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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1923
Page
4
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Lewis Yates of Oreton died Wednesday morning from cholera infantum. The funeral and burial took place at Beardy cemetery Thursday afternoon.
John Szabo and his wife died in a murder arson and suicide case in Dayton Ohio. Szabo killed his wife burned the house and threw himself under a train. The mangled remains were buried with two daughters from Chicago and his imbecile son as a county charge.
Civic officials and eastern city automotive men craft an ideal state traffic code. It includes speed limits, simplified rules, and separating fast and careless driving as offenses with varying penalties. A key note: no driver licensing or examination provision is included.
The article praises the rise of small homes reflecting modern American taste. It contrasts chaotic historic styles with today’s diverse yet distinctly modern houses designed to fit climates and family needs, noting past excesses and a shift toward simple, functional beauty.
A collage of homey maxims and wry observations from a 1920s newspaper. Notices touch on taxes in Ohio, building activity, fashion and haircuts in Chicago, and stray local anecdotes including Nashville music teachers and New Jersey nets.
A joint commission report shows soil exhaustion and higher fertilizer, machinery, and land costs reshape American farming. It notes rising farm values, mortgage debt, and tenancy, with farm output not keeping pace with population despite greater use of tractors and trucks.
Readers can obtain the 1923 Navy Calendar at no cost by sending their name and address to the Washington Information Bureau. Include two cents in stamps for return postage. Write clearly with full name and address.
A Sharpsburg reader venting about butchering season sparks a humorous critique of farmer and household reactions. The piece riffs on killing pigs, preparing meat, and the social antics around slaughter time with satirical verses and light local color.
Questions and answers cover topics from heating iron in hot air furnaces to the history of U and V as separate letters. Notable items include Texas leading cotton production in 1921, the 1910 commerce court, Lincoln’s Union-saving pledge, and details on religious liberty in Rhode Island.
A printed excerpt quotes Isaiah 50 10 urging reliance on one’s own fire and sparks and adds a Ralph Waldo Emerson line about the path to repairing the world by creating the right world. The two aphorisms frame personal responsibility and constructive action.
Gilbert H. Kennard 65 died at his Columbus home Tuesday. Survived by widow and three children Mrs. Hayes Jones of Columbus Richard Kennard of San Jose California and Charles B Kennard of Portsmouth. Funeral Friday at 10 80 from the M B church Logan burial in Loan cemetery. He was nephew of W J Kennard of McArthur.
Mr and Mrs Lyman Peck of the South Bloomingville area traveled as business visitors to Mc Arthur on Thursday Their daughter Mrs Gertie Starkey now resides in Haydenville The brief notes family ties within the region.
Major W. H. Henry, who served in the U S Army medical corps since early 1917, resigns at Dayton after two years stationed there. He served in Archangel and Russian vicinities during World War I and plans to resume medical practice after postgraduate work in the East.
Robert Aiken a former McArthur resident died in Claremont California of tuberculosis on December 2. He was the son of the late Barnet Aiken a pioneer of the area and connected with the Sherwood Reynolds Dunkle Parrish King and Lyons families of this place.
A birthday surprise was held Tuesday evening for Mrs. P. Gaskell by intimate friends at a new farm house west of town. Attendees included Miss Delia O Connor and Mr. Gaskell along with numerous Book Club members and local residents.
Mrs W G Davis spends a week with her daughters Mrs D C Dawson and Mrs R J O Donnell in Columbus. Mrs Maria Cavin returns home after a months long stay in Pittsburg accompanied by her daughter in law Mrs M Cavin and her daughter.
Tony Gizzi said they had a fight and returned the marriage license issued in Jefferson county probate court on October 23. The license, originally issued to Tony Gizzi and Nellis Montperry of Dillonvale, was unused and was reportedly lost.
Reno Nev A location survey for a proposed highway from Summit to the head of Don by the California highway commission. The current route will be shortened half a mile and the grade reduced to seven percent. The new road aims for a more scenic path and is expected to add about 45 days to spring travel due to southern exposure.
A revolution has broken out in the Memel district of East Prussia, reported as simultaneous with the French creation of the Ruhr. The dispatch was released today by the Lithuanian legation in Washington.
Ottawa reports 470060 cars registered in 1922 figures marking a near doubling of Canada's auto fleet in four years. This government statistic highlights rapid vehicle growth across the Dominion.
Fifteen cars of B and O coal wrecked near Elyria Ohio were offered to the public at 2.50 to 3 dollars a ton but none bought.
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