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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1931
Page
4
The Twentieth Century Fund in New York argues philanthropy alone cannot fix cyclical economic distress. Its annual report calls for reducing the need for charity by reshaping business and industrial organization, urging a shift from relief to fundamental system change.
A Tennessee House vote defeats a bid to repeal the anti evolution statute. Critics argue the law stunts education while students seek modern scientific progress despite backwoods opposition. The persistence of the law raises questions about its practical effect on teaching evolution.
The federal government implements the Moses Linthicum Bill creating a foreign service regime that welcomes young men of modest means. Regular salary increases reward efficiency and living allowances cover entertaining abroad, removing prior dependence on private funds for a diplomatic career.
The Schmeling Stribling bout banked a small gate while other sports like baseball racing and golf show solid business. Promoters blame mood and high prices for dull turnout, arguing fans are getting wise to overpriced entertainment and may demand better value.
In New York taxi drivers emerge as loquacious companions revealing much about the city. Tales include driver confessions, legal photo ID rules, collectors stealing portraits, and a chauffeur who rose to fortune only to lose it in a swindle, ending back in the taxi trade.
Frederic J. Haskin presents a Washington based service offering free intermeton information. Questions cover topics from Darwin tulips to Homer quotes and the Bank of England governor, with brief factual answers and dates.
The speaker, James J. Montague, reflects on encounters with a gorilla yak flamingo platypus and other beasts. He notes fear of travel to alien seas and illness from wind swept oceans while declaring he has not faced deadly danger abroad and has only seen such sights in news reels at home.
A mother bears a hard earthly lot and may feel she reaped what she sowed yet remains devoted. Beecher reflects on maternal sacrifice and personal reward in life.
Cartoon depicts a small wooden bridge over the Ural River linking Europe and Asia at Orsk. Residents cross into Asia where a park marks the Asiatic landing. Tomorrow feature on how a run can be scored after three are out.
The Washington Letter notes FDA warns makers on the twenty fifth anniversary of the Pure Food and Drug Act. It compares public faith in remedies to religious faith and laments rampant hype in labels while FDA plans a vigorous prosecution under Dr Wiley. The piece cites post office scrutiny and shifting medical opinion as factors in the ongoing struggle over nostrums.
The Athens Messenger offers a booklet on ice creams prepared by a government expert. It explains heavy cream as the best base for frozen desserts and includes methods for freezing and diluting rich cream with evaporated milk or thickened milk for palatable results. The booklet is available for four cents.
They will come out of this trouble, for they have science, patience and industry. Billions of dollars are not everything.
President Hoover urged aid to Germany and Austria triggering a stock market rise while European customers faced bankruptcy. Early trading saw speculators push prices down, then a partial rebound as investors reconsidered.
The speaker warns that prudent investors should hold assets now, noting that markets rise and fall and the country has not truly lost, only billions compared with wartime gains. Goethe’s maxim on money, honor, courage, and everything is invoked to stress risk and resilience.
In White Plains New York striking laborers defied orders to disperse and one was shot. Police vacations are canceled reserves are held in stations with tear gas and other equipment. The message notes shooting should be postponed as long as possible while calling on millions idle since 1929 to avoid violence.
At Frankfort on the Main a display features 160 European watchmakers showing wares including a 3500 year old Egyptian sun dial and a modern German watch that clips seconds into tenths. The scene highlights precision and heritage in timekeeping across nations.
The home telephone company installed a new cable through the Court Street tunnel to handle increased business. Three hundred wire pairs were sorted for service. A new American Legion band formed with twenty members under director Russ Stevenson, funded by government instruments, and to perform at the Elks funfest. The July 1 1921 circulation report notes population estimates and money market concerns. A fiftieth wedding anniversary for Rev. and Mrs. J n Pilcher was celebrated at Mrs. Frego Bhirkenday’s home in Chillicothe, and Theodora Lawhead marked her sixth birthday with a party at the Lawhead home.
Three years ago on July 18 American troops launched a surprise counter offensive that signaled the start of the end for Germany, marking a pivotal turning point in the conflict.
Former Muskingum College pitcher Ellis West signs a professional baseball contract with the Cherokee Indians of Oklahoma after standout performance at the University level. The deal marks a major step in West’s athletic career and local sports pride.
Athens Gas Light and Electric posts notices predicting an increased natural gas supply for the upcoming winter. The firm promotes new business as it notes development underway in newly found gas fields and reports progress on field development.
In 1932 Sol Bloom leads the Washington Bicentennial effort from a expanded Capitol office, rallying Americans with a fervent push for a national history education. Bloom rose from a Pekin Wisconsin upbringing to a San Francisco brush factory worker to theater owner and real estate mogul before entering Congress and directing the grand observance.
Patsy feels unwell and is comforted by her mother while her father suspects illness is amplified by nerves. As a trip to the stairs ends with an accident, the family debates worry versus common sense and the seeds of self pity are sown.
The piece criticizes a society that can forge remarkable timepieces yet wastes its youth in war, noting the rush of people moving from Newport to Palm Beach and expressing disappointment in the nation’s priorities.
Mr. Baker, a distinguished American engineer who has worked in Russia on steel plants, claims Russia is doing well and will not disastrously fail to compete with other nations. He argues Russia cannot manufacture too much for its own use and will sustain its industrial undertaking.
Mr Stone head of the Farm Board predicts a shift in agriculture toward co operatives as small private farmers disappear. He notes millions of Russian farmers practice cooperative farming under government direction and cites a test wheat batch grown under American guidance spanning a long continental strip.
In Rome the Vatican clash over education heats as Mussolini denounces the papal encyclical as lies. Italy plans a massive Fascist display with about 878000 adults and 640000 youths mobilized in the north. The Pope remains steadfast, while Vatican defense rests on spiritual strength and the Swiss guard.
The Rev. Sandifer of Louisiana, a Baptist, holds the long distance preaching title delivering a fifty eight and a half hour sermon. He sustained strength with raw eggs chocolate and coffee and changed his stiff shirt once during the sermon. The sermon on the mount read in three minutes would likely yield more.
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