Athens Families Welcome Holiday Guests After Thanksgiving
Post holiday scenes in Athens as teachers students and local families resume routine. Principal O L Wood and staff return to duty while relatives from Greenfield Columbus Alliance and Indianapolis visit. Several families host guests from Jackson Blanchester Morristown Caldwell and Wheeling during Thanksgiving weekend. Holiday travel and reunions mark the area’s return to normal life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
O. L. Wood
Wood
Greenfield
Mary Connett
Columbus
Ethel Woolf
Alliance
Hale C. Pickett
Pickett
Mr. Pickett
Indiana
Marriage Meddlers Sequel to Married Comrades
Madge returns to her Greenwich Village hideout with Dicky Lillian and Harry Underwood as the blackmail plot against him is foiled. Dicky asks Madge to hear his confession while Edith Fairfax is blamed and an uneasy trust forms between couple amid lingering secrets and a looming reckoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madge Graham
Greenwich Village
Dicky
Lillian
Harry Underwood
Edith Fairfax
Madge
Harry
New Hampshire
Edith
Ede
Plans Completed for Opening of Food Institute Here
Plans are set for the 1940 Gasco Food Institute in Athens with an opening at 2:00 PM Wednesday in the Athens High School auditorium. A streamlined trailer model kitchen and traveling staff Miss Esther Boehm and James Cole arrive to showcase the event. Admission is free and sessions run Wednesday Thursday and Friday from 2:00 PM.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Chi
Rrr Food Institute
Gasco Food Institute
The
Food Institute
Athens High School
Esther Boehm
James Cole
Central Avenue Methodist Church
Athens County Court House
W. Union St
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
West Side School
Irma E. Voigt
Park Place
R. L. Morton
S. High St
High
W. Washington Sts
Lucy Murphy
E. State St
Nelle Pickering
Lancaster
Second Sts
Highland
Woodard Avenues
Community Garden Club plants twenty tulip beds in Athens
The Garden Club completes tulip and hyacinth plantings in twenty civic sites and private lawns across Athens. Gifts from Holland Bulb Company will bloom next spring, with plans for a public Garden Tour once flowers blossom. Also notes social visits and local family announcements.
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Holland Bulb Company
City of
Athens
Calendar items for local clubs and meetings
A sequence of upcoming meetings across several clubs and organizations. Dates include Monday and Tuesday evenings with locations such as 169 N Congress St and 221 E State St. Topics cover Christmas gift selection and vocational guidance, with displays of articles made by the blind.
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Progressive Literary Club
Vern Kempton
Hudson Ave
George Carr
T. N. Hoover
Presbyterian Women's Association
Red Cross
F. E. Goldsberry
State St
Child’s Conservation League
A. C. Smith
E. State St
Porter
Ohio University
Maecenas Literary Club
William Tom
High St
J. W. Hudson
E. W. Bingman
F. C. Tribe
Ed Cooley
Frank Dean
Thanksgiving fowl trials and campus Jacks games
Local column recalls a humorous Athens woman who chloroformed a duck then beheaded it during defeathering. Nearby scenes show diners in Cincinnati and Cleveland reuniting with Athens friends after Thanksgiving. Delta Tau Delta and Phi Delta Theta clash in a charity Jacks match at East Side School.
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Athens
Delta Tau Delta
Phi Delta Theta
Dixie Farr
Charley Loftus
East Side School
Ben Bernie
HBF
Household Hints from a 20th Century Page
A shopping list of practical tips covers table setting for flat silver with order of use, odor control for refrigerated fish by wrapping, a local canning demonstration at Neighborhood House in Carbondale led by Miss Jessie Cooper, and brass cleaning steps using warm soapy water baking soda and lemon polish.
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Neighborhood House
Carbondale
Home Economist
Brothers Canning Company
Muncie
Ind
Jessie Cooper
Athens County
One Woman to Another
Marian Bush Reeder presents a domestic vignette showing two sisters arguing over who started a quarrel. Adults intervene to separate them and attempt to restore calm, noting common family dynamics and the shared wish for peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marian Bush Reeder
Ideal Gifts From You to Yourself
Gift ideas for self care and personal improvement for Christmas 1939 include a personal hour daily for reading sewing or a facial a porcelain tooth cap a new family budget for hobbies resolutions for a healthier figure new friendships and a reputation for discretion plus ideas to brighten dull days with colorful umbrellas Alpha Gamma Delta alumnae plan a meeting and a note on avoiding drabness in rain.
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Alicia Hart
Cat and Canary Opens At Athena Theater Tuesday
The film The Cat and the Canary stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard in a mystery comedy thriller based on John Willard's stage play. Paramount presents a two day run with a strong cast including Douglas Montgomery and Gale Sondergaard under Elliott Nugent's direction.
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Athena Theater
Paramount
Bob Hope
Paulette Goddard
John Willard
Douglas Montgomery
John Beal
Gale Sondergaard
Elizabeth Patterson
George Zucco
Elliott Nugent
Hope
Miss Goddard
The Stars Forecast a Changeable Eventful Day
The forecast forewarns sudden shifts in plans, associations, and objectives under strong lunar aspects. Cautions include avoiding impetuosity, extravagance, and risky private-life changes while advising tact, vigilance, and compromise to steer through potential pitfalls. A birthday indicates possible surprising twists for the year ahead.
Tired Overwork Prompts 8.8.8 Tonic Claim
An advertisement urges readers to try the 8.8.8 tonic marketed as a universal remedy. It promises quick improvements in energy, appetite, and vitality, claiming no organic or focal infections cause persistent fatigue.
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S.S.S
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C. W. Gross
Washington St
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Delmer Dunlap
Jackie
Jean
Glouster
John F. Riley
Johnnie Bob
Nelsonville
E. Paul Cotton
E. Washington St
George FE. Gardner
Cotton Home
A. R. Hawk
Lee
Virgene
Alvin
Irene L. Devlin
Berea
Berea College
Miss Devlin
Kenneth Leighton
Charles Crawford
Jack Fisher
University of Kentucky
Margaret A. Benedict
E. Mulberry St
Cambridge
Mrs. Hanning
Ruth Chatterton
Hartman Theater
Robert Essex
Geraldine Chism
Wheeling
W. Va
Pittsburgh
Marietta Ave
Nancy Garrison
H. D. Garrison
Dorothy Slutz
Blanchester
W. L. Slutz
S. Congress St
Walter Schellenger
Jackson
Forest D. Chism
Stewart St
Howard Walden
FE. Mill St
Lake Worth
Fla
Dorothy Baker
J. S. Sherrard
Elmwood Place
Jay Moorehead
University of Cincinnati School of Medicine
O. C. Moorehead
R. H. Baker
George Baker
John Beckley
Youngstown
B. A. Mushrush
Girard
Effie Halley
Clark St
Gerald Fierce
Marjorie Ann
Barbara
Portsmouth
George McCollins
Richland Ave
Robert Ruth
Guysville
R. D
James Biddle
Upper Arlington
D. H. Biddle
N. College St
Fin Gillogly
Palmer St
Fern Gillogly
Gillogly
Louisa Stanley
Albany
Denver McVay
Thomas Quick
Granville
Arthur Crabtree and Baby
Carpenter
Ashton H. Cullums
Chicago
Adele Garrison
Garden Club
Dwight Herron
Morris Ave
Phillip Barton
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Herron
Louise Barton
Kathryn Barton
Adelphi
W. N., Herron
Franklin Ave
R. S. Wood
Cincinnati
Stanley Nida
Mound St
John P. Emery
Carpenter St
Emery
Mrs. Emery
Joseph Weisenbach
Richard
Mary Louise
Hastings Addition
Weisenbach
Mrs
Fletcher Ballinger
Bobbie
Donald L. Callender
Susan Lash
E. Rey Lash
Cc. Kenney
Albany Road
Lowell Kenney
Carol Lyne
Mary
M. L. Kofrock
Dayton
V. C. Kenney
Chagrin Falls
D. W. Kenney
Route Five
M. R. Chappel
Ohio Ave
C. C. Brown
Celia E. Garrison
Woman's Music Club
John J. Woolley
Congress St
Childhood Education Group
Chubb Library
Beta Theta Pi
Athena Delphian Club
Fred Wheaton
Maplewood Drive
Better Living Group
Faculty Woman's Club
Mary Leonard
Hio University
Thanksgiving Street
Ald L. Callender
William E. Lucas
Mary Jo Twiss
Cleveland
W. S. Bentley
Mary Ellen Wood
Washington D. H
Jim Biddle
Tom Biddle
William Jurkovic
Kathryn Sherrard
Alpha Gamma Delta
James G
Boden
Watt St
Athena
Genevieve Kemble
Schine Athena
WR. Smith
Stewart
Washington
Ed Teeterees
the Canary
Oia Theatre Today
Trish
Pathology
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