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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1948
Page
8
By EPLIF KINARD NEW YORK The tiered dress appears this spring with multiple graduated tiers over slender skirts creating fuller silhouettes. Designer Jo Copeland uses a dramatic North Lights print while Anna Miller features sheer crepe with a fichu top and black net edging on four tiered rows.
About 70 local models will appear in the Clinic Blues Revue on March 4 at Memorial Auditorium to raise funds for Sheltering Arms Hospital equipment. The event is presented by the Athens Apparel Merchants and Ohio University Student Council, with many named models and child apparel segments.
A column urges Athenians to buy pennies worth of tickets to the March 4 Clinic Blues home talent revue. Proceeds would buy operating instruments and equipment for Shelter ing Arms Hospital, arguing the small sacrifice could save lives and benefit families. The piece notes local performers are friends behind the footlights and emphasizes the communal value of supporting the hospital.
Community organizations including Business and Professional Women, Women's Auxiliary, Ladies Auxiliary of the Eagles, Bates WSCS, East Side Sewing Club, Past Noble Grand's Club, Albany Band Boosters, and church classes schedule meetings at various local venues with hosts and addresses.
John Steinbeck’s current magazine piece Women and Children in Russia was the topic at the Thursday Lydia Lash Evans Club meeting led by Mrs. Fred Weber. Steinbeck spent two months in Russia noting the private lives of the people and their hard work and hopes for better education for children. The meeting at Cottage Tea House was hosted by Mrs. Morrison Burns. March 4 is set for the next gathering with Mrs. Leland Stokes as hostess.
A patriotic program honored February birthdays of Lincoln and Washington with the Columbus Golden W Women's Relief Corps at 69 W State St. Mary Dickens presented Lincoln funeral train pictures. New members were inducted by Flora Murphy. Next meeting set for March 15 with Blanche Mills as hostess.
Linda Rae Holland was celebrated on her sixth birthday with a party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Holland. The event featured blue pink and white decorations and gifts for the honoree. Attendees included Jimmy Edblin Patty Witzler Jimmy Reeder Evelyn Foreacre Bobby Collins Kenny Collins Michael Collins Margene Cole Bethel Jackson David Jackson Janet Yuill Sandra Yuill Nancy West and Kay West. Mr. and Mrs. William Brooks and son Gerald Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Campbell Murray City Mrs. Velma Evener and daughter Carolyn Sugar Creek spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Tinkham and family in Beaumont.
Miss Lorene McClintock develops a self teaching piano system using card tables and paper blocks to train wounded service men with hidden hands and interval study. Trials at Halloran Hospital and VA Hospitals in the Bronx show rapid learning, sometimes in two days, with veterans and staff praising the method.
Mrs. Doris Mansfield learned her brother Daniel Fish and his wife welcomed twin boys on February 19, increasing their family to 13 children.
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