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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1926
Page
6
In Hugh Grant land the living wing reveals an old wall safe containing a single letter. The narrator urges destruction of the letter as Hugh agrees, then they move toward a cold old family wing with eighteenth century furnishings. The scene shifts to a shrine of ancestral rooms as they discuss the past and secrecy.
A narrator enters a room staged to evoke a departed mother for Hugh Grantland. A heart broken boy sits by the bed crying out for his mother as signs of recent disturbance suggest someone staged the scene after the illness and death. The piece ends with a possible door closing heard in the empty house.
Senator Roy S Copeland laments high rates of vision and dental problems among New York City and Chicago school children. He urges annual professional eye and dental examinations for pupils and warns against unqualified glasses fitting. He cites 25 percent vision issues in NYC pupils and up to 90 percent dental illness in some Chicago schools.
The piece argues busy women can maintain grooming by systematizing time for beauty routines. It contrasts choosing personal care with leisure like movies or finishing a novel, urging careful discrimination to balance self-care with other activities and maintain standards.
A reader letter exchange questions if goodness is driven by reward or fear of punishment. The reply argues true righteousness comes from inner moral wealth and the pleasure of doing good, not from meant rewards or heaven. The writer rejects fear and duty as motivators, urging living squarely for personal integrity.
A teen girl seeks guidance after a boy kisses her and a fiancée dates another girl. Annie Laurie advises setting clear rules and not tolerating breaches, suggesting calm dismissal of the offense to avoid conflict and preserve the relationship if possible.
The piece describes polar exploration, noting airplanes ease travel to Eskimo land while warning of risks. It highlights Eskimo clothing made from sealskin and eider duck breast skins, with women sewing and repairing garments using jaws for grip, supported by the saw.
The reading emphasizes large opportunities from leading planets with benefic forces aiding all efforts. Expect radical changes bring openings and eventual rewards for hard work, with stable gains in ideals and finances. birthdays may see two years of growth and a child born today is urged to be industrious and ambitious.
Fitch fur trims a wine colored wool suit in a two piece design. The model highlights a broad skirt with side seams and a distinctive collar. The fur’s black and yellow tones contrast with the wine fabric as a narrow trim.
A dietary guide suggests separating meals into fruit starch and protein courses to allow favored foods. It outlines breakfast with raw fruit and warm milk, lunch as starch and sugar, and dinner as protein plus two non starch vegetables, while avoiding pastry and sugar, and noting coffee and buttermilk options.
Peggy speaks with a deer behind a zoo fence and learns about spotted coats as camouflage and a plain dress for the mother. The deer explains wild life, snow food in a yard, and dangers from hunters, wolves, panthers, and bears before guiding Peggy to move on. Copyright 1926 Newspaper Feature Service.
In Chicago 227 murders occurred over 211 days raising crime concerns. An all night raid led to 75 arrests of gunmen burglars and bootleggers. Prince Edward Island Canada marks over twenty years of Prohibition. The Salvation Army celebrated its Diamond Jubilee.
A collage of quotes from Eliot Churchill Goethe Ballou Seneca Euripides Sheridan and Cicero. The passages reflect on faith reason fate and perseverance with varied emphasis on virtue knowledge and human limits.
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