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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1926
Page
4
A Finnish major in Paris is pickpocketed but finds a diamond ring left in place of his wallet. The tale offers moral lessons about crime, urging steadiness and caution and noting the quick, if minor, personal cost to the thief.
Two friends in Santiago de Cuba witnessed Salvador Aguilera put to death for murdering his aunt to steal 200 dollars. The condemned begged forgiveness as the screw device executed him. The fellow prisoner and former boyhood friend acted as the executioner and will have his sentence shortened for the act.
A young woman from Connecticut strolling in Greenwich Village was arrested by Patrolman Olsen for smoking a lighted cigarette. She argued the legality, but the officer claimed loud and boisterous language violated the law and detained her and a companion. The tale ends with a cautionary moral about smoking on the beat.
Charlie Chaplin will appear in a high profile film as Napoleon opposite Raquel Meller. The article notes Chaplin’s ambition for a serious, transcendent role and calls him capable of tragic gravitas beyond typical clown fare.
A muddled note suggesting appointing special agents to handle road hogs and drunken drivers. It mentions a Wisconsin beekeeper convention and pondering buying a bee. The piece notes optimism about the United States and cites over 100,000 bicycles in Tokio.
The text argues humans fish for pleasure and survival, linking fishing to ancient life in water. It suggests mankind’s instinct pulls toward the water, echoed by a boy eager to splash in mud puddles, reflecting an atavistic pull to aquatic origins.
A group led by Merrill Fleischhacken Shoup Crocker and Miller convened to study foundations and plan a central fund. The fourteen men, with wealth over 100 million dollars, intend to use their money for public charity science and education in San Francisco.
The text contrasts old beliefs where fourteen individuals would bribe Providence with money to avoid hell and gain paradise. It asserts the best path is to give to others, noting that the Lord does not need money.
John J. Hanlon of Chicago urges the national government to publish literature on marriage ideals, arguing the mother should decide family size. The piece notes examples from history and business figures like Rockefeller, and mentions a wartime sugar board profit of 41 million from a 5 million investment.
The city consumes five billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually, more than the total generated by plants in Greece, Denmark, Latvia, Jugoslavia, Poland, Hungaria, Norway, Roumania, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Those twelve countries host 109,000,009 people, about twenty times New York City's population. The passage ties electricity and telephone use to a measure of prosperity and civilization.
Census early 1925 checks show 36 of 40 cities with higher general expenses and 75 percent deeper into debt, led by New Orleans and Atlantic City. Washington DC stands debt free. nation wide average debt per city nears 105 with annual city tax around 45. Residents face higher costs and rising property values while non owners feel taxes indirectly.
In New York the pineapple punch fad grows as a fat reducing drink while a wave of beer parlors opens east of Fifth Avenue under questionable legality. Bars imitate old brewery atmospheres with Teutonic bartenders and cheap labels, and bootleggers warn that fake labels raise costs.
New York July 15 Indictments simplified under a proposed criminal procedure code by a Hadley headed sub committee for the national crime commission. The plan seeks trials as a real test of guilt not demonstrations of legal nimbleness and skill with defendants stripped of alleged undue advantages.
A Kansas farmer harvesting wheat found a large concrete tub filled with corn mash and a 10 gallon still planted in his field near Lawrence. Local authorities were alerted and began inquiries into the origin of the illicit setup.
The note recalls hot spells with a 102 degree noon reading and 83 at midnight, rail and electric transit plans, a St Clair steamer fire with fifteen deaths, and local events in Athens and Nelsonville. It mentions football rivals, spitting penalties, an acquittal of a cow mutilation case, and university graduates among Chicago attendees.
A War Department view urges wide spreading of high explosives to limit catastrophe after the Lake Denmark New Jersey depot explosions. Army officers note walls were thick and roofs unattached, designed to vent upward, but a sequence of blasts could still wreck nearby Picatinny arsenal and surrounding facilities.
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