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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1924
Page
6
A compilation of moral reflections and quips. Quotes include scripture, Judge Martin on duels and modern courtship, and a note that many good-looking women remain in communities who have never shot anybody.
W L George argues most American talk of female drinking is exaggerated and the idea of widespread male drinking is inflated. The piece contrasts foreign visitors with American observers and notes a shift in sportlike attitudes toward prohibition. It then discusses the international committee on exports and how to revive German industry to aid France and Europe.
In 1878 Mary Beatrice Kennedy became New York City’s first telephone exchange operator. She recalls a hard start with Central staffed by boys, swearing at operators, long hours, and a six flight climb to the switchboard as she helped move telecoms toward modern service.
A editorial argues American labor should prioritize increased production to raise purchasing power rather than pursue higher wages. It claims that greater output makes wages more valuable, advancing workers’ overall well being.
The piece reports that winter construction in major cities like New York is now profitable thanks to cold weather methods. It highlights the salamander heater, steel skeleton framing, tarpaulins, and reduced wages as factors. A New York project saved $87,710 on a $756,000 build by winter completion with weather protection costing $3,863.
A report details a method for winter concrete work using heated stone and antifreeze cement to construct large structures. A 33 story Broadway office tower progresses with a 15 story winter addition, shaving months off schedule and saving rental income. Labor leaders endorse winter building as a solution to seasonal unemployment.
A humorous column mocks transportation as rotten like an egg, proposing a $106,600 prize for best answer to Why is our transportation service like an egg? The piece compares chicken feed to funding, references a $100 prize, and notes local ads and jokes about Campbell soups and poultry columns.
Inquiries cover a rumored gasoline well in northern Oklahoma yielding high test fuel and a discussion of the Qua Vadis site near Rome. The answer notes the well may exist in theory, while the other item explains the Saint Peter vision in the Rome legend as tradition.
The fragment cites Saint Peter's resurrection in Rome and then shifts to a naval bureau answer sheet. It lists the cost of a first line battleship at about 35 million dollars and annual maintenance near 1.5 million to 1.8 million. It also gives weights for cast steel and cast aluminum and notes Congress does not pay extra for committee work.
Hamden report notes Beaver High School will play in the school auditorium Friday night January 18. Also mentioned is Flo Smiley’s Presbyterian Sunday school party at Mr and Mrs C L Sunnafrank’s home Wednesday evening and the visit of Mr and Mrs Frank Donaldson and their baby from California to Paris Kentucky for an extended family visit with relatives.
John Poore of Jackson, a former Hamden resident and longtime freight conductor on the Portsmouth Branch, is promoted to regular passenger conductor and will likely run permanently between Parkersburg and Portsmouth. H F H Donnells shifts to the Cincinnati Parkersburg mail and express runs as a section on No 2 and No 3. A B & O Portsmouth Parkersburg No 54 evening train arrived over an hour late after a pony truck and engine derailment near Banner between Jackson and Oak Hill Tuesday night. BR and O officials J B Carothers and R Mallen visited here Wednesday. engineer Chester Ward returned to Chillicothe after a brief sojourn.
Franklin Smith of Oakley visits with his uncle Alex Scott and aunts Mrs. Montt Robbins and Miss Celia Scott on Main Street as Mr. and Mrs. Lafe Ward host.
Anna Christina Noggle aged 86 died at her daughter Mrs Millie Zervis home after a yearlong illness. She came from Germany and was wife of the late Steve Noggle. Surviving daughters include Mrs James Scott Oak Hill Mrs Emma Stevens Glen Roy and Mrs Millie Zervis Hamden. Funeral at Mrs Zervis home Friday morning with Rev Belcher officiating. Burial at Puritan.
On Friday night January 15 the Pure Oil Basket Bell Club from Newark will play the Mc Arthur Old Guards here. Mrs Charity Ayers of Petroleum West Virginia visits her son Martin Ayers and family. Mrs Emmet Eberts of Oreton visits her parents Mr and Mrs J O Peoples. Tom Duffy of Maerton was a business carrier here. Sam Wrightsel of Logan visits his sister Mrs Walter Swaim and relatives. Mrs Alice Shively visits with her daughter at Athens with Mr and Mrs C M Gill and family.
Mrs. Riley Cozad of Wellston is very ill at the home of her daughter Mrs. Charles Kruger on the O. G. C. Reed farm west of town.
Among the business visitors here on Wednesday were Otto Cooper of Radcliff and Tom Phillips of Mt. Pleasant.
Word comes of the death of Amanda Shriner Ridgeway 67 in Los Angeles California after moving there from Columbus months ago. The body was brought to Columbus for burial she spent her girlhood days in McArthur.
A garbled note describes placing items in a steamer on the AlaAva, steaming for an hour, then dipping in egg and crumbs before frying. The exact subject and context remain unclear due to the text quality.
The excerpt covers trivia and facts: Navajo blanket weaving and sales on the San Juan Reservation amounting to $150,000 last year. It notes chocolate melting starts around 96 degrees, and outlines Edmond Hoyle’s life and work with whist. It ends with a Weather Bureau remark on rain following battles and troop movements.
Moses Breeze addressed a Nelsonville gathering, keeping the audience engaged as he spoke. The crowd stayed attentive throughout the talk.
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