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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1928
Page
4
An editorial urges citizens to audit their civic accounts and engage in government at all levels. It commends Athens county women voters for their earnest effort to learn about candidates and public affairs, suggesting men could learn from their example.
A column warns against over mothering children, arguing that constant care creates dependence and excuses boys and girls from taking responsibility. It urges mothers to let youths face hard realities and learn self reliance while valuing genuine mother love.
Residents report heavy double parking on Court Street and other routes creating traffic jams. Evenings attract visitors parking along Congress, College, President, Union Streets and near the university campus, delaying cars and triggering widespread frustration.
The text urges voters to cast a thoughtful primary vote choosing the most qualified candidate. It emphasizes personal responsibility and informs readers to inform themselves about each candidate’s abilities and fitness to serve as efficient officers through careful consideration.
A public message laments widespread voting indifference and urges automatic disfranchisement for nonvoters to ensure government reflects the majority. It calls on citizens to attend primaries, register, and cast informed ballots, likening abstention to negligence and social danger.
Four prohibition agents investigating New York speakeasies spent $75 000 in a brief period. They padlocked several establishments and took their wives along. They bought champagne at 42 dollars a bottle and ginger ale at 1 75 dollars, underscoring the high costs of night life during enforcement.
All Wall Street stocks edged higher on Wednesday as investors responded to higher interest rates. Distant money lenders from the Middle West and Europe sought 7 to 8 percent returns, drawing capital inland and challenging the big players.
Wall Street bets 3 to 1 on Hoover as the Republican winner, though such odds have faltered before after Woodrow Wilson’s election. Russia names a dictator over crops, while American farmers resist crop dictatorship. The Rush week sees $56 million poured into stock, boosting private industry amid AT T assets of $3.5 billion and vast monopoly power.
The piece notes Standard Oil gains after prosecution and hints at broader vendetta dynamics. It mentions a Japanese ritual suicide, a New York woman’s self immolation, and political fundraising as Mr. Work seeks four million dollars for a Republican campaign, with Raskob poised to match.
Reader questions on childbirth after age thirty nine compared to twenty nine and eczema from diet are addressed. Dr McCoy notes older mothers can have painless births with proper diet and exercise, warns excess protein or starch and wrong food combinations can trigger eczema, and advises a non catarrhal diet for nasal vein swelling with reader follow ups.
By the Way in New York reports on a famed Fifth Avenue gem shop where heavy security and wary staff create an ominous backstage feel. A visiting writer describes doors, back rooms, and page guards, noting the uneasy atmosphere around the world’s diamond palaces.
A Q and A column covers rules fines for bench seating in baseball games, Hoover lineage, and the next Wrigley Marathon swim at the Canadian National Exhibition Toronto with events for women and men on August 29 and September 5. It also notes Atlantic City railroad 1853 origin and benzoyl peroxide as a powerful explosive.
Conservative observers estimate the 1928 presidential race could top 15 million dollars with Republicans seeking 4 million and Democrats matching it. State groups and independent clubs may push total well beyond 12 million, with anti saloon and church groups adding at least another million.
The item lists social visits and travels of local residents including Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Sloane, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Millikan, O. B. Sloane, and the Lamborns plus Phillips family with trips to Nelsonville New Boston and Summerland Beach. It also mentions Amy Wiehr and A A Atkinson party visits near Carbondale and a ten year ago column recalling wartime events and camping trips near Harmony with a group of girls and various relatives.
Mixed Q and A items cover topics from why Europe and Asia have more quakes than the United States to the location of the oldest canal in Norristown Pennsylvania and Pratt Institute's Brooklyn establishment in 1887. The set also notes how pension payments can be sent abroad and methods for making salt blocks.
Events include 1492 Columbus sailing from Palos Spain 1692 Massachusetts court condemned six witches to death 1777 Continental Congress accepted Count Pulaski service 1780 Benedict Arnold placed in command at West Point 1907 Standard Oil fined $29 240 000 by Federal Judge Landis at Chicago
Puzzle presents a grid clue set where the single unkeyed letter is T in various hints. It marks horizontal and vertical entries like Mongrel Mails Masculine pronoun and Blue grass Bet of musical compositions. Readers chase remaining solution words across a tangled wordscape of everyday terms and arcane references.
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