palm leaves and inscribed with a pointed tool, a traditional method still in use today.
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Persia
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Athens, Ohio
Ruth Millety
Presbyterian Manse
Child Study Club
Harry Fisher
State St
Higley Study Club
Faculty Women’s Club
A. C. Anderson
Louis Hammerle
F. C. Schilling
R. C. Alexander
East Side P.T.A
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Neil Crawford
Pocahontas Lodge
Red Men’s Hall
Pocahontas
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Margaret Colomber
W.B.A. Friendly Circle
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W. State St
Daughters of Union Veterans
1.C.C.F. Hall
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New Marshfield Road
First Christian Church
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Southern Ohio Electric Co
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Columbus
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Canaanville
Dowler-Ferguson Funeral Directors
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