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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1920
Page
4
The new railroad law signals a third era of fair treatment with stronger public protection against stock watering and mandering while assuring railroads enough income. It allows government sanctioned combinations, renounces state socialism, and strengthens dispute mechanisms between capital and labor. The measure aims to align railroads with national interests, akin in importance to the regional bank act.
A university psychologist described as an expert on the education of the subnormal mind argues that 70 percent of Americans have the intelligence of a ten year old. He claims this stems from innate ability, not lack of schooling, and that most will not reach high school level, destined to manual work under a 30 percent educated minority.
A British critic says we are drunk with prosperity and questions who would expect a society to cut out every thing. He suggests caution in drastic reductions while defending living standards and cultural choices.
A picaresque reminiscence mixes sharp humor about cash on delivery, pompous servants, and discarded luxuries with asides about tradespeople, a limousine wait at a petrol station, and a reader’s take on Vicente Ibanze’s The Cabin. The piece wryly contrasts modern finance with the old days.
A collection of light anecdotes from a town scene. A country lady recalls surviving a flood aided by her piano playing. A shy person is teased by an egotistical man at a picture show. A debate in New York state assembly features Governor Smith and personal privilege questions.
A disciplined women doctor from the Midwest shows she can maintain medical practice and feminist work while raising a daughter. She attends a distant convention with her husband acting as nurse, presenting her baby to the gathering after the meetings. Co upright 1920.
Reported movement by prominent Cincinnati graduates would install William Howard Taft as president of the University of Cincinnati succeeding Charles W. Dabney. Taft, born September 16 1857 in Cincinnati, is a Yale and Cincinnati Law School graduate with a long public service record including secretary of war and governor of Cuba.
Lemon pie uses lemon rind juice egg yolk flour sugar water and a baked crust with a meringue topping. Steamed pudding with molasses flour water ginger soda salt steams two hours and a sweet butter syrup tops it with vanilla or almond flavor.
This passage provides two recipes. Mint Sauce combines mint leaves sugar vinegar and salt to stand warm before serving with cold lamb. Meat and Mancreni Pudding uses mutton stock egg tomato sauce bread crumbs onion parsley and macaroni baked and steamed for forty minutes, served with white sauce.
A graduate asks what college corresponds to the initials F F M. The reply suggests Fultonigh Market as a possible match.
Local residents share visits and calls across Nelsonville Buchtel and nearby towns. Families like Keeney Culp and Sheskey appear frequently with illnesses, recoveries, and social visits noted along with Red Cross aid and a birthday party event for Master Henry Clay Stephenson.
French researchers report horses fed a type of seaweed growing off Brittany improved weight gain compared with grain diets. The study notes the seaweed is rich in minerals and proteins and could offer an alternative feed source for equines.
Kimberly Oil and Gas Company of Nelsonville Ohio applied February 27 1920 with the Ohio commissioner of securities for a license to deal in securities naming H Sisson Ralph W Parks and Mogul as persons linked to the application.
Wayne B. Wheeler arrives in Annapolis to explain the Volstead enforcement act as resolutions are introduced in Maryland's legislature to rescind ratification of the federal prohibition amendment and authorize moving to annul it.
An advertisement urges readers to treat catarrh by eradicating germs from the blood with S. S. S. It claims surface remedies fail and suggests writing to the Chief Medical Adviser in Atlanta Georgia for medical guidance.
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