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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1940
Page
15
Anne Adams pattern 4378 offers a sun dress with sleeves or a sun frock without sleeves. Details include front nets with red tops and optional lacings or button trim. Sizes 2 to 10 available. pattern price 15 cents, book 10 cents, order from The Athens Messenger Pattern Department, New York.
The poem lists clues for a puzzle and then promotes gay potholders made from a transfer pattern 2447. It invites readers to mail ten cents for the pattern, including two potholders a case and illustrated stitching directions from The Athens Messenger Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Avenue New York. It urges shower or bazaar use.
A fragmented radio schedule lists networks and stations such as Columbia Mutual Blue Red Mutual WABC WLW WGN and WMAQ with time slots for programs like Baker Kaltenborn Burns and Andy and Hollywood Playhouse Clock times and channel letters across Wednesday and Thursday listings. The text includes many misreads and placeholders but preserves names like WABC WLW WGN and WMAQ among others.
Postmaster Drury keeps a hobby collecting hats. He owns more than a hundred hats stored in boxes in the attic and scattered through corners of his home.
In Devon Pennsylvania a 200 pound cast iron hitching post nicknamed the Little Sailor Boy is repeatedly taken by neighborhood youths as a prank. Mr and Mrs Henry Jeanes report the post missing as locals search for the missing item.
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