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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1925
Page
6
A collage of quips and musings spans politics culture sports and science. It riffs on open shops women education radio and railroads while noting athletic feats by Nurmi and Steinmetz and musing on public schooling and modern life.
A collage notes Herbert Asquith becoming Earl of Oxford at 73, a Jersey sun eclipse drawing crowds, Dr. Curtis’s movie university idea, Chinese eclipse drums, Russia’s General Karapatkin’s death, safety vaults for razor blades on Pullman cars, three more states rejecting the Child Labor Amendment, Rhodes Scholars trends, and other miscellaneous items from a 1920s era column.
A short editorial notes that occasionally events require time and effort to be reconciled as people move past past errors. It emphasizes accountability, forgiveness, and the value of learning from missteps.
Forty four farmer members form a farm bloc aimed at uniting votes to influence legislation. Reports say Mayor Fant has discussed coordinating city officials with South Carolina mayors and attorneys to safeguard municipal interests in the General Assembly.
The speaker laments growing class conflict in South Carolina while urging unity of minds to grant equal right for all to express their potential. He condemns favoritism as incompatible with justice and calls for more logic and less show.
The piece questions why some oppose Attorney General Stone’s Supreme Court nomination. It notes unease over his swift move to appoint capable lawyers to investigate war frauds and his stance toward powerful crop and harvester interests resisting inquiry.
Almerindo Portfolio transfers a seven million dollar business to his employees promising it will end the practice of clock watching. He notes that for owners hours mean profits while for salaried workers hours mean a step toward freedom.
To curb idle time in men, focus on making business engaging rather than relying on moral sermons. Human nature resists change via platitudes. interest in work drives productivity. Big business will see this shift in time.
A New York woman who says she knows proposes to broadcast tips to American housewives on homemaking. The idea sparks expectation of reactions from women who may resist a single female telling others how to mop, dust, and decorate.
Ansoruer Excursuman has been made Knight of the Bath. The ceremony occurred on Saturday night with formal honors acknowledged by peers.
Radio broadcasting gains in popularity as sets evolve with more efficient tubes and distortion reduction. By 1925 new transformer aided receivers promise clearer distant stations, less interference, and more reflex amplifiers, with European programs and short wave transmission expanding across the United States.
In a field of about 2 000 shooters competing for 132 prizes from the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs of England, four tied for the leading trophy and two of the top placers were women. The remark notes that women may not throw straight but they are learning to shoot straight.
On February 9 1924 at noon the Board of Commissioners of Aiken County will receive bids for bridge construction. Rouse Bridge comprises eight twenty foot spans to be raised four feet above the old bridge using standard pine or wooden structures. The Johnstown Mill Bridge on the road between Kitchings Mill and Salley includes three fourteen foot spans with creosoted timber and state highway plans. J H Shule.
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