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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1923
Page
4
A compact quotation collection reflecting on wickedness as a troubled sea and a Thackeray hint that one should address evil with tact. It frames offense to sensibilities as a guiding consideration for agreeable discourse.
A discussion on the folly of suppressing news ideas, urging cooperation with reporters to share truthful stories. It highlights Scout safety lessons, especially firearms handling, stressing every gun is loaded until proven unloaded and the need for supervision and secure storage. It then reflects on cyclical government patterns from Aristotle to modern Russia.
Washington December 3 report says American graves abroad are being improved and parks created as the War Department and Fine Arts Commission press ongoing development. Belleau Wood Romagne Suresnes Brookwood Waereghem grave markers to honor 39,000 dead across eight cemeteries in France Belgium England with dignified simple headstones and landscape design.
The passage notes Colonel Roosevelt's saying Where the tree falls let it lie as about 95 percent of American war dead were returned home for private or national burials. It credits the Graves Registration Bureau and the Fine Arts Commission for careful, respectful work in burial efforts both at home and abroad.
The piece portrays dawn in Athens from a courthouse sentinel perspective. It follows night workers awakening the city, milk deliveries, street activity, and the rising sun transforming landmarks and streets into morning life. The Watch Dog narrator jokes about the statue and hints at local tasks like bridge work.
The Plains Notes extend congratulations to Jack McCollister of the Plains and his wife Mrs McCollister who works at the Messenger office. The note extols Jack as a fine young man and praises Mrs McCollister for her deserving character.
Albany merchants advertise in the Christmas Suggestion columns of the Want Ads and urge readers to consult the Want Ads for holiday shopping.
The prompt asks who is usually the first person out on Court Street the year around and invites a phone call or letter with the answer.
The five dollar bill features an idealized composite head not a real chief. The memorial to Whistler at West Point is a Greek stele designed by Augustus Saint Gaudens, donated by the Copley Society of Boston. Jewish inventors include Albert Einstein and Jonas Salk.
A reader asks about Emile Berliner the gramophone Sir Albert Stern the tank Chaim Weizmann TNT and Louis C Loewenstein of General Electric. The D A R says marriage to a Revolutionary descendant does not grant membership. Starboard derives from steer board and larboard from left side. port replaced it. Indianapolis has four public golf links with a proposal for a fifth. President Cleveland swore in on a pocket Bible given by his mother.
A brief tip describes how to use boiling water to dip a knife before cutting very fresh bread or cake, aiming to prevent crushing the crumb and achieve clean slices.
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