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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1927
Page
13
A nurse returns to her profession after denying a patient’s will claiming his wealth should go to his mother. She dislikes the return but states she must continue working in the field she trained for. The case highlights tensions between care duties and personal feelings.
Miss Ethel Sears, heiress to the Aldrich fortune, declines a life of luxury after caring for Sherwood Aldrich, a copper executive who died in July. She inherits his money but designates it to his mother, vows to resume nursing, and cites their estranged marriage as the barrier to a union.
Nine ocean going ships with no boilers or coal heavers enter service. The fleet features the first all American built Diesel engine ship the Tampa and promises 80 percent operating cost savings. Passages run 9800 dollars per person for five months including meals, with routes to Gibraltar Port Said Bombay Ceylon and Australian ports.
In Brooklyn August heat, Dr. Emil Hartung recalls a century of elopements in his family. Granddaughter Marilla elopes with John Grodder of Patchogue, while mothers and grandmothers followed suit. He calls it a weakness or strength, then praises early marriage and the hidden happiness of elopements.
A National Geographic bulletin reports Joseph F Rock, explorer for the Society, finding the chaulmoogra tree in Burma for leprosy treatment. The oil from its seeds proved effective, aiding nearly two hundred patients discharged from leper stations in Honolulu and Kalaupapa within two years.
In Renton New Jersey Mayor Frederick W Donnelly announced a municipal cemetery for pets to honor animal friends. The project uses city land near the potter’s field and will be improved by the SPCA with flowers and shrubs. The mayor recalls his late canary and dogs that enriched his family life and says burial rights deserve the same respect as human friends. Also reported are notes on a canary that inspired local stories and a brief item about a Chicago police chief receiving a 481 check for a penny theft decades earlier.
In 1911 Galbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight in 49 days, rebuilding his biplane seven times and enduring 66 landings over 4231 miles. He faced no beacon lights, weather delays, and skepticism, yet his feat paved the way for a modern air travel era as subsequent pilots would fly coast to coast in a single day.
Captain Ralph Emerson of Letart Falls, a long time river showman praised by the Gallipolis Tribune, boosts inland waterways from Chicago. He broadcasts biweekly from Station WLS, traveling from Pittsburgh for the program. Emerson has over 30 years in the showboat business and once supported the Gallipolis firefighters with a benefit performance to buy a fire wagon.
E W Alberty and his daughter in Pittsburg Kansas report a driverless speeding car on a cemetery road. They meet it again as it exits a gate and crashes into a wall. Its rakes had been released on a hill.
Rapid progress reports claim the Tampa operation indicates development of engines with 66 inch cylinder bore. Eight such cylinders in a unit would yield 24,000 horsepower, and four units could supply power to drive a battleship.
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