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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1927
Page
4
A thought for today reflects on love as fulfilling the law and as life for the soul. The quotation from Romans 13 10 and William Ellery Channing frames love as universal harmony and moral guidance.
A reporter observes small acts of kindness on a busy street and in stores. A truck driver yields to a flivver, two women apologize and smile, a boy shares cake, a newsboy worries about wind might blow away papers, and a graduate stays home three nights. The piece portrays the Christmas miracle mood through everyday goodwill.
The piece laments how the American public expects constant flawless service from post offices utilities and carriers while ignoring the many days of perfect operation and the strain on workers during holidays and heavy mail loads. It notes how even small failures trigger complaints despite overall reliability.
Washington university marketing assistant professor Huntley Sinclair argues there is no true saturation point for motor vehicles. He notes demand will vary and that rising replacement rates, population growth, and expanding markets will keep sales possible beyond 1930 even if the stock of vehicles grows large.
A Rome newspaper notes December debt payments for European war debts totaling 276 million dollars due in Washington. It contrasts Christmas goodwill with Europe’s financial sorrow, offering a tear and a flower for Europe and for poor America burdened by unpaid debts.
The district shows steady construction in Thens, Pomeroy, and nearby towns as a backbone for skilled and unskilled labor. A recovering Ohio economy, aided by a university in Athens and local utilities, sustains builders and housing growth while businesses rebound and industry stabilizes.
A U S submarine S-4 rose near the surface off the Massachusetts coast and was rammed and sunk by destroyer Paulding No. 17. Possible causes cited include limited periscope depth and surface conditions. The note suggests safer peacetime procedures and warnings. The column also jokes about D Annunzio and Lindbergh family plans, and ends with a line about a telescope lens from the bureau of ords.
The seventy inch diameter lens, twelve and a half inches thick, was cast last May and will continue cooling until February. The text emphasizes the exacting precision required in making such instruments as the lens remains in the furnace during extended cooling.
The passage muses on future telescopes far surpassing early gear like Galileo’s. It imagines distant worlds brought near by lenses and tubes, enabling lunar and planetary views by eye or photography, and humanity beginning to truly know the universe.
Judge Hardy argues crime could vanish if mothers taught children early in pre school days. He links this to historic human progress, noting society’s shifts away from cannibalism and slavery, and suggests poverty must end for crime to disappear. He ponders biblical breeches and Eve’s choices in Genesis.
A quirky tale from Tokyo notes a man earning a doctoral degree for research on flea mating habits. In Chicago a man was shot over a family bread dispute, allegedly over rolls mistaken for biscuits, prompting reflections on education and fate.
Dr. Frank McCoy advocates an orange juice fasting cure to eliminate body toxins and rebuild red blood cells in pernicious anemia. He links improved blood quality to oxygen uptake and stresses breathing exercises, green vegetables, physical culture, and periodic refasting if needed.
A chronicle of Greenwich Village memories by Gilbert Swan notes remaining troubadours and places from the bohemian era. It recalls Dick the Indian singer, Romany Marie on Christopher Street, Edna Millay, Floyd Dell, and Lew New, contrasting old basement tearooms with modern high rent venues. An adjacent New Jersey farming commune near Manhattan highlights a counterpoint to city life.
A reader asks about dolls made in the U S quantity grapefruits shipped from Florida first plumb ing in the White House origin of ornery expression and etiquette on sending cards to both husband and wife. The informant provides specific dates and brief explanations.
Two men named Hartley Vincent and Mr. Purdue of Norwalk Ohio were among about 200 automobile travelers who reached Buffalo today after being snowbound at Evans New York, twenty miles away, since Saturday.
A compiled crossword style page asks which European city is called the Paris of the North and includes various clue fragments. It lists horizontal and vertical entries with references to mythic lamps, Minnesota minerals, animal terms, and other general trivia hints across a broad range of topics.
Twenty years ago Warren Herron suffered burns to face neck and wrist at the Floodwood electric plant. Miss Lucy Evans and others spoke at Amosville institute while couples attended a Dalton academy dance chaperoned by several. An African python twelve feet nine inches long was killed near Coolville and its skin displayed at the courthouse.
Washington dispatch notes that Civil Service rules aim to remove politics from officer selection but Politics figures in choosing prohibition enforcers. The Civil Service Commission forecasts most admin posts filled by certified appointees by year’s end, yet funding shortfalls delay the 20 000 applicant screening for 2 500 jobs.
Governor Donahey directed Engineer F O Eugle to investigate the state dam system and operations in the Turkey Foot area after a Massillon Chamber of Commerce report cited flood perils and called for dam lowering at season’s start to prevent the menace.
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