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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1927
Page
6
Thirteen year old Elsie Hunsberger claims the junior high Miss title in a city wide biscuit bake off featuring entries from four schools. She credits careful handling of dough and precise measuring as key to fluffy golden biscuits, detailing her exact mixing and baking steps.
Two men who died in Columbus within the last week were claimed by multiple wives. H P Smith, who hanged himself Tuesday night, is claimed by Mrs H P Smith of Bluefield West Virginia, with police noting jealousy over a Columbus wife. George Laboube, shot in an argument, was married to a Columbus woman and claimed by Mrs Ethel M LaBoube of Boonville Missouri.
Columbus revelers must end dances by half past midnight due to the Sunday closing law, enforcing early closure for New Year celebrations in the city.
The Columbus police department may donate blood for a transfusion to Officer Emil Buck Remmert who suffers from pernicious anemia. Over 20 officers have been tested with no suitable match yet. Additional tests will continue until a compatible grade is found.
The 1926 per capita fluid milk consumption stood at 55.8 gallons, indicating national dairy intake patterns.
Ruth Weaver, age five, slipped into a water spring near her parents’ basement in Cambridge while trying to rescue a doll and drowned.
Salt Lake City reports the first cyclometer, now in the automobile speedometer, was used by the Mormon band crossing plains to Utah. The 1926 automotive industry consumed large shares of iron steel plate glass upholstery leather hardwood lumber aluminum copper rubber gasoline. Of twelve natural insect parasites released against the corn borer, six established.
Lancaster Fairfield County Democratic club will observe Jackson Day on January 10 with a banquet and speeches by U S Senator William H King of Utah and Congressman Martin Sam Davis of Kent City.
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