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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1930
Page
7
Dr. Copeland urges gift of health as true Christmas blessing and offers fashion guidance for semi formal and formal New Year’s Eve wear. Describes Sunday Night dress options, Grecian silhouettes, evening accessories, and jewelry to complement velvet lace and silk fabrics. Includes pattern 1868 details from The Athens Messenger pattern department.
Royal S Copeland reflects on salt’s role for livestock and people, weaving in quotes from Solomon and Cicero. He links Christmas gift giving to health, urging parents to prioritize children’s well being and lifelong health over trivial presents.
A reader asks about arm pain from neuritis and systemic infection, another queries normal systolic pressure for a 25 year old man, and a 17 year old reports swollen leg veins likely from overexertion. Advice recommends rest, avoidance of standing, and elastic stockings for varicose veins.
Madge recalls a blessing from Philip Veritzen a famed producer who gifts a miniature stage and a note of praise sparking her lifelong dream of writing a play. Lillian teases Noel’s gifts while Madge frets over Dicky’s possible reaction, as Veritzen helps distribute Christmas dinners and toys. Continued tomorrow.
Pilgrims from around the world stream into Bethlehem to attend the solemn mass that begins tonight. Donkey carts and limousines mix with robes of East and West as millionaires and paupers join in homage at the birthplace of Christ. Prelates and American clergy exchange greetings, renewing old friendships as Arabs and Jews pause their long quarrel during this holy season.
Amos Parrish offers practical fashion ideas for shoppers using Christmas money. He highlights accessible wardrobe staples and thoughtful accessories suitable for holiday budgets and seasonal trends.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad continues its Christmas tradition by placing decorated trees in observation cars on all-Pullman Capitol and National Limited trains passing Athens on Christmas Eve and Day. Train secretaries will hand out toys and candy to children while adults receive confections, cleats, and cigarettes. This annual celebration began in 1924, marking the 104th Christmas of the railroad.
Adjutant Bernard Stone of the Athens Salvation Army will attend a divisional conference of Salvation Army officers in Cincinnati Ohio on Monday December 29. The conference follows a series of meetings linked to the International Conference of the Salvation Army in London.
The English freighter Jameson ran aground five miles south of Jupiter Florida and issued a call for immediate assistance. Local rescue efforts were urged as weather and sea conditions were reported challenging.
The reading notes birthdays bring promotion chances and career hints amid possible fraud or misdirection. It suggests a sharp mind, efficiency, and ambition for a child born today, with potential to advance at work though some personal temptations or resistance may arise.
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