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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1923
Page
4
A compact collection quotes about speech and truth from religious and literary sources. The saying contrasts inner intent with outward words and cautions careful, purposeful speaking. It includes a biblical verse and a Carlyle aphorism urging undivided mind for truth.
Whitlock honors a Bible classic as the flawless 7000 word narrative of Joseph. He cautions film adaptations may add love interests and urges writers to avoid distracting nerves and nerves disrupt concentration and judgment.
New Zealand reports the world’s lowest infant mortality at 43 per 1000, down from 106 per 1000 fifty years ago, due to Plunket Society led nationwide nursing centers, free guidance, government support, and widespread clinics. The piece urges American communities to adopt similar coordinated effort and public health outreach.
The article questions repeated home safety checks as common and notes people may doubt their memory and judgment after routine acts like locking doors turning off lights and checking for smouldering embers. It cites an insanity specialist and mentions Dr Johnson as a reference point.
Washington D C Chas F Speelman Coalton F L Speelman HawksNest W Va Mrs Le E Tutt Yakima Wash and Mrs W G Williams San Fernando Calif are named in a funeral notice. Services will be 2 pm Tuesday at the residence with Rev Paul J Gilbert Presbyterian officiating. Interment at Oak Grove.
Police Commissioner Enwright orders city officers to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act honestly and fearlessly. He states enforcement is a legal duty to protect public safety morality and curb crime. The article links prohibition to shifts in food and diamond markets, noting wartime effects and consumer behavior. It describes a special bureau equipped with glassware, platinum stock, and coded safes, illustrating the era’s enforcement and scientific resources.
In a rustic Newellson era vignette Nash the bootlegger raids moonshine operations as cotton gin rumors simmer. A mix of frontier justice and local gossip follows Nash’s relentless drive to halt gin making until a Monday night comeback rumor swells. The column weaves in a social aside about a Nelsonville shoe factory stake and a Dean Linscott impersonation before reporting the death of Mrs. Wm Shockey at 307 North Enterprise street, noting her Byer Jackson County origins and Bowling Green residence.
The piece argues that original costs of railroads are of little value and that current market value under normal conditions should guide regulation. It compares rail networks to farms, noting rebuildings and rising values with population and wealth, advocating valuation for rate and wage guidance.
Washington reports from the Bureau of Chemistry showing its diverse procurement practices. A catalog of A items highlights adhesives apricots anvils armatures and more with fluids foods and medicines purchased for inspection and analysis by chemists.
The article notes that beekeeping has grown as a vocation and pastime across the United States, offering outdoor activity and potential profit. It highlights the need for careful study of bee behavior and mentions a free Department of Agriculture booklet on apiculture. Readers may request a copy by sending two cents for return postage to the Athens Messenger Information Bureau in Washington D C.
The article notes metal prices rising from 1.50 to 4 a gram for platinum and describes a secured ground vault for inflammable supplies. Only daily needs are removed for lab use, and government chemists’ experience helps keep fires and explosions rare.
The text questions shifting public focus from a fashionable girl to neglected street features. It contrasts lamppost attention with the overlooked decorated trash cans at main street corners, implying a call for fuller civic notice.
A column ridicules a Union man Snedden over a pumpkin remark. The piece hints at a Nelsonville shoe factory setup and future want ads seeking girls to work in shoe production.
A former resident of Bowling Green is reported dead in an obituary notice published in The Daily Sentinel Tribune on July 16. The death marks a local figure's passing with details confined to the notice.
Miss Thelma Rowland of Eyes vellc was a weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Corbin. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Frazie hosted Sunday visitors Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kriebel of Wellston. Edward Corbin's circle included Mr. William Stevenson and daughters Blanche and Marcella, son Edward, and Mr. Harry Brasket of London.
Mrs. C. Matthews, visiting relatives at Portsmouth, entered Mercy Hospital there Sunday for an operation.
James Friley died Sunday at 12 30 after a lingering illness. Funeral held at Bethel Church, burial in Bethel Cemetery. W G Davis, a well known Vinton County figure, served as a federal dry agent and moved to Michigan briefly. Others named Joseph McKinniss and Fred traveled to Chillicothe to visit Mr and Mrs Leon Snyder.
Friends of Mrs Vaughn Shires of Portsmouth report she is improving after a surgery she underwent in a Columbus hospital on Tuesday last week. A former resident of this place, she has friends hopeful for her full recovery.
In Montclair New Jersey Reverend William W Rock wore overalls to paint his parsonage assisted by his cat and later by Reverend Robert B Rock of Providence Rhode Island. He planned to marry Miss Florence Cowell from his church and volunteered to do the labor himself after the church offered funds.
A kitchen tip advises brushing the roast with a sugar enhanced beer baste to help the meat brown richly and develop color as it cooks.
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