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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1929
Page
4
A modest devotional quote referencing Proverbs 28 15 and a comment on tyrannical rule. The passage contrasts a fierce ruler with severe leadership and notes restraint as a path to empire. The tone is moral and admonitory.
A meditation on how combat in stories and real life energizes readers, editors chase dramatic struggles from war to exploration, poverty, health, and personal battles. The piece notes readers cheer victories by Byrd and Hoover and crave narratives of overcoming obstacles around nature and daily life. The weather shifts to spring scenes across Ohio with green pastures, lambs, and fishermen on warm April days.
Residents describe a vivid spring in the hills of Southeastern Ohio with warm weather, fragrant brush, and lush Ohio River valley scenery. Motorists praise the countryside as blooming trees and advance greenery mark the landscape along the river.
A humorous reflection on spring and fall house cleaning from a male viewpoint. It notes men’s discomfort with upheaval and rearranged furniture during deep cleanings, laments about wandering beds in the dark, and questions the necessity of annual upheaval while acknowledging a wife's hard work.
Gilbert Swan surveys a new generation of poets who trade garrets for Connecticut homes and town cars. Dorothy Parker, Sam Hoffenstein, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and others mix wit with verse while balancing work and poetry, with Johnny Grub Street club nights still fueling their craft.
The piece notes postwar U S ownership of foreign securities surpassing fifteen billion dollars and South American investments increasing from one hundred million to twenty five hundred million. It frames Uncle Sam as rich and implies a call to prudent financial leverage.
The article praises a bold safety effort promising to invest billions. It notes more than 700 airplanes will join the national fleet next year at an estimated cost of 20 million dollars. It argues this expenditure is highly warranted for public safety.
Our Canadian friends among the Americans invest in good securities. Sun Life Insurance Company of Canada is the largest stockholder of record in the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The writer argues that this is a wise investment.
In a whimsical analog, the Cheshire cat fades away until only its smile remains, while railroad owners fear labor may dwindle in the same way, leaving only payroll as a trace of workers.
Dr McCoy answers health and diet questions in this column. Mothers seek tips to make spinach palatable with better cooking methods and varied preparations. Readers ask about leukoplakia buccalis and tuberculosis. answers stress diet, weight control, cautious exposure, and safe treatment.
The piece argues for a nationwide six hour day and five day week as a fair share of prosperity. It notes railroads and industries testing shorter work weeks, cites a $15 billion annual worker surplus, and cites improved machinery profits as justification for higher wages and leisure. It references Baltimore and Ohio feat of a 786 mile relay, and urges wealthier leaders to share gains.
The excerpt discusses copper price increases totaling 25 million dollars yearly and argues that organized groups like copper men achieve more than disorganized cotton growers. It also mentions New York’s use of horses to produce diphtheria anti toxins and notes efficiency in serum production, then shifts to questions about the Targum and various trivia on explorers athletes and farming substitutes.
The United States Public Health Service states a board including the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of War will decide the sites near the center of major conviction areas. The board weighs many factors before selecting a location. An oyster drinks about sixty quarts of water in twenty hours.
Sixty four years ago today two famed Civil War generals met quietly in a private Appomattox home ending a long conflict. The item notes the private reunion and its significance in American military history.
Washington reports James W. Good, nicknamed Sunny Jim, making a solid impression in his first weeks as secretary of war. Critics worry over his ties to power interests, but colleagues note his decisiveness, responsiveness, and hands on approach while recounting his background from Iowa farms to Congress.
William Hale Thompson secures another term as Chicago mayor defeating Democrat Robert M. Sweitzer by 17 600 votes. Major General Leonard Wood receives the Distinguished Service Medal for wartime leadership. Eugene V. Debs seeks executive clemency under the espionage act. Athens prepares a welcome for the 87th Division returning servicemen. Morris Goodman from The Plains introduces the first wartime bride in Athens County, Miss Germaine Ledrun.
In an interview Premier Lloyd George asserted Britain would back France if Germany ever attacks again. The Graham banking bill awaits signature after Senate passage, aiming to codify Ohio banking and grant the state superintendent more power. Arbor Day trees planted at Sunnyside School honor Roosevelt Memorial and local boys in service. Street cars powered by internal combustion are seen as soon to be common in the U.S. according to Charles E. Larson of Ford and Son Tractor Plant. The first units of the Seventh Division, 809 men, arrived at Sherman to await demobilization, having come from Camp Mills and Camp Merritt.
A fragmented crossword puzzle page combines horizontal and vertical clues with garbled text about a tuber, a hollow-stemmed tree, a card game, and a weight measure, plus scattered names and partial phrases. The readable bits resemble a printer erratum or OCR garble rather than a coherent news item.
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