The Athens Messenger and Herald Printing Co notice
The Athens Messenger yearns to inform readers of its publishing scope and leadership history. The paper, issued weekdays and a large Sunday edition, lists Gordon K. Bush as publisher and general manager with Charles H. Harris as managing editor. It notes affiliations and advertising options and mentions obituary notices and subscription rates.
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Athens Messenger
Frederick W. Bush
Athens Messenger & Herald Printing CO
Gordon K. Bush
Charles H. Harris
Thought for Today quotation on worship and judgment
A short devotional line quotes Revelation 14 7 urging fear of God and worship of the creator of heaven earth and water followed by Emerson asking what greater calamity than loss of worship can befall a nation
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Boonce
Emerson
Unified law breaking in early American history
The Hoov ler Law Enforcement Commission notes periods of broad public law violations in America. It cites colonial disobedience to English Trade Acts and pre Civil War defiance of the Federal Fugitive Slave Law, including the Underground Railroad in Ohio and Whig ideas supporting resistance to tyrannical government.
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Hoovler Law Enforcement Commission
Ohio
Athens County
Meigs County
England
Athens County High School Youths Express Ambition
The article notes many Athens County high school youths harbor strong career ambitions despite fears of discouragement. It emphasizes the importance of unfettered aspirations for a free and successful future among the younger generations.
Aviation Leads among Athens County Youths in Profession Dreams
In a questionnaire of nearly 200 high school students one tenth chose aviation as their top future. many others aimed for teaching music and nursing while some dreamed of coaching, farming, or traveling. The era shows a shift from railroads to air pursuits as the youth’s dominant interest.
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Athens County
Forest Rangers
Maryland Shows Road Plan Aims at Durable Pavements
The article argues for using all highway funds for lasting pavement and highlights Maryland as a model. It says Maryland built 225 miles of new roads this season, with a total of 14 810 miles of roads, including 3 062 miles in the state system. It notes 140 miles of shoulders, seven grade crossing eliminations, and plans for early structure work to avoid rights of way delays.
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Maryland
South Carolina Supreme Court OKs Jury Drinking Evidence
The court denied an appeal from an Aiken County bootlegger, ruling a jury may drink seized beer during deliberations to determine intoxicating effect. The decision notes jurors drank 49 bottles and defends thoroughness against potential improprieties.
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South Carolina
Supreme Court
Aiken County
Broadway financier keeps paying for failed shows
In a vivid Broadway quirk a producer continues to incur costs after a flop. He may endure paying freight to Cain's warehouse and ongoing storage until a salvage, new sale, or reuse another production occurs.
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Gilbert Swan Messenger
New York
Broadway
Cain
Hidden cost of European stage gear in post show scrappage
The article notes customs rules force scenery costumes and sets into a run of the play then often toward destruction after performances end. Crew abandon battered props to vacant lots as officers dismantle the set, leaving the producer to cover the costly cremation and disposal of valuable materials.
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Europe
Paris
London
Theatres in Manhattan Thrive Amid Cinema Boom
Despite claims of cinema decline, Manhattan’s small drama venues persist while tiny cinemas continue to expand. The piece contrasts the enduring stage scene with growing indie cinema spaces.
Local playhouses hold firm against new sound devices
In the city at least six small theatres continue to eschew sound systems. They still show popular old films and attract fans, resisting the spread of noisy new talkie equipment.
The Little Carnegie's Silent Era Stalwarts
The essay recalls rebel theaters that hosted early European films. It notes the Little Carnegie as the venue where The Passion of Joan of Arc premiered, highlighting its rarity and beauty amid Broadway palaces' rejection of many fine pictures.
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America
Broadway
Carnegie
Joan of Arc
Prohibition Anticipates Hiring Extra Watchmen
The note urges readiness for prohibition by recommending immediate hiring of additional watchmen for business and home use. It warns the measure may be enacted, signaling vigilance as a precaution.
West Point dismisses sole Black student for math deficiency
The only Negro cadet at West Point is dismissed honorably for mathematics deficiency. Sixty three white cadets failed examinations with him and were also dismissed.
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West Point
The Carnegie and Greenwich Village Theaters Shape Hidden Film World
The Carnegie, upper Fifties, offers ping pong sets and a dance floor for arrivals and weary watchers while The Fifty Fifth Street, the Cine ma Guild Theater in Greenwich Village, the Little Fifth Avenue and the Cameo seek the most interesting cameraman's art. They show not routine road films but occasionally artistic or original works. These venues helped audiences see films like Potempkin and Six Days That Shook the World, plus many Russian, German, French, Swedish and British titles.
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Carnegie
Fifty-Fifth Street
Cinema Guild Theater
Greenwich Village
Little Fifth Avenue
Cameo
Cadet Dismissal At Six Months Marks Fourteenth Entry
A cadet at the academy, Lonzon Souleigh Parkham, a Negro, is the fourteenth to enter and the eleventh to be dismissed after six months, with Prejudices said to have played no part in the action.
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Preiudich
Lonzon Souleigh Parkham
No Reflection on Short Generations and Mental Effort
The piece argues that high capacity for intensive mental effort like West Point demands comes from many generations of specialization. It likens fast running horses and clear thinking to inherited traits and notes Jewish youths often lead in public schools due to ancestors who studied while others pursued earlier tasks.
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West Point
British Isles
Mitchell outlines National City Bank 1929 report findings
President Charles E. Mitchell's address presents the 1929 National City Bank report with planning figures totaling twenty six million five and a half million dollars higher than 1928.
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Charles E. Mitchell
National City Bank
Puzzling Questions Horizontal 42 Color
Puzzling Questions grid lists clues in horizontal and vertical sections with items on color and related words. Answers include ocean Monsoon wind capitals and various synonyms, plus terms for animals tools and weather across a mixed puzzle layout.
Q&A on empire sun saying and misc curiosities
A reader asks who first used the phrase sun never sets upon the British Empire and the answer traces early uses to Herodotus and John Wilson. The column covers Benjamin Disraeli’s faith, singing without accompaniment, Atlantic cable ships, Indian arrow poisons, Canberra land rules, porcelain expansion, Mer chandise Mart completion, poker rules, and artist Edwin Austin Abbey’s nationality.
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OS. M
Herodotus
John Wilson
Christopher North
Piddwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey
Kingland
London
Light Luncheon Plan Beats Afternoon Fatigue
Dr. Frank McCoy argues three o clock tiredness stems from poor midday meals. He prescribes light lunches such as orange juice salad or non starchy vegetables, plus caution on overeating and rapid eating.
Bank posts record gains as reserves and profits rise
The bank reports three million dollars in contingency reserves nine million four hundred six thousand five hundred twenty seven added to undivided profits and thirteen million five hundred ten thousand paid to stockholders. Shareholders tripled in the year as resources deposits and invested capital hit new highs. Mr. Mitchell voices optimism about the future fle may be.
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Mitchell
Fle
Labor Campaign to Unionize Southern Textile Workers Initiated
The American Federation of Labor launches its largest organizing drive to unionize Southern textile workers, with about 100 organizers planned and a Dixie-focused headquarters network. Leaders stress education over strikes while facing opposition from mill owners and rival unions amid a tough six month period.
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Rodney Dutcher
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Mason-Dixon Line
A. F. of L
Liikel
Charlotte
National Textile Workers
A. F. Jofth
Marion
North Carolina
South
Birmingham
Tennessee
North
South Carolina
Senate committee hears big buyers fix cotton prices
A Senate committee investigating cotton exchanges is told that a small group of major buyers including Sears Roebuck Montgomery Ward Woolworth and Henry Ford use every expedient to drive down cotton fabric prices. The four firms cited buy one fifth of all cotton goods manufactured.
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Senate
Sears, Roebuck
Montgomery Ward
Woolworth
Henny Ford
Buyers and growers argue over cotton prices and controls
The text presents a debate on how to raise cotton prices with buyers pressed to purchase and governments urged to act decisively. It notes growers hold leverage but struggle to employ it effectively amid market pressure from large buyers.
Record Flight Sets Speed Mark for Air Mail Pilot
Air mail pilot Ralph Virden flew from Prom Porpland to San Francisco at 201 miles per hour. He climbed to 12,000 feet to ride a fast tail wind and break records in the journey.
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Prom Porpland
San Francisco
Air Mail
Ralph Virden
Post Office Aids Aviation Hearts of Early Flight
The Post Office Department is praised for advancing American aviation more than any agency. President Hoover and Postmaster Brown are singled out along with skilled mail pilots for public thanks.
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Postopltick
Hoover
Brown
Bootleg Prize Fight at St Bonaventure College
At St Bonaventure College in Olean New York young Swede Gus Tafson fought Augie Carlson in a bout described as a bootleg fight not authorized by the Amateur Athletic Union or the New York State Prize Fighting Commission.
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ST. Bonaventure College
Olean
N. Y
Gustafson
Augie Carlson
The
Amateur Athletic Union
New York State Prize Fighting Commission
None of the approvals saved him from the assault
The fragment notes that neither union nor commission approval could justify the assault and battery arranged for amusement, indicating a disputed incident lacking legitimate backing.
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Union
Commission
Unfounded claim on campaign fund at A F L convention
The report that $1,000,900 would be raised for the campaign was untrue. The A F L convention had no action on a million dollar campaign though one suggestion was made. L. will finance headquarters and overhead items as well as its organizers.
Daily Study in Correct English Word List Sample
Explains common errors in English usage and pronunciation. Highlights misuses with pronouns and the word swept. Provides synonyms for celebrate observe and emphasizes daily vocabulary growth through mastering one word.
Florence Hawkins Debuts At Osio University Music Hall
Miss Florence Hawkins a new vice so prano at Osio University Music Department gave her first concert last night in Ewing Auditorium. Also noted, Mr and Mrs Frank Roach returned from Pittsburgh where they visited their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs LB Frank Stout. Twenty years ago Denison University beat Ohio 39 to 18 in Granville. PD A Thomas leads evangelistic singing at Central Avenue M I Church in Glouster this week.
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Florence Hawkins
Osio University
Ewing
Frank Roach
Pittsburgh
Frank Stout
Denison University
Ohio
Granville
PD. A. Thomas
Central Avenue
Hedges Named Magistrate in Athens Township
Silas I. Hedges succeeds Justice W. B. Johnson as magistrate in Athens Township. Squire Sledges searches for an office in snowy weather.
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Silas I. Hedges
W. B. Johnson
Athens Township
Squire Sledges
Annual inspection and installation of Knights of Pythias
The Uniform Rank knights of Pythias held an annual inspection and installation in Castle Hall on Thursday evening. Friends and families of members enjoyed the program and entertainment.
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Knights of Pythias
Castle Hall
B&O Plans Solid Mail and Express Train by February
It appears highly likely the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will launch a dedicated solid mail and express train around February 1, signaling an expansion of expedited services and improved transit options for mail and passengers in the upcoming winter schedule.
Pixleys Visit Hull Foster Family in Columbus
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pixley and daughter Ruth of Columbus were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Hull Foster Jr. Mrs Pixley will remain for a few days while Mr. Pixley and Ruth returned home in the evening.
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Frank Pixley
Ruth
Columbus
Hull Foster, Jr
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