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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1940
Page
6
After a long day the article shares a simple menu and fast pudding idea for Sunday supper. It suggests lemon jelly with hot water and vinegar, plus a vegetable plate including corn cauliflower and cottage pudding with crushed fruit.
A recipe fragment set covers hard boiled eggs amid desserts and biscuits. It lists gelatin, cabbage, crumbled fruit serving suggestions, and a variety of baking steps for crusts and puddings, with notes on timing, temperatures, and serving ideas.
A quirky note on spiced tea cooling the heat with a recipe for SPICED CHILLED FIZZ serving eight, including tea, cloves, cinnamon, juice, lemon, sugar, and a milk splash. A separate line reports England army recruits adding extra milk to daily diets to reach physical standards.
Recipe notes describe BEEF HASH LOAVES using cooked potatoes minced roast beef and breadcrumbs baked in muffin cups with gravy or milk to bind. Serve with horseradish sauce. Also mentions milk bars originating in London over 200 years ago and a new 40 acre Flower Park at Pineville Louisiana opened beside the State Charity Hospital for public viewing.
Corning social sections report officers installed by Engle Lodge with J G Blower as installing officer and named trustees. Past Matrons Association hosted by Mrs Bertha Levion. 4-H Club elected officers. Ladies Aid planned the Feast of the Seasons dinner. Legion Auxiliary card party planned at Anna Fulaytor's home. ObSING PERSONALS note local visits and alumni banquet attendance. Corning Stars defeat New Lexington 14 to 5 behind Stallings pitching. Imes 4-for-8, Difler pitching loss.
A vintage recipe describes making a strawberry ice cream pie. It details filling a baked pie shell with strawberry ice cream, topping with lightly sweetened whipped cream tinted with strawberry juice, and garnishing with whole strawberries. Includes custard, sugar, lemon juice, and freezing steps in a hand freezer or mechanical refrigerator.
Court records from Morgan County note Weis of Beipre and Marittn plea to crimes with sentences to the penitentiary. multiple defendants including George Kenney and Redigulty charged with assault and other offenses face probation or prison terms. Miscellaneous items include divorce suit filed by Edgell against Egell and marriage licenses for several couples.
Plan a summer themed tea bar for post game entertaining. Offer hot and iced teas with fresh mint lemon and sugar. Serve in mugs or tall glasses with ice lemon mint and a splash of soda. Prepare tea with proper steeping time and present two beverage styles for guests.
Local social notes list visits and greetings among residents and relatives from Huntington Columbus Cambridge Charleston and Gallipoli. Weekends and Memorial Day gatherings include the Lawhead family and friends from Pontiac Rock Springs Now Haven and Athens. Minor travel and home projects accompany routine community life.
A features piece notes actresses and models claim milk boosts beauty and skin, citing Ginger Rogers Irene Dunne Anne Shirley Virginia Bruce Joan Crawford Greta Garbo Claudette Colbert and others. It describes milk nightcaps and preferred dairy pairings as routines among stars in studios and restaurants.
Dundas area social column records visits by Mr and Mrs Joe Thompson and family to Murray City and Sidney relatives. Herbert Woolweaver to Dennison Colorado for college. Hay fever drive in New England by Massachusetts State Federation of Women Clubs with slogan Pull cut spray and blow to curb ragweed growth. Hyde County North Carolina farmland described in hills rather than acres.
Broadwell Socia Broadwell Socia erent em terenton inane in the home of Mrs Lotie. Bri were Mra Hattie Hendershot and son Webb Cole and grandson Charles Brown and Mise Mae Brown, all of Pittsburgh. Miss Barbara Cummings of Two Mile Run, ie here visiting her sis Sampson has recently moved from Stewart to the Gifford Property here. Mr and Mrs Frank Parsons and family visited in the home of Mr and Mrs Henry Parsons, at Chest erhill, Sunday. Mrs Hattie Hendershot, Pittsburgh, has moved her household uniting tom Prtaburan to prop erty here formerly owned By. Frank Jackson, Mrs Ella Ogi is spending a week with relatives in Belpre and Parkersboro. Mrs Ola Kenney of Layman is visiting here in the home of her sister, Mrs Lotie Brill. Don Nye who has been visiting relatives in Nelsonville, returned to his home here Wednesday. Saturday evening guests of Mr land Mrs Robert Cumming and son.
A fragmentary 1940 newspaper clipping mentions names and events in incomplete form. It preserves some proper nouns and potential dates while many words are garbled. The readable items hint at local notices or notices of events but lack full context or clear actions.
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