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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1921
Page
4
Henry Ford reportedly seeks a 60 to 75 million dollar loan at high interest to cover his personal income tax and the Ford Company's 1920 taxes totaling 43 million. The piece urges prepaying taxes from income, notes industry strain, and warns taxpayers to build a tax fund annually to avoid future loans.
The Hoover relief committee and the Near East relief committee accepted the American farmers plan to supply corn to starving millions in Europe and China. They will transfer grain as funds allow for transportation and milling will be costly but planned. The effort is hailed as a historic and essential relief movement to prevent waste and aid the hungry.
The Dallas News argues that immigrants should be required to bring their own housing to the city to address a housing shortage, preferring this approach over adopting European housing styles.
A local humor page lampoons the urge for quick happiness as residents race through daily life. The piece riffs on speed, choice, and the irony of chasing joy before savoring small moments.
A critique argues Christianity failed to spur wealth redistribution and socialism spreads as a new war cry. The author claims the world mobilizes against the rich, with only a few taking physical revolt while many embrace anarchist thinking.
The speaker defends occasional rebellion as a spark for change but urges workers to return to duties. He warns against forming protests or newspapers and argues steady labor yields better outcomes. He notes hidden rebellion across society but emphasizes compliance and hard work over confrontation.
An employer avoids granting a raise to avoid rising costs while a narrator recalls great men studying by log fire. Mr Growcher jokes that the log light prevents bills from being sent or unpaid. The exchange satirizes financial restraint and old fashioned study habits.
A tenderfoot limps into camp after entering. The scoutmaster asks the cause and the youth explains his feet hurt despite new shoes. The exchange highlights the rookie’s discomfort and readiness to continue with the trek.
Two friends discuss a college professor famed for solving problems. The landlord’s rent increase keeps him awake at night, forcing him to tackle the housing problem instead of any other puzzle.
A Scotsman allegedly set a world record fast while staying seven months and three days in prohibition America. A statistician notes the lime in a man’s body could wash a small room. It is illegal for a wife to break up her husband for decoration. Chorus men have been abolished though they looked the part.
Ad lists ten silver wine buckets a solid gold cocktail shaker two dozen cut glass wine glasses twelve highball glasses twenty cocktail glasses and a silver orange squeezer. Owner is moving to France. Also Broadway sign promotes water proof umbrellas.
Frederic J. Haskin surveys the new alliance between churches women’s clubs and movie industry aimed at cleaner films. The League for Better Pictures acts as an unofficial censorship clearinghouse, with audience voting and medals to reward compliant productions.
Movie makers defend market demands and sex lure while reformers push cleaner, well acted films. They warn altered titles and cautious art may stifle cinema as a vehicle of civilization, leaving the public to follow market forces with little independent voice.
In Logan on January 31 the Common Pleas Court reassigned the case Arthur Mohier vs. Peter Dupler for trial March 20. Alice Spooner vs. W J and Jennie W Donaldson for money is rescheduled to March 20. Overland Logan Company vs J E Fox foreclosure set for March 7. Catherine Nelson vs Jesse Kitchen coercion set for March 1.
Detectives Cleo Mockler and Frank Broad with Sheriff Yarimer raid William Tennahill’s home two miles north of town and seize a still and liquor. Tennahill pleads not guilty to unlawfully manufacturing and posts $500 bond for February 2. Officers also find a castaway still in Oldtown Creek and another in an old mine near Murray City, with distillers escaping.
Morris Albaugh prominent Murray City citizen and Meeker Run Coal Co manager died at Rodebaugh sanitarium Friday evening from sleeping sickness. He leaves a widow and two children. The body will be sent to Nelsonville for funeral services on Monday January 31.
Hon John F White, once Logan postmaster and long time Boys Industrial School board chairman in Lancaster, longtime Republican figure, and Warren G Harding ally, was taken to Cherrington hospital Thursday with meningitis and is pronounced hopelessly ill. He served as a delegate at the Chicago convention and campaigned for Hanna Foraker and McKinley.
Across Athens and Athens County the churches drew crowds from Catholics to Protestants with large Sunday schools even in the opera house. The shared fellowship united professors and laborers, boosting a strong faith spirit and challenging the town to return to Puritan ideals.
A reader information offer from The Athens Messenger outlines how to submit questions to the Informatian Bureau in Washington. It specifies no legal medical or financial advice and asks for full name address and two cents postage for return replies.
A quiz compiled shows 65 000 more officers and men were discharged in the first 12 weeks of the recent demobilization than the entire year and a half of Civil War demobilization. It notes radium quantities used on watch faces and other uses.
An electric motor resembling those in drills powers a new hand saw that delivers straight motion for efficient cutting. The compact design leverages familiar drill components to drive the saw mechanism.
A long-time Ohio physician recommends Edwards Olive Tablets as a safe substitute for calomel to improve liver and bowel action. The olive colored tablets are sold in 15 and 30 cent sizes and touted to cleanse the system, brighten complexions, and ease headaches and fatigue.
A light verse recounts a sailor tale of a young lady aboard a ship at anchor who wakes to a startled command from the mate to lift the top-sheet and spanker. The playful quip centers on nautical terms and onboard humor.
A local professor and his wife attend a country picnic near Athens. As the crowd grows the professor jokes about switching basket carrying to avoid getting separated. A Chicago inventor creates a tool that lifts nails from keys and aligns heads for easy pickup by carpenters.
A speech warns that closing the open shop harms union labor and leads to strikes and chaos. It argues collective bargaining is the best path, urges joining a movement for brotherhood among workers, and cautions against repeating past open shop trends seen in Russia and thirty years ago.
The government of China plans to establish about 10 000 post offices and telegraph offices to expand communications nationwide. This initiative aims to improve postal and telegraph services across cities and rural areas.
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