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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1929
Page
4
A compact reading features Emerson urging that every day is the best day and no one learns rightly until Doomsday is recognized. It then quotes Solomon praising fair looks and dove eyes as a lyric tribute to beauty.
The piece reflects on shut-ins overwhelmed by daily life and bustling society. It urges kindness and thoughtfulness toward bed-ridden or long-ill individuals, noting how easily they are forgotten amid busy crowds and urban bustle. It contrasts private hardship with shared civic concern. It also touches on global resource concerns and South American potential as part of broader world affairs.
The article discusses Herbert Hoover and the trip to South America highlighting the continent’s growing news value for the United States. It compares South America to the historical American immigration era and notes the region’s importance to American industries and markets.
A regional piece notes a shift in attitudes toward wildlife and law enforcement. Hunters and wardens now cooperate, valuing conservation, education, and sustainable harvests, with license fees funding wildlife protection and tourist sport. The change reduces wholesale slaughter and boosts future hunting and fishing opportunities.
Gilbert Swan surveys a transformed Tin Pan Alley in New York where green carpets and 21 rooms host composers lyricists and pianists. He recalls early days with bare floors tin pans and now a shift toward sound pictures and lush showrooms as figures like Mabel Wayne Wolfe Gilbert Vincent Lopez and Walter O Keefe gather amid the new Broadway scene.
The physicist presents a five page manuscript to the Prussian Academy of Science outlining links between mechanics and electro dynamics. It is hailed as a potential revolution in understanding the universe.
Einstein spent ten years composing five pages arguing the universe exists in four dimensions beyond length breadth and thickness. Science supports the existence of a fourth dimension.
The text discusses the fourth dimension as a concept, noting Poincare’s claim that ten years of study yields only a faint notion. It states that among living men only British mathematician Hutton can truly think in four dimensions.
Dr. Frank McCoy offers answers on health and diet via mail. He warns against slow poisoning from food and urges early attention to predisease signals such as pimples, gas, abdominal distress, fatigue, insomnia, and headaches. He advises cautious food choices, habit formation for health, and referral to specialists for serious symptoms.
The speaker reflects on spatial concepts noting three dimensions are ample for humans and entertains the potential acceptance of a four dimensional idea as a future development alongside earlier theories such as the Nebular hypothesis.
The text states that what science once called nebulae are not merely dust but separate universes, each containing hundreds of millions of suns, reframing the origin of planets as part of vast cosmic domains.
King Amanullah of Afghanistan asserts that shifting men's habits cannot be achieved by proclamations or laws, contrasting rapid cultural change with slow enforcement and moral reform.
Amanullah returned from England in European clothes with his wife in a short skirt and silk stockings. He announced women in Afghanistan would also go unveiled, ending seclusion. Tribes rose in armed opposition, driving him into a fortress.
In Afghanistan King Amanullah reverses plans for modern education for girls and secular dress while allowing soldiers to bow to religious leaders and keeping women secluded. The reforms are dropped as Amanullah pursues peace.
The State of Pennsylvania demands that a jury pass sentence of death and impose a fourteen year term as the punishment for the convicted crime.
A jury hears a boy confess that he helped kill a witch or hex to see interesting magic. The jurors are instructed not to consider the boy’s age while weighing the seriousness of the crime.
A remark compares a plan to extract three hairs from a witch and bury them to lift a spell. It argues that sending a boy to the electric chair would be a primitive witchcraft approach, instead of proper feeding and education.
The Great Krupp gun factory, once blocked from cannon production by Allies, now reports profits of ten million dollars yearly. A lower Reichsbank rate supports claims of German prosperity and repayment ability, per Mr. Gilbert.
In a cautious stance, American bankers reportedly rejected purchasing large sums of German bonds to fund Allied needs. They see fewer opportunities in holding German securities and emphasize shifting cash toward American investments.
G Walter Reed of the Santa Fe Railroad cites an engineer who just returned from China noting that food from South China cannot reach starving northern regions due to 1,600 impassable miles, underscoring the importance of good roads.
W. H. Herrold recounts memories of the Post Boy site in Tuscarawas County and the 1820s murder case linked to a young route mail carrier. He notes the Post Office Department's role in routing mail and reflects on local history and moral concerns of the era.
A garbled crossword item lists car names and cryptic clues with echoes of color and season words. It includes stray phrases like Mount Etna and South Pole hints, plus scattered letter fragments and partial answers.
Timeline of notable events with dates includes 1693 French and Indian troops leaving Montreal to invade New York 1730 New York City received a new royal charter 1777 Vermont declared independence from New York and Massachusetts 1831 the first locomotive built in America appeared.
Washington dispatch notes Chile's shift from opprobrium to pride in Yankee aid. U.S. investments rose from 15 million in 1912 to over 600 million now, while Chilean imports show Britain and Germany share shrinking positions. Copper and nitrate industries, dominated by American interests, drive growth as diplomacy and wartime experience smooth frictions.
Smith Gandee of West Athens was named night officer by the city council. Mrs. J Halliday Cline visited her parents in Coolville. Three local ball players signed pro contracts with Sharon Pennsylvania, Lancaster. Ten years ago J D Brown left for Miami to join his daughter for the winter. Sheep men in Canaan township elected officers led by James McClanahan Merwin Mansfield and LL G McConkey.
President Ellis of Ohio University announced the campus barracks from the war period would be disposed of as quickly as the War Department in Washington could unwind the required red tape.
The American Association of Advertising Agencies found duplication in magazine circulation. Subscriptions rise with income: under $1000 average 3 magazines, $1000–2000 about 4.8, $2000–5000 about 5.6, $5000–10000 around 14.22, and $10000+ about 6.8 magazines per family.
The piece lists Q and A items on topics from Norway car totals to Boulder Dam timing and Canossa allusion. It states Norway had 91 passenger cars 91 buses 91 trucks in January 1928 and that Boulder Dam work won’t start for at least a year. It defines Canossa as the site of Henry IV’s penance and identifies the Cleanliness Institute as a public service group for cleanliness research and knowledge.
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