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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1926
Page
7
A nostalgic kitchen column offers overnight and drop cookie recipes to avoid hot-oven prep. It lists Drop Nut Cookies Hermits Caramel Cookies and Butterscotch Cookies with detailed ingredient measures and steps, noting chilling overnight and tips for slicing and baking.
Athens presents varied gardens from naturalistic plots to architecturally rich homes. Mrs Frances Maxwell blends five nation styles into a stucco house with Buckingham Palace like proportions and Italian steps. Pathways weave through a garden of trees rocks and natural plantings.
An Athens garden blends Swiss touches and Rhine inspired porches with natural rock features. Mrs Maxwell’s home sits amid rock steps, a rustic nook, a stone fireplace in a rock alcove, and flowering climbing plants. The garden offers quiet, scenic views away from downtown.
Green corn and watermelons appear on the markets today with corn at 7 cents an ear and watermelons at 3 cents a pound. Tomatoes show a sharp drop from 30 cents to 10 cents a pound in three stores.
Stores show mixed fruit prices as raspberries sell at 25 cents a quart and bananas at 10 cents a pound. Oranges stay 60 and 55 cents, peaches about 9 cents, and plums 20 cents a pound. Vegetables vary with spinach scarce, asparagus uneven, cantaloupes 12 to 20 cents, and beans peas and carrots around 10 cents.
Meat lard chickens coffee and sugar prices hold steady across the week while other items show no change. The report notes stable costs for staples despite market fluctuations.
The Omagh Board of Guardians moves to reduce liquor allowances at the local poorhouse, aiming to curb drinking among inmates and promote better discipline.
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