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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1930
Page
4
A United Press report notes publishers in Ohio face a listing by the Audit Bureau and the Associated Press as associations like Taji press daily work with full telegraph wire reports.
A short daily quote pairing Jeremiah 7 3 urging amendment of ways with Cervantes note that reform brings God aid. The items present a moral exhortation from two classical sources. The tone resembles a compact newspaper devotional quote card.
The Bureau of Public Roads notes that about three quarters of highway costs go to labor. For each road worker, three are employed elsewhere supplying gear and materials. In 1930 road construction added about 250000 jobs, with 300000 on roads and nearly a million total including indirect labor, as street work also rose. The need for major improvements and more employment persists.
A reviewer praised a quiet romantic novel as soothing for late night reading, but the piece argues bedside literature should not be merely calm. It contends true bed time reading for adults favors tales of hardship and physical suffering over gentle quiet.
A reader in bed gains doubled warmth by a sea tale. Stormy mid ocean gales and wet decks heighten the contrast with his snug room. The right book must be dismaying with harsh elements and suffering characters to preserve the bedtime stunt’s full flavor.
Ohio spared a 14 year old from facing the electric chair by allowing a guilty plea to second degree murder and sending him to a boys industrial school. Guards, however, allegedly frightened the youth with graphic electrocution details, raising questions about the treatment in such facilities.
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies debates ending a small fleet of five obsolete gun boats and three converted cargo steamers at an annual cost of one million dollars. The piece argues the United States Navy negates any need for a Mexican navy and urges diplomacy instead.
Traffic fatality figures show a decline over the past decade despite more cars and a larger population. Safety campaigns in schools are credited with making this real achievement, keeping children safer from the traffic menace.
The Rumplemayers of London and Paris opened a pastry shop in the St Moritz Hotel Manhattan to supervise catering but faced New Yorks diet zeal. Americans chase anti fat foods while Europeans boast fashion and clever dress, with many diners resisting potatoes yet ordering rich sweets and odd pairings like lobster with hot chocolate.
The Brazilian Government deploys police by airplane to enforce Ford's welcome. Planting trees signals progress but rubber grows slowly. Ford has planted rubber trees in Brazil that are expected to yield six thousand million pounds annually ten years from now.
The article notes Brazil’s rubber monopoly shifting history as Java yielded to Brazilian coffee and Japan’s rise in rubber. It cites Ford’s plan to move rubber production back to South America, with Bacon’s quote on reading and a nod to British statistics linking hard times to reading.
A summary notes Mrs Elizabeth Peyre Manning and her connections to several South Carolina governors. It mentions German banknotes used as prescriptions during Rentenmark stabilization and cites a 1830 deed of Old Oak Grove Cemetery by Thomas Officer Rutledge, the cemetery's first burial. Tomorrow: a remarkable football record.
The Bureau of the Census reports Delaware as the smallest state by population with 238,380 residents. Italians are the largest foreign-born group at 8,769, followed by Poles, Irish, Germans, and Russians. The state remains Americanized with no distinct foreign quarters in Wilmington, and honor to the early Swedish Dutch settlements noted.
The passage notes that worthwhile science and technology books have increased in publications and total sales. It contrasts easy times with hard times when people think more and want printed information on solid thinking.
The writer argues twenty million earnest thoughts surpass twenty billion dollars in gold for global aid. They claim a single idea realized into steam power would settle debts Napoleon owed and revive industry with unprecedented momentum.
A reflection on how ideas arise in an instant and are then shaped by time and will. It asserts that all progress starts in thought, grows through effort, and becomes real through determination. The text emphasizes the power of a single idea to alter the course of lives.
General Hines, veterans' administrator, prepared figures to attract veterans of the Big War. Some will live 55 years longer. Mortality statistics project deaths by 1985 for veterans and widows to 2058, about 128 years from now.
Advertised in wartime notices, young widows were urged to marry elderly, pensioned veterans to secure long term pensions. The policy implied extended dependence and social pressures on brides seeking financial support.
The government has spent five thousand million dollars on veterans relief and will reach thirteen billion by 1940, three thousand million more than it lent Europe in the war. The toll of fighting is high for all, especially soldiers sacrificing health and opportunity.
Pope Pius greets cardinals on Christmas Day and articulates belief that global fears dominating humanity are widespread but can be overcome through faith and unity. The remarks frame a message of consolation amid turmoil and emphasize spiritual guidance.
The text questions whether a predicted storm of conflict will occur among nations, suggesting that they may avoid a renewed bout of aggression or widespread war.
He asks the prayers of the faithful for Mexican Catholics and for those who suffer in Russia, Siberia, and for missionary martyrs in China. His Holiness condemns Protestant proselyting in Rome as impudent and an offense to himself and to Italian law.
A raid at Buchtel caused excitement approaching a riot, officers retreated then arrested four people. No bids were received for bonds on Mill Street and Woodard Avenue street improvement work has been completed. Counties are in communication with him. Ten years ago John Poston won the Athens Gun Club cup for the highest New Year’s Day score and Postmaster Lash announced a change requiring no receipts for special delivery matter.
The Paramythia Lodge No. 5 F and A M installed its officers last evening at the Masonic Temple. The event was described as the most brilliant social function since the temple's installation.
John Lowden the efficient fire chief has been honored by appointment as the county ice president of the Ohio Firemen Association Chiefs of neighboring.
The Hocking Valley railroad shops at Logan resumed operations today with 300 men employed after the workforce was cut twice before December.
City youths loudly welcomed the new year with whistles from 11 30 until midnight as bells rang and streets filled with cheer and merry celebration.
A terse, era flavored meditation on poets from Omar Khayyam to Lord Byron and Horace, noting their wit and drinking habits across ages. It laments Volstead era limits while hinting at America’s past injustices and a sardonic glance at contemporary politics and media.
A compilation of questions and answers covers world commercial language usage with English leading, Cy Young’s 1904 shutout of Philadelphia, the City Museum of New York’s $1.5 million Georgian Colonial building, and quick facts on Salvarsan 1910, wood displacement, broom materials, and rubber tire production.
A decade-long battle over federal water power regulation tightens as the Russell and King dismissals spark a fight within the Federal Power Commission. Hoover-backed privatization faces a new challenge from Norris Muscle Shoals proposals amid ongoing power company influence trials and court actions.
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