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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1925
Page
9
A fashion note describes new summer undergarments designed to eliminate bulges and create straight youthful silhouettes. It highlights side fastenings, combinations of cambric and batiste, and launderable materials with lace edging and insert pleats.
Dicky chats with Mrs Armadillo in a zoo cage while a frisking elfin friend and Squeedee discuss the burrowing animal. Armadillo, all girls in her litter, explains roots and ants diet and pride in zoo life.
A column urges women to avoid worry about gaining weight and to instead perform simple stretching and strengthening movements. Readily doable steps include raising an arm while bending the opposite knee and reaching for the toes, plus frequent practice to tone the body, improve balance, and boost confidence.
In this confessional passages from Adele Garrison's New Phase of Revelations of a Wife, Mother Graham recounts a troubled union, a divorce, and a forced second marriage. She recalls threats, a boy’s demand for money, and her eventual support of Steve while concealing the family’s clandestine history.
A 1925 health column explains gas gangrene risks after midwestern tornadoes. It details how soil-borne germs invade wounds, causes foul discharge and tissue death, and urges thorough cleaning and antiseptics before medical care. It also includes reader Q A on teething, weight gain, blackheads, joint cracking, and eye swelling with doctor contact info.
A lively day is predicted with social domestic and affectional gains while cautioning against lavish spending and risky speculation. The reading notes potential success in literary or professional contracts and hints a birthday child may be talented popular and financially imprudent.
Advice column responds to a young man and a reader about winning a girl’s affection. It cautions that dating others does not prove disinterest and suggests being cheerful, genuine, and engaged in her interests. It also notes that enjoying outings is a privilege of not being engaged and advises seeking happiness through personal well being and balanced companionship.
A faded newspaper column presents reader questions to Annie Laurie. A married woman seeks advice about her husband’s outings and neglect while a young woman asks how to handle a nonresponsive fiancé and heartbreak. The piece ends inviting letters to Miss Laurie for feminine topics.
A doctor tells a patient with serious symptoms that only long daily walks outdoors can help, rain or shine, and the patient’s disbelief prompts a brief anecdote about occupation and the limits of a physician’s tale. The parable illustrates the value of exercise for health and the doctor’s blunt guidance.
A travel sketch of French Somaliland portrays a port where slavery persists amid a mix of modernity and primitiveness. Dhow boats, diving boys, and a government house contrast with huts and daily tasks, while a casual trader culture treats buying people as normal.
A longtime U S mail carrier, retired at 65 on a sixty dollar monthly pension, seeks new employment with walking and activity. He moved to California for his wife Mother’s garden, believes idleness dulls the body and mind, and urges active aging to preserve happiness, health, and usefulness while cherishing flowers and home life.
A guide to making and reusing sauces with a double boiler and stocked pantry. Readers are urged to keep spices, browned flour, cornstarch, tapioca, bottled sauces, capers, peppers, vinegars, olives, mushrooms, and dried herbs for endless sauce possibilities. Includes recipe notes for a brown roux thickened sauce and a grape juice hedge with stock, onion juice, lemon, mustard, Worcestershire, spices, and arrowroot.
This OCR fragment offers aphorisms on education shaping youth, justice, appetite, and virtue. It cites figures like Atterbury Locke and hints at moral instruction guiding behavior while warning that desire and perception influence actions. The text is partial and composite, reflecting editorial miscellany.
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