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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1928
Page
4
A brief aphorism cautions against liquorish after fame noting experience shows a trumpet tends to gather more enemies than friends. The quote by Osborn emphasizes prudence and self restraint.
Community church pastor Haynes Holmes lists ten post 1789 born Americans who shaped thought and action. Lincoln Emerson Thoreau Garrison Lee Whitman Twain Eliot Debs. The piece praises independence from conformity and views bravery as key as it urges readers to study these figures and their works.
An evocative look at nearly century old brick farmhouses along rural lanes in the Hocking valley. The author notes their solitary hillside settings and construction from sun baked or rudimentary kilns. Many now sit back from roads as modern changes reshape the landscape and parcels shrink.
Arthur Brisbane quotes Secretary Kellogg praising a world treaty to ban submarines while urging the US to build the largest submarine and air fleets and develop deadly gases. The piece then critiques birth control teaching by the Kings County Medical Society and questions moral double standards in medical practice.
Lord Beaverbrook's London Express reports Jerusalem distress with Zionist funds drying up. The paper notes widespread unemployment and halted dole payments as industry stalls and many face starvation amid reduced international financial support.
A quoted view says a nation is a living thing akin to language or a person. It notes the difficulty of building life artificially and suggests Jewish business acumen could yet yield commercial success in the Palestine project.
Sir Walter Gibbons secretly bought six sixes theaters in Great Britain and plans many more to counter the American movie invasion. The piece argues for supporting large American movie concerns, citing benefits to American workers and companies. It also notes the Fed’s higher discount rate and a volatile market with a brisk rally.
H. G. Selfridge Jr. argues that Britain’s dole causes laziness, saying men will loaf if kept from starvation. He claims the dole has disadvantages yet a million loafing unemployed are safer than a starving crowd ready for revolution and bolshevism.
Vienna scholar Dr Robert Eisler asserts a Slavonic translation of Josephus contains a paragraph showing Judea refused to worship statues of Caligula and mentions the Jewish people leaning toward Jesus, the Nazarenes, suggesting historical confirmation of Christ’s existence.
In a school investigation, the system shows solid construction but lingering defects. The jury weighs Hickman sanity with a hint of eccentricity. Sooty power emerges as a caution as a young neighbor nears a high home tuning phase.
Reader questions answered by Dr Frank McCoy author of The Newest Way to Health. He explains sweating remedies by full body exertion, milk diet limits and benefits, and how diet and eye strain can influence skin infections.
An article outlines how tooth decay stems from mechanical, chemical, nutritional, and bacterial factors starting before birth. It emphasizes maternal nutrition, proper brushing, sterilization of brushes, and correct saliva function, with orthodontic remedies and dietary guidance to improve dental health.
A reader asks how to reduce underarm perspiration and whether advertised patent preparations are safe to use. The inquiry seeks practical remedies and safety guidance.
A New York writer torn between island arrogance and national reality argues New Yorkers lose touch with the rest of the country. She recalls Des Moines and Kansas City, noting prohibition attitudes and social changes beyond Manhattan. The piece laments provincialism while praising New York as a global metropolitan experiment.
Questions cover compulsory automobile liability insurance in seven states Massachusetts Connecticut Maine New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont and the lone state Massachusetts with full coverage. Florida summer rains explained as thunderstorm driven by warm humid rising air cooling as it expands causing cloud formation and heavy rainfall. The Resumption Act of January 14 1875 authorized specie payment after the Civil War.
Ten years ago Athens county topped the state in sale of war saving and thrift stamps per chairman T R Biddle. Clarence D Barnhill of Lodi Township wrote from Italy about Army experiences while women in Albany denied pay for knitting for soldiers. William Moler joined a five man state committee to discuss the auto industry with Washington officials. Mrs W R Phillips visited Nelsonville to see her parents Dr and Mrs I P Prim rose. Dry advocates in Athens county predicted national dry success before royal women of Fier country could smoke. The Czarina of Russia taxed Hotel Berry to show Athens dry voting boosted business.
In Washington on February 7 Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut displayed gruesome cartoons from China in his Capitol Hill office. The propaganda pieces depict Chinese victims and foreign cruelty, described as Russian in style by Bingham who collected them after a China trip.
Treasury plan to redeem United States notes in coin after 1979 is discussed. A train on curves causes outer wheels to slip to match inner wheels. Mineral feed for chickens should be crushed oyster shell or limestone kept before hens at all times. bone meal adds phosphates when mixed in mash.
A ton and a half of babies have been born at the Ipswich Nurses' Home during the past year illustrating a high birth rate at the facility with strong patient volumes and community impact.
A medical advert claims Thoxine cures night coughing from bronchial irritation and colds within 15 minutes. It markets as superior to patent medicines, free of chloroform and harmful drugs, with a money back guarantee and pleasant taste. Available at druggists in 35c 60c and 1.00 options.
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