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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1922
Page
6
Advertising rates available on application at Home or Foreign offices. Nominal charge for obituary and cards of thanks. National Advertising Representatives Hobert Ward Inc. locations 501 Fifth Ave New York City and 5 South Wabash Avenue Chicago.
A garbled column presents Q and A items on topics from moth prevention with cedar to beet sugar origins, goldfish native to China, and the Garcia message to McKinley. It notes the Poughkeepsie bridge length and post office procedures for sealed registered mail.
The piece argues for stronger local governance as a foundation for national progress. It cites the village as the first line of responsibility, warns against overreliance on federal action, and calls for education, determination and backbone to build efficient local and higher governments.
The London conference failed to resolve German reparations. Allies insist on payment but Germany is cashless, unable to exchange paper marks for gold, and goods are unwanted. If future conferences occur, they likely fail unless both sides face the facts that Germany cannot pay.
In the warm weather the author recalls spring water, the old swimming hole, and dog friendly days with a gang of boys. Vivid memories of planing and flour mills, freight trains, and a red watermelon highlight a nostalgic past and questions about changes since youth.
The piece extols water as the ultimate drink over all liquors, likening its refreshment to the pleasure of a spring and a watermelon in summer. It emphasizes water as a universal joy and essential pleasure in life.
Radio fans may devise means to broadcast freight as a novelty amid a coin crunch among the well to do. The era notes a cins shortage and warns gasoline is dangerous for cleaning with ten gallons leaving users exhausted.
Washington august report profiles Fred Gauntlett a Lusitania survivor and once owner of two Greek naval ships. It recounts his Lusitania escape near 45 to 50 years old his swift life-raft actions and his later transfer of two warships to Greece through a private ownership strange legal path. He exposed a fraud tried on survivors and helped save relatives by alerting Coast Guard.
A reader observes the Messenger column and warns against excessive sentimentality in divorce stories. A man from Athens recalls using want ads to amass wealth, then lives alone on a hill farm with stark poverty. The piece contrasts wealth’s emptiness with Diogenes’ philosophy and laments social indifference to the destitute.
A cheeky line proclaims the skirt as a Prodigal piece that shows off wealth, saying it brings out the fatted calf and noting she has plenty to show for her cash.
Public notice explains the Athens Meetanger Information Bureau offers answers to general questions. It instructs readers to mail questions with full name address and two stamps, and notes it cannot give legal medical or financial advice or settle domestic matters.
The text defines a person who can see in the dark as hemeramoper and notes hemeramopea or day blindness. It then oddly cites A. E. F. A. and claims cedar chests protect wool garments from moths, stating chests made of hearty cod.
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