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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1929
Page
4
Garbage disposal proposal faces Athens financial strain
Athens grapples with a growing population and added university loads while funds tighten. A state health expert backs burning waste. others urge a city managed system funded by a blanket property tax assessment to cover collection, special equipment, and extra staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Ohio
State Board of Health
Athens County
Vssion
Reading Taste Shifts Toward Substantial Books
The piece discusses a rising trend toward heavier, informative reading as civilization ages. It notes readers seek lasting material, magazines and newspapers include more solid content, and a new class of thoughtful readers is forming through biographies, history, and war stories.
New York City notes on reporters voters and fashion
A New York City column recalls two reporters who spent a $100 bill across Manhattan seeking change, anecdotes about Governor Al Smith and Hoover, and observations on theatergoing, New Yorker style, and Chicago fashion influence shaping Gotham trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Manhattan
Letter by General Von Hindenburg on Kaiser to be sold at auction
The missive claims the Kaiser fled to Holland to avoid civil war after the armistice and insists the Kaiser and his soldiers were not cowards. It portrays him as reluctant to die a heroic death and notes missed opportunities in battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
von Hindenburg
German Republic
Hindenburg
Holland
Kaiser
Chicago Packers claim eighty million hot dogs eaten last year
An article notes a giant tally of hot dogs consumed in the year and extols the product as a wholesome meal when eaten properly while warning against rapid noshing that can cause digestive issues. It also highlights medical advances from surgery to aid a disabled child and miraculous cures for deaf children, reflecting a mix of public health and science optimism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Packers
Chicago
Health and Diet Advice by Dr Frank McCoy
Health and diet guidance from Dr Frank McCoy author of The Newest Way to Health. Advice covers environment training, regular habits, and parental conduct shaping child health and mindset. Includes reader questions on cramps, orange peels, and breathing dizziness with practical remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank McCoy
McCoy
War lessons and political figures amid global talk
The piece reflects on war lessons and leadership figures including COUNT PFORZA and his anti fascist stance as he lectures for the Carnegie Peace Endowment. It notes magistrate EWALD jailing speeders to impress road safety, and mentions Rockefeller Jr wandering Egypt while organizing efforts back home. It also references Johnson in India and Kipling themes about the East and prohibition in Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count Pforza
Carnegie Peace Endowment
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Colonel Stewart
Indiana
Egypt
Question: E. E. seeks explanation of cause and effect
The fragment shows a reader named E. E. asking for clarification on the cause behind a stated situation. The text is incomplete, offering little context about the subject, involved parties, or outcomes.
Installment financing fuels aviation and auto growth
The passage argues that men should freely drink what they want and notes a $5,000,000 corporation formed to finance airplane purchases on installments, like cars. It claims installment selling, once opposed, is essential to auto development and will promote aviation, praising the modern pay‑as‑you‑go plan.
Nebraska tax on bank balances and Harsh death sentence debate
An article fragment discusses Nebraska tax plans on bank balances and a death sentence for a murderer. It references George R. Harsh from Atlanta and a clerks’ robbery tied to a push for life imprisonment versus execution for dangerous criminals. The piece notes medical experts say the impetuous act was uncontrollable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
George R. Harsh
Atlanta
Taxes Should Be Raised With Least Business Disruption
A cautious view argues tax increases should minimize impact on commerce. The emphasis is on preserving the pace of ordinary business life while addressing fiscal needs.
Q and A on travel, dolls, Pan-American congresses and Rhode Island governors
The Aero News says air travel between Berlin and major cities is cheaper than first class rail. Dolls: female to male ratio is twelve to one. Pan American Congresses held in Washington 1889 Mexico 1901 02 Rio 1906 Buenos Aires 1910 Chile 1923 Havana 1928. Rhode Island had two governors named Cranston John born in England served 1678 80 and son Samuel served twenty nine terms. Weather bureaus include several station classes with the main focus on meteorological stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
C. A
Aero News
Berlin
Washington
Mexico
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Chile
Havana
U. P
Rhode Island
Cranston
John Cranston
England
Samuel Cranston
Puzzle fragments hint at wide ranging trivia and wordplay
The scattered crossword items mention golf score perfect, structural unit of animals, fearsome folk giant, power of ideas, and Egypt's river. Several clues reference cloth measure, cereals, spinal cord, crown of head, and electors list.
Buenos Aires as Argentina's hub seen through a traveler eye
Rodney Dutcher surveys Buenos Aires noting its central role in government banking and social life. He describes gambling culture with state and illicit lotteries, fashion driven Middle Class dress, pajama coats as a national oddity, English owned department stores, Packard taxis, and a rapid turnover of cars with no second-hand market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rodney Dutcher
Washington
Buenos Aires
New York
United States
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
St. Louis
Detroit
San Francisco
Argentina
Hoover
Irigoyen
Mar del Plata
Montevideo
Uruguay
Ta Prensa
Nacion
Packard
Weather network and observer groups across the United States
The document describes daily forecasts and a near thousand observing stations including weather crop frost river and cooperative observers scattered across the country. It notes no pay for cooperative observers and mentions other specialized stations. It also records theater trivia about Lincoln roles in England and New York productions with actors William J. Rea Frank McGlynn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental
United States
Alaska
West Indies
Lincoln
England
Drinkwater
Abraham Lincoln
William J. Rea
New York
Frank McGlynn
Proposals and Conflicts Span Early American History
A chronology notes events from 1859 to 1898 including a Cuban purchase proposition in Congress, Boston mayoral suppression of an Anti Slavery Society meeting in 1861, Georgia troops seizing a U S arsenal in 1861, and the battleship Maine ordered to Havana in 1898.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Anti-Slavery Society
Georgia
U. S. Arsenal
Maine
Havana
News Your Dad Read Twenty Years Ago in Columbus
A retrospective column recalls a Columbus visit by Mr. and Mrs. George S. Putnam and a reception for Mrs. John H. Preston. It notes a County Law and Order League meeting at the Commercial Club, with FE. D. Sayre and Prof. C. M. Copeland elected chair and secretary. Also mentions Mrs. Margaret Poston’s return from Nelsonville and Reward McLoney becoming a watchmaker in Athens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George S. Putnam
Columbus
Abigail Lamb Cone
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T. E. Wells
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Athens County Board of Education
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