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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1936
Page
6
The piece argues that modern girls must be both wise and gentle to succeed. It notes shifts from traditional marriage goals to self reliance, employment, and maintaining self respect while choosing personal style and behavior amid many new social pressures.
Herbert Marshall stars as a British spy in Till We Meet Again at the Athena Theater on Wednesday. The Paramount drama follows two stage stars in wartime London as they become spies for rival nations, with Marshall changing a dozen costumes and Gertrude Michael co starring alongside Rod LaRocque Lionel Atwill and Guy Bates Post.
Horoscope notes a merry May 20 with romance and marriage likely to dominate, aided by elders and powerful friends. Prospects include favorable promotions, and a lucky year for anyone born that day. Notable mention of J. S. Mill. Typhoid fever strikes William Odenkirk household near Wooster as eight of nine children fall ill.
Radio listings feature Alexander Cores Renfrew Maybelle Jenning and Kate Smith with musical toast and comedy acts. Performances include Boake Carter Lazy Dan Lary Dan Ken Murray Fen Murray and various orchestras and vocal groups.
An Athens Messenger notice invites readers to obtain a Summer Fashion Magazine for ten cents, with fifteen cents sent for the pattern and ten extra cents if a copy is desired, addressed to Fashion Bureau Athens Messenger New York.
A vintage guidance piece urges rest and morning limbering as cosmetic basics. It promotes sleeping soundly, using a focal dark object to quiet thoughts, proper ventilation, and mild stretching after waking. It advises sipping milk or juice, brushing teeth, and two simple warmups before bathing.
A basic layered strawberry pie recipe uses gelatin water sugar and strawberries in a baked shell. The method includes chilling filling shaping a fluffy whipped cream like topping and garnishing with strawberries. Accompanying meal notes suggest bread noodles with veal fricassee asparagus and a tomato cottage cheese salad as sides.
Italian soldiers and American missionaries join in a hunt for 45 lepers who escaped from a Addis Ababa sanitarium run by T. A. Lambie head of the Ethiopian Red Cross. The fugitives roamed the countryside during the pil laging of the capital frightening foreigners as they begged for food and water.
Several hundred delegates from Eastern States framed the United States Flood Control Federation and urged the federal government to bear all flood control costs at headwaters. Also notes a rise in women’s shoe sizes in recent years.
A thoughtful column urges a balanced approach to parenting guiding how much protection children need as they grow. It argues that excessive supervision stunts judgment while too little caution risks danger, and that age dictates appropriate guidance from two to eight and beyond.
Adele Garrison shows Mrs Graham arranging a dawn departure with her housekeeper Katie and servant Lillian. The trio negotiates who tells Mrs Graham and how to keep plans secret before a three o clock start, with Katie anxious to protect breakfast and morning routines.
Mildred Helen McAfee Oberlin College dean of women set to become president of Wellesley College at 36. She spoke from Oberlin about challenges for coeducation and men’s colleges, plans a brief stay near campus, then to Vermont before reporting to Wellesley.
Attractive butterfly embroidery patterns offer quick beautification for linens and lingerie. Pattern 1087 includes transfers for cross stitch plain and applique and cutwork butterflies in several sizes with material lists and stitch illustrations. Send 10 cents for pattern to Athens Messenger Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York NY.
A relic look at late 19th and early 20th century Athens shows voting by scratched ballots before modern suffrage, courthouse vote handling, and a 1893 soldiers monument funding. Merchants kept long hours in 1908 while a Civil War monument project reshaped the campus hitching ground. Alaska mineral wealth since 1880 is noted.
The Palace presents a Saturday night program featuring June Lang and Thomas Beck. Friday shows Edmund Lowe in Great Impersonation and Saturday offers Tough Guy with Jackie Cooper. Sunday through Monday highlight Strike Pink with Eddie Cantor.
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