Memorial Dinner Honors Civil War Widows in Athens County
Mrs. John Ellis Wool Tent No 100 hosted a Memorial dinner at the American Legion Home honoring three Civil War widow honorees, Mary Brown 91 James Beam 85 and Helen Lawrence. Ceremony featured talks by the guests and memory of veterans while decorations used red white and blue. D U V bake sale set for June 6 at Wheaton's Hardware with flowers for graves on Memorial Day Parade day.
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John Ellis
Daughters of Union
American Legion
Mary Brown
James Beam
Helen Lawrence
Beam
Lawrence
Athens County
Hiram Tinkham
Horton Southerton
Blanche Dean
Nelle Pickering
Blanche Root
Kate Shaver
Mise Blanche Phillips
Flora Murphey
Mary Haning
Brown
Nt L. Woodworth
Cliff Cornell
Aaron Curtis Comstock
Meigs County
Blanche Phillips
Lydia Fenzel
Mattie James
Nora Atkinson
Pendry praises Athens City Park as vital for outdoor life
Athens Superintendent Harper C. Pendry highlights Locust Heights Park as a growing center for youth recreation. A May cleanup at the park runs 1 to 4 pm with a 5 pm picnic and park concert by the Athens High School Band and Ohio University instrumental quartet. Pendry argues outdoor leisure and local parks will sustain communities under war pressures, praising sanitation water supply and picnic facilities as key assets.
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Harper Pendry
Athens City Park
Harper C. Pendry
Athens
Locust Heights
Athens High School
Ohio University Band
Joseph Thackeray
Woman's Role in War Means Staying At Home If She Has Small Children
Ruth Millett argues against a single wartime role for women noting many support families through work and parenting. She says mothers with small children contribute by caring for children, freeing men, and preventing the need to hire others, while defense work is not the only path.
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Ruth Millett
Arene
Hitler
Athens
Soldier's Wife Answers Mrs Buck Private War Letters
A letter from Vernus Inglish in Omaha defends service wives amid wartime pressure. She argues wives juggle jobs, home duties, and fundraising for war bonds while sustaining morale, highlighting self-reliance, sacrifice, and steadfast American traditions.
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Athens
Omaha
Buck
United States of America
Sam
Red White and Blue Shoes For Summer Street Wear
New York reports a bold summer shoe wave as red white and blue tones dominate. Designers showcase vivid colors and playful trims while leather shortages and price ceilings push lighter, stockingless styles like sandals and sling pumps for street wear.
Foot exercises for women from Stevens College director
Wilma D. Haynes, Stevens College physical education director, promotes foot care routines in a May 29 1942 booklet. She recommends heel cord stretching, knee-strengthening toe alignment, and contrast baths alongside nightly walking to improve foot health.
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Wilma D. Haynes
Stevens College
Missouri State
OCD
Start Day With Husky Breakfast
War workers need energy foods and a hearty breakfast to sustain effort. The article advocates whole grain cereals, griddle cakes, and buckwheat, plus iron-rich New Orleans molasses. It provides a cornmeal go1e cakes recipe and tips to begin meals with fruit and protein like bacon, sausage, or eggs.
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New Orleans
Pitfalls of Love and the Web Tightening Around Marion
Aunt Madge and Ronald discuss Marion's peril as clues fall into the hands of a lurking spider at a central gangland plot. The narrator reveals captured gangsters, a hotel attack, and a staged letter theft while Jack Bickett remains hidden in the same house.
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Ronald
Madge
Jack Bickett
Marion
Thc Wefan
Carolyn
Dalemont
the Lansfield
Underwood
Harry Underwood
Professor Held
New York
Ing
Guests Arrive for Commencement Week and Memorial Parade
Local families welcome relatives for graduations at Ohio Wesleyan and Friends Boarding School. Visits include Mr Forsyth from Detroit and Mrs Franklin with children from Point Pleasant. Girl Scouts prepare to march in the Memorial Day parade after meeting at the Methodist Church in uniform.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin V
Tommy
Point Pleasant
Franklin
T. N. Hoover
Elmwood Place
John W. Dowler
Morris Ave
Delaware
Ohio Wesleyan
Jack Dowler
Columbus
Charlies A. Thomas
George A. Patterson
Charles
Richard
Home St
Barnesville
Friends Boarding School
Patterson
Sugarless Chocolate Chip Frosting Cake War Era Recipe
A wartime recipe explains a sugarless cake using corn syrup and orange rind with chocolate chip frosting. It details mixing steps for the cake and frosting and notes the cake is baked in two 8 inch pans at 375 F, then reassembled with softened chips and chocolate on top and sides. The article also states the United States imported 1048 pounds of refined glycerin in the second quarter of 1940.
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United States
CMC Barn Dance at Athens Armory Tonight
CMC will entertain with a barn dance at the Athens Armory tonight from 8 to 12. Memorial Day services will be held at Clarks Chapel on Sunday May 31 at 2 00 p m with recitations band music and speaker Roger Connor named.
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C.M.C
Athens Armory
Clarks Chapel
Roger Connor
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