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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1936
Page
6
Dorothy Dix reflects on memories as life’s richest rewards. A nursemaid-like Orient traveler speaks of memory as solace and motive in hardship, urging readers to collect meaningful experiences, cherish kindness, and start children’s memories with love and security.
The lunar aspects promise progress and prosperity but warn of possible delays and unseen hurdles. Seek contacts with authorities while prepared for postponements and hidden enmities. For birthday individuals, influential cooperation appears likely yet plans may face obstructions. contracts should be solid and vigilance against subtle schemes advised. A born child may be versatile and ambitious but challenged by obstacles to be overcome.
Puzzle filled with clues across horizontal and vertical entries. Includes references to poets, colors, objects, and common terms leading to a completed grid. Answers cross with multiple shared letters, typical of a challenging newspaper word puzzle from a mid century page.
In a tense scene a niece Margaret returns to her relatives after promising to join them for supper. An uncle Chester questions her loyalty as a crowd moves through a balcony doorway with Katie Dicky and Lillian Underwood guiding a captured man.
Adele Garrison recounts a tense scene where Dicky forces a bound intruder into a locked room as Madge and Lil watch. A sheet covers the couch while the man is secured, and Harry Underwood braces for the sight of the stranger amid whispered threats and suspense. The excerpt ends with Katie and Lillian present, hinting at future revelations.
A dense listing of radio programs and performers including Adrian OBrien Jack Armstrong Lowell Thomas the Johnsons Micset Pall Farm Home Hour and many orchestras and choristers. Other items include Hawaii Calls Nocturne and the Fleischmann networked acts with Gilbert and Shandor Orch Freeman and Spitalny orchestras plus sports and youth features.
Alhambra settles chicken problem limiting to 15 birds per city lot and requiring 40 feet from houses. Betty Adams, 14, becomes the 10 000th registered visitor on Kinport Peak, the region’s highest peak near Pocatello Idaho.
Olive Roberts Barton argues mothers should stop pitying children returning to school and instead trust schools to toughen and train them. She warns against excessive sympathy, urging impersonal handling to build moral courage and self management as children face inevitable classroom demands.
Bright needlework ad offers a simple cross stitch project called Pattern 1302. It includes six motifs averaging 4.5 by 8 inches with full instructions, color tips, and materials. Send 10 cents and your name address to The Athens Messenger Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York.
An article notes the challenge of showing male legs in film, referencing the Anthony Adverse production at the Athena Theater starring Fredric March alongside Louis Hayward Olivia de Havilland Edmund Gwenn Claude Rains Gale Sondergaard Steffi Dunn Billy Mauch and Donald Woods. Photographers fear exposing trousers and legs while actors resist revealing full length shots.
Louis Larson, 11, entered an unventilated mine in Rock Springs Wyoming to rescue a dog suffocating from deadly blackdamp gas. He was overcome but saved by companions. the dog died.
In Independence California a humming bird has built its nest on a home bulb for two decades. Judge William Dehy wonders if it is the same bird year after year. Separately, the term cowboys originated in the Revolutionary War when a Tory band stole cattle from both sides.
Morning chores and cakes become easy with Anne Adams aprons pattern 4115. Models A and B feature gingham scalloped necklines and toggles, with sizes Small to Large and step by step sewing instructions. Send 15 cents for pattern and 25 cents for combined book and patterns to The Athens Messenger.
In Watsonville California Irving Dake of Pleasant Valley shot a young buck that wandered close to his home, unaware that deer hunting season had begun. The incident raises questions about wildlife laws and hunting season adherence.
Arthur Sherman, 20, a native of Liberia, traveled 20,000 miles to enroll at the Montana School of Mines. He plans to return to Liberia as a fully trained mining engineer.
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