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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1923
Page
4
A colorful op ed critiques a nation of people swapping responsibility for excuses. It lampoons a culture of excuses from schools to families, urging real backbone through consistent discipline, enforcement, and shared duties to strengthen the country.
In Licking county near Newark William Gilmore, a farmer, was honored by 500 friends and neighbors after he raised 134 bushels of corn per acre on a ten acre field. The event highlighted pride in everyday achievements and social reform ideas.
A collage of dated musings discusses fashion cycles, garden plans, and social mores. It notes a surge in demand for youthfully toned complexions, hints at upcoming murders as conversation fodder, and jests about wealth, bachelorhood, and a Russia treasury theft claim.
A nostalgic prose fragment contrasts past simple joys with present bustle. It weaves memories of marbles dogs bones and fishing poles with scenes of church prayer meetings court house rumors and Messenger advertisements about recovering lost items.
Washington dispatch reports the air mail program faces a funding clash as the Best Office Department asks Congress for 1 million dollars for night flying while the Budget Bureau blocks the request. Officials warn retrenchment could end commercial flight development despite past gains in mail delivery.
Doubts about when the Cros season ends or bag limits raise calls to consult game laws for accurate rules. The note stresses checking official regulations to avoid penalties and ensure proper season compliance.
A reader asks about monthly advertising costs and whether want ads work. The note suggests checking what want ads can do and mentions a humorous reference to The Merry Widow Waltz as a cultural cue for the era.
The Athens Messenger announces an Information Bureau run by Frederic J. Haskin in Washington D C. Readers may send questions for factual information with full name address and two cents for return postage. The bureau will not give legal medical or financial advice or settle domestic troubles.
The article surveys iceberg dimensions from 200 to 300 feet above sea level, cites the 15 mile long Greely iceberg and the Titanic’s 100 feet height. It discusses Great Britain’s continental status and defines usufruct as the right to use another’s property for profit or advantage.
A collection of quiz questions and answers covering Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter symbolism, descriptions of Coon Butte in Arizona theories, pearls in ordinary oysters, edible pea pods, millicurie to gram conversion, and the naming origin of New York City referencing Manhattan and early Fort Amsterdam.
The text notes Fort Manhattan was placed in 1624 and the settlement named New Amsterdam. This marks early Dutch colonial establishment in the region.
The Plains reports multiple flu cases and visits. Jessie Waymer, Fletcher Hawk family, and Ernest Moore are ill. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moore and Mrs. Ed Michaels' mother are among the affected. Harry Moore traveled to Athens to see his ailing brother. Mrs. Russell McHarg travels to Lancaster with her ill mother. Floyd Barker and family from Athens visited. J M Thorn bought a Ford car.
A Los Angeles based woman witness testified for the defendant in the Cromwell divorce trial in White Plains Supreme Court. John Howard Cromwell, a millionaire lawyer and Oliver Cromwell’s direct descendant, faces the proceedings as the case continued today.
A compact meditation uses Carlyle and Pilate to ponder time and truth. The excerpt likens time to an endless, silent tide on which the universe and we exist as fleeting exhalations. It emphasizes the mystery of time without offering solutions.
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