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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1922
Page
4
The Athens Messenger lists advertising rates on application and mentions nominal charges for obituary cards and notices for banks. It notes national representatives Robert E. Ward Inc with offices in New York City and Chicago and provides contact details.
A Michigan Parent-Teacher Association campaign gathers signatures on a written pledge urging modest school dress, limits on social activities and dances, and parental oversight of teens. The document promotes home gatherings and stricter compliance with curfews, driving laws, and school rules to curb youth issues. France reportedly plans to make Paris a seaport at an estimated cost of 440 million dollars.
John Hope, MP for twenty two years, has never given a speech. He admits nothing to say and notes his restraint may show prudence compared with some MPs and congresses. A New York man built an apartment house and named it after his dog, a playful jab at naming trends.
A long married couple exchanges simple, tender notes across distance. The wife at the seashore writes for support while the husband replies from town, each letter mirroring the same soft, affectionate tone and steady rhythm.
The article notes ongoing dredging of the Seine, canal digging, and bridge building. It mentions some French insistence that the French debt to the American Treasury cannot be paid.
A collection of humorous vignettes opens with a groom-to-be debating bans with a vicar and his future rival sister. In Kentucky, an English traveler learns a church is the town’s only place where you cannot buy a drink, prompting a dry punchline.
A humorous verse recounts a man’s sobering experiences with doctors and dentists. He visits multiple physicians, endures pills and diets, endures X rays, loses teeth, and laments ongoing aches and a bent back, seeking relief from medical folly.
Frederic J. Haskin surveys how the U.S. Government is adopting business methods to cut waste and coordinate agencies. He cites liquidation boards, coordinated purchasing, real estate consolidation, and a federal traffic board, with millions saved and improved accountability.
The Athens Messenger Information Bureau answers questions on topics like legal ethics tomato varieties for canning and long postal routes. It lists computing answers from named individuals and organizations with brief explanations and practical guidance.
A compact series of Q and A items covering Paine’s Crisis origins during Washington’s Delaware retreat, Pall Mall’s name origin from pall game, corundum as a hard mineral next to diamond, the burgeo as a sailor’s oatmeal porridge, and Senator Crane’s brief Treasury appointment offer in 1901.
A condensed note recalls Cleveland's Gazette appeared in 1818 as Ohio's first newspaper. It lists notable figures including governor George Hoadly born in 1810 in New Haven and Phoebe Cary who died in Newport in 1871, and Philadelphus Van Trump who died in Cincinnati in 1874.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during the sickness and death of our loved one.
Akron reports George K. Morris, 28, is in city hospital with a chest wound after a confrontation at his separated wife’s home. His brother in law Charles Alexander is jailed on a charge of shooting to kill after Morris allegedly forced entry and struck relatives. A youth fired from a bedroom window, striking Morris.
Davis Walsh reports on a Boston Braves deal that sends players and money toward 1922 World Series plans. The proposed emblem at the Polo Grounds may symbolize the season for both New York clubs, while others view it as a commercial ploy amid looming doubleheaders.
The $5,000 forfeit Lew Tendler claimed after Benny Leonard failed to box him in Philadelphia last summer has been returned with a friendly note wishing Leonard future success.
Cincinnati July 1 A F Hannes superintendent of the Casington division of the C and O railroad said a telegram from W J Harahan president denying a Washington newspaper report that the line planned peace negotiations with its striking employees. The highest clouds reach ten miles above our heads.
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