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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1931
Page
4
One Speed Highway Experiment Aims To Cut Travel Risks
Indiana unveils a 40 mph one speed road where no passing or weaving is allowed and all cars must maintain the rate or face arrest. The plan aims to reduce accidents, limit slow vehicles, and could spread to other highways if successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Chicago
Ais
Leasanger Statistics and the Depression
The author questions public faith in optimistic thinking about depression and emphasizes the need to interpret statistics carefully. He notes the mismatch between national income comparisons and emotional well being, urging cautious use of figures while hoping midyear data will improve when compared to last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leasanter
Cooperation Must Begin Soon to Avert Global Crisis
The article argues London accord gives Germany breathing space but crisis not over and calls for a new era of international cooperation. It urges steps beyond the next disarmament conference, including sharp global arms reductions, and stresses no nation can live alone as distress is shared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
Benvenuto Cellini
Cellini
Loggia Dei Lanzi
Firenze
Information Bureau Answers From The Athens Messenger
A Q and A feature lists Frederic J. Haskin and the Athens Messenger Information Bureau offering free guidance. It covers topics from picture values to season ticket costs for Olympic Stadium, Lincoln assassination trials, Wall Street history, U S cemeteries, Balm of Gilead tree location, Statue of Liberty pedestal origins, watermarking paper, and Elks origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington Dco
Olympic Stadium
Lincoln
Wall Street
New York City
Waterloo
New York
United States
The
Elks
Jolly Corks
The Call of the Wild I Dreamed of Hunting Giants
A juvenile speaker recalls childhood dreams of distant hunts in white regions and seas. The desire to track bears whales lions rhinos and Alaskan beasts evolves into a calmer present where nightly duties include swatting mosquitoes. The poem contrasts grand slaughter ambitions with a quieter modern life.
End to distrustful nations and a push for shared progress
The speaker urges nations to temper national pride with common sense and unselfishness, warning that universal brotherhood is not imminent yet. Acknowledging a long road ahead and possible backsliding, the call is for personal action to begin progress now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Universal Brotherhood
A Thought for Today From Jeremiah 23 24
A devotional line reflecting on the Lord’s omnipresence and all seeing nature. The verse asks if anyone can hide and answers that God fills heaven and earth, underscoring divine visibility and presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaven
Jeremiah
Tongue Painting Exhibition Shown by Huang Erh Nan in Canton
Former New Yorker Seckwa Wu witnessed Huang Erh Nan exhibit tongue painting in Canton China. The works resemble contemporary impressionist styles and reflect cross cultural artistic exchange. Kid Beebe fought four pros in one night on June 25 1905 defeating Biss Mackey in one bout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huang Erh-Nan
Seckwa Wu
New York City
China
Canton
Kid Beebe
Biss Mackey
Beebe’s boxing run through New York clubs ends with string of decisions
Beebe fights through Terday’s Cartoon Sharkey club Clermont Club and Longacre Vanderbilt venues in New York and Brooklyn. He wins three bouts by decision and draws one in a 639 fight career, never knocked out though once knocked down. Tomorrow features Women who wear Moustaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharkey A. C
New York
Clermont Club
Brooklyn
Mackey
Eddie Lenney
Longacre Club
Jim Moran
Vanderbilt A. C
Beebe
Unemployment Theory Meets The Automobile Boom
Washington Letter argues that growing goods production and new industries create jobs, countering the view that less machinery means full employment. It traces how the automobile, tires, fuels, accessories, insurance, and servicing have generated vast employment and new steel types and metals demand across multiple sectors.
Interior Decorating booklet from Athens Messenger offers guidance
The Athens Messenger Washington Information Bureau sells a 40 page illustrated booklet on INTERIOR DECORATING for ten cents. It covers period furniture characteristics and color schemes for single rooms, apartments, and houses and promises practical help beyond larger volumes. Order using the coupon provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens Messenger
Washington Information Bureau
Interior Decorating Booklet Request
Information Bureau advertises a booklet on interior decorating and asks applicants to enclose ten cents in coins or stamps along with name street city and state for mailing.
Crafting Tools for Discovery Across Disciplines
The physician who identified appendicitis spurred instrument makers to craft the tool to treat it. The inventor of the camera created demand for head rest and chair makers to support the new device and its use.
Primitive skull sheds light on early human lineage
An early skull discovery is described as the most primitive complete human skull found, with the skull’s back likened to an anthropoid ape. The female remains suggest she lived in a time before Australia split from the continent, and her brain measured about half the size of a modern human brain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
The Interplay of Muscular and Intellectual Systems
The passage argues that muscle supports posture while intellect governs muscle. intellectual curiosity drove early humans to stand and survey surroundings, and later to tilt heads to gaze at the stars, shaping human evolution and behavior.
Shaw Praises Russians Stirring Capitalist Worries
The piece notes George Bernard Shaw praising Russian methods and questions why England did not start such actions. It contrasts his views with those of radicals like Emma Goldman or Upton Sinclair and argues Shaw’s opinions matter less than the true radical’s, while capitalists fear the implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bernard Shaw
England
Russia
Emma Goldman
Upton Sinclair
Shaw
Athens County News Roundup From Old Paper
Athens Gun Club shoot leads list of local figures Dr. BE B Bryan and Dr Lincoln Hulley address Athens County Institute session Automobiles with trailers carry 128 families from New York to Idaho for farming 50 miles southwest of Twin Falls Harding opposed soldier bonus like Grant in 1876 Wheat crop tight in Minnesota North Dakota Black rust oats barley poor corn better hay rack load of youth from Chauncey at John Robinson circus Circulating police on three suspicious characters in town Duffee of Whitaker Paper visits Athens Maplewood Sunnyside Drive residents seek through street extension to May Avenue May Avenue paving underway and land purchases planned for thoroughfare access
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Idaho
Twin Falls
Minnesota
North Dakota
Chauncey
John Robinson Circus
Athens
Roosevelt gain in Democratic race fuels 1929 style opposition fears
Washington dispatch notes Roosevelt's rising odds for the Democratic nomination and warns stallers like Smith and Raskob face a stronger, more coordinated Guffey influence in Pennsylvania and other states. It cites Guffey prompting 60 plus Roosevelt delegates and recalls past bandwagon effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoover
Smith
Roosevelt
Newton D. Baker
Owen D. Young
al Smith
New York
Joe Guffey
Pennsylvania
Guffey
Bill Vare
Kansas City
Vare
Smith-Raskob
Illinois
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Summer Lazy Kids and Parental Guilt
A parent laments Billy and Betty’s lack of summer chores while noting heat and growth slow energy. The piece argues children act by different standards, suggests patient guidance over nagging, and recalls summers of own youth as a corrective to scolding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ness
Betty
Billy
The Risk of Idle Money in Unemployment Crisis
A brief note quoting Shaw on press spin and capitalism. It cites Adolph Ochs on unemployed money versus unemployed men, arguing idle money worsens unemployment as workers stay idle while funds sit unused.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaw
Russia
Adolph S. Ochs
Voorhis Celebrates 102nd Birthday With Election Board
John B. Voorhis presided over the New York City board of elections meeting at 9 yesterday morning. His 102nd birthday underscores the possibility of long life, suggesting that people can live beyond a century and that the prospect may become reality for others in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John BR. Voorhis
New York City
Board of Elections
Mr. Voorhis
Plato on fatherhood and aging powers in society
The excerpt discusses delaying fatherhood to ages sixty to seventy or even ninety to one hundred, aligning with Plato’s views on aging. It mentions the Women’s Christian Temperance Union learning that Mr Voorhis quit smoking after ninety-eight days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr.Voorhis
Crime and threats shock two continents
In Calcutta a British judge was shot dead by a native, and police killed the killer. In Pennsylvania Patrick Fagan, district president of the United Mine Workers, repelled an intruder who declared intent to kill him, shooting the attacker dead. The piece ends with a quip advising against tipping off potential victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta
India
Pennsylvania
Patrick Fagan
United Mine Workers of America
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