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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1928
Page
4
The report highlights Mt. E. Kentucky as a courteous town with welcoming hotel service friendly locals and helpful police and garage staff. Passersby greet visitors, creating a home atmosphere described as ideal advertising for the community.
A reflective note cites Acts 20 35 about giving as a blessing and reminds readers to consider the giver while they value gifts citing Seneca.
A reflective piece urges fathers to assign boys in early adolescence concrete daily duties during school breaks. It argues unauthorized idleness leads to harm, promotes work over play, and suggests sending youths to local farms or businesses to gain self reliance, initiative, and reliability while avoiding dole culture.
The article notes that the motor road fosters friendships similar to those aboard ships with tourist camps hotels and roadside stops creating mingling. Travelers meet new people learn varied viewpoints and often maintain these brief yet valued connections long after journeys end.
A visitor in Mt. Sterling Kentucky, a small town with notable wealth and hard work, receives courteous welcome from residents. The local chautauqua program draws interest as the stranger explores the community and its traditions.
The piece discusses American religious bias in politics and compares German Catholic and Protestant dynamics in elections. It notes the harmful effects of openly using faith for influence, recalls a Salvation Army camp anecdote, and condemns social inequality that leaves poor children without basics like air and sunlight.
The text notes a recent rise in racial awareness starting with individuals rather than government actions and contrasts it with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company building affordable housing instead of maximizing profit.
John D. Rockefeller Jr., famed for vast education and disease grants, creates affordable city housing and now suburbs to let families live economically with healthy children. It lauded that powerful men mobilize millions to aid the people where government lags.
The governor stakes a public stand to alter the Volstead Act despite a dry plank, a move seen as smart politics and sound judgment. It triggers outcry, yet critics warn quiet opposition would have undermined him anyway amid Democratic graft accusations and Republican corruption talk.
A political column argues Democrats must present concrete policy to balance the 7,000,000 plurality and rising GOP wages. It notes voter craftsman interests and cites a criticized 1928 oil reserve theft claim as insufficient counterpoint.
The Republican senator from Kansas declares Teapot Dome conspiracy a peak of public corruption, equating it to medieval crimes. He warns against soft handling and voices strong opposition as party figures react to the oil scandal. Al Smith clarifies he is not a prohibitionist amid shifting Democratic convention debates.
Reader questions cover back pain from a years old injury with possible vertebral displacement and sacro iliac misalignment. Osteopathy or chiropractic treatment plus hot compresses are advised, with professional electrical therapies recommended for faster relief. Lemon milk described as lemon juice stirred into sweet milk as a digestible milk substitute to be taken as a meal or hourly glassful.
A compact overview describes blood as the body's transport system carrying food, oxygen, and water to cells while removing wastes. It explains how the heart, arteries, veins, and lymphatics cooperate with valves and capillaries to sustain circulation aided by breathing and exercise.
By the Way in New York tours Oliver street near the Bowery. The piece describes Oliver street as a melting pot with the Jews burial ground Greek quarter Mariner's Temple and Public School No. 2, noting Al Smith played there as a barefoot boy and that listeners could hear convention broadcasts from home.
A Q and A style summary answers common curiosities. Copper occurs in minute amounts in milk. Arabic numerals originated with Hindus and entered Europe later. Children count as 3 to 4 percent of New York motion picture audiences in some areas. New books and editions published in 1927 totaled 8 999. A summer hotel housekeeper supervises chambermaids and linen care. Babe Ruth hit 24 homers at Yankee Stadium before the World Series in 1927. Light takes 100 000 years to reach Earth from Hercules cluster. Philippine Islands judges are largely Filipino with a mix in higher courts and executive offices.
Puzzle reads like a jumble of clues and garbled phrases. It lists horizontal and vertical entries with partial hints about names places and actions culminating in a sequence of corrupted lines and a yesterday reference.
A Messenger Special from Houston reports the Democratic gathering varied in mood with lighthearted jests about Republicans in starched collars. The piece notes heat and casual revelry, contrasting with Kansas City show tensions and focusing on party atmosphere.
Golfers will find today's letter golf puzzle from CLAM to SOUP a simple spoon shot. Par stands at four and one solution appears on the last page today.
The piece blends a letter word game with a vivid scene from a political convention. It recalls Andy Mellon and speaks of Hoover, Smith, and the Democratic factions in Kansas City, noting party tensions, factional hopes, and the impact of weather on Prohibition.
July dates mark Washington taking command in 1775 and Idaho statehood in 1890. The Declaration of Independence debate continued in 1776 and Thomas R. Marshall was chosen as Wilson’s running mate in 1912.
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