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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1938
Page
9
The article argues that early physical challenges build courage for mental tasks. It stresses allowing children to tumble, climb, and try new activities to develop balance, dexterity, and quick thinking, reducing fear and promoting self confidence. It links physical courage to moral courage and recounts personal memories of overcoming icy streets.
Mrs. Bertha M. Harris leads a free Cooking School next week in the Senior High Auditorium. The session covers meal planning bases from vitamins and nutrition to safe dieting, asking whether appearance, value, or economy drives food choice and how vegetables influence daily meals.
Plains High School reports eighth grade home economics girls serving tea to faculty and officers during a spring event. A four day Cooking School offers demonstrations, recipe sheets and Q&A on homemaking. Local social notes include new son for Mr and Mrs Knight and a high school senior play on April 13. Egg thefts in Camden warn residents to avoid buying stolen eggs.
Advice to prepare hair for a successful permanent wave focuses on weeks of nightly brushing and scalp care. Emphasizes thorough rinsing and proper tonics applied to the scalp with upward outward brushing to protect waves. Recommends easy to use tonics with non strong fragrances for a clean scent.
Adele Garrison presents a continuation where the narrator hides turmoil from Mary as they prepare for a public appearance. The scene shifts between hotel room banter and the plan to maintain composure while Mary teases with flirtatious references. The chapter ends with a promise of continuation tomorrow.
Officials report crime has declined and economic conditions improved in Madras since prohibition began four months ago. About 10 percent of bar patrons attempted to evade the law. Milk sterilization is the process that raises temperature to destroy germs and spores.
Read fortunes by palm mounts and lines with a 32 page booklet. Learn meanings of mounts such as Venus Saturn and Mercury and heart head life and fate lines. Send 10 cents for the booklet titled Secrets of Palmistry with name address to The Athens Messenger Home Service.
The March 24 page blends astrology with home cooking and a medical note. It warns of sudden events including possible death or disaster, advises budget care and poise, and highlights a Pineapple tea cake recipe. It also notes a Lancet item on a new blood pressure drug by Dr. F Avery Jones.
Sixty five members from Athens were among the 55 men and women initiated into OHIO University Greek life. Delta Tau Delta counts Emerson Houf and Stephen Fuller as new members. Chi Omega pledges Dixie Williams, Zeta Tau Alpha adds Betty Miller, Alpha Gamma Delta includes Mary Ann Schuler and Helen Haskins.
Athens youths Dick Whipple son of George Whipple Reuben Rothermel and Stephen Fuller are named on the Booths Committee for the Ohio University Park Place Fair set for April 30.
Mrs Jean Olmstead Murray daughter of Major and Mrs M E Olmstead 305 East State Street will act in Bargains in Cathay at 7 30 pm in Evening Auditorium Beatrice Kloepfer 33 North Court directs The Boor Jack Swanson son of Mr and Mrs J B Swanson 40 West Union Street appears in the cast
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