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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jul 20, 1927

Page

4

Weekend Movement and Visits Highlight Local Social Notes

Miss Nelle Finsterwald left Friday for a visit with relatives and friends in Millfield. Judge A W Bethel returned Friday evening from Saratoga New York and Jamestown. Auditor F E Walker and Mr Charles Warner left this morning for Magnetic Springs. Dr J Jones has gone to Chil Heath and Columbus on business. TEN YEARS AGO Mr W E Moler was a business visitor in Columbus. Mr and Mrs Floyd Coultrap and children returned to Toledo today. Mr and Mrs Oscar Bingman and Mr and Mrs J B Swanson left for Buckeye Lake outing. Mrs W H McKee at Oak Lodge entertaining over the week end. Mrs Verne E LeRoy of East Lansing Mich Mrs Edward E Schloss and Mrs Dix Preston.

W. H. McKee Bungallow Oak Lodge Verne E. LeRoy East Lansing, Mich Edward E. Schloss Dix Preston

A Thought for Today and a Quote on Endurance

A brief collection of moral lines notes enduring faith from Matthew’s gospel and a Shakespearean jab on patience with pain. The pair contrasts religious consolation with a wry literary aside about handling the toothache.

Aviation's Rapid Rise Prompts Broad Industry Initiatives

The piece highlights brisk aviation progress with Guggenheim funds for equipment loans to develop passenger lines in the United States. It notes tests of floating air domes for mid ocean routes, calls for town signage to aid pilots, and rail-air travel plans. It also mentions weather warnings, expanding air infrastructure with more planes and fields, and Europe’s air security efforts as air travel grows.

Lindbergh Paris Mapecoe Guggenheim Fund For the Promotion of Aeronautics United Commerce McCracken Weather Bureau British Imperial Airways Europe

The President Evolves into a Sporting Figure

A critical portrait notes Calvin Coolidge has transformed from a businesslike, reserved leader into a more athletic, public figure. The piece questions whether this change is genuine or driven by politics, with speculation about Mrs. Coolidge influencing his shift from a rigid temperament to a newfound sporting persona.

Fire prevention as a national priority and cost of disasters

Irving T. Bush argues the United States spends over half a billion dollars annually on fire losses that kill about 12 000 citizens. He calls for treating fires as a preventable disease and for medical research to guide fire prevention efforts.

United States Irving T. Bush New York

The Death Flight Death row inmates contemplate the electric chair departure

Mrs. Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray attend the death house as William Wagner faces execution by electric chair. The column muses on the mystery and meaning of death flights and the afterlife journey.

Pacific Atlantic Ruth Snyder Henry Judd Gray

Jerusalem quake damages multiple faith centers and Jewish university

The earthquake damaged Protestant Catholic Greek Orthodox and Jewish sites in Jerusalem, striking shrines and the Jewish university, library and laboratory. the Talmud notes Jerusalem’s destruction due to neglect of study, leaving the university’s fate unclear.

Jerusalem

Bell’s Idea Spurs AT&T Growth in Half Year Figures

AT T earnings reach over sixty three million in six months and project 126 million annually as market expansion continues. Industry pioneer Bell emphasizes safeguarding ideas as a path to personal and corporate success.

American Telephone and Telegraph Bell

Notable figures in the postwar era debated by leaders

Nicholas Murray Butler says the great war did not produce a single giant figure. Cyrus H. K. Curtis disagrees, predicting Woodrow Wilson will stand out if the league of nations succeeds and Mussolini may loom large if his challenge to democracy prevails.

Nicholas Murray Butler Cyrus H. K. Curtis Woodrow Wilson League of Nations Mussolini

Mussolini Seen As Historic Figure Regardless Of Fate

The piece argues Mussolini will become a significant historical figure whether he completes his programme or faces downfall like Rienzi. It notes Lenin’s preserved body in Moscow will captivate history more than any other wartime figure for strikingly ending autocratic rule in Russia.

Mussolini Lenin Moscow Russia

War spotlight on generals and flying machine attack

The passage argues that no single general stood out in the war and that Alexander Caesar or Napoleon could have breached trenches and concentrated efforts on a massive flying machine assault against enemy capitals.

Alexander Caesar Napoleon

Edison seeks new rubber through science not botany

Edison spends three days in New York’s botanical gardens library seeking rubber alternatives and hints at chemistry offering the likely breakthrough. Observes steel stocks rising to new highs with 7 percent yield, warns against gambling on prices and dividends.

Thomas A. Edison New York Botanical Gardens

General Motors stock climbs as bears cling to hope

General Motors shares rose by four points amid persistent bearish bets that the market would slip. Investors noted the lack of a sustained downturn despite expectations, keeping sentiment cautious as prices held firm.

General Motors

Bobby Jones Leads Open After 36 Holes

Bobby Jones shot 72 for the second round and stands at 140 through 36 holes in the British Open. The result has worldwide attention though its real meaning remains uncertain.

Bobby Jones

Health and Diet Advice by Dr McCoy in Athens Messenger

Dr McCoy answers health and diet questions for children summers and nutrition. He warns against mixing milk with high calorie foods and stresses proper fruit use to prevent summer diarrhea. He notes water with meals only plain water and adds cautions on tooth infections and weight guidance.

Frank McCoy McCoy

By the Way in New York Sidelighta on Life in City Slums

Gilbert Swan surveys New York’s hidden tragedies in a barnlike Chelsea building beside the East River. He records gas filled rooms and drownings in the Hudson, the weary city lives, disappearances, and daily police faces at the morgue. A new town youth asks about trains while East Side teachers note Manhattan children’s difficulty imagining real mountains.

New York City Gilbert Swan New York East River Hudson Wes Broadway Yesteray Jhare-hung Harbor East Side Manhattan

Salem nurse named in warrant over newborn death

July 19 a warrant will be sworn out against Mrs. D A Waltenbaugh of Salem in connection with the death of her newborn baby, according to Assistant Prosecutor John Bayknecht.

Salem D. A. Waltenbaugh John Bayknecht

Kellogg to Resign or Not A Washington Rumor

Rodney Dutcher reports Kellogg may resign from the secretary of state post after flirtations with stepping down this summer. Amid speculation, Kellogg’s health and mood improve as critics pause and his policy record appears steady. A tangential lawyer lobbyist remark and an aviation note close the piece with an Langley field sighting of deer and a lone bear near Lakehurst.

Washington Kellogg's Rumor Mengers Kellogg State Department Nicaragua Mexico Geneva Mr. Kellogg

Answers to Questions By Frederick J. Haskin

Answers cover tolls on the Delaware River Bridge between Camden and Philadelphia, campers causing forest fires, sealskins from Pribilof drives, the date and site of Wrigley sponsored marathon swim, Napoleon Bonaparte birthplace and parentage, and guns used in the Custer Sitting Bull battle with Winchester rifles and Springfield carbines.

Philadelphia Camden Delaware River Forest Service Bureau of Fisheries Pribilot Wrigley Toronto Canada Lake Ontario Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte Ajaccio Corsica Bonaparte General Custer Sitting Bull W. A E. A. Brininstool Custer

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