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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1909
Page
2
Henderson Crider Drug Co advertises Spalding jerseys and sweaters plus a varied athletic goods stock. Customers are invited to pick up one of the shop’s catalogs.
Daniel Frohman argues in Harper's Weekly that a good play needs continuous action and hidden struggle. He notes action can be verbal and the central conflict often pits love against duty, with scenes of calm dialogue still driving progress.
An idea play aims for minimal length while gripping the audience with two actors who resemble Greek puppets on a dark backdrop. They remain entranced by fate and circumstance, which they themselves have created.
The piece traces the nobility from brute force ruling early society to the addition of intellect, forming a top tier by the eighteenth century. It notes the French and American revolutions awakened the world to the hoax of nobility, and since then the institution has declined.
A Boston Post note recalls poet John Greenleaf Whittier in declining years attending a church meeting. As a speaker quoted his lines, the audience applauded widely and Whittier, upon being reminded, apologized that he had no recollection of writing the verse.
A comic exchange from the Chicago Post shows a friendly drug clerk asking if he should send the prescription and the patron replying that he may send it and then take it himself. The brief vignette captures social manners in a storefront setting.
A terse quotation attributed to Tlaliburton notes that those without speech may observe closely, suggesting heightened attention and receptivity in silence.
A grand January 11 parade features two 40 by 15 foot castles on floats with armored riders and colonial tableaux. Thousands in line include Governor Harmon, ex Governors Harris and Harmon staff, Ohio National Guard units, and city political clubs. Firework shells light the sky as daylight shells discharge at street intersections. Railroads offer reduced fares for spectators.
Outline of the rotunda ceremony at noon on January 11 includes music by Neddermeyer Columbus-Ohio concert band and the Columbus Democratic Glee Club, remarks by Oliver H. Perry, prayer by Rev. Emory W. Hunt, presentation of the governor’s commission by Andrew L. Harris, oath by Chief Justice William B. Crew, Harmon’s inaugural address, and closing songs.
The program will display national colors in the pageant with special features between marching divisions. Two comic sections will amuse spectators, one depicting incoming officials and the other outgoing officeholders, as the cortege proceeds.
Two masked highwaymen entered the Railway Y M C A in Cleveland on January 6 and at gunpoint forced diners to surrender money and jewelry. Several railway men were in the dining room. the robbers escaped.
A rugged dialogue reveals Jim works at a depot as telegraph operator, Zeke captains a lake steamer, Pete flies as an aviator, and Bill stays home grumbling, labeled an aggravator. The banter captures local character and ambitions through simple questions.
The word winter does not derive from cold but from moisture. The root wad or wad meaning to wet evolved across Aryan languages showing wetness shaped the term. From Sanskrit udan to Latinunda to English water and German wister, all trace to a Teutonic wata meaning wet.
Bremen Ohio based Junction City Oil and Gas raises capital from 40000 to 60000 at a stockholders meeting attended by about seventy. The firm plans to drill the Klingler farm test with two or three wells, as the best territory in the area lies east of Flagdale and in line with neighboring wells. Other local firms, Franklin and Kenyon Oil and Gas, report new wells in Bremen field. Avelon and Flagdale stocks trade at high prices with Bremen declaring another fifty percent dividend payable January 20.
A Punta Gorda Florida Herald note describes a tiny annual red herb with leaf tips that secrete a sticky fluid to trap insects. The plant, rarely over three inches tall, curls its leaves to capture prey before digesting it and leaving only insect skeletons. It grows on poor sandy lands and appears in late winter and early spring.
The London Mail narrates a turbot with a twisted mouth and a dramatic yawn. The mouth opens and waters flow as the lips part then the yawn travels through the head, distending skull plates and flaring the gills before the fish relaxes back to shape.
Newark Ohio January 6 The city council reduces police force from 25 to 15 officers and lowers salaries from five to ten dollars per month. Firemen salaries also cut. Estimated annual loss from liquor tax drying up.
The Tuesday Club met last evening at Elmwood Place hosted by Hon. and Mrs. A Price. Prof C L Martzoff presented The Afterglow of Judaism and a group of notable attendees included Gen and Mrs Grosvenor Mayor and Mrs Welch Mrs A B Moore Mr and Mrs Alex Nelson Prof and Mrs Atkinson Dr and Mrs Mercer and others.
Prices corrected daily for wholesale items include dressed chickens and turkeys per pound, live turkeys and hens per pound, live roosters per pound, potatoes per bushel, wheat per bushel, and baled hay and straw per ton. Market figures reflect typical farm commodities trading in Athens.
Swanson Furniture Co offers new and second-hand furniture upholstery repair picture framing packing and related services from 70 North Court Street reachable by home phone 436. The dealer emphasizes versatility with furniture sales and restoration options.
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