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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1923
Page
4
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a birth or anniversary event with unclear names and dates, featuring scattered words like born and day. The readable portion hints at a personal notice or obituary style item but lacks identifiable details.
In Freckle Creek on day one local organizers hosted a community event featuring demonstrations, vendors, and family activities aimed at celebrating the town's heritage. Attendees enjoyed music, crafts, and local food stalls showcasing regional specialties.
In Hopewell Virginia a pottery plant relies on craftsman skill rather than machinery. Union workers resist a $38,000 labor-saving machine, keeping production labor intensive though high wages of 5 to 20 dollars a day. Kilns, sagg ers, and hand decoration define the process as the article traces the long tradition of handworked china amid modern science.
Miss Majel Lawrence reports Meigs county Christmas seal drive raised 1014.55 with 513.57 in Pomeroy and Middleport and 500.98 outside towns. Campaign expenses were 55.77 leaving 755.87 for tuberculosis work after 20 percent statewide deduction of 202.91.
Gov Jonathan M Davis of Kansas displays a temperance pledge book in his office inviting visitors to sign. The pledge proclaims a vow never to use intoxicating liquor as a beverage, aiming to complement prohibition enforcement and model public behavior.
A columnist critiques wealthy support for a federal rule banning tax exempt securities. The piece notes non retroactivity, potential $10 billion to several billion in untaxed bonds, and that ending exemptions could boost their value. It questions whether all securities might be taxed constitutionally without an amendment.
A fragmented reminiscence traces a restless inventor from whimsical perpetual motion dreams toward practical tinkering inspired by his uncle Saman. The narrative hints at early failures, evolving interests, and a move toward usable innovations.
A New York Grand Central Palace exposition from February 16 to 23 showcases inventive devices from automatic chimney sweeps to an airship like “airplane barge” and signals the clash of invention with funding. The piece notes auto show profits and the need for capital, citing Henry Ford and the dream of a better mousetrap drawing capital and inventors together.
A New York exhibition lists inventions with few perpetual motion devices deemed useless. The writer notes most items are practical, with furnace heat waste a common inefficiency. He praises inventors as leaders advancing civilization and enabling arts and sciences.
A Tennessee mountaineer, aged twelve years, is noted for a unique claim of lifelong betting with no other notable deeds. The report highlights curiosity about the child’s activities beyond this single wager and the community’s reaction to the claim.
The Athens Messenger announces availability of the 1923 calendar from the Washington Information Bureau. Due to higher paper costs calendars are limited and readers in need may request a copy by sending two cents for return postage to Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C.
A playful old ground hog is described as a bird that is queer and offers an ad for a single day each year. The line hints at a humorous seasonal transformation and a light local note without further details.
A want ad signed Cashier appeared in the want columns on Friday. Fifteen replies have been received to date.
Ballots show Lonnie Ridgeway leading with 12 votes and Bill Roberts with 19 for the Hammer Club presidency. Mayor Gormley of Glouster has 8 votes and Vic Pierce and Sasa E Rosser from Nelsonville trail as counts are incomplete.
A reader information service invites questions to The Athens Messenger Information Bureau Frederic J Haskin director Washington D C The bureau provides information only not legal medical or financial advice not domestic dispute settlement and asks senders to include two cents for return postage and full contact details.
Government seigniorage, the gap between coin metal value and face value, produced a profit of 21 000 600 dollars last year. Philadelphia inspired the modern rectangular city plan still guiding American urban layout. The four mast bark Great Republic required a crew of 100 to sail.
Charles Beach a local carpenter aged sixty plus clashed with Lord Hysell the town Marshall near Calderwood’s bookstore as Beach wielded a bowling ball. Henry Seidenabel intervened and Beach pleaded guilty to assaulting an officer receiving a fine of 50 dollars and about 60 dollars in costs.
Report notes crowded conditions at the Marysville Reformatory where 268 prisoners occupy space for 88. Susan Kraus and Mrs Kaber are linked to a failed escape attempt amid tightened security and outside help suspicions. The piece mentions mixed confinement, births out of wedlock, and no armed guards but tight surveillance.
Mrs. George Rea wife of the Syracuse salt plant's new superintendent is dangerously ill at home from pneumonia in Minersville. She was not expected to live past Sunday but by Monday morning she showed slight improvement.
The Most Rev Dr P Coffey head of Maynooth College and president of the Catholic Total Abstinence Federation warns that saloonkeepers must reform or prohibition will come to the Irish Free State. He says only the willfully blind cannot see the danger facing Ireland's beverage laws.
The piece argues excessive alcohol consumption has demoralized Ireland beyond temperance reformers' reach. It cites unregulated saloon traffic and methylated spirits sold in poor districts, urging all right-minded Irish to act to prevent disgrace and decline.
London reports Britain exports surplus women via the Home Companions, sending groups of twenty aged twenty to thirty with $500 each. Fifty will sail to Australia in February to seek steady posts as companions and helps, with guaranteed employment and guidance on colonial life.
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