Scouts End Big Camping Week Along the Ohio
Scouts finish a week at Camp Riebel along the Hocking River. Troops from Logan and Athens drill, cut wood, and swim. Athens beats Logan 9 3 in a ball game. Camp ends with both troops packing, sharing tasks, and reflecting on a memorable event.
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Ohio
Riebel
Cloyd Cooke
Logan
Dupler
Athens
Lawrence Dupler
Lawrence Reasoner
Arthur Howard
Donald Feather
Camp Riebel
Foraker
Coolville
Lawrence K. Dupler
Logan Scouts Recognized for Camp Success and Tests
Scoutmaster Roy J L Dupler extends thanks to Logan Scouts Potts Gessells Jimerson Mowery Parker and Kittsmiller for their participation in the camp tests. Tests were also given to other Logan Scouts by Scoutmaster Wallin Riebel as Troop 2 concludes a successful camp with cooperation from both troops.
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Logan
Potts
Gessells
Jimerson
Mowery
Parker and
Let the Weeds Be Cut Across Athens City
A civic appeal argues for universal weed cutting on all lots in Athens both owned and unowned. It urges equal enforcement, condemns select punishment, and suggests city weed removal as a public benefit to ensure consistent compliance.
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Athens
Immigration Bureaus Abroad Urged by Rep Nolen
Rep Nolen of California calls for immigration bureaus in origin countries to screen prospective entrants. He argues for examining moral and political status, preventing disturbers, and educating immigrants about conditions in the United States while keeping admission standards reasonable. He warns against illicit luring and stresses keeping the immigration stream clean.
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Nolen
California
United States
America
Reformatory Inmates Harvest Then Return Quietly
Kansas reports a successful square dealing program where 300 reformatory youths under 25 worked as harvest laborers, kept earnings, and returned voluntarily after the season. The policy aims to reform offenders by teaching farming and trades and placing them in suitable jobs after sentence. Trust, respect and honest labor are highlighted as cure.
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Kansas
Reformatory
State Board of Administration of Charitable, Penal
State Reformatory
Bitter verse on German defeat and pride in war
The speaker derides German pride after defeat, contrasting boasted power with ruined hopes. He mocks grim postwar settlements, predicting merciless terms and further suffering, while depicting Germans as whining and self-pitying under occupied ruin.
Opinion on internationalism and cost of living
Opined reprint argues the US should resist excessive altruism amid high living costs. It asserts nations act in their own interests and warns that yielding rights without compensation invites others to take them. A balanced, square deal among nations is seen as the achievable goal.
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Washington Post
United States
Side Talks by Ruth Cameron on Houses Along My Route
Ruth Cameron writes about collecting houses she passes on routine routes. She recalls a favorite white hill house and a French-roofed yellow house near a railroad, praising beauty, charm, and distinctive features that draw her interest and speculation.
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White House
Dr. Fell
Household Recipes for Potatoes Waffles and Tips
A collection of kitchen instructions detailing a potato dish with layered vegetables and meat baked in pastry, a Home Waffles recipe using flour milk and butter, and variations for sour milk and buttermilk. Includes tips on mixing, folding whites, and avoiding over beating for light waffles.
New Discoveries Clean Linoleum and Clock Remedies
Linoleum can be cleaned cheaply with gasoline to prevent color damage from soaps or powders. The process uses gasoline on a cloth then dries with a second cloth. For clocks, disassemble and bathe the works in soapy water with kerosene, dry, oil, reassemble, then wind. The clock may run well for months, saving repair costs.
Dimmer Stories and Sleepless Shifts in the Shop
In an east engineer’s shop a punctual worker, James, explains sleepless nights six weeks old cause lateness. A manager suggests medical input. A job applicant’s ancestor dies during the 1919 world series justifies hiring. Higgins is described as an iron will that rusts with time. A Cayenne remark critiques iron will. A merger plan opposes internationalization and the iron will’s inevitability.
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James
A Word of Appreciation from Troop Two Camp
Troop Two boys thank Athens citizens for financial support and local hosts in Coolville Hockingport and at a house boat and swinging bridge. Scouts advanced in rank earned merit badges in Swimming Signalling Pioneering First Aid and physical development remarks praise camp success and hours of effort.
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Athens
Voraker
Lester Foraker
Charles Goldsberry
Coolville
Hockingport
Gibbs
William Bech
Rex Gorham
Barrett Young
Lawrence Dupler
Donald Addicott
Vercoe Murphy
Arthur Howard
George Pruden
Wesley Kelly
James Devlin
Richard Clark
Lawrnce Dupler
Clinton Chadwick
Harold Graham
Robert Horn
Andrew Nelson
Donald Adudicott
Harold Nice
Francis Gallagher
Marlett Covert
Raymond Crooks
Lawrence Reasoner
Kenneth Cooke
Taft Opposes Plumb Plan For Railroads
Former President William Howard Taft spoke in Cincinnati on August 11 opposing the Plumb plan for railroad reorganization, calling it socialistic and favoring a particular class, and criticizing government supervision of railroads.
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Cincinnati
William Howard Taft
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Athens Messener Herald
Meassenger
Athens Ohio
Immigrant Bureaus Abroad
Reymes
By Walt Mason
Himmel
Dodgast
Opinovus
Ruth Cameron
Lousehold
Dimmer Stories
Higgins
Miss Cayenne
TAFT
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CO
Winston-Salem, N. C
Firestone
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