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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1926
Page
4
A compact devotional line from Ecclesiastes contrasts value of few with peace versus abundance gained through toil. It emphasizes contentment over restless striving and urges balance between possessions and inner calm.
Proponents once debating President’s standing grow doubtful as White House ignores forecasts and pursues steady administration. Voters compare U S unemployment favorably to Europe, sparking lukewarm reaction to Democratic slogan amid tax and debt concerns.
At 73 John Drew, famed dean of Thespians, was rumored to retire but denies plans to quit. The veteran actor vows to keep treading the boards as long as possible and may seek a Broadway role this fall, with Peter Pan proposed as a fitting comeback.
The article reports a quarrel between General Umberto Nobile and Lincoln Ellsworth over who deserved credit for guiding the Norge across the North Pole. Each accuses the other of taking navigation credit while others, Riiser-Larsen, Horgan, and Wisting, performed key duties. The piece ends by asking who fed the ship’s cat.
A historical notice argues against shipboard marriage by captains noting long voyages once created a practice of marrying couples at sea. It questions the captain's authority to perform or record marriages and to conduct burial rites aboard, foreshadowing legal challenges to naval matrimony.
A young woman entered Bradley Beach New York in an automobile removed her dress then wore a two piece bathing suit and fed into the surf prompting three city commissioners to meet in a stern conference and vote to prohibit the scene.
The country laments the death of Robert T. Lincoln at eighty two in Vermont. He bore his father’s name with dignity and was regarded as a good American citizen. The note recalls the sacred Lincoln legacy and his role in national life. In a separate dispatch the Mexican government and Catholic church conflict sharpens as August services are to cease in Catholic churches nationwide.
Mexican President Calles accuses Catholic church authorities of plotting a revolt under religion. He says the boycott will fail and threatens to jail eight Mexican bishops.
The world watches a historic confrontation between the Mexican government and the Catholic church, a rare dispute of its kind in many years, signaling potential shifts in church-state relations and national policy.
The stoppage of all religious services in Mexico is expected to cause turmoil across classes. Mexican Indians may resist losing what they view as essential spiritual rites. The article notes forced conversion by Spanish conquerors, bloodshed, and acknowledges Indians as devout Christians today.
The text warns that the Catholic church may boycott those enforcing anti-Catholic laws in Mexico. It recalls a historical excommunication by a German emperor seeking pardon beneath the Pope's window, noting that excommunication is viewed as spiritual death by Catholics and could exert strong pressure.
The text contrasts sympathy for Italy with European sentiment that the United States should not be repaid its debt. It notes Italy’s debt proposal at less than forty cents on the dollar and argues for honoring rescue efforts rather than demanding repayment.
An Italian paper speculates Europe will refrain from action while Japan may strike. It notes Edsel Ford’s flying plans and a U S aircraft program under President Coolidge. A New York City killing tale tells how a refined gunman, hired from Buffalo, was shot dead when grip failed.
The romance of Moses Warner Dykaar, a Vilna born sculptor, who arrived in America twenty years ago with little means, now dominates official circles in Washington. He has sculpted presidents and leaders, with busts of Harding, Coolidge, Marshall, Clark, Loneworth, Owen, and others, while pursuing art over commerce and shaping character in marble and bronze.
Washington insight profiles William Green, new AFL leader, contrasting his practical, unhurried, shirt sleeve approach with Samuel Gompers’s grand stature. Green is described as sturdy, calm, and thoroughly knowledgeable, a down-to-earth executive who speaks plainly and runs the federation smoothly.
In New York City the summer quiets the Madison and Park Avenue shoppes and Broadway’s actors retreat to resorts. Colonnades of idle players gather at Columbia Beach near 44th Street and at Long Island spots like New Rochelle Great Neck and Freeport. The vaudeville world retires to Bungalow City, The Light's Club, and Three-a-Day fortresses as contracts wind down and plans for next season form. Gillert Swan.
The piece lists the first long photo play as the Great Train Robbery at 800 feet and mentions Cabiria and The Birth of a Nation as early long features. It defines estivation as a torpor in summer and notes that some animals do approach this state.
Eighty thousand miners and operators in Ohio and West Virginia settled a four month strike. The report lists unions and services, with local notes on churches, schooling, and summer plans in Athens.
A quiz style passage discusses Highland Fling music with bagpipes and defines a herbicide as any substance used to destroy weeds. It notes electric light bugs as large aquatic land insects and states measles is the most prevalent child illness. It asks about enlistment in Army or Navy aviation for colored men, asserting no negro units exist in the Army Air Service or Naval aviation.
Warren report says Do le Zapp, suspected in a jealous double shooting that wounded a man and a woman, was found in woods by the Mahoning river with a loaded revolver and shells in his pockets. He was captured today after authorities traced his movements.
A fragment describes a log side found in a forest area with limited information and no identifying details or witnesses. The text suggests an unresolved clue or fragmentary note from a larger report.
Miami, Florida was lashed by a tropical hurricane cutting telegraphic links to the north. Reports from the night indicate a citywide gale endangering shipping and prompting fear for the yacht Cinnabar with several Mia mians aboard due from the Bahamas. Wind speeds reached dangerous levels as the storm intensified.
Science using radiog apparatus has changed views on ear fatigue, showing the ear can be fatigued under certain conditions.
The article reviews multiple nations including Poland Czechoslovakia Romania Yugoslavia Hungary and Finland with debts running into millions funded over 63 years yet unpaid. It notes Armenia received 12 million from United States and Austria's loan moratorium to 1963 and highlights Russia's 192 million debt and U.S. nonrecognition of the current regime.
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