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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1922
Page
4
Stock markets rise on public optimism despite looming coal strike fuel scarcity and tax burdens. Investors, including small and large players, push prices higher as credit stays easy and labor costs ease. Europe’s unsettled postwar tensions threaten stability and growth.
A historical opinion argues that while Germany deserves chastisement under the Versailles terms, France risks self interest by seizing the Ruhr valley. The piece notes the Ruhr as Germanys industrial heart and warns such action would fail to settle the crime and could worsen relations among Britain Italy Belgium and France.
A retired naval officer berates disarmament and praises naval power, citing Trafalgar and freedom of the seas. A heated exchange with Washington Scott follows, with references to wood alcohol and Sweet Cider as nicknames. Two Galway ladies attend a card party with an aged donkey-cart butler as driver. The butler returns to announce “the thing you know is at the door.”
A Rome Kansas advertisement quotes a farm job pitch promising three square meals and a real bed. It seeks a man who can tell a cow from a machine and wake at 5 am, promising not to treat him as family but better, at Steve Wiggin s place on Intervale road. A headline proclaims Good Times Lie Just Ahead of Us.
The White House grounds show early spring life as the two private gardens near the south portico gain renewed care under Mrs Wilson and Mrs Herding. East and west plots feature a central lawn, pools, and formal borders with roses and perennials while a hidden walk called the Presidents Walk connects the executive offices to the mansion.
Thomas Porter, after thirty seven years with the Hocking Valley railway in Nelsonville and Athens, retires April 1 with a pension and travel passes. He looks back on a life of nocturnal labor, celebrates new daylight and family, and jokes of dandelions blooming while noting Abe Lincoln and Darwin in a light local column voice.
The Information Bureau replies on topics from salmon jumping falls to hedge plant choices and weapon types. It explains salmon jump mechanics at river falls the meaning of Absent Without Leave and the origin of fiacre carriage term while noting rich feed does not boost milk yield.
A gold brooch found in Praeneste in 1886 bears an Old Italic Latin inscription the oldest extant. It reads Manios med Firefhaked Numasios which in Latin is Manius me fecit Numasio. The piece is cited amid trivia on legal fictions and the smallest country Monaco.
In Columbus on April 24 the Federation of Labor collects clothing for miners and their families in the Hocking valley. The group supports Henry Ford’s plan to purchase Muscle Shoals from the federal government. The report notes forty varieties of sea buoys in use.
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