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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1930
Page
2
A February hearing session in Congress yielded open discussions on temperance reform and amendments. Witnesses included industry figures and magazine writers while lobbying intensified for broader change and stricter enforcement.
In Chicago 15 000 public employees received their long awaited pay as 1 849 005 was disbursed for the first half of January. Mayor Thompson reportedly capitulated to the Citizens Relief Committee led by Sims J H Sirnaen while other 25 000 workers in county, school, and municipal departments faced continued hardship amid a bleak financial outlook.
An aged handmade Valentine once owned by Sarah Ann Kern is displayed in Athens at Mifikan's Jewelry. The 1822 card recalls a Wooldsfield Virginia school’s Valentine exchange and a vow of enduring friendship inscribed in eight hearts. Sarah Ann kept the token despite questions about its giver.
In Detroit on February 14 three bandits attacked the American Telegraph Company office and a guard, Arthur Heron, and two other guards were mortally wounded. A patrolman, Joseph Rals, was shot and wounded as the car sped away. A bandit was killed in the exchange and another escaped.
A fragmented poem narrative links Gunter to a fatal act and a murder trial. Dorothy Drew testifies that a confession spanned forty stanzas blaming a Mississippi curse and a jailed father. Efforts sought clemency or a life sentence reduction for the accused and his daughter.
About 250 Albion College students rioted after a basketball win over Alma College. They forced entry to a theater, freed arrested peers, and clashed with state and city police using tear gas and moving vans, with arrests and scattered riots continuing into the night.
Fort Myers educator Urges up to 31 billion dollars for national technical education to fix a system he sees as failing to prepare youths for work. He argues that factual knowledge must be applied in practical tasks.
Wooster authorities pursue new lead about four year old Melvin Horst as Judge Hanna and Charles Conald face charges. Prosecution links Donald Hanna and Arthur Arnold in earlier trials while Junior Hanna's statements shift blame and implicate others in the floral mystery.
The Ohio University affirmative team hails Harry Brown Leon Jared Henning and John Holden to argue restricted admission to higher learning based on ability against West Virginia’s negative at Jat Ewing Auditorium tonight. Morgantown follows February 21 with Ohio State’s negative squad. Prof. W. H. Cooper directs eight active debating squads.
Wooster authorities press toward a solution as Charles Hanna and Earl Conald collide with mutual guilt claims. Prosecutor Graven questions both suspects who denied locating the boy’s body while state police pursue the missing 24 month-old lead in the Hart disappearance.
Athens youths Ralph Whitmore and Elie Tucker will broadcast from Station WSAZ in Huntington West Virginia Saturday noon to five o’clock. They will perform banjo and guitar pieces and have previously aired from the station two weeks ago.
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