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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1940
Page
6
Readable fragments describe rain affecting a GA area, a diver tent severed timis ty pi, and a stage incident. Mentions byline JT bie ge and a ¢ stage. Partial details leave unclear locations and outcomes.
Athens city federation hears Mrs. I. E. Ash discuss becoming garden conscious with a landscape plan and garden types. proceeds from Federation Day Sale fund a benefit bridge March 28 at Hotel Berry for City Hall restoration. airtrip prizes and ticket contests planned.
Angna Enters, noted Feminine Mime, performed in Memorial Auditorium before about two thousand. Her Compositions blended acting, mime and movement in pieces like Pique-Nique and Auto Da Fe Spain, with vivid 1860s atmosphere and provocative modern gestures.
Athens Community Concert Association begins its 1940 41 campaign with a Monday luncheon at Hotel Berry. Members including Mrs F Theodore Paige chairman introduce Herman G James Burton Morris Margaret A Benedict C C Robinson and Mrs Roger Connor as organizers. Ten year anniversary of the national association marked, Athens participation five years. Workers to contact ticket buyers were given roses at the Monday night concert.
Dr and Mrs John R Sprague and daughter Mrs Robert W Main return Friday after a three weeks visit in Florida and a mid winter meeting in Columbus. They report unseasonable cold causing frost bitten oranges and few flowers. Miss Ethel Beekman and Miss Rowena Sprout attended the state mid winter meeting at the Neil House with about thirty participants. Mrs Pearley Gaskill returns from Columbus after hospital treatments. accompanied by son Riley Gaskill and nephew Vaughn Wadley. Local visits include Earl Fulton family and neighbors. L H Efaw ill but improving. Mrs Raymond Webb visits Athens Route One. Lydia Lash Evans Club meets Thursday 2 30 pm with program by Mrs Frank Phillips.
Milton Moskowitz reports Angna Enters presents a bold personal stance seeking what she desires directly. The article highlights her independence, creative approach, and refusal to seek others input for her artistic goals.
In a roller skating installment, Marty Bow man Grosvenor explains assessing readiness to skate solo, how to stop using a controlled left foot slide, and how to fall safely to minimize injuries. The piece also previews Angna Enters and local community notices.
Fashion advice urges women to match clothes to personality coloring and size. Choose outfits that suit preferences, avoid mismatched frothy dresses, and prefer tailored or softer day costumes unless a gown flatters arms and shoulders. Subordinate clothes to enhancing personal best points and maintain appropriate footwear.
Mrs. W A Carpenter of 46 Elmwood Place reports a male and female robin seen in Athens marking spring. A concert by Porter Heaps, organist, is set for Memorial Auditorium at 8 p m tonight. The American Legion Auxiliary will participate in local events.
Round about the town notes residents chasing new housekeeping quarters in warm southern backyards and returning north to escape the chill. Hollywood talent scouts seek male actors, not pretty girls, amid a shift toward human type stars as professions lure men away. A 1940 Gay Nineties black gown resurfaces as a granddaughter wears it to the Ohio State Junior Prom. An Athens woman bakes a purse with fifty three dollars inside, later reimbursed by bank clerks. Betsy Ross Sewing Club set to meet at Mrs. Richard Bucher’s home. Pennsylvania hospitals spend about one million dollars yearly on anesthesia.
Madge Graham reports a suspicious intruder near the Sag Harbor farm where her secret service father Charles Spencer directs guards. Troopers capture a man while Madge aids in clues about a missing emerald necklace marked for identification, then hurries to her father's room as tension rises.
Adele Garrison delivers a tense continuation where guards and a state trooper confront an intruder at the narrator's house. The father questions the captive while the room fills with a guard-led procession and an uneasy electric tension hangs in the air.
A syrup recipe mixes 2 cups sugar with 1 cup water then adds 244 ounces of Pinex to create a pint of cough medicine. It claims rapid action, soothing irritated membranes and loosening phlegm, with durable taste for children and a money back guarantee if not satisfactory.
Ohio Alpha Chapter of Pi Beta Phi held an Initiation Banquet at Hotel Berry after its annual initiation ceremony at the chapter house. Eleven new initiates were named, including six Athens girls and freshmen from Ohio University and related towns. Fay Hayes was named a new Piketa Phi pledge.
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