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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1924
Page
4
A narrative blends a flyer safe arrival in Iceland with reflections on Dawes plan and European finance. The piece touches German bootlegging, prohibition, and the Russian famine, then shifts to Mussolini’s era and a reader Q A about ink spots on wood.
Leon Trotzky, head of the Russian Soviet Army, assailed American policy and Secretary Hughes in a meeting, accusing U S actions of planning to Balkanize Europe and impose wartime demands while claiming a Leninist struggle will defeat imperialist America. New York state tops waterpower development.
A column presents varied editorials on the Leopold and Loeb case from Cleveland, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Memphis, Seattle, Houston and Cincinnati, arguing from anti capital punishment to life imprisonment and Christian national ethics. It also analyzes German sentiment toward a proposed international loan, noting Germany calling Americans shylocks and the high local interest rates, withU.S. funds seen as relief for German capital famine.
The article explains gold entering the United States from a favorable trade balance and notes a novel flow from England. It suggests English capitalists moved funds abroad to avoid a potential capital levy and inflation fears amid a labor government and talk of tax hikes.
A Washington dispatch analyzes the ZR3 airship for possible U S mail and passenger service under the peace treaty. It weighs costs, weather risks, crew needs, and compares performance with the Shenandoah, noting reversible motors and a multi compartment design for passengers and mail.
The text critiques population fears used to promote birth control and condemns infant mortality in oriental countries. It includes odd analogies about a puppy tail and trees never reaching the heavens, and ends with a remark on a hoped for great victory news.
A reader inquiry promotes The Athens Messenger Information Bureau directed by Frederic J. Haskin in Washington to provide answers to questions by mail. It states the bureau will not give legal medical or financial advice and requests full name address and two cents for return postage.
A mixed Q and A excerpt covers coast line length of Maine 200 miles regularization and nearly 3000 miles actual. It also includes queries on mail plane mechanics military leave phrenology tea stain removal Dropsie College Virginia creeper treas ury columns and Francis Drake estate inheritance with brief factual responses.
Hamden residents report a U G I G Club picnic at Ovid Rays on Chillicothe Street Thursday. T O O F lodge plans a Friday picnic August 15 near Hamden with undetermined location. Several residents visit relatives in Columbus Wellston Jackson Dundas and McArthur with social and family events mentioned.
London experts declare the era of wood and fabric aircraft is ending and an all steel airframe will soon dominate. They cite a light metal alloy granting armor like strength that would make a metal plane lighter than wood fabric designs.
Columbus Aug. 4. Warden released statistics showing 2,825 prisoners at Ohio's peniten tiary with only three listed as newspaper men among the trades and professions represented by residents.
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