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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1929
Page
4
A concise moral snippet cites Ecclesiastes 5 5 about avoiding vows and paying them in full. It adds Fuller’s line warning that making promises reveals little strength and leaves one chasing their own words.
A reflection on how Christmas joy depends on children and how many in the district face a bleak holiday due to poverty or loss. The piece urges readers to support local welfare groups and notes a columnist’s discussion on whether women are more discerning in love than men.
A male reader reflects on a recent magazine essay by a woman writer arguing men are more sentimental than women. He notes the challenge of understanding such views and acknowledges the author shares much without revealing all.
The author urges parents to support wholesome romance reading for young girls. She argues that proper guidance prevents twisted emotions later, noting that girls will read love stories regardless and warns against permissive or secretive material.
Officials urge manufacturers and distributors to share timely reports with the United States Census as a new data program travels district by district. They argue current data can cut waste and boost efficiency, helping all business sizes.
Gilbert Swan sums up the year with a personal box score noting 65 books read or glimpsed 52 plays witnessed and far too many movies attended as the usual lists of ten bests loom around the corner.
The writer critiques early talkies noting halting musical and stage-derived approaches, cites King Vidor’s Hallelujah and Bull Dog Drummond, and praises Bolitho's Twelve Against the God Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and The Case of Sergeant Grisha. They also recommend Hingston Problems of Insect Intelligence and Lardner Round-up Jim Thurber Is Sex Necessary and The Love of the Foolish Angels.
In the review the head list names Elinor Wylie and Sylvia Townsend Warner as authors of notable poetry and fiction. Richard Hughes is praised for Innocent Voyage, while Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is highlighted as a stirring novel. Robert Nathan’s Is Another Heaven is also mentioned.
In their second years both Journey's End and Street Scene are hailed as the finest theater entries, praised for sustained quality and strong casts, marking them as standout productions in current repertory.
The lines colored veteran rose to governor then murdered whites and crowned himself emperor. He was killed for tyranny. Henry Christophe then proclaimed King Henry the First and built a famed castle and fort atop a high mountain, still notable today.
The article notes Haiti’s membership in the League of Nations and recalls U S intervention in 1915 when ongoing irrigation projects begun under white rule were abandoned, signaling decay in the republic.
The review lists new and notable plays and performers in Manhattan. Berkeley Square and June Moon gain prominence among newcomers. Evelyn Laye, George Cohan, Helen Morgan, Charlie Butterworth, and Leslie Howard headlining in Bitter Sweet, Gambling, and other productions are highlighted with praise for performances.
Island's production and foreign trade dwindled as courts grew corrupt and education stalled. Only French Catholic priests maintained some schooling while poverty and disease intensified hardships across the community.
The text suggests President Hoover would back a League of Nations experiment if it accepts responsibility and avoids challenging the Monroe Doctrine, implying a careful, conditional endorsement of diplomatic steps.
In New York City expert Doctor Gettler explains that oxygen levels affect alcohol tolerance. With little oxygen a small amount of alcohol can intoxicate, while higher oxygen allows more alcohol to be tolerated, though excessive intake remains unsafe.
A man riding to hounds from sunrise to sunset can drink two magnums about four quarts of strong ale without effect. In contrast a man confined in a stuffy office with little oxygen in his lungs shows heavy blood and diminished mental function after one pint of Guinness stout.
Dr Frank McCoy outlines undulant fever also called Mediterranean fever with symptoms like prolonged fever joint swelling and fatigue. He notes cow milk as a primary infection source, advises bacteriological diagnosis, and suggests careful nursing diet hygiene and enema cleansing during fever. He also shares Q and A on taste loss hydrogen foods and blue bruising indicating vascular weakness.
The ideal is to drink water and breathe fresh air, leaving alcohol alone, especially in a bootleg country. The remark emphasizes avoiding alcohol in areas where illicit production and distribution prevail.
The country continues business as United States Steel reports unfilled orders down 38,788 tons last month. Total unfilled orders reach 4,125,345 tons, a figure critics say does not indicate a panic.
The inscription quoted from poet Louise Imogen Guiney reads The Kiss of the Sun for pardon The song of the Birds for mirth You are near God’s heart in a Garden Than anywhere else on earth. The text confirms Guiney as the author of the verse used at Bok Sanctuary Florida.
An unusual analogy links a Bible phrase to Wall Street, suggesting rapid lambs return for another shearing. The piece hints at broker seats valued at $500000 now, with potential rise to $1000000 as the cycle continues.
A notable Mexican assembly drew U S attention in New York city yesterday. Pasqual Ortiz Rubio recently elected president of Mexico attended aboard the steamship Bremen after a European vacation. General Calles, former Mexican president, also arrived for the event.
Dwight W. Morrow, U S ambassador to Mexico, arrives in New York to join a Mexican officials gathering at the Hotel Pennsylvania. The piece notes millions of Mexicans in the United States and urges strong U S Mexican ties with mutual financial and industrial influence.
A compact guide teaching common errors and word usage. It notes correct pronouns in phrases like This candy is for you, highlights pronunciation examples for attack, and compares words such as healthy wholesome and salubrious. It introduces today s word derelict, defined as a person abandoned or outside respectable society.
Edward N Hurley urged a world co op of industrial rulers to withhold essential raw materials preventing war. Bertrand Russell echoed the idea, saying international authority could ration resources. Both dismissed Kellogg treaties, naming key figures in oil copper rubber and steel as potential veto power if united.
This evening at seven o'clock a meeting at First M I Church will organize a training class for Sun day School Teachers. A joint birthday banquet at Elmwood Place last night honored Attorney A E Price and W B Golden with a six o'clock banner event.
Miss Himma C. Waite principal of the Model School left this morning to tour schools in Cleveland Indianapolis and Evanston Illinois where she will visit her sister in Evanston.
Mrs A A Ballinger and her infant son Floyd Leslie arrived from Baltimore for a short visit with friends and relatives in Athens and Albany.
The text asks who was the first Inca of Peru and identifies Manco Capac as founder of Cuzco in the late 11th century, plus the ram-headed sphinx as eriosphinx and the main-headed sphinx as androsphinx. It ends with a question about finnan haddock naming.
Ten years ago C H Ryson of this city was chosen secretary manager of the Athens Chamber of Commerce by unanimous vote to succeed Robert L Leopold who resigned. Students of elementary science at Athens High School toured the University Heating Plant with Chief Engineer James Smith. The first Ohio University football dinner was held at the Masonic Temple with university and high school players faculty and business leaders in attendance.
Dr. Alston Tillis spent yesterday and today in Columbus tending a confidence of the president of the board of trustees and presidents of the five state supported institutions.
A brief historical note explains Findon haddock named for Scottish peat smoking. It asks if Herbert Hoover married before China assignment. It records Hoover as a mining engineer going to Australia in 1897 and then China in 1899, with a February 10, 1895 marriage to Lou Henry in California.
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