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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1930
Page
4
Historic Athens Ohio paper with weekly editions and a large Sunday issue details ownership management and circulation in five counties. It lists publishers Gordon K Bush and Charles H Harris and notes affiliates and advertising terms and postal acknowledgement.
A devotional excerpt notes that humans cannot know or fully judge themselves while God alone judges. It reflects on divine awareness and the limit of human discernment, citing scripture and Wilkie Collins.
Census figures show North Carolina population up 24 percent from 1910 to 1920 and rapid growth due to early road construction and bond-financed highways. Georgia Virginia and South Carolina trail with about 11 percent from 1910 to 1920 and roughly 3 percent since 1920. North Carolina gains representatives while Georgia loses two. The piece cites economic improvements, school consolidation, and reduced travel costs as key effects of paving and bond programs. It also discusses fishing licenses and conservation funding in Ohio as contrasting policy notes and calls for license reform.
In the first issue of Outdoor Ohio Topics the Izaak Walton League tests a statewide fishing license idea. The editor notes cane ole fishermen have avoided paying but does not state whether a high price gun should affect license liability.
G Williams director of the Ohio Experiment Station at Wooster urges feeding more wheat than corn next year. He cites wheat surplus and corn crop uncertainty, noting wheat may fetch higher prices and is worth more as feed for cattle dairy flocks and hogs.
Europe continues to pay war debts to the United States with semi annual payments totaling 117 142 000. Interest dominates at 71 355 000 while 45 787 000 reduces principal. England pays 66 390 000 in interest. France reduces principal by 35 000 000. Italy 5 000 000. Belgium 4 825 000 with smaller sums from Czechoslovakia Hungary Poland Russia Yugoslavia and the Baltic countries. The payments help reduce the national debt and comfort taxpayers.
A narrator travels to Peconic Bay with four dollars and twenty five cents, watches hardware sellers’ warnings as tbs and pails float, and observes two young men lying on the shore with a sack of clams while others rake sea grass, stones, and clams from the shallow water.
The narrator recounts the playful chaos of finding Mehitabel the clam while raking the seabed. A backbreaking search under the hot sun yields a squeaky chorus from shells and the dramatic capture of Mehitabel slipping between rake prongs into the water.
The text notes that the wealth king of Persia, hailed as the greatest on earth, fled his golden throne and was killed while in flight.
An account notes Alexander the Great using long spears to strike elephants from behind to disrupt Persian forces. He deployed troops to turn the elephants back into their own lines, forcing them to gallop into Persian soldiers and create chaos on the battlefield.
Washington August 18 1923 aviation progress abroad shows France leads in military and commercial aircraft development while the United States grows in endurance altitude and glider work. France backs air commerce with subsidies and new routes to Belgium and African colonies as Dutch lines haul fruit by air to London.
Laura Ingalls, a dancer and flier, completed 644 barrel rolls after flying lessons in April May and June, surpassing Dale Jackson and O Brine who were attempting endurance records. Whittaker of Universal Air Lines notes the feat and comments on women flying.
D. Zimmerman A A Johnson Ray Tierney of Douglas Wyoming insist Wyoming remains strong. They note rains above normal and abundant winter feed. They claim Wyoming is the greatest sheep producing section and that wool and wood prices reflect a thriving economy.
Farmers could prosper by using sheep to improve pastures and control brush while providing meat and dairy for the family. Mutton is presented as a better food option than beef, with mutton broth and vegetables praised for children's meals. The text notes dog mania makes sheep raising difficult.
A data note indicates dogs outnumber sheep by about two to one across multiple large states, signaling shifts in livestock and companion animal trends. The report highlights a broad contrast between canine populations and ovine counts across key regions.
Anglic an bishops at Lam berth declare support for birth control drawing mixed reactions. Some argue they went too far while others say they did not go far enough. The Church Times calls the move a revolution in Christian morality.
Text notes that primitive peoples used birth control for millennia and that infanticide, particularly of girls, was once the alternative when children were unwanted. The statement reflects early approaches to population control and gendered child welfare.
Viscount Brentford, champion of Britain’s Protestant movement, calls on bishops to issue clearer directives so the people can understand them. He argues bishops should go further to ensure comprehension among lay readers and churchgoers.
In ancient times leprosy was treated by fragile cures. A Japanese scientist, Kioyosh Shiga, proposes leprosy results from vitamin deficiencies rather than a fixed infection, suggesting new nutritional insights into the disease.
The fragment argues that sufficient canned tomatoes lemons orange juice and fresh vegetables could have prevented leprosy without miracles. It notes vitamins are unseen, unweighed, and not proven, implying a historical belief in diet preventing illness.
Rotten Row in Hyde Park is described as a premier fashionable thoroughfare once used by Plantagenet kings. The path, once the King''s Road, served as a popular route for equestrians and pedestrians in Londonís royal precinct.
A Danville Arkansas note reports Lewis Brothers growing green cotton and submitting a sample verified as green in its natural state. Tomorrow features The Four Year Old Bride as a related item in the page.
Mr and Mrs Fred Wheaton and family return from a two week vacation. Athenean Restaurant sold to Baker Brothers owners of Central Restaurant for 3600 dollars. Also notes on social visits and a forthcoming wedding of Louise King Walls to Charles Brittonustin in August.
Slim Seward and Doc Allen report a bumper peach crop at the Arle Johnson farm. Dalton's dance hall remains popular among Athens residents, attracting many patrons.
A short reflective piece contrasts labor of hands with labor of thought. The author jokes about preferring toil over thinking while noting urban changes, quotes Edison, and quips on New York City’s parking violations and motor carriages as signs of civilization.
A questions and answers feature explains how the Washington Information Bureau provides free factual replies for inquiries. Topics include baptismal font designer William Ordway Partridge, Paris subways Metro and Nord-Sud, Managua mail time about four days, MLB roster limit of twenty five, the Haskell Oriental Museum at University of Chicago with a vast Egyptian collection, Lincoln on woman suffrage, Texas Leaguer versus line drive, and the antiquity of dolls tracing to ancient Egypt.
Washington detail on how Congress builds Statutes at Large. Tyler Dernett, Bryan, and the Legal Section classify, proof, bound, and preserve signed originals of public and private laws. Early laws on parchment treasured. later volumes issued every Congress.
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