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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1944
Page
14
The 20 by 9 inch Prize Runner, a winning crochet table runner, can be reproduced. Send 15 cents plus 1 cent postage and your details to Anne Cabot at The Athens Messenger, 1150 Sixth Avenue, New York 19, NY, for complete instructions.
The puzzle lists a set of across and down clues for a themed crossword. Across clues include entries such as Dined and Fish eggs, while down clues cover terms like Indonesiar and Mindanao. The grid references a vertical theme titled VERTICA.
A Friday forecast warns of a surprising turn of events affecting fortunes and destinies with a risk of radical change to old routines. It notes home life and romance may distract, while a birthday wearer faces an adventurous year. The piece also mentions spiraling expenditures and a child with high artistic potential, alongside a plastics industry note and a sewing pattern advertisement.
A marketing note credits the Modern Maid as embodying purity and wholesomeness as the margarines maker certifies as table grade.
A collage of 4 PM to 10 PM radio highlights features Amy Arnell Allan Jones and Jim Ameche at 4, a Churchill Downs Derby preview at 6 15, Fred Waring saluting the Girl Scouts at 7, Orson Welles wartime film at 8, Dinah Shore and Hollywood guests at 9 30, and Abbott Costello with John Garfield at 10. A peculiar tale notes a New Kensington man’s freak fowl with rooster head and duck body walking like a penguin and fearing water.
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