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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1931
Page
3
Fragmentary notice lists names and addresses including John W Cullen commer and Chicago address. Mentions obituary card of thanks and subscription rates by carrier and mail with prices for Ohio and time periods.
An elderly Midwestern note on residents like Benjamin Silvernail who have never visited nearby towns, contrasted with the restless explorer in American society. The piece surveys similar homebound stories in Meigs County and other communities, reflecting on restlessness, change, and the quiet lives tied to farms and open country.
A midwestern grocer retires to enjoy life but dies within a day, illustrating that wisdom and prudence can be confounded by fate. The piece argues happiness should be pursued daily through simple experiences rather than delayed for a future that may never arrive.
In Marrakech a journalist recalls encountering Moroccan child dancers aged 12 and 13. He notes the girls’ maturity in appearance and street performances, from coin toss dances to hennaed hands, cigarets, and beauty marks, while pondering exploitation in America. The piece ends with wary reflection on innocent home children and possible futures.
Frederic J. Haskin explains how to request free information services from Washington. The piece answers reader questions on how sound was added to silent films, per capita government costs, date of Easter, and the discovery and possession dates of Wake Midway Baker and Howland islands, plus the Hamlet origin from Saxo Grammaticus.
A reflective poem arguing that self promotion aids some who later succeed while modest people may miss recognition. It cites Byron and actors to illustrate that boasting can accompany talent and future success, noting that public praise helps or harms, and that those who claim “I can” often rise.
After a period of thrift and contentment Americans now seek fresh purchases. With savings built to 28 billion and unemployment largely steady, the dominant desire shifts to new and better things driven by fashion, technology, and modern living.
A devotional line from Ecclesiastes 2 1 urges testing pleasure through mirth as vanity. The verse counsels reflection on enjoyment versus lasting meaning.
The page notes Miss Vera Dull of Daytona Beach high honors and a Kansas Vera Dull sharing a nickname. It also reports Shaela Sheela from Porterville scoring 640 consecutive goals without rest. A Mystic Seconds item muses on minutes and months in ancient Rome and future dates 1111 A D. Tomorrow tease previews a horse doctor story.
The article notes global highway mileage rising to 7,959,192 miles with the United States leading in the last year adding 7,952 miles, Japan 35,466 miles total, and Cuba’s Central Highway expanding from 1,695 to 1,990 miles. It cites 1929 US road spending of 1,615,519,000 dollars, Germany 168,980,000 and the UK 96,278,000.
The Athens Messenger advertises a handsomely illustrated booklet from the Washington Bureau offering practical guidance on modernizing old houses. It claims each dollar spent boosts unemployment relief and adds three dollars to property value, urging readers to mail a ten cent coupon for a copy.
A reader encloses ten cents to obtain a booklet titled Modernizing Old Houses. The message asks for name street city and state to be printed on the copy.
The article recalls Tombstone's Bird Cage Theater and Helldorade saloons closed forever as Bisbee builds a new courthouse. It laments vanished streets and personalities, notes Lem Hilton and Ed Schieffelin, and muses on wealth from local mines and fenced cattle pastures along the Naco to Cananea route.
The Elias family runs thousands of Hereford cattle on 300000 acres high on a ranch reinforced by copper towns and big mines. Calumet and Arizona, Phelps Dodge, Shattuck Mines, and Cananea loom near the border as major players with Anaconda controlling Cananea, feeding stock for the Cananea Cattle Company.
Senor Jose Elias and his brother Francisco describe a large grizzly seen near Magal Lanes Peak. Frank Hillman, a Naco cattleman, shot the animal after it killed cattle daily. The bear's skin is large enough to cover a small bedroom floor and may be sold.
Chico Tile, working for the Elias brothers, finds a heavy reddish almost round stone on the Magal lanes Peak. He brings it home where a storekeeper trades a revolver and a cow horse worth thirty dollars for the stone, then sells it for eight hundred dollars saying it is nearly pure gold.
Prospectors scour the Peak from base to top seeking the source of the Ball of Gold found by Chico Bola De Oro. Chico, famed as Chico of The Ball of Gold, kept to himself, gained a horse and a revolver, and was content with his fortune.
Charles . urged the Ohio Columbus Centennial Commission to write a history of Ohio University from collected records. The report notes local debates, arrests, and civic events including a jail sentence for selling liquor, a gas heater plan for Athens, and county school funding for 1921.
Washington February 25. The Senate defends unlimited debate as a forum of freedom while sparring over a veterans bonus bill. Caraway of Arkansas and Fess of Ohio clash with the chair on floor recognition, revealing procedural tensions and parliamentary questions about rule changes.
Advice on adapting infant sleep to the child and season. Set an early evening feeding, avoid overcooling, and ensure warm comfortable nightwear. Use loose blankets or sleeping bags, allow leg movement, and gradually adjust to house noises while respecting nap and nighttime rhythms.
A devotional reflection by Clarence H. Wison for the Commission on Evangelism warns against rash testing of faith. It cites Luke 4 12 and Luke 17 5 6 and emphasizes trusting God where unseen while using proper means where seen. The piece urges obedience over presumptuous sacrifice and prays for belief free of vanity and folly.
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