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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1924
Page
4
Washington column argues labor leadership shifts as strikes grow costly. It highlights the National Women’s Trade Union League and its Chicago school training women from across the nation to become trade union specialists, detailing courses and field work shaping modern labor leadership.
An old column discusses advertising rates and obituary notices, then pivots to a critique of Republican primary nominations and referendums. It argues that nominating by popular vote harms party discipline, warns against democracy edging toward anarchy, and urges restoring government by party plans to preserve constitutional principles.
The piece notes that bob-hair fashion provokes historic wrath, citing a 1680 John Chamberlain letter where English clerics and King James II condemned short hair. It argues that cycles repeat, with modern critiques echoing past anger and the line God knowes framing doubt about improvement.
General Dawes cites the 1920 mandate against entanglements and says the people’s choice must be respected. He contrasts Mr. Davis’s support for League of Nations entry with Coolidge and Dawes backing aid to Europe without entanglement.
The program places women in field work under union leaders to learn trade practices and strike procedures. In cooperation with the University of Chicago, students take classes and may return to factory work or join a union, with the aim of advancing organized labor. A recent graduate became an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union in a major district.
A sermon unfolds around evolution with a monkey sermon in Butte Montana and musings on Martians by Camille Flammarion. The piece cites Darrow on Leob and Leopold and argues intelligence brings responsibility and condemns cruelty in civilization. It notes comparisons of currencies and ends with a comment on Canadian money.
The piece notes Canadian government financing in the American market totaling 20 million dollars and asserts Canadian governance of railroads as a strength. It argues Canadian stocks command higher prices from financiers than American, reflecting respect for Canadian ability amid global trade. A Canton undertaker tale about three dead soldiers and cheap coffins is recounted as satire on superstition.
Public information notice explains the How to Ask A Q A service run by The AI Messenger Information Bureau directed from Washington D C It states it cannot give legal medical or financial advice and requests full name address and two stamps for return postage.
A mixed set of readers’ questions covers mail from Germany, funeral hymns for Calvin Coolidge Jr, counts of college and women's fraternities, Egyptian electric fans, the naval stores origin, amateur golf caddie rules, and a Luxembourg Museum etching of France’s Unknown Soldier.
A Nashville former AEF lieutenant discusses Musee de Luxembourg credit to a foreign artist. Cedar trees grow hardy only in the US South and California. The deepest dive record is 68 feet for 8 minutes 48 seconds. The cotton boll weevil, Mexican in origin, invaded the US from 1885, spreading to most cotton regions by 1922, with West and Northwest Texas largely free.
At The Geysers California two steam wells reach 263 and 301 feet tapping a vast natural boiler 200 feet below the surface. Steam at 62 pounds and 352 degrees Fahrenheit could power industry, but currently most of it escapes. A third well is under slow drilling through volcanic rock.
A heavy drill carves through rock with escaping steam ejecting broken rock as it advances. Drill bits are repeatedly dressed and re tempered, with steam power remaining constant over fifty years observed by a valley resident. Local wells show no depreciation or interdependence between pressures, even after the 1906 San Francisco quake.
Sylvia Pankhurst argues in London that La Follette cannot win in the United States as Liberals hold little sway. She also critiques the British Labour government, blaming it for popularizing royalty and failing to resolve European tensions and the Versailles era issues.
A Fiji Islander known as Matanaba or Jim Brown dies in a San Francisco charity ward from tuberculosis a result of white men’s diseases. He sailed to San Francisco in 1922 aboard the British schooner Speedway Fiji and never returned home.
The unemployed man, weakened by hunger, suffered injuries after securing a job and died at the County Hospital while crying for his homeland. Local officials consider the case a somber reminder of hardship faced by displaced workers.
Two youths, Robert Imms and George Walker, drowned in Packer's Creek at Jane-Lew after heavy rainfall. The flood caused about 140000 dollars in damage across Dwet Creek and Jane-Lew communities near Charleston.
Frank Klady Kart A Dern and R J Croyle, county dry agents, conducted a 20 month raid campaign. 218 arrests were made with six sent to the penitentiary and ten cases pending. Fines totaled 83055. Authorities confiscated 2900 gallons mush 2200 gallons wine 4140 gallons beer 39 astilis and a large quantity of distilled liquors.
An advertisement touts Dave's Mentha-Pepsin as a cure for indigestion gastritis and related symptoms promising quick relief and a money back guarantee. It cites a New Jersey town sale figure and notes benefits for nerves headaches and dizziness when digestion improves. The piece also mentions McKee Drug Co and a five foot high snow white pygmy camel from western Persia.
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