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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1921
Page
4
H P Davison of the Morgan firm, now very ill, is praised as a brilliant banker of his generation. He began as an office boy in Bridgeport and learned every step from books to teller work. He then taught successors, ensuring his own ascent by preparing capable replacements.
The British and French governments are dumping surplus merchant ships amid wartime profits and criticism. The article notes potential savings if ships had been sold earlier and argues the US built ships quickly but poorly, with blame on wasteful methods. It urges ending federal control and selling ships to maximize returns as trade recovers.
The editor rejects a long poem for space but offers a subscription swap to publish a brief note praising spelling and punctuation. A village poet retorts the relic car ad is outdated, noting late model promises and timeliness.
A dentist explains to a patient that grim historical torture images in the waiting room serve as a stark contrast to modern procedures. Seeing past cruelties makes dental work feel mild by comparison.
A Kansas penitentiary inmate petitions the governor for a pardon claiming fear of corrupting fellow prisoners. He asserts that, according to others, he is the only one secretly guilty while the rest remain behind the barn.
A playful parody shows King Arthur at the Round Table while Lancelot jokes about self service and salmon sandwiches. William Tell nervously guards an apple as his son mocks the bow and a Camel craving Richard III echoes. A Long Island judge allows a wife to take money from her sleeping husband, Andrew Devoe quips on weather, and King George laments a deficit with a joke.
A proposed method to synchronize city time uses electric lights dimming and flashing across Montevideo as a daily time standard. Experts debate manual versus automatic operation, costs, reliability, and potential benefits for utilities and the public.
A series of Q and A items cover topics from world peace history to court records, medical remedies, genealogy, card games rules, Viking origins, monk popes, invalid grape juice preparation, star shells, lynching totals, platoon etymology, and parasol use by men and women. The replies provide concise, practical or historical details with named contributors and sources where given.
The poem lauds the Salvation Army for aiding soldiers and the poor while criticizing fashionable churches and urban roots of hypocrisy. It mixes battle imagery with comic digs at local figures, including Justice Helwig, and ends with a humorous boast about a Kiwanis supper corn-eating stunt.
A World War II veteran enters a local hardware store to buy a box of tacks intended for garters but feels no point in the effort. The anecdote casts a quiet, reflective tone on purpose and memory.
Mike O Reilly of Butte gazes at the corpse of a friend who had recently become an atheist. He mutters a morbid witticism about the recently dressed deceased, noting a clean shave new suit and white gloves with no place to go.
A starving polecat leans against a fence in Athens without a cent, illustrating hardship in the urban fringe.
In San Francisco the Forty Eighth Womans Christian Temperance Union session endorses a ten year goal to dry the nation. Leaders call prohibition a failure and vow renewed effort while allowing loosened morals on fashion and smoking as men may smoke and women may rouge while hooch is banned.
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