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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1922
Page
4
Fragmented OCR reads like a crowded council briefing. Mentions mayoral roles, appointments, and elections. References to local industry, a battle over governance, and figures such as Wilkins and Pomeroy in a wartime reconstruction context.
Fragmented report notes Benny Kai Dall and an outfield Giants player involved in an alleged base ball incident with theft and a suspended outcome. Mentions Sion, Kauff, and Oliver with unclear charges, dates, and nearby locations in a garbled historical column.
Rates list for delivery in Athens Ohio and outside Ohio. Details show weekly and annual prices, with monthly and six month options, plus mail subscription terms and advance payment requirement. Advertises national reps in New York City and Chicago.
A survey of 2500 students failing one or more subjects shows 77 percent blame laziness or lack of interest, 10 percent illness or absence, with unclear others. The report urges parental and teacher cooperation to detect weak spots early and boost motivation.
The Federal Reserve bank chairman argues thrift is a passive factor and not the key to growth. He urges emphasis on constructive energy enterprise and creative business effort, insisting America needs action and new wealth creation now.
With holidays over, the school year resumes a roughly 24 week stretch including Easter break. Parents are urged to reach out to teachers to review each child’s progress and identify any needed boosts to prevent June setbacks.
A collection of light verse and anecdotes from a dinner hour. The jokes include a tramp exchange about a house and trousers, a sun eclipse observation told by a scientist to an old negro, and reflections that pants endure better than shoes in hard times.
Farmer Corntassel quips that barbed wire ranks among the era’s most useful inventions. He adds that when much work must be done, the wire makes it impossible for a man to sit idle and watch.
The readable text is fragmented and lists varied, non-specific phrases about a Brooklyn collar button maker, an investigator, Broadway wealth, and Bolshevik fighting, with no coherent event or individuals to report.
The Post Office Department under Postmaster General Hays encourages seekers to visit their local post office with details of the missing relative. The plan avoids broad letter requests and relies on postmasters’ discretion to pursue leads, coordinate with police, or issue notices, while protecting privacy and avoiding debt or fraud cases.
A ship will host 300 representatives of exhibiting firms with on board offices, banking, interpreters, library and wireless. The cinema will present daylight films on the exhibition deck as the ship visits Bahia Rio de Janeiro Montevideo and Buenos Aires to show British manufacturing prowess to South America.
A humor column riffs on red hats and a Washington opinion piece by Fred J. Haskins linking color to romance and nerves. The writer jokes about color psychology, college education, and local gossip while noting gun-shooting pals and Messenger want ads.
In 1923 a 20 000 ton British Trade Ship will dock at Batnia Brazil signaling the voyage of the British Industry a floating exhibit of British manufactures. Four main decks and lifts will create an exhibition vessel where engines machinery and ship equipment operate for observers.
John Preston of Preston's Store endorsed the plan discussed this morning in support of the Valentine event. He agreed with all details and described the idea as splendid. The major announcement is expected Saturday and readers are advised to watch for it.
An observer recalls a bald headed man from Class Six walking down Logan's main street yesterday. The man’s head reminded him of a dollar bill, noted as a single “bone.”
Readers may submit questions to The Athens Messenger Information Bureau in Washington with full name and address for free answers. The bureau states it cannot give advice on legal medical or financial matters and will not handle domestic disputes or conduct subject research.
A homeless wanderer wrote the famed song Home Sweet Home, alma mater of heart and hearth, though he never experienced the joys and comforts it expressed in its chorus and verses.
United Press reports excitement in London over Schliedeghebn Germany where farmers claim to extract fat from live pigs. The process includes anaesthesia and removing fat, then returning the pig for more fattening. English breeders doubt feasibility due to roughness and mock the idea as silly.
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