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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1924
Page
12
A New York clergyman offers three marriage guidelines addressing poverty readiness and home life. First, start married life with modest means or simple comforts. Second, marry within your own class or creed for long term harmony. Third, give undivided love and avoid worldly gestures. a wife seeks fidelity and affection over gifts.
A government witness in the Toledo post office graft case received a blackmail letter threatening his life over evidence. The missive, signed by three men, targets Antonio Gangiamilla tied to breaking up homes, with agents named in district attorney disclosures. A Denver petition seeks banning gambling and liquor sales on city streets while archives note 1860 61 city council discussions.
Dimond of Hollister pleaded to a slander charge filed by Mrs Lena Alfoldy. Arraigned before Magistrate Helwig, he signed a statement admitting the alleged slanderous remarks lacked basis. Sentence suspended on a $40 bond plus costs. Dimond held by Constable Mariner.
Jersey City March 11. Edward H. Ransom Jr president of the Sunday League of New Jersey signals a move to revive strict Sabbath enforcement. He plans to ask city officials to suspend Sunday automobile traffic ban phonograph and radio use and theatre operations. Rebel sentiment exists among some merchants and residents while police anticipate enforcement.
Mrs Alfred H Smith widow of New York Central president rode a special train from Los Angeles to Chicago in 49 hours 15 minutes, with a clear right of way over other trains. The trip aimed to connect New York and Chicago after news of Mr Smiths death.
Paris reports the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences may elect the king of Belgium as foreign associate member, to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Woodrow Wilson and avoid appointing someone of lesser rank than a head of state.
Athens Ohio council authorizes sale of bonds totaling 6000 dollars to fund extending enlarging and improving the city waterworks for supplying water to residents. Bonds dated by March 15 1924 bear 6 percent interest with semiannual installments and payments secured by city funds and a waterworks improvement fund.
Columbus Ohio March 11 Estimates show more than 4 000 000 filers or 70 percent earned mostly from salaries and wages with income under 5 000. Form 1040A is revised to a single sheet omitting several questions. Use optional modification to claim tax credits. larger Form 1040 remains for higher or mixed income.
A massive blaze in central Shanghai trapped 600 workers killing or burning fifty women and children and injuring over one hundred. Firemen rescued scores as crews recovered several bodies amid the flames.
Columbus Ohio March 11 The attorney general was asked to rule whether chiropractors jailed for defaulted fines may be released under the pauper act. The state medical board contends county auditors lack authority to free them due to inability to pay. Doctors Richard T. Erbeck and J J Bolander Urbana were recently named by Champaign county authorities.
Judge H Gesener dismisses the writ of mandamus sought by gasoline vendors against Mayor Charles F Scheible. The ruling finds blue Sunday law suspends fines on Sundays and charges the mayor and police chief to enforce the law, while the court declines to interpret the statute for city officials or gasoline sellers.
Berlin March 11 Hugo Stinnes prominent iron steel and coal magnate is seriously ill with gall and liver trouble. Physicians ordered a long rest and withdrawal from business and political duties citing his arduous workload. He reportedly works 14 to 19 hours daily with no vacations.
Ohio sugar beet growers, manufacturers, the Ohio Experiment Station and Ohio State University map a cooperative experimental program. The Experiment Station will lease about 40 acres for long term sugar beet growing and handling studies. Paulding County Experiment Farm revises its program to fit producer and manufacturer needs.
The Supreme Court of the United States declares a recess from March 17 to April 7. The announcement comes from Washington and sets the court’s active session break.
In Columbus Ohio on March 11 sleeping sickness claimed William Allen Schwartz a 40 year old shoe merchant as the fifth death in ten weeks.
Bitter winter dampens Ohio poultry output as December and January averages show 13.4 eggs per hen. Connecticut and New Jersey flock counts run higher at 16 and 16.8 eggs, while milder weather may lift Ohio past those marks by next December. Ten flocks exceed 200 eggs per hen per year, led by J. K. Schiatter’s Fulton County Buff Leghorns with 40.4 eggs per hen in the cold months.
Old timers scoff at current London fog calling it mist while modernists recount harsher fogs of their day. the piece notes contrasting views and begins outlining claims from both sides.
Mrs A Mcandless of 1709 South Morgan Street Chicago writes that E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped her avoid surgery and infertility. She says doctors proposed an operation to have children but a friend suggested the remedy which she claims improved her condition and benefited many friends.
In 1924 London the fog reduced visibility behind a coal smoke crisis. Lawrance W Chubb of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society notes all airplane flights were cancelled and the fog cost the city about five million dollars daily. Birds at the zoo slept perches for days awaiting sunrise. Street lights burned for 72 hours during the latest fog.
Education Director Riegel urges boards of education facing closures to apply for state equalization fund aid. If approved, he would have the county board levy a three mill tax authorized by law and upheld by the state supreme court.
Columbus girls will mark the opening of a three-day session here today of the Ohio Retail Dry Goods Association.
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