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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1925
Page
4
A compact devotional note cites Proverbs 23 21 warning that drunkenness and overeating lead to poverty. It adds a colorful saying from The Koran about a devil in every grape, reflecting cross religious caution.
Samuel Insull, Chicago businessman and head of major public service firms and the Chicago Civic Opera Company, is decorated by King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. The text notes Italy as a traditional arts patron and calls internationalism a growing though nonpolitical trend in art and science.
A newspaper recounts Thomas A. Edison turning 78 and sharing personal health guidelines. He urged sleep when idle, eating appropriately, loving a busy, active job, avoiding alcohol, and getting fresh air and light, while not taking troubles to bed.
The piece argues for a vast highway program to meet postwar demand while urging prudent traffic control. It then weighs opposing views on allied debts to France and Britain, noting French reluctance to pay fully and American costs from the war, calling for amicable compromise and statesmanship. The article ends honoring two great Americans who stood firm.
The article reviews the Federal Trade Commission’s mission to curb unfair competition and outlines key unlawful methods. It cites examples: misbranding, deceptive pricing, passing off products, misleading labels, free trials misrepresented as money back, and monopolistic schemes. It discusses court rulings upholding FTC decisions on consumer protection.
The Federal Trade Commission invites complaints from small dealers without lawyer fees and promises no disclosure of complainants. It notes major anti monopoly cases, foreign trade protection, and recent findings saving Western farmers $30 million on steel costs. It also describes Australian elephant grass winter kill and navy police protection details.
A reader asks about daily corn husking by a single worker with answers: a good husker can reach 100 bushels, average 50 to 75 in typical corn belt conditions. Also covered are immigration law outcomes, furniture wood rankings, Bottger’s porcelain achievement, the Halifax disaster details, Panama Canal locks, China’s antiquity, and Zodiac origins.
The text notes the moon's apparent diameter at mean distance is 51 seconds of arc. It also defines squeezers as playing cards with corner indexes or pips and explains shibboleth as a peculiarity distinguishing one party from another, citing the Ephraimites and Gileadites. The derivation of dollar traces to the German thaler from Joachimsthaler.
The piece imagines a massive museum model including a display of Kublai Khan’s war carriage on elephants and a dramatic British mine scene with a woman crawling to a mine entrance chained to a coal car, signaling progress.
A history of transportation links civilization growth to brutal slave labor in antiquity. The passage notes Roman gallery work with lashings and executions, contrasting it with Ford's gas engine as a modern improvement in transport.
The piece envisions a Ford museum exhibit featuring a flying machine claimed to reach six miles per minute, purportedly faster than any British plane, with a plaque stating it is Henry Ford’s one hundred thousandth flying machine built to save time.
The passage praises Henry Ford for potential future machines and credits him with trial genius. It argues that such inventions would earn gratitude from all Americans and that politicians lack the resolve or intellect to protect the country.
Mr Ford’s supporters call for a public display of his own first four cylinder vehicle to accompany an illustrated description of Kublai Khan’s four elephant platform car as described in Marco Polo’s travels.
He would display the original sedan and the sedan chair used by Parisian grande dames with a man in front and a man behind. He would show people carried up mountains in chairs and on others backs, an African rider on a water buffalo, a harnessed ostrich and Maud 8 along with H Vanderbilt driving at slow speeds. A carrier pigeon with a leg message sits beside telegraph and radio.
The text notes Mr. Ford considering buying one of the engines used on the Twentieth Century Express between New York and Chicago. It contrasts that engine with the wood burning locomotive and touts Henry Ford lifting passengers from New York to Chicago in three hours for five dollars.
The text argues Henry Ford could pioneer a flying machine linked to his cars. It notes his youth and ambition, suggesting Ford and his son together may achieve the groundbreaking project.
In 1923 the closest batting title chase in organized baseball occurred in the International League between Clarence Pitt of Rochester and Baltimore and Maurice Archdeacon of Rochester.
A listing of daily evening programs across U S radio networks with specific times for orchestras, sopranos, quartets, violinists, talk shows, and special events at stations including WEAF WJZ WGY WRC and more. Highlights include Esther Cadkin soprano Theo Lehmann violinist and the Eveready Hour with major orchestras and market reports.
Dinner music listed for KOA Denver at 6 00 P M Regina St Marys Choir performs at CFAC Calgary 7 45 P M Orpheus Quartet and Little Theatre Players headline 10 00 P M concert listings across Regina Calgary and Denver with times in Mountain Standard Time.
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