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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1928
Page
4
A devotional line cites Amos asking to remove the noise of songs and viols. The text notes music as a liberal art shaping passions and deserving strong legislative support, attributed to Napoleon.
The opening of the Alumni Memorial Auditorium in Athens seats 3000 and becomes a regional magnet for major events. Despite rain, thousands attended as Paul Whiteman and magicians performed on a superb stage with excellent acoustics. The article lauds the building as a lasting, splendid investment for Southeast Ohio.
Nelsonville earns a national Special Nation Award for its 1928 clean-up and paint-up campaign. The recognition highlights the city’s civic spirit, wide cooperation with city agencies, and the inspiring example set for other Hocking Valley towns.
Publishers bear heavy duty to protect readers from fraudulent advertisers and must report offenders to federal authorities. The text notes a belief that many publishers recognize printing ads that fraudulently take readers’ money harms their paper’s prestige and implicates them in wrongdoing.
The Bureau will report dishonest advertisers to newspaper publishers for guidance. The goal is to prevent fraudulent ads while preserving free general advertising. The Messenger commits to not publish ads that are fraudulent or unfair, stressing integrity and reader trust as essential.
Readable fragments show mentions of Chicago Florida closer and a sign manual style note. Contains terse phrases implying a farewell or public display context with named places. No clear narrative or outcome identified.
Arthur Brisbane summarizes President Coolidge urging 15 cruisers as national strength backing the Kellogg Peace Pact. He argues a navy is a reality and a peace treaty alone cannot guard against conflict, noting Japan and China as powerful regional forces and the need for deterrence.
Dr Frank McCoy advises on replacing meat with nuts, noting digestion, fat content, and starch factors. He lists best nuts, warns against overuse, and provides a sample nut loaf recipe plus almond milk remedy and a lisping and sty Q A section with practical guidance.
President Coolidge rejects the label of militaristic or imperialistic while asserting the United States is a strong, cohesive empire from Alaska to Florida. He stresses preparedness against any militaristic approaches and emphasizes national unity.
The piece criticizes unnamed pressure groups and the Power Trust sending a private message to Congress. It notes public insight will come from observing congressional reaction and warns against misplaced optimism as King George's health is monitored by five doctors, with a weak heart noted.
The piece muses on courage and heart as essential and fading under pressure, invoking Goethe to illustrate the link between mental resolve and physical stamina. It reflects on the erosion of spirit and vitality when perseverance fails, suggesting a poignant psychological collapse.
The report notes the severity of King George's illness with high insurance costs over Christmas. Doctors treating the king have increased from two to five, with three holding noble titles and dropping M D from their credentials.
A royal commission will exercise certain of the sovereign powers as the King is too ill to sign papers. It will include the Queen the Duke of York Premier Baldwin the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellor. The group forms the empire’s functioning machinery with the House of Commons as backbone and the House of Lords as ornament.
By the Way in New York notes Fifth Avenue displays filled with luxury and social satire just before Christmas. Shoppers encounter petal tipped cigars, diamond set pipes, expensive jewelry, and gimmicky home accessories, contrasted with Grand Street push carts offering cheap toys. The piece wonders who profits from the extravagance and mocks the human folly behind holiday spending.
Clues mix geography birds coins Rome existence and grammar. Several items appear garbled with stray letters and broken phrases making full answers unclear. The fragmentary page hints a standard crossword with horizontal numbers and scattered definitions.
The new Perry cut off reduces travel time between Chicago and Tampa by eight hours. The first train crossed the cut off yesterday, signaling faster service for Florida and Chicago regions.
The firm invites public purchase of 900000 shares as it scales from a giant to a modestly hopeful venture. The tone contrasts past grandiosity with current humility, noting society’s accustoming to ever larger enterprises.
The reader asks if catarrh spreads by kissing when a person has nose and throat troubles. The article notes that catarrh is common and suggests evaluating personal susceptibility and exposure before drawing conclusions.
This item lists historical milestones: Columbus’s voyage and fort in Hispaniola in 1492, the 1790 relocation of the U.S. capital to Philadelphia during Congress's third session, the 1833 founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia, and the 1789 death of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans.
Q and A on intelligence quotient needle invention and a brief bio of Nils Asther. The IQ definition uses mental age times 100 over real age. normal is 100. Asther profile notes birth in Malmo and arrival in the U S in 1927.
Uncle Sam runs the world’s largest summer resorts the national parks where millions visit yearly. The interior department weighs airports within parks and aerial sightseeing while balancing railroads road transport and park protection in a winter conference among officials airlines and carriers.
Cotton Tedrow's Dugout on Kimberly road saw a two-horse wagon load of beer and whiskey confiscated and hauled to the City Building. A courthouse gathering discussed forming a Patrons of Husbandry grange with nearly fifty expressing interest. An ad sought a good looking kitchen helper for hunters. Mr and Mrs J D Brown returned from a visit with their daughter and son-in-law in Cincinnati.
Mr and Mrs J E Bain and their daughter Ruth left by car for Martinaville Indiana to visit the parents Mr and Mrs J E Bain. Corporal Clarence Smith son of Mr and Mrs William Smith of McArthur returned from a base hospital on furlough and was said to have received the Distinguished Service Cross for skill and daring under fire.
Oil should be applied in a small amount and rubbed into the bat with a bage. After thorough rubbing the bat is placed in a cool dry place.
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