Girls Will Give a Gym Exhibit
Tickets are on sale for the Open Night exhibition to be given by the girls. The event promises a display of gymnastic skills and performances by the group.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1920
Page
4
Tickets are on sale for the Open Night exhibition to be given by the girls. The event promises a display of gymnastic skills and performances by the group.
The article profiles Miss Alice M Robertson elected to Congress from Oklahoma. It notes her stance against suffrage opposition while aiming to serve her district as a Christian American and a reformer. It mentions her restaurant in Mushogee, age around 65, Bible knowledge, love of detective stories, and desire for a male secretary.
Fragmentary clipping argues farmers should be more fully involved in national matters. The text criticizes narrow state and federal powers over agriculture and quarantine controls, noting attempts to block quarantines and other measures. Strong entities or dates are unclear.
An essay arguing that women often fool themselves into confidence in unsuitable husbands while men overestimate wives. It critiques divorce as a remedy, advocates traditional matches, and questions obedience in marriage. It laments henpecking and notes changing standards and women’s lingering influence on men.
The passage weaves a jumble of dialogue and character names as a long haired man boasts of knowledge and a friend dictates a paragraph. It touches on Hugh Hughes and Simp dem once close friends, Liz's trial, and a proposed marriage amid a medical bill for a specialist. The Medicine Lodge Timea notes a waiter heading to Los Angeles with a new home motto about blessed cars.
The Woman's Bureau reports that girls are steered toward domestic trades while few enroll in auto mechanics or woodwork. It notes limited access to technical courses, overcrowded clothing and millinery programs, and argues for equal vocational training opportunities for women alongside men.
A collection of scattered Q and A items covers depreciation policy for the federal government, food versus medicine classifications, a 1882 golf record, cyclone and tornado differences, Ohio River falls, a cake coloring bug, coin history, Brutus’ role, and bread storage advice. This compiles varied excerpts with dates and names.
J G Moorman painter and decorator 151 Mill Street completed refinishing stained oak woodwork and tinting walls at the G T Wilkinson home on Grosvenor Street. The work is described as artistically done in his characteristic style, with several difficulties overcome and satisfactory results.
Walter Porter will organize a basketball schedule for Athens public school physical culture classes. A grade boys and girls league will help determine material needs for Athens High and identify the season’s athletic goals.
Paris reports recount General Foch securing strategic command amid Allied talks with Clemenceau Haig and Poincare. The meeting in Doullens and the pledge to act quickly against the German advance aimed to unify command and accelerate victory before Amiens. The agreement was sketched in pencil and signed by Haig and Foch.
A rainy Sunday limits activity in Sharpsburg R D 2 as residents plan visits. Mr. Hermon announces a forthcoming Farmers Institute at Bartlett. A local farm tour with McAteethers and Roy is mentioned, along with visits to the home of George Bingman aged 1 and Chesterhill resident Gage.
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