Wages on a New Basis in Cleveland Garment Industry
Cleveland leads in women’s ready to wear with New York, and a major industrial engineering firm plans time studies to set a guaranteed forty week wage basis based on production standards. The plan, funded by both unions and manufacturers, aims to reduce seasonal idle periods and align worker and employer interests for improved order and stability.
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Cleveland
New York
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer
United States
Fair Price Policy Guidance in Athens Merchants
Athens merchants follow the Ohio fair price schedule with stock valued at cost. The approach lowers current selling prices while avoiding price hikes. Merchants with old stock reduce profits as they discount to align with fair price rules, encouraging rapid turnover for normal profits. A third party federation of leftovers is implicated.
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Athens
Ohio
Liberty bond prices and steady interest rates described
The article notes that liberty bonds fluctuate in price but never change interest rates. It states the interest is paid with absolute regularity and that the United States steadily builds a sinking fund to redeem bonds at face value at maturity.
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Liberty
Uncle Sam
Reds Could Buy Supplies If Americans Take Chance
The article notes the Russian Reds may procure supplies in the country if any American is willing to take a chance on them. It emphasizes the risk and uncertain willingness of locals to engage commercially with the Reds.
San Francisco Platform Critiqued as Partisan and Silent
The New York Tribune decries the platform as colorless and evasive on divisive issues, claiming heavy partisanship and factual misstatements. It notes Democratic claims of progressivism contrast with their stance on woman suffrage and social reform, versus Republican ratifications.
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Wee Cobo
Eressree Boeing Dwi
NEW York Tribune
San Francisco
As A Woman Thinks eee iv- DON'T BE A HOUSE PEST
A satirical piece by Edith E Moriarty narrates a young matron lamenting two weeks of unexpected house guests. She frets about interruptions to work, finances, and plans for rest as visitors arrive with little notice, disrupting home life and social duties.
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Edith E. Moriarty
Carl
Teachers College as Leader in Education and Outreach
Geoffrey F Morgan writes from New York City on July 13 1920 praising Teachers College as the largest influential school of its kind in America. He notes 3000 plus students in the regular term and near doubling in summer, with 186 foreign students from 34 countries. The piece highlights broad curricula from pottery to millinery textiles nursing and scouting and cites Dean Russell on providing national leadership in teacher education. Morgan plans a future letter with personal details from Athens.
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Teachers College
America
University of Toronto
of London
South Africa
Peking
Armenia
Italy
France
Spain
Japan
India
Norway
Turkey
Dow
Department of Nursing
Dean Russell
United States
Alex Root
Athens
Torch and Area Guests Visit Across Indiana and West Virginia
Local residents host relatives and friends from Indiana Michigan and Pennsylvania. Weekend visitors include Mr and Mrs William Bailey and family of Indiana and Miss Hazel Stephenson of Raccoon Pennsylvania visiting Alma Mowery.
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William Bailey
Indiana
Thomas Dunfee
B. Bean
Carlos
Parkersburg
Joseph McCatheren
Detroit
Michigan
Elmer Mauck
Isaac Webster
Howard Ringman
Nelsonville
Waston Webster
M. E
Alice B. Dye
Columbus
Elias Wilson
Willard
Baptist Church
J. M. Turner
Hazel Stephenson
Raccoon
Alma Mowery
Joseph McCathern and
West Virginia
Baptist Ladies Aid of Torch
Reading Club of Hockingport Meets at Mary A Lone Home
The Reading Club of Hockingport met at Mary A Lone's home last Saturday afternoon for a regular meeting followed by social time. Refreshments included ice cream and marble cake. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs A B Bean, Mrs McGrew, Fern Dye, Anna Dunfee, Mrs Icie Day and Denver, Fannie Coleman, Mary Gillilan, Rowena Nixon, Adline Jones of Toreh, Mr and Mrs EF A Dutton, Edith Hail, Janette Knowles, Mrs Ira Conley and two children Hazel and Prooks, Adisa Elliott, Mary Hayden, Mary A Stone and Mrs Dickinson of Hockingport, Alice B Dye of Columbus, Mrs Mary Brewester of Weston WV, and Mrs Craig Stone of Los Angeles Cal.
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Reading Club
Hockingport
Mary A. Lone
A. B. Bean
McGrew
Fern Dye
Anna Dunfee
Icie Day
Denver
Fannie Coleman
Mary Gillilan
Rowena Nixon
Adline Jones
Toreh
E. C. Stone
Los Angeles
California
Mary A. Stone
Otho Elliott
Stone
George Lukins
Maysville
Kentucky
Owens
Carapolis
Ida Cook
J. B. Dickinson
Harry Such
Thurston
Boy Scouts
Randolph Grove
Ohio
Logue
Tulsa
Oklo
Mashal Ice
Pennsylvania
Romania
Glayds Smith
Sistersville
W. Va
Ada Taylor
Griffith
Sandyville
Lemley
Louise Wells
Washington W. Va
Clara
Parkersburg
Lew Humphrey
Spencer
Herbert Dutton
Ira Conley
Haze Conley
Susie Foster
Paul Gillian
Bridgeports
Chas Hayden
Church of Torch
May Stone
Henry Brewster
Moundsville
Alice B. Dye
Columbus
Visitors and locals host social gatherings in Hockingport
Mrs. E C Stone of Los Angeles visits sisters Miss Mary Stone and Mrs Otho Elliott while other guests travel from Carapolis and Thurston. The Ladies Aid hosts a party for Mrs May Stone with twenty eight attendees from Hockingport and distant places. A quip notes girls prefer tom boy over sissy.
Bayer Aspirin Packets Promoted for Widespread Use
The ad touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as genuine and safe for millions, prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. It urges accepting only an undamaged Bayer package with directions for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. Smaller tins of 12 tablets are cheap and druggists offer larger packages.
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Bayer
Local residents visit kin and friends across towns
Guysville and nearby areas report a series of short visits. Homer Moorehead and family spent a week in Palestine W Va with his parents while Eugene Pierce and family from Portsmouth were guests of relatives here. Other travelers include Mrs D W Cornell and Mrs C D Stewart in Athens, and Miss Helen Cray from Akron visiting her parents.
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Homer Moorehead
Palestine
W. Va
Eugene Pierce
Portsmouth
D. W. Cornell
C. D. Stewart
Athens
Arthur Deeters
Amherstdale
Amos Bretts
Helen Cray
Akron
Cc. C. Cray
C. C. Calvert
Ada Johnson
Blanchester
Mildred
Frances Minnemeyer
Columbus
J. E. Lawrence
Carl Brett
Hazel Woodard
M. L. Woodard
John Poston
James Watkins
Shade
Fletcher Davis
Sharpesburg
Guy Evener
Nelsonville
John Perkins
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the Athens Messenger
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Ohio Dailies
United Press News
Postoffice
Prag Pons Mescatre Herald Priniing Co
Isenger
Aps
Hubert 2. Ward
Fifth Avenue
Cilly
South Wabash Avenue
Chicago
George White
Fae Og
George A
Editor
Messenger
Geoffrey F. Morgan
New York City
Sissy
Guysville
Dermo Balm CO
Marietta, Ohio
Athens Lumber CO
Athens, Ohio
DopGe Brothers
Busi
Ness
Cooley & Campbell
N. Court St
Curt Hiu
Allgrocers
Wasuine
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