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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1936
Page
6
A jumbled OCR page shows classified ad sections including Personal, Automobiles, Services, and moving or housing listings. Several vehicle makes appear such as Chevrolet and Ford, alongside ad categories and pricing notes, with partial captions and numbers scattered throughout.
Dorothy Dix argues that the henpecked husband endures a life of quiet sacrifice. He is depicted as kind, dutiful, and loyal, choosing home harmony and children over personal pride, while enduring relentless control from a domineering wife.
Local notes report the Grangers will hold a meeting Thursday evening. The Athens Choir sang Sunday at the Presbyterian Church. Visitors Clark Cline and Mildred Williams called on Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cottrill Saturday. John Bob Fuller ill with mumps. Rosalie Haas recovered. Methodist Church Sunday School attendance was sixteen. preaching and Young People's meeting Sunday night. Linda Raymond and Bert and Vern Fuller are home for the weekend. The Washington Monument once unfinished was discussed with 150 feet height and a perpetual fire atop the shaft proposed.
A dense program listing shows NBC and various bands singers and shows including Armstrong, Jack Shannon, Myrt and Marge, Kate Smith, Ray Noble, Burns and Allen, Lily Pons, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope and many others. The page catalogs dozens of station lineups, orchestras and vaudeville acts scheduled across matinee and evening times.
A discussion on tantrums argues they are anger born of frustration not abnormal behavior. It notes causes such as over indulgence or thwarted play, and suggests mothers should address underlying issues, provide structure, and encourage self control rather than neglect.
New York fashion notes describe Valentine Day ornaments for 14 February 1936. Centerpieces show blond papier mache women with lace pantaloons and billowy skirts. Popular place cards feature a girl on a frog with the line Come leap with me. Real lace decor replaces paper in many designs.
A playful inventory of centerpieces and favors for a romantic setting. A large red heart on a silver platter, a Cupid figure with heart halo, a Mickey Mouse postman carrying a red mail sack, and a red heart fastened mail box. Favors include red snappers with ruffles and heart trim.
The article lists novelties for Valentine parties including perfume ties boxes of candy and heart shaped tableware. It notes tablecloths red heart motif cards lace edged plates non drip heart candles and heart shaped confetti with Valentine games and matching hearts as party activities.
Adele Garrison shows Junior learning a hard lesson about beauty and truth as he revisits a legendary rock face with his family. A mother and father guide him to focus on memory’s pleasant aspects while promising a future chance to see the face again.
Cincinnati police announced a crackdown on traffic violators led by Chief Eugene T. Weatherton. Offenders except those with parking, headlight, or taillight violations will receive a court citation or detention at a station with banding used as a condition for release.
Opha Moore of Columbus, secretary of the Buckeye Sheriffs Association, obtained petition forms from the secretary of state to place a constitutional amendment before voters next week. The proposal would extend terms for legislators, estate and county officials from two to four years.
Ellen Claire Couch, a dramatic coach at Centenary Junior College and secretary of the New Jersey Association of Teachers of Speech, argues that voice quality is innate and should be preserved. She warns against lowering pitch for effect and urges women to learn correct pronunciation and cultivate pleasant speech to enhance personality.
The Fox comedy Widow From Monte Carlo stars Warren William Dolores Del Rio and Colin Clive. Duchess of Monte Carlo clashes with a major in a gamb ling world of high society and crime in a tale of romance and intrigue. Also showing My Marriage with Claire Trevor exposing social ostracism and a racketeering death as Kent Taylor and Pauline Frederick reshape a Park Avenue scandal.
Infant child of Mr. and Mrs. John Almashy recovers from illness. P B Seel’s burned home partly saved household goods. Mr. and Mrs. Marvey Shaw visited Athens. H Shirley ill. Mrs Wade staying with daughter Mrs Palmer.
Three women executives of the Roman Catholic Gray Sisterhood of Breslau were sentenced to jail for violating foreign exchange restrictions in financial operations abroad on behalf of their order. Cinnamon is obtained by fermenting bark from the cinnamon tree to loosen the inner layer used as spice.
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