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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1944
Page
19
Fragment from a wartime puzzle page listing clues and answers. Mentions U.S. Marine leadership on Guam, various abbreviations and symbols, and a sequence of crossword style hints including units, dates, and common words. The array hints at military terminology and general knowledge words from 46 to 49 across.
Pattern No 8718 offers a princess line house dress in sizes 34 through 48. The ad notes 413 yards of 39 inch fabric needed for size 36 and invites readers to mail 20 cents, name, address, size, and pattern number to The Athens Messenger Pattern Service in New York.
Radio listings feature Jean Holloway’s The Messiah inspired drama with Handel themes, James Thurber’s Walter Mitty adaptation, Somerset Maugham’s The Letter with narrator Geoffrey Baines, and a lineup including Bob Hope Frances Langford Skinnay Ennis Jerry Colonne Vera Verve. Performers include Milton Cross Ben Grauer and others from NBC CBS networks.
The astrology column notes a day of strange developments and unusual ambitions driven by lunar transits. Expect sudden changes, broad contacts, and quirky impulses tempered by careful planning and steady effort.
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