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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1922
Page
9
A widow narrator cloaks her flight from a troubled marriage in a suspenseful escape. She hires a taxi, hides from a pursuing past, and seeks shelter at a department store and then a hotel, while pondering how to protect herself and follow a mentor’s cautious advice.
The piece describes crowded Bilboa cafes and sidewalks where people push to pass, spill items, and converse about a bullfight and coal trade. It notes concerts and promenades, with workers awaiting coal cargoes for Spain's iron industry and tensions at the docks as crowds push for space.
A housewife faces a dinner crisis planning a makeshift meal at home due to nothing available from markets. She composes two hearty dishes with a cheese dusted crust and a lettuce salad with anchovies and peppers. The piece praises practical, clever kitchen management and confidence in improvisation.
A guide urges nightly glove wear to keep hands soft and attractive. It suggests selecting soft, well fitting gloves and using a home glove paste made from ingredients like myrrh and beeswax to soften skin and improve glove fit overnight.
Fragmentary report notes odd topics including crames dance, bows, and a Peru tribe. It hints at a procedure for removing air, yeast, and seaweed substance during an unclear process.
The article explains the spleen’s location and role as a blood filter and notes that removing it can halt disease symptoms. It then offers outdated home remedies for itching and obesity, advising milk heating, lime water, soda, and diet tweaks like whole wheat bread, with limited guidance on specific foods and body reactions.
A reader asks about dizziness from improper diet and constipation, and about left hip groin and ankle pain with arthritis on X ray. The doctor urges hospital observation and continued treatment where the X rays were taken, with emphasis on medical supervision.
A reader asks how to handle a missed call from a friend and a potential romance conflict. The response suggests talking to the young man for explanation and outlines concerns about a friend’s fiancée using the situation to gain company, advising prudence and direct communication.
A young girl writes that a older youth ignores her at a dance and never asks for a dance. She wonders why and suggests he may be a gentleman who senses a complication or restraint in pursuing her.
A young woman, 18, asks how to handle love with a man who visits but has not written. The columnist suggests writing again and including her address, then treating him as a casual friend if no reply. Annie Laurie invites letters on feminine topics from young women readers.
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