Postoffice Progress and Decentralization Plans
Postmaster General announces major postal service reforms including state level handling of inquiries and supplies, a shift from old bookkeeping to a flexible system, reorganization of 100 large post offices, weekly executive council meetings, and enhanced newspaper mail service. Expansion of the 2 cent rate to South American countries is anticipated. Public input welcomed.
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Washington
Executive Council
Post Office Department
France and United States expand student exchange program
An arrangement awards 40 annual American scholars and 50 French scholars to study in each other’s universities. The program starts next fall and aims to broaden perspectives, with emphasis on including women to foster international understanding.
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United States
Frances
France
America
England
Oxford
Dinner Tales and a Child’s Invoice Frontier Cabin Humour
Two old settlers in a backwoods cabin trade humor on cookbooks and recipes as Dora, a six year old, returns from school and, when no one answers, reassures the home with a shrill doorbell call telling neighbours she is not the instalment man.
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Dora
Suburban Spouses Quiz The Night Away
A light back and forth exchange shows a wife and husband confirming routine chores upstairs and downstairs. The dialogue cycles through tasks, from bird cage to alarm, ending with the wife urging bed as the husband asks what he has done.
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John
Need of Trained Diplomats
Secretary of State Hughes urged graduates on the value of skilled diplomats and argued for a more scientific, professional State Department. The piece contrasts Britain, France, and others in training diplomats from youth and notes Harding's push to retain capable diplomats across administrations.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Hughes
Army
Navy
Paris
United States
Robert Lansing
England
Diplomatic Corps
Foreign Office
Department of State
Legation
Great Britain
Berlin
Washington
France
Germany
Harding
Wilson
Mauuice
Francis Egan
Denmark
Egan
Copenhagen
Richmond
Virginia
Chautauqua Notes on Women and a Bumble Bee
A humorous Athens Chronicle column recounts a Chautauqua scene where a man battles a buzzing bumble bee near his ear while his wife openly chimes in. The writer parodies gender roles, praises women’s kindness, and wryly notes a county candidate’s religious uprightness along with a comical line about a sailor and forgotten paths.
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Humane Society
Flechana
Woodrow Wilson
Knights of Old
Woman's Chautauqua Snoring Sparks Laughing Ripple
An amused audience at a Chautauqua observes a woman keeping sweetness despite her husband’s loud snoring, which causes a ripple of laughter and lighthearted reaction among attendees.
Sugar cane hosts 227 varieties of insect enemies
Etymologists note that the sugar cane faces 227 distinct insect enemies. The finding highlights the diversity of pests challenging sugar cane cultivation.
Zemo Promises Quick Eczema Relief and Skin Healing
An advertisement touts Zemo as an effective eczema remedy available in 35c and 1.00 large sizes. It claims rapid itching relief and healing for eczema, sores, burns, wounds, and chafing, calling the antiseptic liquid clean, dependable, and inexpensive.
Information Bureau Answers From The Athens Messenger
Questions cover Pershing height and weight, train speeds, Banneker’s city planning role, dice origins, letter as a word, dictionaries, Marshall burial, Devil's Bible, tobacco origins. The Q and A format provides concise factual responses and dates where given.
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Washington
Benjamin Banneker
District of Columbia
City of
Palamedes
B. C
Apollonius of
Alexandria
Marshall
Shockhoe Hill
Richmond
Jean Nicot
France
Spain
Santo Domingo
Difference in weight of sea and fresh water
Sea water weighs about one and a half pounds more per cubic foot than fresh water at the same temperature.
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England
Francis Drake
Waller
Europe
Local Visits and Births Highlight Plains News
The Plains residents shared family visits across Athens Amanda Chester Hill Logan Columbus and Murray City. J K Brown and Gene Brown’s appendectomy recovery at Athens Hospital. A new baby born to Herb McDonald with Roscoe Shields buying a Ford runabout in Athens.
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J. K. Brown
Athens
Gene Brown
Athens Hospital
George Gabriel
Amanda
Ben Bess
Murray City
Will Roberts
Charles Loomis
A. M. Humphrey
Lou Courtney
Columbus
Zine
Alvah Verity
Harry Porter
Barnes
Chester Hill
Fanny Ball
Logan
Carl Washburn
Zine Courtney
Frank Smith
Herb McDonald
Roscoe Shields
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Ohio
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Ohio Dailies
International News Service
U. Fostoffice
Athens Mesener & Herald Priniing Co
Messenger
Hame
Robert Fi Ward Inc
Fifth Ave
New York City
South Wabash Avenue
Chicago
Reit
Cer
Brand Whitlock
Belgium
Hugh S. Gibson
Poland
H. Percival Dodge
State Department
F. F. Nielsen
Department
Alvey A. Adee
Adee
Diplomatic Service
Atee
White House
Eddie
Mim
Hey Eddie
Watt
MON
Ewald
Athens Bay
Athens County
Coen
Rowin
Zemo
SRS
Amy Reader
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D
Pershing
Richard
Fred R. Beasley
Nelsonville
Glouster
Amesville
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