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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1927
Page
4
A nostalgic reminiscence on Penobscot Bay visitors celebrating a prize winning grandmother. It reflects on aging, changing roles, and the lively, modern grandma who trades yarn for dance programs, urging action and celebration while noting the grandmother has passed.
Relying on an orderly supply method, four central states Nebraska Oklahoma Kansas Colorado consider a wheat pool. Farmers deliver grain to a central agency receive 65 percent cash with 35 percent held for three installments. Pool aims to stabilize prices and fill market demand modeled after Canadian co operatives.
A reflection on social waste from wasteful lives to luxury and neglect. The remedy proposed is knowledge gained through education, urging society government and humanity to invest in learning to transform wasted potential into usefulness. The piece argues education as the logical solution accepted by philosophers and wasters alike.
The former Kaiser advised German pilots about their flight to America and the hope is that he is more adept with aviation than with marches.
A writer notes a surge in candy consumption as parents become more indulgent and urges moderation, suggesting even Ives might occasionally indulge in a bite.
Washington experts predict flying hotels as the next development in travel and hospitality. Analysts cite new aviation technology and urban mobility concepts as creating airborne lodging options for future tourism and business trips.
A reflective column questions Mussolini’s bid to crown an emperor and mocks royal pomp, then shifts to juristic cases on murder and suicide involving spouses, noting varying state interpretations and the duty of a husband to intervene.
The piece reports on a Commerce claim that crab and lobster shells could yield artificial silk with profitable results. It reflects on science marvels from Tyndall’s crayfish musing to a clubgoer’s lobster fantasy and celebrates Marconi’s wireless beam and the need for faster telegrams and efficient machinery for transcontinental communication.
The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, spending ten million dollars, becomes a sea level waterway twelve feet deep and ninety feet wide, soon open for public use. General Taylor envisions a boat route from New York to Florida through inland channels, bypassing the ocean, urging a New Orleans bound system via Mississippi Valley. The nations abroad would pursue this if in charge.
Dr Frank McCoy answers health and diet questions addressing longevity myths and American eating habits. The column urges adaptation of diet to local habits, stresses a simple, quality food plan, and includes reader questions on a child’s stuttering and recurring scurvy and boils with practical dietary guidance.
Gilbert Swan reports on a bustling 8 to 8:20 p m crowd at Joe Leblang’s ticket agency where last minute theater buyers rush for seats. The piece traces Broadway’s hustle from lively street scenes to mentions of Tommy Lyman and a season of bunrers as buyers arrive with expense money amid bootlegger calls.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Lawrence were guests of friends in Logan. A group of young sportsmen including Byron Wolfe Jr and Gilbert McDou Oscar Fulton planned a camping and hunting trip on the McDougall farm northeast of Athens. Ohio officials approved funds for decorating a estate house for the Home Coming. Ten years ago President Wilson rejected a peace offer and said the German people must decide. Miners at Circle Hill Murray City walked out until coal prices rise. Mrs. W F E Meier hosted a Red Cross party at her home.
The article reviews recent public remarks by Prohibition Commissioner J M Doran and Assistant Secretary Seymour Lowman noting rough phrasing and missteps. It also catalogs other officials like Mellon Kellogg Wilbur Hoover Sargent and New, highlighting varied reactions to their statements and actions.
In small towns farmers harvest crops and visit cabarets as entertainers brace for sleep loss. Manhattan sees outsized spending by out-of-town buyers who arrive ready to gamble. These buyers seek a good time with little inquiry into destinations of their funds.
James Corwin was electrocuted after touching a nail that was in contact with a live electrical wire in Chicago.
A telegram from K field reports Captain C. H. Reynolds and Sergeant Gus Newland were held by authorities in Cadavedra Mexico. The two aviators, part of the second division air service, had gone to Arizona to search for a World War veteran sighted lost in the desert, and were thought to have landed on the Mexican side after becoming lost.
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