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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1930
Page
11
Athens area notices advertise cash sales and car deals with listings for Chrysler Whippet and other autos. Also includes real estate, furniture, insurance, moving, and farm services with contact phones and local business names.
In an exclusive interview, Friend W. Richardson, former California governor, says a paroled ex-convict from Folsom Penitentiary released in 1926 possesses the key to the William Esmond Taylor murder case. Richardson spoke from San Francisco on January 1.
Society notices list monuments and cemetery lots for sale or endowments along with mourning goods. Religious and social groups mark events and memorials. plats and obituaries may be noted among entries.
The passage presents a Q and A column with queries about trademarks, recidivists, Tory origins, Russian publishing, rats needing water, aurora borealis, motion picture previews called trailers, Vatican settlement terms, birds hitting windows, insanity as a legal term, the Chevrolet name origin, and the world’s tallest woman. It provides concise, era appropriate responses and historical notes.
A compact guide presents common usage errors and pronunciation tips. It highlights misused phrases mispronunciations and misspellings and emphasizes learning one new word daily. The featured term inconceivable is illustrated with an example showing its meaning as unimaginable or unbelievable.
The notice outlines a scattered 4:20 ac football reference and a radio lineup with stations WHAM KDKA and others. It lists program titles, times around 10:00 pm and 1:00 pm, and a weather segment, with several names and events mentioned in a vintage broadcast context.
Radio schedule listing programs from evening to late night. Highlights include The Old Counsel, The Revellers, Bellaly'e Orchestra, Palais d'Or Orchestra, Amos 'n' Andy, and a variety of acts such as male and mixed ensembles, orchestras, and dramatic readings across multiple time slots.
Fragmentary lines describe a 2008 event involving Hank Simmen and an organ titled Wheat Melodies. The note hints at a documentrelated night and an ashen setting but lacks clear dates or venues. Further readable context is needed for precise summary.
A fragmented schedule notes performances by the National Opera Company including Oliver and Victor Hour with special guests. The listing mentions the Hal Keeupn Overheata, Club Rie and Champion Sparkers at Sparta drama venue with times around 4.00 to 4.30. Keith Brethers stenoses provides a clinical aside within the notice.
Fragmented program listing shows a Colombi an aide at six thirty and a dance orchestra at one. F W Wile speaks at eight twenty with Manhattan and other segments through midnight and beyond.
Charles Bowers of Richland Avenue found a large black skunk in his chicken coop this morning and plans to sell the animal. Thomas B. Roush becomes mayor of Athens at 9 AM New Year’s Day for a two year term. Athens High prepares for Saturday night game with Parkersburg while on vacation. Athens Grange No. 1698 holds an all day meeting and installs new officers. Council and school boards meet this evening to organize the year’s work and seat three new board of education members.
The Indian Nationalist Congress, the leading native group in India, adopted unanimously Mahatma Gandhi's resolution calling for complete independence for India.
The pattern outlines a slender frock with a long pointed vestee and front skirt panel, set-in sleeves, and pearl button trim. Sizes 38 to 48, fabric yardage specified, no dressmaking experience needed, patterns 15c, 10c with pattern, order from The Athens Messenger Pattern Department New York City.
Six Federal inmates sentenced to five years for violating prohibition laws escaped from Boyd County Jail in Catlettsburg Kentucky last night after overpowering Jailer Stevens. The fugitives vanished following the break in, leaving authorities seeking their recapture.
The South opened the new year with 49 football players split into rival teams to play a charity game for crippled children of Dixie in Atlanta Georgia.
The German government accepts Kentucky Senator Frederick H Sackett as United States Ambassador and awaits the State Department’s final approval. Sackett, linked with President Hoover in wartime relief, is named to succeed the resigning Dr Jacob Gould Schurman.
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