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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1930
Page
4
The piece argues for a robot at road intersections to manage heavy and uneven traffic, suggesting a system that adapts green signals to traffic flow. It also cites Department of Labor data on lifetime earnings differences between high school graduates, college graduates, and unschooled workers, highlighting long term financial advantages of extended education.
The piece contrasts past and present living conditions by comparing a laborer's eight hour day, modest home, access to water, transport, and food with today’s amenities like cars, phonograph, radio, and movies. It notes these do not guarantee happiness but offer a better chance at a fairly happy life compared to earlier times.
An advertisement-style excerpt cites Henry Ford urging self investment over early saving. It argues growth comes from study and mastering tools, with a promise of happiness and satisfaction beyond monetary gain. The fragment emphasizes personal development before saving.
The speaker outlines regional strengths including cars, gas and oil, coal, iron ore, apples, wool, and radio tech. This vision argues for internal production capability should cutoffs occur, while noting many areas of the country lack similar abundance.
A European authority at a gathering of artists argues that the melting pot in the United States has altered standards of beauty. He says race fusion produced a new physical type, differing from the classic Venus, with Europeans praising the flowing American form. The piece notes various immigrant blends shaping a new, warmer beauty ideal.
Gilbert Swan notes a shift as long standing Broadway playhouses close and new film palaces open on Seventieth Street signaling the theater district’s northward migration. The era ends at 39th Street with the Casino’s closing while the Fifties grow brighter and rackets creep toward 42nd Street as the lights blaze up the highway.
The Casino closed at 47 due to real estate growth ending a famed era. The piece recalls Lillian Russell becoming queen of the stage and how leading ladies of that era carried themselves with formal grace, a contrast to later styles.
Flora Dora and its famed sextet headlined this week’s society pages with a flamboyant return touching many readers and stirring nostalgia for a bygone era.
The piece recalls the Tell me, pretty maiden tune and the Floradora girls as a historic theater landmark. It reflects on how the show’s stars faded from memory while others married fortunes or vanished from public view. The note mentions Marie once wore tights and now acts as an elderly housewife.
The passage recalls Floradora as the show’s origin point and Marie Tempest arriving from England to star. It notes Tempest’s current London engagement in The Second Mrs Fraser and her recent New York role. The text links cross Atlantic theatre figures and productions.
Arthur Hammerstein fostered a succession of operettas in recent years, producing hits such as Wild Flower and The Vagabond King. The house highlighted Cleo Mayfield in Blue Paradise and The Desert Song, and unveiled early performances by Vivienne Segal Ed Wynn and Francine Larrimore among others.
The passage notes a dramatic redefinition of what counts as downtown, with Broadway renamed and swallowed by businessmen. Skyscrapers rise at every corner, theaters occupy side streets, and talking pictures dominate the brightest lights.
The text discusses a critique of leniency for first crimes amid hunger and injury, contrasting a rule that allows a dog one bite with a prohibition on a thief one theft. It highlights a moral stance on punishment severity and discretion.
The new Mexican code rejects the death penalty for civil crimes, treating crime as a disease. Revolutionists will be shot as usual, while automobile drivers responsible for fatalities face a maximum six-year sentence. Criminologists worldwide note similar shifts. Mexico leads in this reform.
Frederick G. Ecker, president of Metropolitan Life Insurance, gains court support for his aviation plan. The New York Court of Appeals upholds his proposal to permit aviators, both commercial and military, to use certain insurance provisions to bolster aviation services.
A long list of Q and A items covers transatlantic radio progress since 1925, popular children’s books, indoor air quality, notable award winners, color order in rainbows, composers and albums, global telephone density, Mormon membership in Utah, historical tales such as Flor and Blancheflor, The Yellow Kid origin, Lake Baikal depth, pernicious anemia effects, perambulation of parish bounds, early scissors use, Noah Webster definitions, Curtiss Tanager details, and Guggenheim prize test requirements.
Dr Frank McCoy outlines a cold care regime stressing early intervention with heavy sweating and cleansing. He prescribes water intake, enemas, skin baths, grapefruit infusion drinks, and bed rest, plus gradual activity and sleep to prevent complications. He promotes alkaline foods and avoidance of fatigue to boost resistance.
The article notes life insurance policies for civil and amateur aviation at standard rates but warns that a rule cancelling life insurance for pilots who fly planes poses a serious handicap to aviation progress and operations.
A profile of Patrick Sullivan Wyoming’s senator revealing his Irish roots in County Cork and rise from dock worker to sheep rancher and long time legislator. It recounts his 1892 campaign, a whisky episode that swung votes, his strong anti liquor stance, and notes his large sheep holdings and famed Wyoming residence.
Fifteen hundred were invited to view a moving picture demonstration of Einstein’s theory but four thousand five hundred forced entry. Police reserves were called and professors puzzled as the film failed to explain the theory, except to Einstein himself.
A commentary notes that about 4500 people will attempt to grasp Einstein theory. It contrasts the idea that the universe has limits with the question of what lies beyond those limits, highlighting human curiosity and limits.
France refuses consent to an arrangement giving Italy a navy equal to France. Italy under Mussolini will not submit to any other Latin power.
A compact excerpt describes common errors and pronunciation tips. It promotes vocabulary growth by learning one word daily with a focus on platonic meaning purely spiritual and passion free friendship. It includes usage notes for seen vs. saw and pronounces mechanician.
The Republican National Committee praises a protective tariff ally of Joe Grundy. He did not seek War ren’s appointment yet may run for election. Floor Leader Jim Watson quips about 20,000 sheep while Pat Sullivan jokes about affording a ticket to Congress.
Public letter from M. F. Andrew of Glouster Ohio discusses the origins of Buchtel and Bessemer in Ohio, noting Bessemer on the John Dew farm and Buchtel on the Tom Dew farm. He recalls O D Jackson opening a store, a furnace built by Mr Buchtel, and suggests Bessemer is buried in Buchtel.
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