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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1926
Page
7
The text lists a breakfast with dried peaches cereal milk and coffee followed by a luncheon of eggs in potato cases raisin brown bread and butter sandwiches and a banana dish. It includes a lamb stew dinner plan with creamed celery stuffed prune salad and cookies. Also provides a dried apple pudding recipe with steps and ingredients.
Question prompts on floor wall color harmony and eyebrow function. Answers advise dark floors with light walls and ceilings, noting eyebrows protect the eye area and soften facial features. The text references a castle near Hohenschwangau in Bavaria and its Roman style origins.
The Poultry Division explains the humane method to kill fowl by cutting the jugular vein and brain, while the Forest Service notes Northwest cedar is too soft for furniture and that Eastern cedar is used for chests. Myopia is corrected by concave lenses to diverge light and delay focus.
A glossary entry defines ham strung as cutting the large hind leg tendon to cripple an animal. It also notes a technical report explains soap floats by being blown full of tiny air bubbles while hot, with bubbles invisible to the naked eye.
Frank B. Maxwell of Detroit Michigan a 19 year old sophomore at Wooster College and a poor sighted student died today from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Maxwell used a .22 caliber revolver last night and died instantly, the tragedy noted his study difficulties due to eyesight.
Jesse Metcalf nephew of Senator Jesse H Metcalf of Rhode Island sponsors a plan to take four people around the world in a small auxiliary schooner to search for a giant lizard and a rare monk seal.
Amsterdam reports Kaatje Van Dyke 850 pounds and 7 ft 11 in tall announces engagement to Jan Van Aldert a 9 ft 3 in Dutch giant. The unlikely couple plans a public ceremony drawing wide attention across the rumor mill.
President Coolidge will visit Camden New Jersey during a trip to Philadelphia on July 5 to address the Sesqui Centennial officials announced from the White House Senator Edge invited him to cross the New Delaware river bridge opening that date and the president accepted Camden will host the event and celebrate the bridge opening
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