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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1928
Page
11
Auto accessories and tires offered, used parts and batteries available. Garages and repair shops advertise services, vulcanizing, and road service. Farm and building materials, motors, and baby items also listed with contact details and prices.
Two educators from Athens are invited to participate in the National Education Association winter meeting in Boston from February 25 to March 2. A F Myers director of teacher training and Ru fus Putnam training school principal will speak to the conference. John Patterson superintendent of Athens schools will address the superintendent group and speak at an all Ohio dinner. The event draws about ten thousand educators and includes Ohio university education faculty members.
Two Episcopal ministers backed an initiative to legalize Sunday professional sports in Massachusetts. They argued constitutional and moral grounds while citing youth recreation. Petitioner Alfred G. Doe and former officials urged ending Sabbath restrictions and addressing amateurism loopholes.
Washington report recounts a Public Health Service guide advising mothers to ban sweets, add two extra meals, and allow a child to eat or not with no pressure. The child should sit five times daily and may leave after 20 to 30 minutes, promising progress by the second day.
Senator Heflin of Alabama denounces recent newspaper criticism of his anti-Catholic Senate speeches as slanderous attacks. He says he has been misrepresented and vilified, with articles and editorials manufactured from whole cloth and authored by knowingly false sources.
Golf legends Watt Gunn and Bobby Jones will compete in a sequence of matches across the southern states over the coming weeks to raise funds for the American Olympic team. The tour aims to boost support and sponsorship for the athletes preparing for the Games.
Nick Lutze, once a Notre Dame football standout, has become a professional wrestler and is active in the Midwest circuit. He previously played for Notre Dame and now competes under a regional wrestling promotion.
Japanese officials reveal partial financing of athletes to represent Nippon in the Amsterdam Games. Major Shunzo Kido and four champion riders sail for the event while caretakers T and N Lakemveid assist with four horses. Funds come from the Foreign Office and Ministry of Culture and Forestry amid rising costs.
Three former Cleveland employees pleaded guilty to embezzling about 25 000 and were sentenced in a federal court in Ath ta. James R V Howe, former head of the Cleveland Trust bank branch, received five years. Harry E Linder, mortgage loan chief, was given four years. Harry M Bahl, chief clerk, got six years.
Philadelphia February report says Major Patrick J. Walsh designs a decathlon for the Penn Relays to act as the United States Olympic trials. The relay carnival would invite club and college athletes if permission is granted, with notable participants named including Harold Osborn Tony Plaxsky Vernon Ke Richard Sturtridge and Harold Elkins.
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