Summer patterns from Anne Adams take shoppers by storm
Antique ad copy details Anne Adams sewing patterns for Summer 1940 with sizes 34 to 48, yardage, and prices. It promotes the pattern book and pattern numbers, urging readers to mail 15 cents for patterns and 20 cents for book and pattern together. It mentions dress and sport styles, a summer wardrobe, and The Athens Messenger department pattern mail order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Athens, Messenger, Pattern Department
West 17Th St
New York
Early Explorer 139 Wigwams Quilt Pattern Ad
An old newspaper fragment advertises a quilt pattern series from The Athens Messenger. It lists pattern numbers like 139 and 42, with instructions to send ten cents, request pattern pieces, and include name and address for mailing, mentioning a frame and department at 2 Eighth Ave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poinsettia
Athens Messenger
Radio Highlights of Networks and Stations
Radio Highlights list various networks and stations including Mutual Blue and National networks. Names such as WABO WLW WIR and WLW WHAB are mentioned along with orchestras and announcers. Read as a fragment from a radio program schedule noting network affiliations and featured performers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wey
Blue Comma Mutual
WLW
Waiaa
Wear
Columbia
St—Mutual Tatem
Hospital Patients Take Ohio River Excursion
About 500 patients from the state hospital along with townspeople boarded the excursion steamer Senator for an Ohio River sight-seeing trip yesterday afternoon. A further crowd gathered for a dance on the same boat after nine in the evening, continuing until midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
State Hospital
Ohio River
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Assern
Erica
Freckles
Freck
Blosser
Blondie
Mrs
Sard
Ons Place
Dear Reader
Sergeen
D Nick
West Indies
Laura Wheeler
Joe Palooka
Ham Fisher
Red Ryder
Fred Harman
Eng
Boots
By Martin
Sie
Anna
Bb ‘Stoop Eng
By Hamlin
By Williams
Pal Hin
Emma
Mortice Orem
Nichola Oreh
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