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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1936
Page
8
Dorothy Dix argues that while a superior husband may aid family fortune and pride, the ideal home is built by equal partners. She says a superior mother best shapes children, but true harmony rests in a marriage of equals for the well being of both spouses and their kids.
Long Bottom residents report the thirteenth annual Swan family reunion at Linnie Swan's home with attendees from Independence Kansas Columbus Black Lick Middletonport Athens and nearby towns. notables include visitors E E Swan Sallie Page and Harold German. Also mentioning a ferry out of service, boat repairs, a new flat, and illnesses in the community. A birth is recorded for Mr and Mrs William Connolly a daughter born August 19.
A dense listing of radio programs, hosts, and episodes scheduled for Wednesday across stations. It includes The Armstong Band, Orphan Annie, Lum and Abner, Jack Randolph, Molly of the May, School of the Air, Pepper Young, Vic and Bade, and The O Neills, among many others with time blocks and hosts. The item compiles show names, hosts, and time slots into a comprehensive network schedule.
Learn a simple method to salvage gloves stiffened by soap. Soak in neat's foot oil, press between absorbent cardboard, then air dry for weeks before washing with saddle soap to regain suppleness.
A stylishAnne Adams pattern offers a frock with a saucy collar and clever darts. Optional cuffs or trimmed sleeves adapt the look for business, school, or informal occasions, promising an easy yet chic sewing project.
Pattern 4174 offers adventurous styling in satin back crepe with velvet collar and cuffs. Available sizes 2 14 16 18 20, size 16 uses 23 4 yards of fabric plus 1 4 yard contrast. Includes illustrated instructions and price 15 cents for patternbook 15 15 25 cents for both patterns. Orders to The Athens Messenger Pattern Department 243 W Seventeenth St New York.
FAST SHADE and family visits appear in Meigs County notes. Creston Newland and his wife spent Saturday night with his parents in Tuppers Plains. Local events include hospitalizations and a county fair attendance with various relatives in Marion and Franklin.
The article advises feminine makeup as the smartest fall mode, favoring lighter makeup, careful grooming, and pale pinks over orangish rouge. It suggests lemon juice bleaching for sun-tans, covering freckles if permanent, and warns perfume should stay on skin not clothes for best scent.
A day of perplexing planetary influences brings stirring events and possible hazards from hasty words or actions. Watch private and business dealings especially those with papers. Sudden changes or journeys, an active year for those born today, and cautious contract signings are advised.
An October Thursday brings opportunities for advancement honors finances and personal prestige but warns that petty quarrels rash actions or excessive speech can spoil the day. Birthday individuals may see a year of progress prosperity popularity and happiness if restraint is practiced to guard the favorable outlook. The period favors efficiency ambition and steady advancement due to strong planetary influences.
In Warsaw Indiana Leslie A. Laird of North Webster received a five dollar check from the administrator of Homer Van Meter's estate nearly two years after treating the mobster for injuries.
Mrs. Belle Tingley mother of New Mexico Governor Clyde K. Tingley died in a Springfield hospital last night. She had lived in the city for 18 years.
A 12 inch rag doll with two-piece construction and easy embroidery for facial features. Pattern 1308 includes doll and two dresses with complete directions and yardage. send 10 cents for this pattern to The Athens Messenger Needlecraft Dept in New York.
Katie and Lillian discuss upcoming arrivals while guarding a patient in a secluded study. Lillian and Miss Whitlock prepare for a tense conversation as a dramatic revelation seems imminent in the farmhouse setting.
Adele Garrison continues a tale of family echoes and cautionary clues as Lillian and Madge probe oddities in a new uncle who resembles the protagonist’s father. The nurse references the three monkeys in a tense scene suggesting hidden truths. Continued tomorrow.
OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON argues praise can harm if overused but is necessary. The piece urges timing and judgment in encouraging preschool traits while ensuring earned credit for effort beyond basic praise.
The piece outlines simple waist and back strengthening routines to reduce midsection flabbiness. It describes lying, standing, and wall-bend exercises, plus a head-lowering practice to improve circulation and facial nourishment.
Lincoln Neb erratic rainfall shows last summer as the driest in 60 years of Weather Bureau records. Meteorologist T A Blair reports Nebraska total rainfall for June July August at 4.20 inches, 43 percent of normal.
Porterville California framed report states Frank Paladini owns a dog named Christopher Columbus who can be sent out before his owner rises to catch a rabbit for that day’s meat supply.
Toledo dispatch reports Chesapeake and Ohio Railway docks loading 97 910 tons of coal into vessels in a 24 hour period, a new Great Lakes record for the year.
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