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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1920
Page
1
By William H. Rankin the author urges 1920s readers to embrace intensive work, arguing longer hours and more hour-by-hour effort will raise output, curb prices, and restore prosperity. He calls for advertising workers to set the example with 8 to 16 hour days, warning against unrest and foreign influence while praising American spirit and patriotism.
British experts warn Bolshevik expansion may link Moscow to the entire East with a Moscow wireless claim of victories in south Russia. General Maurice urges immediate British policy to curb Bolshevik influence as Deniken's forces retreat toward the Sea of Azov amid reported rebellions near India.
Prof. Munda Bernardi of Rome Italy arrives in the United States with a government mission to observe and study the war camp commune service. She is the wife of Italy‘s inspector of industries and daughter-in-law of Italy’s secretary of the treasury.
Mount Clemens Michigan sleuths say Lloyd Prevost may solve the case behind the December 23 killing of Stanley Brown. Prevost was arrested again as police question Beatrice Vester and pursue confirmations from Gladys Summit about the alibi.
Two hundred inmates in Cook County Jail witnessed the hanging of Ruffalo Durrage from cells facing the court where the scaffold stood. Jailer Davis and Sheriff Peters arranged the viewing amid protests by Chicago club women and Governor Lowden, who said the plan was misunderstood. Durrage and Onofrio Gargano had been convicted of murder.
Berlin dispatch reports a news agency says peace will be signed in Paris on January 6 at four in the afternoon. The announcement originates from Berlin and confirms the scheduled ceremony time.
Albert A. Wharff, 26, a clerk and stenographer from Clarksburg, WV, died after an accidental shotgun discharge while tending traps near his Sharps Run home. Coroner W. B. Johnson ruled the death accidental. Funeral services are set for Saturday in Stewart with Odd Fellows in charge.
Emma Hale aged 34 died last night at Athens State Hospital where she had resided for three months. The remains were sent to Pomeroy for burial by Undertaker Baughman.
Rev. A. K. McCall will deliver the sermon at South Canaan church Sunday morning at 10 30 o clock.
The Dow Jones news service reports England has purchased 40 000 to 50 000 tons of Cuban raw sugar in the past days. The deal represents about one percent of the 1919 1920 Cuban output with most sugar slated for January loading at about eleven cents F O B Cuba.
Frank O'Connor tailed his wife to a wake after twenty five years of marriage to check for infidelity. Judge Graham granted her divorce amid the investigation into the suspected affair.
Akron Ohio January 2 crime coroner says Maud Stevens 40 trained nurse died from ptomaine poisoning linked to home canned plums served at a New Year dinner The same meal sickened Marie Parissette 62 and Clara Miller 26 and her three children who are recovering Mrs Miller had canned the plums
Police pursue two bandits who held up three servants at the Cincinnati home of business man B. C. Purcell on Thursday. The burglars searched the house for liquor, disregarded valuables, and left the residence unidentified.
The Baltimore Sun reports an anxious note on President Wilson described as thrombosis with an organically sound condition. It predicts he may return to the White House within a month as a fully competent working president, citing an attributive source and clarifying thrombosis as a local clotting in a blood vessel.
Mrs. Cora Siebert remains in the county jail as her counsel seeks to reduce bond from 2500 to 500. The move comes after the jury failed to agree and was discharged in the kidnapping case involving Elizabeth Edna Albee.
Dr Dudley W Stewart a wealthy Los Angeles oil man and former Athens resident died at his Los Angeles home. He was 80 at his Athens visit two years ago and once served as a Civil War surgeon. He left Ohio University early in life, wife preceded him in death, no children.
The stern of a schooner bearing the name A. W. Allan Providence R I drifted ashore at Harborville near Kentville Nova Scotia last night. Shipping men say the wreckage of a large three masted vessel foundered in recent Atlantic storms. A trunk of women’s clothing has drifted ashore near Harborville for several days.
Sophia Andrews Alvarez arrived just after midnight in New York. An ambulance physician certified the newborn as healthy eight pounds after a birth in a subway area with artificial lighting.
The report describes a sacred bull called Three Circle now at Crescent V ranch Palacios Texas owned by red G Lock once valued at 75000 and linked to a dethroned Indian priest following a raid in Chicago. The piece also notes arrests and Justice Department actions in Washington related to the Chicago events.
London dispatch notes President Ebert’s New Year manifesto urging Germans to choose unity and nationhood over internal strife in the coming year. He says past chaos was averted but warns that continued quarrels could wreck Germany’s future and economy.
Trains loaded with whiskey move from S. Rosenbloom and Company warehouses in Kentucky to Atlantic ports. Vessels ready to ship half a million gallons head to Germany, France, Bermuda, Cuba and Canada. The $15 million cargo must reach ports before January 5, per Sol Rosenbloom who fears a government ban on railway shipments.
Boston police report that some chronic drinkers seek ether to curb cravings for alcohol. They call it a sniff jag, hoping for rosy dreams, but it risks death and later deep sleep, making even hardened violators easy to manage.
Five men were killed at the Hagley plant in Wilmington Delaware when a press mill corning mill and thrus grinding mills exploded. Three tons of powder detonated causing widespread glass breakage in the city.
In Los Angeles on January 2 prosecutors and defense plan to present expert testimony. The defense will call two alienists to argue insanity of Harry New in the murder of Frieda Lasser while the prosecution will present three experts contending sanity.
State's attorney announced a jury investigation into alleged revolutions during a taet to Hoyne Chief Justice. Investigators gathered evidence to deport one captured in the raid. Raids were delayed as federal agents reportedly would not cooperate, as leaders like Haywood remained in custody and tensions rose.
Chicago authorities arrested about 200 men and women in dawn raids led by state attorney Hoyne. The operation targeted radicals tied to socialist groups, with leaders taken to jail and alleged plots to overthrow the government alleged. Hoyne blamed the federal government for withholding support, claiming the raids show a national red menace centered in New York and other cities.
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