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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1930
Page
19
The Athens Messenger lists subscription rates for Ohio readers with yearly and short-term options. It notes classifications and advertising terms while listing affiliated newspaper associations and offices.
Colonel Richard Enderlin of Chillicothe passes away at his home, ending a long career as an industrial and civic leader in Southern Ohio. Born to German parents before the Civil War, he built coal operations in Carbondale and surrounding areas, fostered forestry with the Enderlin Forest, and earned wartime heroism at Gettysburg. His death marks the loss of a steadfast champion of his workers and community.
Weather over the last two weeks has been harsh on new roads in Southeastern Ohio counties. Freezing and thawing damage gravel and lime surfaces, raising concerns about road quality and maintenance needs.
The climate in Southeastern Ohio damages secondary highways not built on modern foundations. Expensive new roads are unaffordable for these routes, so grading and tough surface coatings are used. Over time a foundational layer is built up as freezing and thawing wear exposes hardpan, with initial cracks acceptable to avoid long mud-drenched roads.
The piece warns that Chicago faces severe debt and rising crime as it nears a potential business or banker driven control. It cites creditor rescue plans and vigilante schemes as danger signs, drawing a parallel to Mussolini's Italy to urge vigilant, informed voting nationwide.
New York scene notes recall welterweight Joe Walcott climbing the brass as a hardboiled era views life’s trials. The account also mentions Jack Johnson once a prize ring figure now running a jazz chop suey spot in the middle Forties.
A portrait of Jack Johnson the heavyweight champion turning back to music after boxing. He kept a cello, played with a Harlem group, led a baton group, and hinted at a comeback after years away. His name reappears in lights as a cafe photo recalls the past pion of his fame.
The piece reflects on Joe Walcott and era legends like Bob Fitzsimmons Jeffries Sharkey McCoy and Choynski. It notes aging fighters at Madison Square Garden and Billy Smith the welter, recounting a life from boxing to brass polishing and teaching.
A welter recollects meeting Sam Langford the feared black heavyweight and recalls a 15 round draw. He admits fear of one man Irishman Creedon at 185 pounds and notes his wife warned him he was leaving his class.
The report notes that at the Washington Conference several new battleships were destroyed or discarded while blueprints were damaged by the British. It suggests Britain might destroy more blueprints but questions destroying a finished battleship valued at millions of pounds.
Banks and the stock exchange closed in honor of Lincoln's birth day. Mild editorials appeared and Gettysburg speech was read in places. The passage notes the dead are very dead and cites a figure of one hundred twenty million.
In the early days of World War Two French pilots reportedly used bricks carried with their gear to strike the propellers of German aircraft, destroying targets with improvised weaponry. This account highlights inventive defense methods used in aerial combat.
The schedule lists meals for Sunday start with breakfast poached egg on Melba toast and stewed figs, lunch featuring cornmeal muffins string beans lettuce and ripe olives, dinner of roast chicken mushrooms casserole spinach and asparagus salad with raspberry whip. Subsequent meals include breakfast of whole wheat mush and milk with stewed prunes, lunch grape juice, and dinner roast mutton with baked beets green peas string beans celery and custard.
A reader guide lists meal plans including eggs Melba toast squash beans and various vegetables with Jello and fruit, plus a detailed vegetable souffle recipe and general kitchen tips. It also presents Q and A on reducing fat with camphor alcohol myths, persistent hunger due to diet, and bedbug eradication via professional fumigation services.
Breakfast options include cottage cheese pineapple and Melba toast. Lunch features a vegetable souffle and raw celery. Dinner offers roast pork turnips canned green peas chopped cabbage salad and apple whip. Thursday breakfast includes French omelet toast cereal biscuit and pear sauce. Lunch shows baked potato and a quick minute-style note.
Americans express appreciation for three great leaders Washington Franklin and Lincoln, but mostly in private and in feeling rather than public action, leaving them less vivid in daily life for many people.
In a Los Angeles lawsuit a man nicknamed the four winds of the whirlwinds is described as mild in appearance and claimed to have written 50,000 pages dictated by angels for the Great Elev en Cult. The case involves money collected for the newly invented religious group.
A fragment speaks of celestial guides leading priestesses to places where angels issued commands while observers condemn such tales as proof of human gullibility, noting large sums donated for such nonsense. The text critiques credulity and manipulation in belief systems.
Republicans unnamed in the piece react to a Democrat winning a congressional seat in Calvin Coolidge’s Massachusetts district. The event is framed as a rebuke of Republican Party governance and prompts speculation on voter dissatisfaction and the meaning for national politics.
A daily study notices correct English usage and common errors. It covers plural subject agreement with prizes, pronouncing reneg, and misspellings theatre versus theater. It encourages vocabulary growth with a daily word and example sentences including leisurely meaning not hurriedly.
A Massachusetts observer urges the government to shift attention from whisky to more constructive concerns, arguing for policy priorities that improve public welfare.
Thomas A. Edison contends prohibition is achievable and inevitable. He envisions fully automatic machinery enabling workers to enjoy a home and luxuries, provided they abstain from drinking.
The text argues that despite appeals to abolish submarines, the submarines will remain for the country with support from France and Japan. It notes Britain depends on surface shipping and seeks abolition to prevent starvation tactics, while the nation would cooperate with Britain to thwart such tactics.
General Atterbury's Pennsylvania Railroad and Mr Storey of Santa Fe back a bigger airplane concept carrying 35 passengers. Ford's chief engineer W B Mayo tours the project and envisions production of the larger planes at Long Beach California near Los Angeles.
A letter from Raymond C. Brown of Athens Ohio requests The Messenger help to confirm his son’s safety after a note suggested no one should pursue him. Brown doubts the son is in Parkersburg and believes he may be heading toward New York after a January 30 bus ride, with no other requests made in a note.
The speaker insists that submarines are needed in today’s barbaric world to protect American harbors coasts island territories and the Panama Canal. The safety of the United States rather than Britain should guide policy for those on the American government payroll.
The Board of Education debated a $30,000 bond issue at last night’s meeting to fund a new Athens school building. Ohio University coed basketball teams set to play the first in a champion series tonight at 7 in the gym. Ten years ago Captain Mlnharty and nine detail members arrived from Camp Taylor to seek enlistments for ten days.
The Ohio University Alumni Association of Southern Ohio held its first annual banquet Friday evening at the Hotel Cambrian in Jackson.
Ohio University prepares for First Founders Day with widespread interest. President Edward S. Parsons of Marietta will be among the principal speakers for the event.
Miss Sylvia Reed, who had been visiting Miss Hazel Lee for several days, returned to her Nelsonville home in the evening.
Joe Willis, the wrestler who challenged Thor Olson during the Carlson Olson match in January, will appear February 23 here. Olson has accepted the challenge and arranged for a formal match on the date.
A compilation of Q A style entries covers radio broadcast power shapes meanings of Indian place names Quantico and Occoquan best pictures of 1929 list Jewish farmer counts on American farms and veterans on pension rolls. It also explains ship launching ceremonies milk pasteurization and Congo River length.
Rodney Dutcher recounts stories about Charles Evans Hughes from 1906 and public figures of the era. The piece notes Hughes as a “one drink man” and recalls photographers at Hoover era politics and Taft incidents, with a brief profile of Rep. Schafer of Wisconsin nicknamed “The Wild Bull of Wisconsin.”
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