Incomplete OCR Text Summary Card
Fragmentary OCR line shows unclear words and broken phrases. No identifiable people places or events are readable to form a coherent news item.
View this page and access billions of articles with a 7-day free trial.
Start Free Trial
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Not what you were looking for? Search our billions of articles
Articles on This Page
This newspaper page contains 29 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1929
Page
4
Muskegon Women Build Baby Clinics Cut Infant Death Rate
Muskegon club women raised funds and organized eight weekly baby clinics in city schools by 1928. They taught hygiene dieting sanitation and proper baby care while doctors handled sick cases. The infant death rate fell from 103 per 1000 births in 1918 to 59.2 in 1928, well below national averages, illustrating civic effort translating into public health gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
City Health Department
Muskegon
Muskegon’s child health drive grows from clinic seeds
City of Muskegon celebrates a decade of progress in child health after mothers from the Civic Department of the Muskegon Women’s Club organized free clinics. Ten years ago infant mortality reached 103 per 1000 births. now efforts show steady improvement through community health programs and professional guidance.
Trout fishing expeditions and canyon dreams in Salt Lake
Gilbert Swan writes from Salt Lake City about quick two minute trout trips after 5 pm and breakfast catches, the city’s canyon nearby, a famed lunch counter with a “gents only” sign, and the omnipresent Brigham Young and Smith Brothers references shaping local lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Swan Messenger
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
Flying will bring West Coast development by air travel
Flying, which is now worldwide, will build the West coast, as rail cannot speed progress. Men with vast fortunes are busy to see this coast, but only later from the air will they truly appreciate its potential and opportunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Mexico
Central
South America
National Air Transport
American Air Transport Company
Boeing System
Chicago
West Coast
Los Angeles
Seattle
Deutsche Luft Hansa
Germany
Commission
William V. King
Interstate Commerce Commission
Skagit County Grows Vast Share of North American Cabbage Seed
In Washington state Skagit County produces 383 percent of all cabbage seed grown in North and South America. This remarkable concentration highlights the region's unique agricultural role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Skagit County
State of Washington
North
South America
Hayfield Overrun by Thick Stacks Persists
A section of land yields hay so dense that after cutting and stacking there is no room for wagons to enter the field. The commander of the United States battle fleet anchored in Puget Sound affirms the unusually heavy crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Puget Sound
Oakland’s Rise as World’s Most Prosperous City
Oakland proclaims itself the most prosperous city in the world supported by population growth from 150,174 in 1910 to 361,200 currently. The notice urges travelers to set Oakland as a destination when visiting the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Coast to gain with Columbia Steel absorption
A source describes Doctor Farrell of big steel preparing to absorb the Columbia Steel Company, a major coast operation. The move is framed as beneficial for the coast and for United States Steel overall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doctor Farrell
Big Steel
Columbia Steel Company
United States Steel
Rockerfeller gives two million to save ancient redwoods
Sohn D. Rockefeller Jr. donates two million dollars to purchase and protect giant redwood forests. The act is described as a service to humanity as the trees, some two thousand years old at the time of Christ, are preserved from destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sohn D. Rockefeller, Jr
Health and Diet Advice From Dr Frank McCoy
Dr Frank McCoy, author of The Newest Way to Health, offers weekly menus with meals from breakfast to dinner featuring eggs, roasts, vegetables, and gelatin dishes. He answers readers on child breath-holding, spinach substitutions in celery tomato soup, and cancer contagion, stressing noncontagious cancer and diet and exercise for health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank McCoy
Breakfast and lunch and dinner menu misspelled items
A menu style text lists meals with odd spellings and unusual items. It mentions breakfast with kegs and tomatoes on ieiba toast and lunch with cooked okiva baked eggplant cucumbers. Dinner includes wish loaf spinach beets salad sliced tomatoes parsley and no dessert.
Fragmentary Reflections on Wealth and Labor
A fragment discusses future life on earth, imagining Mr Rockefeller as a plain laborer who might dine in a sequoia dwelling and not know his surroundings. The tone questions social hierarchy and the fate of the wealthy if returned to earthly existence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Mr. Rockefeller
San Francisco Warm Winter and Notable UC Medical School
All who come to the West see San Francisco where winter is warm and summer cool. Not everyone visits the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. The institution hosts some of the nation's ablest scientists who answer questions and encourage learning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
University of California Medical School
That Great School’s Gift to Medicine Ends in Tragedy
Mr Hooper earned a fortune cutting redwood trees and later died from myxedema. He left two million dollars to a medical school to study and conquer gland diseases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hooper
Medical
Skin Disease Expert Links Face Troubles to Indigestion
Dr Howard Morrow promotes indigestion as the cause of many facial troubles for women. He claims lupus can be cured by a vein injection of a gold solution, and cancer can be treated early with radium gold seed implants. The seeds are tiny tubes of pure gold with radium particles. fifteen to twenty may be planted in the tongue and are not removed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Morrow
Leprosy Not Likely Contagious Says Researcher
Dr. Ernest Walker after 18 months in Hawaii studying leprosy suggests it is probably not contagious. He notes lepers who rang bells and cried unclean wore masks and avoided contact, yet their precautions may have been unnecessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Walker
Hawaii
Leper Disease Spread Via Soil Fungus, Doctor Claims
The report notes that ONE LEEPER does not catch the disease from another person but from a ground fungus. Doctor Walker is said to have produced the disease from the soil without leper aid. Pats are used in experiments who themselves bear leprosy and may carry it, alongside bubonic plague, rats, and flies being killed by the terrors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker
Scientists Labor For Pay Worthy Of A Million
In this remark the speaker compares scientific centers to auto trade youth and notes that true scientists would not abandon their work even if offered a million, contrasting ambition with payment.
Science and Humanity Offer Glorious Opportunity
It is hard to believe but men choose work for science and humanity over money. Whichever path interests you, you can find it here with glorious opportunity.
Professor Michelson with Einstein dispute in Pasadena
Chicago University professor Michelson works in Pasadena to prove Einstein wrong on a scientific point. He offers ten million to drop science but refuses to yield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michelson
Chicago University
Pasadena
Einstein
Across the Pacific Coast: from Seattle to San Diego
A traveler urges visiting the Pacific coast from Seattle to San Diego or reverse to truly know the country. The message emphasizes vastness and the impossibility of imagining its breadth without firsthand experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Coast
Seattle
San Diego
Evaporation and historical Q A snippets from 20th century text
A collection of science and trivia questions and answers covers evaporation from water surfaces and heat effects, first oranges in Russia for Catherine the Great in 1791, Mussolini’s schooling in Lausanne, counterfeiting engravings, Clara Bow’s real name, Russian verst length, and usage of Dad or Daddy for parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Potiomkin
Catherine the Great
Clara Bow
EL. P
Today's Short Puzzlers
Puzzle snippet lists scattered clues like St Levees 5 Bustle oo Gravel a0 Po split 40 Uncooked and more. Readable parts suggest a wordplay puzzle with coded hints and numbering. No clear event or person identified.
Senate inquiry eyed on Federal Power Commission power ties
Washington reports a possible Senate probe into power interests influence over the Federal Power Commission. The commission oversees power sites on navigable waters and public lands, licensing, and operation details, with concerns over funding staff and accounting practices affecting public interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Federal Power Commission
Secretaries of War, Interior and Agriculture
F. E. Bonner
O. C. Merrill
Congress
How is solid alcohol made in chemistry notes
The text describes making solid alcohol as a soap like mass from about 20 percent water 20 percent soap and 60 percent or more alcohol that burns with residue. It notes richer products by heating 100 parts 96 percent alcohol adding 1 part stearic and 0.5 part 30 percent sodium hydroxide until phenolphthalein reddens. It also mentions silicone soap and methods using collodion or cellulose acetate to form a residue free solid alcohol.
A Daily Study In Correct English Overview
A column by W. L. Gordon highlights common word usage errors and pronunciation traps. It explains faint vs feint, or gy vs gem, and mistyped spellings like inadequate. The article urges readers to expand vocabulary by learning one word daily and defines conceive as to take into one's mind or imagine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M.s
Lostro force at pienmie along Mocking River
A fragmented reminiscence notes the Lostro force at a pienmie by the Mocking River and a county fair poultry display. Norma Vernon wins a $50 Liberty Bond in an essay contest. Mayor Woodworth announces sugar shipments to Athens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mocking River
Norma Vernon
County School Board Targets One Room Schoolhouses
The County School Board launched a drive to close or replace aging one room schoolhouses, aiming to consolidate facilities and improve educational resources. Communities rely on these rural schools as local hubs amid reform efforts.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Flyers
Mears Collyer M
Coen S28
Smale
Steamshid
Obadiah
South
Mich
Civics Department
The
Muskegon Women's Club
Fifth Avenue
Bob Elliott
Manhattan
Canyon
Channel of Commerce
Paris
Joan of Arc
Napoleon
King Louis
Brigham Young
Smith Brothers
Cough Drop
Hee
Arthur Buisbanl
King Peatures Incorporated
San Francisco Bay
John D
Dr. McCoy
Phersday
Priday
G. H
Frederie
Toad
Ae Haskin
L. J. Cc
Mussolini
C. KE
Switzerland
University of Lausanne
Dad
Daddy
Ozier
G. E.R
Osier
Vice
Diva
Conclusion
Vo Wentter
Benat
Ali Toya
Rodney Dutcher Messenger
Tion
Board of Directors
King
Hug
Ww. T. Ff
W. L. Gordon
E. C C. Woodworth
Athens
Hocking Valley Railroad
Search the Athens Messenger Today with a Free Trial
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
Not Finding What You Were Looking for on This Page of The Athens Messenger?
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
Browse Newspapers
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
By Location
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
By Date
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
By Publication
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.