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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1935
Page
8
A woman explains living with her mother and three children, paying half expenses while doing all housework, suffering abuse and lies about her husband. Advice urges immediate separation to protect her happiness and marriage, arguing mothers often sabotage children’s lives and that leaving is the best path for peace and family stability.
A light hosting guide on serving cookies with wine or fruit juice at refined gatherings. Includes almond cookie recipe from 1868 with butter, almonds, lemon, and a method to chill overnight, plus a meringue like kiss cookie recipe baked slowly.
Olive Roberts Barton recalls frugal childhood habits in public school days. She describes patched stockings shoes and dresses kept for Sundays and special occasions, outgrown clothes inherited by younger siblings, and careful home practices like linen strips on stairs and regular door brass shining. The piece argues thrift education should start early.
Tomorrow's menu lists meals with dairy and beverages for breakfast. Breakfast includes chilled honey dew cereal cream bread crumb pancakes maple syrup milk and coffee. Luncheon offers baked cucumber boats hot buttered rolls peach fritters with raspberry sauce milk and tea. Dinner features Spanish steak baked potatoes corn on the cob cabbage and carrot salad prune whip with custard sauce milk cotter.
A reflective reminiscence on children and self discipline as a form of conservatism. The speaker recalls chafing under restrictions yet recognizing their nourishment for body and soul. They emphasize restraint, patience, and the value of not flaunting treasures. The wardrobe becomes a symbol of measured living.
Practical guidance on maintaining cleanliness and neatness through winter. Advice covers deodorant use, wardrobe upkeep, shoe care, laundering, and personal grooming. The excerpt ends with an odd note about the height of a giraffe’s heel, introducing an incongruent factual tidbit.
A set of trivia questions covers historical states, colonial possessions, ship launches, island sizes, Mesopotamia’s modern name and capital, Romeo and Juliet’s city, Arctic European nations, the Zuider Zee drained in the Netherlands, and Italy’s main mountain chains.
Cincinnati committee probes plan to memorialize Harriet Beecher Stowe by turning the Walnut Hills home into a Negro community house. Albert E. Smith reports a disagreement over the property’s best disposition, with a expected compromise ahead.
General Douglas MacArthur announced from Washington that he would retire as chief of staff of the American Army on December 15 to devote himself to organizing the military defenses of the new commonwealth government of the Philippines.
Adele Garrison narrates a suspenseful scene where Katherine and Mary observe Williams and the boys as an airplane circling overhead spurs tension. The aviator’s stunt raises concern for the car and the children, culminating in the moment that the kids start the car, hinting at coming danger.
The Athens Messenger offers Pattern 1041 for seven appliqued motifs including a sunbonnet girl. Transfer pattern, color suggestions, material needs, and stitch illustrations accompany the project. Send 10 cents in stamps to Needlecraft Dept at 82 Eighth Avenue New York for the pattern.
This advertisement promotes a home dress pattern for sizes 16 to 44 inch bust. It claims a one piece cut, with diagram, and requires specific yardage for 39 and 35 inch fabrics. Order via The Athens Messenger Pattern Department at 160 Fifth Avenue New York.
Katharine Hepburn stars in Break of Hearts at the Majestic Theater melding Morning Glory light comedy with Little Women warmth and The Little Minister tenderness. Co stars include Charles Bogers John Beal Jean Hersholt Helen Millard and Lusan Fleming with direction by Philip Moeller and Jane Loring.
An eventful day presages changes in business and private life. A new or renewed contact may foster friendly ties affecting social and romantic realms. Expect increased possessions and industry recognition. a birthday forecast promises solid advancement and stable fortunes. Notable nativity: Upton Sinclair.
Sharpsburg brief mentions a death in Lat hrop with funeral held at Mt. Herman led by Rev. Carl Bennett. Local residents and visitors include B E Armstrongs family in Marietta, Richard Henthorn visiting Mount Vernon relatives, Earl Dickson family visiting Amy Isles in Logan, and Sunday prayers at Robert Grimes home. Several social visits span Eureka Dam Gallipolis area.
Emanuel Kahm of York Nebraska has built what is claimed as the smallest electric motor in the world a device no larger than a fly and weighing a quarter ounce It comprises 58 parts with most crafted from 4 carat gold reflecting a remarkable micro machine achievement in precision metalwork.
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