Waterloo Park: Izaak Walton League eyes lakeside playgrounds
The Izaak Walton League of Athens has bought a Waterloo Township farm to create a lake for fishing with leased cottages. The project mirrors Muskingum River resorts and aims to provide a summer and year round playground for Athens area members. Surveys will determine cottage leases as a hard road leads to the reserve and locals push for private reforestation and recreation development.
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Ohio
Izaak Walton League of Athens
Waterloo Township
Athens
Muskingum River
Trimble Township
Waterloo
Muskingum
Athens County
Waterloo Park
Lost Paradise of the Livery Stable
A nostalgic reflection on the vanished livery stable era that shaped boys' freedoms and dreams. The piece contrasts the old horse barns with modern machinery, recalling lantern shadows, horseshoes, and a boy’s secret errands, ending with a note on mothers' absence of wonder and the lone horse’s neath.
Paris Enforces Night Curfew Slowing Tourists
Paris imposes a strict 10 pm noise curfew. Jean Chiappe, prefect of police, orders quiet on streets with horns, whistles, and bells silenced. Automobiles must stop horns, trains and streetcars quiet, and orchestras limited to authorized venues.
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Paris
Seine
Potomac
Gay Perce
Jean Chiappe
Police
Traffic Commission
Molly Picon Shines On East Side Stages Amid Broadway Flux
In New York on the East Side Molly Picon dominates the theater scene, drawing neighborhood support with Yiddish shows and a touch of English for visitors. The piece traces her family life, language journey, and lasting local fame, while briefly noting egg candling news and a nod to Adolph Liebling’s egg movement.
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Broadway
East Side
Molly Picon
New York
Second Avenue
Kessler
Molly
Moilly
Mile. Picon
Manhattan
Jacob Kalich
Russia
Vienna
Eagle
Adolph Liebling
Ukraine
Woloscheck
Wickersham commission to issue more law enforcement reports
Washington reports the Wickersham commission will publish a series of studies on ten law enforcement themes including crime causes, police, courts, prosecution, juvenile delinquency, and lawlessness by officers. Led by Dean Roscoe Pound and Monte M. Lemann, about 25 to 30 experts contributed, with final outputs due by June 30.
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Washington
Wickersham Commission
Dean Roscoe Pound
Harvard
Monte M. Lemann
New Orleans
Commission
Yale University
Anderson, Pound
Ada Comstock
Mise
Mary van Kleeck
Rnesoj
Sage Foundation
van Kleeck
Zechriah Chafee
Walter H. Pollak
New York
Exploits of Hypnotic Mesmerism and Oddities in 1930
Yesterday's cartoon recaps Joe Reno's claim of 406 hours under hypnotic influence by Rajah Yogi during a Dallas wrestling event in June 1930. It also notes underground donkeys in Pikeview mines, a Bastile imprisonment tale about Francis Seldon, and a Jesuit tutor tale linked to a vast fortune.
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Dallas
Texas
Rajah Yogi
Reno
Pikeview
Colorado
Francis Seldon
Bastile
Ireland
Europe
Jesuit College of
Clermont
Paris
Jesuit Fathers
Louis the Great
Pris
Riquelet
Seldon
Information Bureau offers free Washington services via two cent reply
Frederic J. Haskin announces The Athens Messenger Information Bureau in Washington D C provides free information services. Readers send two cents for response and address inquiries to Frederic J. Haskin Director Washington D C. The page also includes a quiz of questions and answers on piano pedals filibustering Palestine Paris Prohibition snowflakes and engineering fields.
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Washington
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Americans eat less due to labor saving tech in past decades
The Washington Letter notes drastic shifts in American diet over 3 4 decades as labor saving devices reduce muscle use and per capita grain consumption falls from 223 9 pounds of wheat flour in 1889 to 171 5 pounds. Buckwheat and corn meal decline, while patent breakfast foods rise as overall cereal intake drops about 120 pounds per person since 1899.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
Open Season Verses on Hunting Rules and Lawful Limits
A poem contrasts geese and moose with hunting laws and the open season. It notes sportsmen awaiting legal dates to hunt and contrasts with felons who hunt illegally. The verses critique unlawful roaming and underline safety and lawfulness in sport and society.
Noise Abatement Push Highlights Police Role
A fragmented piece notes American cities forming noise abatement committees may lessen trouble by empowering the police chief to enforce limits, focusing on public peace and orderly streets.
Booklet on thrift offered by The Athens Messenger
The Athens Messenger publishes a thrift booklet not a sermon on money use. It provides figures and facts to help readers save and track expenditures. A coupon with six cents covers cost and postage for the booklet.
Request for Thrift booklet with six cents enclosed
Information Bureau letter from Frederic J. Haskin requests a copy of the Thrift booklet, enclosing six cents in coin or stamps. It asks for the recipient’s name street and city and provides Washington D. C. as the origin.
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Thrift
New York Bank Chief Warns Bond Plan Could Spark Failures
Mr. Mitchell of New York National City Bank testifies to Congress that a soldiers bonus near four billion dollars would trigger hundreds of small bank failures. He warns issuing vast government bonds would depress bond prices nationwide and locally. A compromise proposal would issue money to the soldiers while Hoover presses for easing currency and prosperity gains.
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Mr. Mitchell
New York National City Bank
Congress
Washington
Hoover
Financial policy debate on bond issuance and inflation risk
The reader questions why the government issues bonds at investor friendly prices, arguing it cheapens existing bonds. The prompt then considers whether the Federal Reserve should take a different path, implying a critique of current monetary financing practices.
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Federal Reserve
Wall Street Glut as $500 Million Payouts Loom
The piece notes widespread unemployment and hunger while the government seeks funds for soldiers. It claims about 500 million dollars will be paid out soon and over 400 million seeks reinvestment. It adds yesterday 106 million could not be lent at 1.5 percent as borrowers were scarce. It criticizes financiers as ignorant about money.
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Wall Street
Meuse Valley deaths linked to sulphurous fumes fog case
The Nation Belge reports Brussels findings on December Meuse Valley deaths where victims suffered fatal lung damage after exposure to sulphurous anhydride from dense fog. Investigators propose toxic gas exposure as the cause.
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Nation Belge
Brussels
Meuse Valley
Child care debate on handling babies and healthy routines
A discussion weighs Grandma’s hands on a baby against doctor advice and modern guidance. It argues a balanced approach with limited rocking and handling, noting benefits for physical development and security while cautioning against rough play and tossing.
Fatal industrial gas exposure linked to fog acid inhalation
A chemical factory incident created a fog that formed an acid, destroying lung cells. The report notes the death cause is established and controllable, offering some measured relief amid the tragedy.
British captain buried after Coast Guard killing at Lunenberg
In Lunenberg Nova Scotia Captain Cluett commander of a British ram runner was killed by United States Coast Guards and buried yesterday. The Rev Major Ryder, officiating, called the death murder on the high seas and linked it to prohibition era hypocrisy, saying the captain merely supplied commodities demanded by Americans.
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Lunenberg
Nova Scotia
Cluett
United States
Ryder
High Seas
Britain
World cancer experts honor Dr Ewing at Cornell
The world’s leading cancer specialists praise Dr James Ewing of Cornell University as the greatest cancer fighter. After twenty years of study he says only a few facts remain uncontradicted. He notes cancer stems from bad habits and calls for reform of living to improve prevention.
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James Ewing
Cornell University
Doctor Ewing
Public Forum on Marking Tourist Spots in the District
The editor laments delaying marking places of tourist interest across the district. He urges naming sites along the Ohio River and state streams to attract visitors and boost civic pride, noting Virginia marks similar spots. He mentions old mills and hilltop views as potential highlights for tourists.
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Ohio River
Sunday Creek
Monday Creek
Hockie River
Virginia
Athens County Civil War Trails Promised By Editor
An Athens Ohio note urges marking historic Civil War era sites across Athens and adjoining counties including Carthage Gap and Hockingport. The item argues such markings would boost local interest and civil pride, inviting tourists to learn about early American independence. February 2, 1931.
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Hocking
Carthage Gap
Athens County
Hockingport
Athens
First Northwest Territory Newspapers and Maxwell Code
Lucy Kibble notes that William Maxwell opened the first printing shop northwest of the Ohio River and printed the first Northwest book under the Maxwell Code. Marietta’s early paper carried a long title The Ohit Gazette and the Territorial and Virginia Herald started in 1901. The Scioto Gazette and Western Intelligencer were among Chillicothe and Columbus first papers.
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Ghia
Jane
Cincinnati
William Maxwell
Ohio River
Hert Maxwell
the Sentinel
Northwest Territory
Parladelphia
Maxwell
Northwest
Marietta
Ohit Gazette
Territorial and Virginia Herald
Scioto Gazette
Chillicothe
Western Intelligencer
Columbus
Lucy Kibble
Reedsville
Education as a Path to Enforce Prohibition
The editor argues Wickersham's report urges education alongside dry laws. He says laws alone fail without public understanding of liquor's harms. Emphasizes teaching younger generations to adopt temperance and sustain law observance through informed attitudes.
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Wickersham
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