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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1920
Page
4
Rates listed for weekly weekly carrier service and mail subscriptions. In Ohio prices include 15c per week 7.00 yearly 0.76 six months and 4.50 yearly 2.60 six months 1 ten weeks 0c four weeks 15c one week. Outside Ohio 5.60 yearly 3.00 six months under three months 60¢ per month. All subscriptions by mail require advance payment and have expiration terms.
The piece argues that despite credit limits and reduced demand, there is little panic. Confidence remains as bankers' restraint is seen as deflationary discipline, unemployment as relief for others, and transport shortages as temporary. Production will lag but recover, signaling ongoing busy industry and prosperous trade.
Automobile makers urge dealers and the public to drop the term pleasure car as misleading and discriminatory. They advocate passenger car or utility car since most cars are used for daily transport and work, with recreation a minor subset. They cite farmers physicians and salesmen relying on cars for essential travel.
Encouraging reports from industrial centers show increased production in recent weeks and a surplus of labor in building trades due to a curtailment in construction. Analysts foresee a peak in the price rise and a decline ahead as supply outpaces demand. Unloading speculative stock may ease banking pressure on loans and accommodations.
Edith Moriarty writes of Mary a plain faced but intelligent woman who is judged by appearance. After she cuts her hair she gains attention, proving a vivid personality can resist social labels. The piece reflects on how others’ opinions hide true character and joy.
Mary discusses how public opinion resists changes like bobbed hair, noting the difficulty in changing norms. She argues the reward lies in being true to oneself and gaining understanding beyond false standards.
The article advises carrying camphor gum to light fires on camping trips as it burns long and works even in wet weather. It also suggests whitening khaki clothing with starch and used coffee, and making bed covers from sugar or salt sacks by cutting, sewing, and coloring squares for filling.
A list of cold dishes and items for a picnic basket including crab meat, lobster, chicken, squab, salads, jellied dishes, tarts, pasties, stuffed celery, and fruit desserts. Items are described for packing in jars, cups, or wrapped in paper and served on cracked ice with condiments.
A humorous exchange reveals a publisher and author arguing over a proofreading error in a detective story. The punch line hinges on a judge’s question to a detective and the thief’s identity ending with the line I am. The joke lampoons the confusion caused by a misread ending and the audience’s curiosity.
A collection of quips and poems mocking self important behavior and gossip. Includes lines about reducing costs through effort and fashion misfortune, social satire on opinions and sightings, plus a brief birth note from Oil City area.
With Jack Kearns and Francois Descamps in town, a Dempsey Carpentier match remains unlikely as talks stall. Kearns criticizes Carpentier for delays and insists on a signed conference or London move, while offers from Toledo Philadelphia Benton Harbor and others surface for the bout.
London promoter Charles B. Cochrane states he will not release Georges Carpentier or Descamps from their contract and demands Carpentier fight next in Europe. He notes he is in talks with Jack Kearns and would offer Dempsey but will enforce the European bout location.
The Colorado supreme court heard an appeal by W D Stokes New York multi millionaire asking reversal of Juvenile Judge Ben Lindsey s decision granting final custody of James and Muriel Stokes to Mrs Helen Elwood Stokes. His divorce suit is pending in New York. Also noted is a collapsible milk bottle heater using solidified alcohol as fuel for travelers.
Washington July 9 The name of U S Commissioner Hitt figures in the Snow murder conspiracy inquiry. Witness Stewart Brown said Hitt was told of a plot to kill Mrs. Addis Snow and offered to disclose it to attorney Henry B. Davis for 3000 dollars. Snow denied conspiring with Mrs. Acker. Edna Acker allegedly paid for information on Snow and rehearsed the plot before Brown and H M Langdon. Davis testified an attorney offered to relay the conspiracy story but he refused to name him.
Washington reports the 1920 wheat crop at 809 million bushels based on July 1 conditions. Spring wheat 291 million, winter wheat 518 million. All wheat condition at 82.5 percent. spring 8.8. winter 79.9. Acreage 63.652 million, with spring 19.487 and winter 34.165 million acres.
A white-clad boy cried that his father was killing his mother and fled from a second story window. Police searched the home after midnight on Spring avenue Northeast. no crime occurred as the boy’s tale proved to be a dream.
The Northern Ohio Traction Company proposed a six cent cash fare in Akron during a council meeting with City Manager W. J. Laub. Officials suggested a five cent fare for 90 days followed by six cents thereafter, though the company did not accept the proposal.
Officials met this afternoon to discuss a fare scale while Akron endures a fourth day without street car service.
Dayton reports Governor Cox credits two men with shaping his political rise. John Q. Baker, a Middletown Ohio schoolteacher, influenced Cox to switch parties. A railroad president steered him from journalism to politics, pushing him toward a congressional secretary role and a presidential bid.
The article notes Cox declines to run as nominee, aligns with a railroad dispute that costs a governor assignment, then accepts leadership of Representative J. Sorg's ship and heads to Washington. Cox states he might not have left reporting if not for the railroad president.
Otto Shirley of Nelsonville Hazel Harmon of Alexandria Licking county and Edith Hodgson of Hollister underwent tonsil removal and adenoids procedure at Copeland- Howe hospital this morning Also noted are English inventions of brass or cast iron briquetting machines capable of four tons per hour
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