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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1921
Page
4
Kansas wheat fields reveal a revival as farmers shift to hard work, selling grain to market and paying debts despite adversity. President Harding urged less state support, emphasizing self-reliance and opportunity, prompting the broader lesson that self-help wins.
The article notes as part of the capital vs. labor adjustment that ten executives at a grain company voluntarily cut their salaries by a total of 29,000 dollars a year while directors’ fees also fell. It argues high earners sometimes take reductions to model shared hardship and align incentives with workers.
A banquet scene features a college president toasting with admiration for women at the table. Various quips unfold about censorship, a military ball joke, and a farm sale pun where a mule is pitched as an incidental item. The anecdotes reflect light social humor.
A collection of humorous and quixotic lines notes social quirks and odd sayings. It cheekily contrasts preachers a teenage jest about a dress and playful imagery of frogs and a rabbit in a Tennyson reference.
Washington reports a fierce national campaign against predatory animals led by government hunters from the Biological Survey. Since 1915 about 200,000 animals, mainly coyotes and wolves, have been slain to protect cattle and sheep, with vast pasturage losses blamed on prairie dogs and other pests.
The article recounts government hunts against large predators in the West including a Wyoming mountain lion that killed about 1000 dollars worth of livestock in a month and a 650 pound Big Piney bear that terrorized camps tearing tents and raiding larders. It also details the demise of "Old White" the Colorado wolf pack leader and the famed "Custer Wolf" near South Dakota after years of cattle losses totaling 25000 dollars and a dramatic pursuit by H P Williams.
The Athens Watch Dog column lampoons campus life with references to Dean Chubb Merril Kerr Clarence Horn and Doc Merwin joining trips and trivial mischief. The piece mocks preachers, deacons, and Kiwanis supper chatter while noting Lonnie Ridgeway meals and local social foibles with playful sarcasm.
Columbus Ohio Aug 12 Two state laws affecting automobile owners go into effect next week The Pence anti glare lens law requires headlights to illuminate 200 feet ahead and ten feet to the sides with glare kept below three and a half feet above the highway A testing committee approved forty anti glare devices and issued home made device instructions The Atwood law compels every used car owner to file an affidavit of ownership with the county clerk before next Wednesday
Questions and answers from The Athens Messenger Information Bureau cover topics from postal route transfers to climate London ages of Jesus and coal production. The column provides brief factual responses with citations to authorities and references to historical facts.
Walace Wright confessed to killing garage owner Harry D. Cummins on a lonely road to steal his car. Cummins vanished after a ride with a stranger. Wright said he shot him, rolled the body over a hill, and later claimed a prior killing in 1915 at Wellsville. Wright faces a speedy trial in Steubenville.
Columbus hotel men and tavern managers say prohibition has raised costs from depreciation of furniture and fixtures. Managers recall guests in the old days who would have a quick snifter and retire quietly, contrasting with present woes.
A hotel waiter notes guests bring home brewed alcohol and attempt to drink it in rooms. Guests reportedly stain furniture with bottle marks and chip chairs while trying to loosen corks and stoppers.
O. D. Owen, president of the Washington County Farm Bureau, proclaims a new era of rural self-conference and ambition, linking organization to national stability as rural America awakens its cooperative spirit.
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