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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1921
Page
4
An article extols a blind inventor who has created an aircraft predicted to revolutionize aerial warfare. The device may rise perpendicularly, land in a small area, and hover like an eagle. Early tests show practicality, with the inventor pursuing further improvements.
A columnist contrasts alarming novels and gloomy European tales with domestic parenting in America. The piece weighs fears about modern youth and argues that ordinary, well meaning parents raise decent, capable children despite occasional missteps.
A terse note indicates that the law targeting bootlegging is likely to be dropped or weakened. Officials have not issued full details, but the move signals a shift in enforcement and public policy expectations.
A spoof on government departments jokes about polar bears and a quip about prohibition. A club discussion critiques energy conservation with a Mr Marcel quote on positive and negative forces. A light note asks if women are inferior to men and jokes about marriage. The piece ends with a humorous line about banquet optimism.
A former rich wife, Mrs Blank, parts from her husband and becomes a housemaid. Her first employer is a former servant who betrayed her by repeatedly giving notice, leading Mrs Blank to quit the job after one week.
In New York a prominent debutante ordered four seats on the aisle for a theater visit. Arriving with her party they found a single column. She persistently asked a middle aged man beside her to switch, but he ignored. She repeated, then he wrote on his program that his wife sat on his other side. Safety.
A poultry farmer praises a hen's reliability for laying an egg daily while a neighbor, a contractor, comments that such steady production would make her a skilled bricklayer.
Frederic J. Mackin reports on a Brooklyn program feeding 25 children daily with meals aimed at improving health and growth. The article discusses school lunches, charity funding, and the push for state health supervision and medical inspection in schools as a path to preventing malnutrition and strengthening future citizens.
The article notes that ads in newspapers act like a daily market where prices and goods are visible to readers. It explains how postwar changes return products to original forms and prices after wartime alterations due to material shortages, affecting housewives and general shoppers.
Mr Nash notes the value of firsthand observation at the plant while Ed Maxwell and Glen Romine oversee meter reading. About one third of town is metered with a growing backlog and May 1 water rent is due at the City Building with a prompt pay discount offered.
The Athens Messenger announces an information bureau directed from Washington D C. Readers may submit plain questions with full name and address and two event stamps for return postage. The bureau cannot give advice on illegal medical or financial matters and will send replies directly to the inquirer.
The article notes non advertised products remain longer on dealers shelves while advertised items sell quickly. It urges readers to study daily ads to identify up to date merchandise, quality materials, and the best prices.
The text argues that buying from shelves or showcases yields goods not of the latest style and not from the best materials, and suggests that advertised items are turned over many times yearly, implying lower prices and fresh stock.
Advertised goods offer better value as turnover keeps stock fresh and prices lower. Eaters benefit from newer items and frequent price reductions, while sellers profit from steady turnover and updated inventory.
The article notes that non advertised items such as shelf warmers and stickers fetch higher prices since the end of the war. It argues these goods lack freshness and up to date material and style compared with advertised, in demand products.
Messenger reports progress on a new golf course west of the city. The full layout spans about two miles with pristine land, fairways plowed and seeded with lawn seed. A well is being drilled above the Oxley home for a clubhouse, and a temporary six hole course will open to let players test their clubs.
Residents complain of a damp, smoldering heap on the main brick road to the bridge near Harold Place in Jackville. The foul odor and fiery pile are cited as an eyesore, and locals urge Athens not to direct Harding toward the site when he visits for golf.
James A. Garfield became the first U S president whose mother, known as Mother Garfield, witnessed his inauguration. The trivia covers other Q A items about cleaning, geography, diamond dust, dreadnaught origins, and the nature of farce versus comedy.
The Plains area notes list Elmer Linscott of Hooper Ridge as Sunday guest of Mises Pearl Barnes. Floyd Barker returns from Copeland and Howe’s hospital after a tonsil and adenoids operation. Miss Opal Erb of Athens visits family here. Various residents and relatives gather at homes in Poston Canaanville and Athens including the McCathran-Burch, Augustine, Burchfield, and Dowler households. Other notes mention shopping trips to Nelsonville and visits with relatives near Albany and Union.
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