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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1937
Page
6
Dorothy Dix discusses ten college friends proposing shared housing to reduce costs and improve living standards. She argues five couples can rent one home cheaper than five separate households, with shared chores, pooled provisions, and potential access to specialized services. Jealousies linger but can be overcome with practice and privacy.
A vintage style recipe brief presents Tomato Rarebit and Peach Cobbler. It lists ingredients for each dish including cheese flour eggs baking soda butter salt pepper canned tomatoes peaches nutmeg sugar milk and shortening. Instructions describe mixing heating and baking steps for a pair of classic comfort foods.
A dense listings page shows a slate of radio programs and personalities including Tom Thomas Dorothy Gordon Tom Mix Doris Kerr Jack Armstrong the Orphan Annie performance Guiser W D Boothweg News of Youth John Gurney Hall Orch Renfrew Billy and Betty Jeck Fulton Mary Small Popeye Bughouse Rhythm Connie Gates Four Showmen Heidt Orch Fibber McGee Heidt Orch Pibber McGee Pick and Pat Frank Moon Munn Radio Theater Warden Lawes Jack Pearl Wayne King Lullaby Lady Musical Toast Duchin Orch Glen Gray Arnheim Orch Lyman Orch 4Y' S PROGRAM.
The scene switches to a hospital room where Mrs Bickett's nurse Miss Haskell arranges care for Katherine. Adele Garrison shows calm, procedural steps: milk, a sedative, and a warm bed to help Katherine sleep, while Madge assists and Katherine reveals a secret before night.
The article explains why curls disappear as hair grows past a few inches. Curl pattern is set by hair follicles at birth. weight straightens waves over length. Permanent waves don’t affect roots. heavy oils only hide curls temporarily. short hair preserves curl.
Gallia County records near a month's rainfall in 24 hours as Edwin McCormick notes 2.3 inches from Saturday through Sunday. The Ohio River is expected to rise but a major flood is not feared. Warm spell blamed for an influenza pneumonia surge with many elderly patients at Holzer Hospital.
Glen Rees, 24, fell from the Wishard steamer between Point Pleasant West Virginia and the Marietta plant. The drowning occurred at about 1:00 Sunday morning. Gallipolis police were notified and asked to report to Point Pleasant officers if the body is found nearby.
A column by Olive Roberts Barton argues photography as a hobby offers creative play and lifelong skill. It notes affordable moving picture gear, home developing, evolving light rules, and new display methods like wall mounted photographic murals seen in a hotel. The piece urges youth to pursue photography to develop artistic values and personal satisfaction.
A fragmented crossword style item lists horizontal and vertical clues with mixed wordplay. It references architectural themes, names, and various common words, inviting solvers to fill a grid that includes directions, objects, and geographic terms.
The Gallia Iron and Wrecking Company of Vine Street, owned by the Maggied Brothers, shipped a record 8,358 fur pelts from Gallipolis. The consignment includes 3,545 skunk, 3,975 opossum, 175 gray fox, 125 red fox, 175 weasel, 200 muskrat, 50 mink, 107 raccoon, five house cats, and a rare wildcat pelt from Gallia County.
GALLIPOLIS The Gallipolis City Board of Education reorganized electing Harry Miller president C E Brumfield vice president and A S Lloyd clerk The late Charles Hughes high school teaching post remains unfilled Mrs Garland Gillingham and Lawrence Smeltzer assigned to fill the position until another science and commercial teacher is employed
Norma Conard Fite, music supervisor at Rio Grande, has resigned. County Superintendent H Bion Bradbury said she will continue teaching until her successor is employed.
Edith McGuire six, daughter of Willie Mc Guire of Thivener, was seriously burned Friday when her dress caught fire at an open grate. The burns covered her body from the knees to the head.
Metro-Goldwyn cap delivers another musical smash. Eleanor Powell shines as the queen of taps guiding a small town girl romance aboard a navy backdrop. A lavish production with spectacular dancing and Cole Porter songs headlines a strong supporting cast including James Stewart Virginia Bruce Una Merkel Sid Sivers Frances Langford and Buddy Ebsen.
Gallia County prosecutor John W. Howell mails a form letter to 158 school boards and 19 boards of trustees seeking written questions on legal matters. He plans to mail written opinions to leaders for discussion at regular meetings and keep a file accessible to board members during business hours. When unable to submit in writing, members may dictate questions to his stenographer for oral answers.
Witnesses corroborated William Weeks says he ran in front of his car and cleared Carl Cooper of Waterloo, age 17, of killing Wheelersburg man in Sciotoville. Cooper was with Clarence Sowards and Frederick Boswick from Patriot and Waterloo, ages 39 and 38.
Clyde Oram Hardgrow files for divorce from Marybelle Hardgrow on grounds of gross neglect. They married in 1933 and have no children.
Funeral services were held Sunday at the Bidwell Methodist Church for Fannie Cooper Welker age 54 wife of Kyle Walker who died in Columbus State Hospital Burial was in Fairview Cemetery She was a daughter in law of Mr and Mrs Emmett Welker of Bidwell
Clarence Wagner worthy master and Stanley Lanier secretary announce Morning Dawn Lodge of the Masons will hold the Master Mason degree work and the annual inspection at 7 o'clock Tuesday night January 12 in Gallipolis.
The English Club shifts its meeting from Tuesday to Monday night at the home of Miss Millie Watts on Third Street in Gallipolis.
Gallia engineers gathering in Iront Friday elected Robert Jenkins state highway superintendent at Gallipolis as president of the Southeastern Ohio engineers association John Turner of Jackson County was chosen vice president and Forrest Fife of Gallipolis named secretary treasurer
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