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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Feb 08, 1929

Page

4

Congress Probes Federal Indian Policy Amid Alleged Atrocities

Washington report notes ongoing Senate Indian investigation into government treatment of Indians. It cites alleged looting, cruelties, and malnutrition among wards, with fears of a major scandal. Senator Pine urges continued inquiry and funding before March 4. Burke case linked to Justice Department delays. health data questioned.

Rodney Dutcher Washington Congress John Collier American Indian Defense Association Senate Committee Secretary of the Interior Sargent Department of Justce Burke Commissioner of Indian Affairs Senator Pine Oklahoma Pine

Age and Sleep Shape Music and Entertainment Demands

A column discusses how age affects sleep patterns and media tastes, noting youths stay up late and cars fill streets at night while older folks value eight hours. It links rest to health, radio trends, and sponsor strategies, citing a Cincinnati station series on South American talks and the tension between entertainment and advertising.

Cincinnati South America

Legion Safety Drive aims to cut accident deaths nationwide

The American Legion launches a broad safety campaign to reduce industrial, street, highway and home accidents. It cites common causes from careless driving to pedestrians and urges local posts to form safety councils, promote traffic law compliance, and pursue a year with no fatal accidents.

Legion American Legion Wisconsin Department of the Legion United States

Day by Day in Greater New York City

A fragmented column by Gilbert Swan sketches everyday scenes in Manhattan including subway riders and street life. It notes barbershop chatter a taxi romance unfulfilled and a satire of urban commerce with lively vignettes of Fourteenth Street diversity and quirky retail practices.

Greater New York City New York Manhattan Raymond Ie Bridgeport

Indiana oil holdings sparked Salt Creek clash for control

The Salt Creek region shows Standard Oil of Indiana producing 59,000 barrels daily with half ownership of Sinclair Pipe Lines enabling taps to mid continent wells. Colonel Stewart’s company holds Mexico and Dixie assets, aiming for independence from alliances as production could rise to 400,000 barrels per day. Baron von Huenefeld dies on operating table after thirteenth stomach operation. Cuba debates inoculating criminals condemned to death with cancer, offering release if cancer does not kill them. New shipbuilding program praised by some and condemned as extravagant. Maria Christina, Spanish regent, dies. Trotzky reportedly missing as rumors of prison in Moscow swirl.

Salt Creek Standard Ol Indiana Sinclair Pipe Lines Gulf of Chicago Sinclir Mid Dixie Oil Company Mexico Colonel Stewart Cuba

Paramount School Graduates and Ethnics Quiz Archive

The text lists Paramount School graduates including Buddy Rogers Josephine Dunn Jack Luden Thelma Todd Robert Andrews Dorothy Nourse Ivy Harris Walter Goss Mona Palma Jeanne Morgan Iris Gray Claude Buchanan Greg Blackton Charles Brokaw Irving Hartley Thelda Kenvin. It also covers questions on Myron Herrick’s ambassador terms, the largest chair in Thomasville NC, flag terminology, butterfly fragrance, Dartmouth Supreme Court arguments, Arctic blue water, crimes for threats to the President, caribou species and ranges, Briand Kellogg Treaty signatories, and early stock brokers at Wall Street.

Paramount School WN. A. F Buddy Rogers Josephine Dunn Jack Luden Thelma Todd Robert Andrews Dorothy Nourse Ivy Harris Walter Goss Mona Palma Jeanne Morgan Iris Gray Claude Buchanan Greg Blackton Charles Brokaw Irving Hartley Thelda Kenvin Myron T. Herrick France Taft United States Thomasville North Carolina

Health and Diet Advice by Dr Fane McCoy

Dr Fane McCoy author of The Newest Way to Health answers readers on aging and diet. Menu for the week includes eggs bacon asparagus chicken beef tongue lamb chops and mutton with various vegetables and desserts. He also tackles questions on tuberculosis fatigue whole wheat bread iodine and dieting with practical guidance.

Fane McCoy

Figures in politics and art stir debate on authenticity

A dialogue on Russia, Napoleon, and Napoleonic echoes fades into a critique of belief. Sir Joseph Duveen questions a Leonardo da Vinci painting’s authenticity, contrasting famous works with the Venus de Milo in the Louvre and challenging the notion of genuine masterpieces.

Joseph Duveen Leonardo da Vinci Venus of Milo Louvre

Twelve jurors unfamiliar with Leonardo and Tex Rickard

A witty remark notes that twelve jurors knew little about Leonardo de Vinci and questions how many knew Tex Rickard. The line suggests curiosity about juror familiarity with famous names.

Leonardo de ‘Vinci Tex Rickard

News Your Dad Read Twenty Years Ago in Athens

The clipping recalls events from twenty years prior including Dr. Isaac Cook becoming field secretary at Kimball College of Theology in Salem Oregon. County Auditor E R Walker served in Glouster. Mrs F W Bush visited Pleasanton caring for her father in law Rev W S Bush and returned to Athens.

Isaac Cook Ohio University Kimball College of Theology Salem Oregon F. W. Bush Pleasanton Rev. W. 8. Bush Athens

Sergei Rachmaninoff enters St Petersburg Conservatoire age nine

Sergei Wassilievitch Rachmaninoff was born in Novgorod Russia on April 2 1873 and entered the St Petersburg Conservatoire at age nine according to the source. The text notes the 1820 establishment of the New York Stock Exchange with a $100 membership fee.

New York Stock Exchange Rachmaninoffs Conservatory of Music O. O Sergei Wassilievitch) Rachmaninoff Novgorod Russia St. Petersburg Conservatoire

Prolific 19th Century Notes on Sherman Fremont and St Pauls

A historical digest cites February 1820 as William T Sherman’s birthday and 1847 for Fremont claiming California. It recalls 1861 Confederate Constitution adoption, 1879 Broadway fire, and details on St Pauls Cathedral’s age, structure, and Nelson and Wellington burials.

England St. Paul's Cathedral London Christopher Wren Lord Nelson Duke of Wellington Olympia

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