Thought for today on contentment and happiness
A brief reflection notes Philippians contentment in any state and Rochefoucauld’s view that few things satisfy a wise man while a fool remains discontent, explaining widespread misery.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1925
Page
4
Printing News Right and Fair in a Code of Ethics
The piece extols the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association code urging honesty in news, editorials, and ads while respecting diverse views. It argues decency should guide reporting, warns against damaging reputations, and celebrates fairness and tolerance as core journalistic values. It also critiques education marketing, presenting statistics on education and a child’s future prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Iitless
College endowment life policies expand as novelty fades
Three years ago a father of three took out endowment life policies, one for each child, to fund college. Initially a novelty, insurers now market such policies as a standard service, improving education funding chances for many youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
The Life of a Tire
Automobile tire manufacturers agree to cut tire production to ease rubber shortages. The move aims to prevent hardship for buyers by extending tire life through careful use. Dealers can advise on sensible treatment to stretch existing tires.
Short Buying and Middlemen in Modern Trade
Market observers report steady buying in small quantities across consumers, retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. Hand-to-mouth purchasing, aided by better transport, raises costs via extra handling and strengthens middlemen, while economy favors shortening the producer to consumer chain and buying in quantity.
Trade Opportunities Through Department of Commerce Service
The Commerce Department operates a Dollars and Cents Service to connect American manufacturers with foreign buyers. It lists opportunities by country and uses consular networks to provide buyer details, packing guidance, and references. Since its expansion, inquiries rose about 131 percent, with annual business around $529 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
Netherlands
United States
Africa
Brazil
Germany
Manila
Seattle
Washington
New York City
New York
Ivery
Department
the Bureau
Foreign Service
South America
Sam
Bureau
Rome
Italy
Warsaw
Colombia
Bogota
Department of State
Herbert Hoover
Prose on Scottish deer forests and emigration debate
A fragment argues that vast deer forests in Scotland deprive families of fertile land and force emigration. It criticizes those who kill deer on preserved sport lands as idiotic, then notes Dr. Rice returning from South America with stories of exploration and mapping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Savory Claims on Cocaine Plant and Wine's Powers
The narrator asserts a river mouth as wide as the Hudson and an island larger than New England. He claims savages gain power by chewing a plant from which cocaine is derived. He argues coffee harms a strong man but caffeine from coffee kills him, while light wine seen as centuries old aids rulers and thinkers, whereas alcohol from grapes ruins thought and leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson River
New England
Airship Maps Vast Territory Beyond Poison Gas Use
Dr. Rice touts airship exploration that maps hundreds of thousands of miles, suggesting aerial surveying as superior to deploying poison gas for warfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rice
Untouched South American Territory Offers Hidden Wealth
Explorers face large unmapped areas in the southern part of South America totaling about 2,000,080 square miles. The vast unknown promises opportunity and undiscovered wealth beyond imagination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Equitable Building Towers Stirming New York Panorama
A brisk vignette from New York sketches the Equitable building as it rises like minarets in a desert city. The description praises architecture while noting the way it blocks a southern view of the Pennsylvania Hotel. A family scene and a jab at Tom Masson close the piece with sharp irony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Equitable
Manhattan
Pennsylvania
Tom Masson
Funny Man
Meditations in a Hot City Street Scene
Observations on urban life amid a sultry day. A legless man on roller skates with his dog, working girls in coats, a fifty year old woman with a pink hat, peculiar Greenwich Village types, and harsh contrasts of leisure and poverty. Cramped heat, open bootleg bars, and stage performers reflect the city's crowded, uneven life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Side
Times Square
Greenwich Village
Rubber Market Rises Amid British Control Gains
A report notes rubber prices leaping from 80 cents to over a dollar per pound as London market activity surges. It attributes the rise to English producers who dominate supply and profit from trusts, arguing the higher prices will aid global prosperity and reduce American debt without complaint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
British Oil Squeeze Warned as Supplies Decline
G W Hinman predicts a coming squeeze in oil amid declining world supplies. Britain helps its citizens through the rubber monopoly and will aid exploitation of oil deposits worldwide at high prices. Wise Americans with undrained wells urged to conserve. fools buy worthless stocks. Professor Shaw notes women are cultured, though he is cultured too, and Irving Berlin is praised. Women are credited with leading men to knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Hinman
Britain
Mr. Hinman
Irving Berlin
How You can Recognize Tuberculosis
Health guidance urges early detection of tuberculosis with professional exams and self checks. Key signs include weight and energy loss, fatigue, poor appetite, slight fever, cough lasting three weeks or more, night sweats, chest pain from pleurisy, and slow recovery from illnesses like pneumonia or malaria.
Paraphrased Proverb Fragments From a Quirky Talk
A collection of pithy lines on love jealousy money and life observations. It blends humorous and moral sentiments about relationships ambition intoxication and human nature with casual reflections and questions. The tone resembles casual lecture notes or a newspaper column aside statements about daily life.
Tom Sims Advice Sparks Alarm In Forum
A fragment quotes Tom Sims urging loud party behavior with a stray line about using chloroform. The word fragment appears incomplete and out of context, prompting concern over potential harm and the need for clarification from the original source.
Advice is Sometimes Ineffective by Charles P Stewart
Herbert Quick reflects on a young Iowa farm boy turned lawyer named Fred Sargent who rises from a clerkship at Wright & Call to junior partner after the firm loses a key partner. Sargent later becomes vice president and general counsel of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, illustrating how fast a career can ascend despite early doubts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles P. Stewart
Messenger Service
Washington
Herbert Quick
John Garibaldi Sargent
United States
Quick
Sioux City
Sioux
Wright & Call
Fred Sargent
A. F. Call
Sargent
Craig L. Wright
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Fred
Northwestern
Country doctor urged as steady path for young medic
The narrator warns a young man about big town practice and advises settling in the county to build a stable, paying country practice. He emphasizes that status comes from community respect, while the young man shows resolve to reject the advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Puddie
Quick's Advice and Fred Sargent Rise to Rail Power
The passage recalls Quick praising prudent counsel to Fred W. Sargent. It notes Sargent’s transformation from a rural lawyer to president of the Chicago and Northwestern and the Chicago St. Paul Minneapolis and Omaha railroads, now viewed as a transportation magnate in the making.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Sargent
Quick
Fred W. Sargent
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis & Omaha
Popcorn Man Delights Kids with His Street Treats
A playful description of the popcorn man driving through streets, drawing children and adults alike with his popping corn. The man shakes the popper and the kernels jump, while bystanders prepare to purchase the warm snack as it cooks.
Daily Poem Exalts Popcorn Seller
Hal Cochran's verse enlists butter and heat as corn pops to draw passersby. The playful piece praises Mister Popcorn Man and hopes for ongoing visits, celebrating a simple daily culinary ritual.
Q and A on history and culture curiosities from old quiz
A glossary style Q and A set discusses Japanese remittances to Japan via Yokohama Specie Bank in 1924, clock histories in stockings, Paine's Crisis opening, Palm Sunday palms for St. Peter's, night moth catching bird, and firearms ban near Robert Louis Stevenson’s burial site in Samoa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
C. A
Japan
Yokohama Specie Bank
Thomas Paine
Bresta
Saint Peter's
Sixtus V
St. Ceter’s
Sixtus
San Remo
Fresca
Brecon
St. Peter’s
K.P. W
Stevenson
Editorial Snapshots on Europe and Asia
Editorial quips react to world tensions. Quotes reference France Britain the Rhine and the tri nation peace pact. Notes on Col House Farone Canton and immigration policy color a collage of postwar anxieties.
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Philippians Toaz
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