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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1922
Page
4
Roy The Vencé leads an indie residency in St Ar Build as part of a local arts program. The project highlights new work and collaboration with area artists and funding partners.
A Washington conference on air power concludes five powers cannot dictate wartime aircraft use and universal agreement is required. It urges the United States to build a large fleet of war planes for scouting and bombing, while submarines should be outlawed and battleships questioned as outdated.
Officials from 14 countries gathered in northern Ohio for a dinner to promote cross border cooperation on road maintenance. Proposals include year round road patrols, systematic snow removal, county supervision, and strict truck speed and weight enforcement. The event may spark a broader chain of inter county and inter state road policy meetings.
A rural newspaper vignette compiles dark humor and local color. A schoolteacher and a student share a macabre golf ball tale ending with a grim joke. Brother Williams quips about hell as temperatures rise during a sermon. Charlie Mays, Edgerton editor, jokes about a Ford doubling as a printing press and a shotgun for delinquent subscribers.
In a French town soldiers visit a slot machine testing blowing strength to win a refunded coin. A joke about Scots men dying on it circulates. A newspaper asks for dating advice and offers cheeky tips. A young prize winner is praised as a chip off the old block.
In this piece Frederic J. Haskin argues color affects mood and health. Red and bright tones stimulate nerves and heart action while blue and green soothe and restore balance. He notes regional color use mirrors climate and urges limited bright colors, favoring greens and blues for decor and clothing.
A diary style column from Athens Ohio recounts a traveler’s day to Crooksville and New Lexington, meeting friends, admiring a beauty, planning to visit Logan, and noting a twenty second wedding anniversary. It mentions Abrigal, postmaster talk, stocktaking, and a New Year’s night kiss plan. The piece also touches on local figures, a Masonic club, and booster sentiment for Carbondale.
H. J. Bierly of the Crooksville Advance showed strong interest in a St. Valentine Day plan and suggested Messenger readers would welcome it. The writer seeks L. C. Laube of Logan, superintendent of Ohio Power Co., for his opinion to finalize the plan.
The Athens Messenger presents an information bureau offering readers answers to questions. The notice names Frederic J. Haskin as director in Washington and explains limits on advice and scope. It asks for full name address and two cents in stamps, with replies sent directly to the inquirer.
The earliest Union Depot on record in the United States was the Erie depot built in 1865, followed by a San Diego depot circa 1866.
The text surveys the first known dictionary in Nineveh during the seventh century BC, notes the modern form linked to Appollonius the Greek sophist, and Augustus era. It also mentions Ellis Island charity groups and the number with workers, a soap bubble’s spherical shape due to surface area, and panic grass as Panicum or related genera used for cattle feed.
McNeal and Bartlett of Waterford bought a 17000 pound Delaine wool consignment from William Miller of Morgan County. The sale, claimed the biggest regional wool crop, brought a top price of 33 cents per pound straight for the year.
An Ohio regional analysis argues that Delaine fine wool growers miss profit by lacking strong cooperative pooling. Wool sales at 33 to 40 cents highlight market manipulation by buyers. The piece urges growers to unite with associations to secure fair prices and prevent capital-driven losses.
A Muskingum County man, drawn into Morgan County, and several buyers scheme to depress prices by moving wool through fake trades. They allegedly profited about $590 on the market price while owing the Ohio Wool Growers Association and other pools the difference between 10 cents and 33 cents on 15,000 pounds.
A farmers group in eastern Ohio counties backs a plan to drain wetlands and improve land use. The idea envisions letting farmers move soil and water to lower terrain to boost productivity and reduce flooding risks.
At Andrey and Warner farms in Tuscarawas County, Ohio State University engineers demonstrated a combined ditch and tile drainage system. Open ditches remove flood water while main tile lines extend 40 feet on each side and converge to drain the area. laterals branch from the main lines to cover the countryside.
At first symptom of a cough or cold breathe Hyomei. The ad urges having it ready in every home and claims it stops a cold before it deepens. Sold by McKee Drug Co.
Historic notes record Drake County’s creation from Miami County on January 3, 1809. Other events include Revolutionary War veteran John Shepherd’s 119 year death in Royalton in 1847, a New Lisbon opera house fire in 1887, a Toledo fire destroying a million dollars in property in 1894, and the Seventy-third General Assembly meeting and organizing in 1898.
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