Wisconsin unemployment bill sparks cautious debate and bandit talk
The piece surveys Wisconsin's new unemployment insurance proposal, noting its compromise yet radical features with employer-funded premiums and a cap on weekly benefits. It also reflects on bandit threats to small towns, urging readiness and defense, then shifts to New York City and Milwaukee shows of adult education and retraining as civilizational responses to unemployment.
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New York City
Civilization
Morris E. Siegel
Milwaukee
United States
England
New York by Gilbert Swan 14 Appears There Was Something to These Leg Ends
In New York on January 22 a column notes how doormen at luxury hotels fortune from serving the plutocrats, including Plaza’s Jim Lanagan with Wall Street gains and florist Charles Thorley. It highlights social climbers, a cigar girl turned confidante, and artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s animal skull paintings, plus photographer Steichen’s archive habits and Stieglitz’s influence.
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Questions and Answers from The Athens Messenger Feature
A reader inquiry column covers golf rule clarifications, theater guild beginnings in Washington, tax refund totals from the Internal Revenue Service, definitions of beasts of burden, and the longest telephone hookup. Details include rules about improving golf ball position, the Athens Messenger Information Bureau contact, and the 1918 theater premieres Bonds of Interest and John Ferguson.
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Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederick Haskin
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Internal Revenue Department
Truth n Poetry Wanes by a Pessimist
A reflective verse lamenting optimism as a bother to the speaker. He lists small comforts like food and a coat while resisting cheerful inevitabilities. The piece ends with a thought on national ruin and faith.
Captain Johnson Leads Two Teams Across Rival Nets
In Savannah Georgia, Glenn Johnson stood as captain for both Savannah High School and Florida Military Academy teams during 1900. He was elected captain of the Savannah eleven and later joined Florida Military Academy, where he also served as captain. The piece notes his remarkable cross affiliation and a travel distance of about 4,000 miles.
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Florinda Military Academy
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Basannah
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Florida Miltary Academy
Public Forum on Global Finance and Leadership
The Messenger argues nations face deep financial and moral strain with distrust in leaders. It urges renewed vision from statesmen, notes U S fiscal data from 1931, and calls for shifting idle wealth into productive trade to restore growth, while hoping for an end to political selfishness and a return to stable financial flows.
Our Own Business
A fragmentary verse depicts John and Linder asserting private control over a matter in session while a reporter tries to document the event. The speakers claim the issue is theirs alone, while citizens question taxation and public participation in funding and oversight.
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Everybody's Coin Book promoted by The Athens Messenger
The Athens Messenger advertises a new booklet named Everybody's Coin Book, praising its coin information and usefulness to collectors. It notes coin sizes from tiny gold grains to the Swedish daler and Yap stone money, and offers ordering via coupon with six cents per copy, as a companion to Everybody's Stamp Book.
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Athens Messenger
Yap
Athens Messenger Letter Questions Central Committee Actions
Editor response to Joseph Richards Public Forum letter questions. The writer accuses Richards of misstatements about meetings and camouflage calls mentioning Eberle, Daugherty, Arthur Smith, Hunefeld, and party endorsements. The author defends two-term and third-term figures, cites Betsy Lane Kentucky time, and stresses that Athens County Democrats will rely on primaries to fix criticisms. He emphasizes Central Committee members act independently and warns against party works and money before elections.
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From a classroom to the chair and cosmic rays
The piece reflects on education and language, urging students to read fine prose and memorize poetry, while urging teachers to cultivate writers and editors. It also reports the execution of Two Gun Crowley in Sing Sing, a critique of killing as a societal act. It notes Millikan suggesting churches address intellectual hunger, and mocks public lectures amid a crowded hall.
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Veterans Bureau pushes for wounded care hospitals plan
Director Forbes proposes employing World War II veterans in hospital construction for wounded veterans. Landed nobles face estate sales due to burdensome war taxes. Los Angeles film industry tests crying baby solution with soundproof crib and viewing window for mothers. A County Infirmary case locates home for John Peeyveau, a long-time shack resident. Twenty years ago Rev Wilder and wife moved to Athens from Logan. Harry Holbrook, Athens-born Columbus architect, shapes state buildings. Phillips district in Amenville endures mad dog scare. teacher Mise Hixon and Ase Linscott kill dog to curb virus risk. coal house contents burned. State school board backs uniform textbook plan for villages. St Pauls Catholic Church Club conducts an old-fashioned spelling bee. Rafael Johnsons welcome a daughter born January 24.
Mississippi flood control debate and progress at capstone
Congress funded 325 million for flood control, but no Mississippi River floods this year. Army engineers focus on tributaries, levee strengthening, and revetment across 1000 miles, with 6 12 000 workers and billions spent. protection still tests against future peaks and uncertainty by mid February.
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Nutrition bulletin for mothers aids with child diets
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