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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1926
Page
4
A dense listing of radio stations across time zones detailing concerts orchestras operas and entertainment features. Listings include station call signs WABC WGN KOA KFI KFAB and others with times from early evening to late night and mentions of specific programs ensembles and performers.
The piece laments declining gasoline quality while praising ongoing car innovations. It argues engineers should focus on better carburetion and cheaper substitutes to reduce reliance on deteriorating fuels, noting that good roads boost business and land values, offsetting road costs.
A Chicago survey shows 85 percent of housewives buy meat by sight and use the phone in few cases. The finding suggests housewives stay attentive to budgets and family meals, keeping traditional shopping habits.
A Chicago department store head buyer posts No handshaking on his door. He condemns glad-handing as a wearying, insincere ritual. He argues business should be direct, adversarial, with no social pretense.
An engineer notes the growth of merchant influence from 20 square miles to 2000, a 110 fold increase, driven by better roads and the automobile. He links improved transport to expanding business areas and rapid road development.
Arthur Brisbane notes Congress orders a new aviation inquiry while deriding the nation’s minimal aviation industry. He critiques proposals to aid farmers in selling surplus abroad and ridicules calls for government help, comparing them to leaving a two month old baby without a mother.
American inventors gain fairer treatment in foreign patent rights after The Hague conference. The revised convention ends strict manufacturing abroad as a condition, adds grace periods for tax payments, and standardizes patent and trademark protections among 32 signatory nations.
Washington scene reports that a Nye Senate seat wrangle exposed a long running clash among lawyers in Congress. Charles P. Stewart notes the dispute transcended party lines and centered on legal quibbles as Nye ultimately prevailed.
In New York in earlier times Tiny Tim sold candy in cafes and drew crowds with mystical claims about soul candy. As Village culture faded, he moved to Hollywood where the scene shifted and rumors say his flivver grew into a luxury car while he continues selling soul candy in cafes.
Tiny Tim reports an entertainer offering a novelty act with a cow pig sheep calf two geese and a horse to attract New York audiences. The gag hinges on audiences who have never seen such animals together in person.
The piece notes how Britain handles surplus rubber, selling to the United States at about one dollar per pound rather than a profitable thirty cents. It argues that a proactive government can implement such policy actions to aid farmers and markets.
Editorial argues the government avoids action, claiming it dabbles only in railroads and large financial interests while leaving farmers to fend for themselves. The piece critiques what it sees as a socialistic hesitation in policy making.
A travel through cities and cultures notes Venice canals iced by skating, Rome's heat wave, and Indian villagers turning to ancient rites to dispel a solar eclipse, arguing not to mock unfamiliar beliefs amid new sciences.
C. M. Schwab argues wars are driven by selfish trade motives and asserts there will never be another great war like the last, though he notes the statement “never” is strong and may not hold for future conflicts.
The passage portrays Alexander the Great marching with thirty thousand Macedonians, employing wedge formations, facing Persian forces and elephants. It notes his lack of selfish trade motives, guided by Aristotle to surpass his father Philip, and mentions limited trade as collecting specimens for Aristotle's natural history studies.
A Southern state observer warns against joining the world court noting that its early task could involve collecting civil war bond debts from Europe. The warning frames the court as a potential financial and political entanglement for the region.
The remark links repayment of wartime loans to Southern bonds bought in good faith. It implies that any Southern Congressman supporting the world court would back a court that seeks to collect those bonds, tying international actions to domestic debt.
The excerpt argues that certain questions cannot be settled by U S courts and should be submitted to foreign courts, asserting Mexico's right to its own judiciary in matters affecting Mexico. It contrasts this with Washington’s era, noting the lack of vast national backing then.
The speaker muses that societies fear becoming wall flowers as they blossom. He argues charity benefits the giver and notes poverty even in prosperity. He cites a national consumption figure of 300 million dollars for ice cream last year.
The nations magazine asks James Gleason to write a feature. Gleason says it will cost ten words for 9 cents using Western Union rates, a detail noted by Gilbert Swan.
Senator Norbeck drills wells while a referenced “young Bob” appears in the account and La Follette is described as difficult to classify, signaling mixed public impressions of these figures.
A series of Q and A items explains when a man’s own name qualifies as a trademark and how Lincoln Farm became a National Park. It covers card dealing directions, gasoline as oil, lithosphere and hydrosphere terms, turpentine content in crude gum, and conversion to refined turpentine.
A humorous verse by Hal Cochran about a cheerful sparrow visiting daily, feeding on crumbs, and the lesson of choosing joy. The piece is interwoven with fragmented quips on marriage complaints and cracker naming jokes, ending with a tale of a boy in rubber shoes.
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