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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1921
Page
4
A damaged clipping lists multiple mail subscription rates over different periods and payment terms. It references annual and multi month prices such as $7.00 and $4.60, with notes on advance payment and expiration handling. The legibility is poor but conveys pricing by mail and electricity in advance references.
The article argues the first major revival will come in building as housing shortages grow and prices fall. It notes cheaper brick, lumber and steel, restrained wages, easy lending for new homes, and warns that wage cuts are needed to restore normal productivity and housing expansion.
Governor Small schedules a week long health and cleanliness campaign. Sunday sermons kick off the effort, followed by community cleanup Monday and focused days for flies rats and babies. Examinations and registrations cap the program emphasizing cleanliness as health.
A fragmentary report notes May 1 as a tipping point when Germany must begin fulfilling its daily debt obligations. It cites interviews with officials and foreign representatives showing a firm plan to meet reparations, rejection of evasion, and intent to proceed with payment despite past delays. The text hints at continuing uncertainty about ultimate guilt or the full scope of reparation.
A humorous column riffs on reindeer meat as a future staple, jokes about dear meat, and mocks poets and bar tender unions. It quips about Rockefeller guidance on marriage, Copeland Townsend’s cautions on wives, parking mishaps, and cautions about fake relatives and landlord memory. A Boston actress seeks $100,000, with a witticism on marriage costs.
A gardener refuses to leave and vows to tell his master’s son how he was treated. The senator questions a minister about old acquaintances and learns that Mr. Jones has died, having gone to heaven.
Mr O'Brien slips on a slick pavement during the days before prohibition and lands before a judge who knows him. The judge remarks on slippery ground for sinners while O'Brien replies that the challenge is more than he can bear.
A funeral near Limerick was followed by a lunch where champagne was served. One farmer sipped a glass and, after a dubiously long pause, muttered that mineral waters were tayjous and wondered when they would get on the whiskey.
Frederic J. Haskin reports on a British doctor who claims broken hearts are a real phenomenon driven by chemical changes in the blood. The piece surveys heart disease causes, the New York fight against it, and the role of environment, lifestyle, and education in prevention.
The article urges daily reading of ads in newspapers and magazines as the safe guide to value. It argues readers become economical buyers by choosing merchandise whose good values are revealed through advertising on printed pages.
A discussion on how both merchants and housewives read advertising to meet community needs. It explains merchants’ obligation to stock advertised goods and the impact of war taxes on prices, plus a Q&A section covering cabinet religious affiliations, transformer capabilities, wooden clock works, the Johnstown Flood date, mean sea level, treaty ports, and widow insurance remarriage rules.
The Athens and Nelsonville areas report consumers now cautious in spending after a wartime boom. Local dealers recall selling many items such as electric toy trains at high volumes while wages were strong, now facing an unprofitable year and awaiting a return to prewar days as patrons curb purchases.
The Athens Messenger offers the Information Bureau run by Frederic J. Haskin in Washington D C. Readers can mail questions with full name and address and two cents postage for return replies. The service provides information only and declines legal medical financial advice or domestic dispute settlement.
Scattered items describe small town enterprise, prices, and social clubs. Reported are a fishing party near Logan, remarks on scandal and prices, a married man’s diary joke, a quince of schools, and updates on 12 boys joining a club. News mentions Amesville leadership and Athens county women’s food club efforts.
Farm youths in South Canaan acted by H. J. Hoskinson and J. C. McClanahan to organize a Pig Club. After a previous failure the effort to form a farm youth club aims to provide an instructive diversion for boys and girls eligible for membership.
A German designed device resembles a round table with a top and extendable sectors beneath, allowing the surface area to increase. The mechanism suggests a modular, expanding design likely linked to early table or geometric furniture concepts.
Advertising copy warns customers to look for Bayer on every package or tablet to ensure genuine Aspirin. It notes the drug’s safety for twenty-one years and lists common uses such as colds head ache neuralgia rheumatism earache and toothache. The message mentions inexpensive twelve tablet tins and larger packages sold by druggists.
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