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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1922
Page
4
A jumble of mixed classified items appears with headings for Lost and Found Personal Business Wanted to Miscellane and various trades. The fragmentary text lists contractors, taxis, rooms for rent, real estate, and a rifle meet notice, with stray names and contact hints such as a phone number and street references.
The input appears garbled and unreadable. It cannot be reliably summarized into a factual newspaper card with distinct entities.
Inventions patented rarely become money makers with only about 3 percent entering commerce. The term lobbyist traces to Dr Stoughton’s bitters bottles shaped like a log cabin used during the 1840 presidential drive.
Hugo Stinnes warns that a French seizure of the Ruhr to enforce reparations could trigger a new war. He argues a French army on German soil would provoke retaliation and that debt collection by force risks fueling arms buildups and more conflict, urging forgiveness as practical.
Postmaster General orders local post offices to grant Saturday half-holidays to employees excused without harming service. The plan targets workers who finish their duties early or with unusual effort on Saturday afternoons. The benefit aims to be extended where possible, acknowledging postal staff dedication and limited holiday relief.
The piece cites Colonel Leonard W. Ayres as saying roughly four of ten years are hard times, two in five. It advises building a reserve fund for 24 years of hardship, noting history from Egypt and a current shift toward better times, urging financial umbrellas for rainy days.
A column quotes Tom Sims on keeping humor during the holidays and jokes about Christmas gifts for a wife. It notes a girl avoiding dates due to Christmas and comments that roasts of pork or beef are costly while roasting someone is even more so.
Deep Savants note that atmospheric dust seeds clouds and moisture. research shows sawdust can become glucose rich feed, then alcohol, a potential motor fuel. Coal dust, briquettes, and dust from ores are reclaimed. arsenic fumes are captured for pigments and medicines. Gold dust from mining is collected, including sweepings and clothes, yielding large sums.
A reflective verse echoes scripture from Ephesians 3 14 15 urging worship of the Father as the head of all families in heaven and earth. The piece contemplates law as divine and notes differing views on whether law is God or if God remains unseen by human perception.
A poetic excerpt reflects on perception and the divine within a contemplation of sight and hearing. The lines ponder whether true vision rests with God rather than human senses and invite reflection on belief.
A humorously bleak account of a chilly day and a homebound cold. The narrator endures frostbitten weather, feverish symptoms, and a string of ill advised remedies from friends, while dodging social misfortune and weather reports. The piece records small town life with names and local scenes.
A reminiscence recalls asafoetida around the neck and a teacher burning sulfur on the stove. The room fills with blue smoke and pupils draw water from the school dipper at recess, reflecting on days long past.
The Athens Messenger prints a Q A feature where readers ask questions and receive brief factual answers. Topics include fascists in Italy, hospital flooring materials, California oil fields, record fish and horse rides, early hydro power, button patents, California as an island on land, heat distortion, and the Stoughton bottle expression.
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