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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1922
Page
8
The piece notes Ford plans to transform Muscle Shoals into a world leading industrial hub. It mentions the Wilson dam across the Tennessee River as the largest globally and a plan for another dam upriver to allow ocean liner navigation to Birmingham. The photo was shot from 1,000 feet.
Sheriff Parker reports overcrowding in Ohio prisons with inmates from Athens county. Rene Haybron and Leslie Wells are new arrivals, numbered 2684 and 2685, after burglary losses totaling about 700 dollars. In Washington a miners strike on April 1 is deemed inevitable by coal producers and rail executives, promising lower fuel prices as deflation pressures hit freight and coal costs.
Delegates at the Ohio United Mine Workers convention say cooperative and leased mines must pay union wage scales and follow union rules. The amendment requires miners to be union members, honors district wage scales, and prioritizes prior workers when mines reopen. Fines or suspensions punish rule violations. The group also urged the state utilities commission to lower intra state coal freight rates to help resumption of operations.
Washington reports both Chile and Peru have accepted the United States invitation to send delegates to Washington to arbitrate their boundary dispute.
A grim city statistic shows Chicago records more homicides in a year than the entire British Isles, underscoring urban violence levels. The report highlights ongoing policing challenges and public safety concerns across neighborhoods.
The department of labor reports a near negligible one per cent drop in the retail cost of food in December compared with November 1921. Of forty four monitored items, thirty showed decreases from five per cent on pork chops to four tenths of one per cent on rib roast between November 15 and December 15.
Charles E. Duryea began work on the first American built gasoline car in August 1891 and finished it in September 1892. The second Duryea car is housed in the National Museum in Washington.
Kansas City Missouri January 20 Mayor James Cowgill age 73 died in his office at city hall shortly after 11 during a conference with welfare workers and police. The sudden death occurred while he sat at his desk and collapsed after a brief illness.
Bishop Joseph Vebrambs ordered prayers for the pope's recovery in all churches of the Cleveland diocese on January 29. The appeal urged faithful to join in supplication for the pontiff's health and guidance for the church during this period.
Charleston West Virginia faces a landmark set of trials as about 200 United Mine Workers officials and followers charged with treason and related offenses are moved to Jefferson county. Indictments stem from the 1921 Marmet and Logan miner uprisings with federal troops ending the march.
Frenzied trading in New York on January 20 produced dramatic price swings with rapid advances and declines unseen since wartime peaks. Traders struggled to get orders filled as volatility surged and market chatter intensified.
Cardinal Bourne announced from Westminster cathedral that Rome informed him Pope Benedict XV is in dangerous condition and sinking rapidly. Special prayers were arranged in all Roman Catholic churches across England.
Harrisburg reports the sudden death of State Highway Commissioner Lew S. Sadler at his Carlisle home this morning. He had not been ill and the cause of death was unexpected, leaving no prior warning.
In Washington on January 20 Senator Underwood of Alabama voiced hope for an early satisfactory resolution of the Shantung controversy between China and Japan during the arms conference delegation session.
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