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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1922
Page
4
The Athens Messenger discusses 1920 and 1921, noting deflation and moral declines yet a rise in ideals and cooperation. It calls for practical resolutions, balance of war ideals with peace progress, and renewed national unity through constructive action and renewed effort.
The article notes that New Year's resolutions are less favored though the year is a natural turning point for decisions. It argues that resolutions made on January 1 are as valid if adopted later, citing personal commitment and timing as factors.
A crowded holiday scene in New York features a man with ragged nerves rushing to a Brooklyn train. He saves his seat as a heavy fellow tumbles onto his toe, eliciting a deep raucous response from beneath the parcels.
A fashion shift from Persian kittens and canaries to parrots dominates stores. Dealers cite parrots as color accents and companions, with demand rising for South American and Cuban birds and macaws. Experts link the craze to wartime emotional needs and seek patient training for talking birds.
On a warm afternoon a resident spoke with a traveling ventriloquist who planned a show. A man with a turtle in a basket challenged the act by asking what would be done, prompting fright and a hurried retreat from the scene.
A spoof column notes wedding rings prove nothing about marriage with a quip about roles. It recalls a comic cafe incident where a chef stole kitchenware disrupting a jazz show. A quip about Marshal Foche visiting the woolly west and a riddle about millionaires closes.
The Athens Day by Day column recalls a frigid New Year with ice and snow. The writer reports simple comforts at home, mentions community figures like Prof. Miles Cagg, Congressman Ricketts, and Judge Stephenson, and hints at an upcoming big local announcement tied to shared jokes and local lore.
Questions and answers cover cooking game meat, precision gage blocks, envelope history, Downing Street meaning, side saddle origins, land restoration with Natal grass, Pope attribution, pine tree propagation, and fish composition. Entries cite The Athens Messenger Q&A Bureau and various agencies.
Chicago authorities under Police Chief Fitzmorris order cafes and cabarets to close tonight if liquor is discovered on the premises. The directive follows a crackdown on illegal alcohol amid ongoing enforcement actions in the city.
James Oliver, 59, who has lived in Ohio, visited his old Mason City, West Virginia home today after twenty years. He told relatives he planned to stay briefly.
Ohio farmers delayed spraying after last year’s weak fruit crop, enabling frog eye leaf spot to devastate trees. E H Clayton reports 1921 observations show foliage damage comparable to autumn, urging immediate return to winter dormant spraying and normal anti pest practices to protect 1922 yields.
Donald D. Hoyt a mining engineer was killed in a snow slide near Cordova Alaska. The information was received by his brother Dr T C Hoyt in Chillicothe Ohio today via telegram.
It is said that many former officers of the German Imperial Navy, including several active in submarine warfare, are now engaged in rum running into Sweden.
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