Fragmented OCR Entry on Hat Sale and Funds
An unclear OCR fragment mentions a hat sale with references to funds and numbers. The legible parts include 2,000 and 1, AN Hat es2. ewe, but no coherent event or entities are identifiable.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1922
Page
4
An unclear OCR fragment mentions a hat sale with references to funds and numbers. The legible parts include 2,000 and 1, AN Hat es2. ewe, but no coherent event or entities are identifiable.
The notice identifies National Advertising Representatives as Robert Ward Inc with offices at 601 Fifth Ave New York City and at 6 South Wabash Avenue Chicago.
The passing of aged Athens driver Daddy Dean ends a 45 year run between Athens and Pomeroy. Known for honesty and a blunt wit, he guided stage and later buses with a firm grip and care for horses. He died in Toledo after a long, regular presence in the community.
American corn flour and corn grits reach Soviet Armenia and parts of the Near East substituting for wheat and rice. In Constantinople area American businessmen lead a campaign to popularize corn products among Turks. Seventeen public institutions plan a month trial with about 75 percent cost savings.
The ver dict on Senator Watson Indiana ties army bonus funding to tariff receipts. Customs revenue averages about 300 million annually and rises to perhaps 400 million with high rates. Diminishing returns and reduced import activity cap tariff yields, while bonus costs run in billions.
The article quotes Lloyd George arguing that a 10 year moratorium on European conflict would spare Europe and possibly America from irreversible damage. He compares it to the Washington treaty among four powers and urges 84 European states to adopt a similar pause to let nations recover and plan a future of peaceful coexistence.
Dealers warn ice must be higher this summer due to coal price increases. Dried herring costs rise this year because Peru's pearl-button crop failed. Figure it out yourself if you doubt it.
A collection of humorous, miswritten school questions and definitions twists ideas from gravity chemistry and tides. The text satirically mocks education prose with playful stumbles on phrases about Pantheon clothing and Inca names while hinting at editorial naughtiness and the quirks of classroom learning.
Journeying along the border Tom Mix drove into Juarez for a drink and parked where prohibited. A Mexican police officer arrested him claiming he called for attention twenty times, while Mix retorts the call was not made. The piece also notes a theatrical manager who keeps people waiting.
A producer defends a film’s cost arguing the public knows budgets. The dialogue shifts to currency, noting the film was made in Germany and asking how many marks equal a 4 lar.
Washington April 25 report surveys a New York special election and recent primaries as early gauges of national mood. Republicans show reduced margins in a normally solid district, while wets and drys shift signal potential House balance ahead of November. Analysts cite tariff delay and Congress votes as factors shaping voter turnout and party prospects in 1924.
The Athens Messenger announces an Information Bureau headed by Frederic J. Haskin offering readers answers to questions by mail. The service notes it cannot provide legal medical or financial advice and requests full name and address with two cents postage for return responses.
The text explains that fools cap paper derives from a watermark showing a fool’s cap. It then defines a point as the unit of measurement in type, with one point equal to one seventy-second of an inch.
A bronze statue of Robert Emmet is to be presented by Congress to the people of Ireland as a sign of U S friendship. A Senate resolution and a House resolution are expected to pass with little opposition for a mid summer ceremony. The replica from the National Museum will sit in Dublin’s National Academy with a congressional delegation presenting it. Irish leaders welcome the gesture as a long standing art exchange between friendly nations.
London report details the gatotherm invented by Dr. C. Guebel of Paris that renders dental work pain free by blasting the gum with heat and oxygen then cooling to insensibility. The process maintains consciousness and restores normal sensation after the procedure.
Etchmiadzin Castle near Erivan, famed as Armenia’s oldest monastery and cradle of its Christian faith founded by St Gregory, has reopened under the American flag as an orphanage operated by Near East Relief. The site’s historical significance remains unmatched.
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