Mothers Pensions Urged At District Welfare Conference
The article notes Ohio's early adoption of mothers pension laws and cites Judge Sam M Johnson as a strong advocate for increased funds. It highlights 88 Ohio counties spending 1.46 million dollars last year with potential maximums over 2.65 million, and calls for expanded support to ensure dependent children remain with mothers in a Christian home.
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Ohio
United States
Federal
Children’s Bureau
Logan
Sam M. Johnson
Athens County
Johnson
Division of Charities
Department of Public Welfare
Tragedies of the Hill Country Remembered in Forgotten Graves
The piece recalls mining districts where tiny graves and ruined homes lie forgotten after coal booms. A Muskingum county mother loses two children to illness while away, returning to find her family gone and graves unmarked. Over time new owners erase markers, leaving bone and brush as relics of once bustling hamlets and lives forever altered.
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Muskingum County
Early settlers of Athens County cross mountains to Sunday Creek
Descendant recalls a 19th century tale of Johnnsons from New England buying land west of the mountains. Brothers travel National Pike to Marietta, hire a guide across hills to Sunday Creek banks, build cabins, clearings, plant crops, and face abundant game and dangers.
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Athens County
Jacksonville
Greens Run
New England
National Pike
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Marietta
Sunday Creek
Thrice Happy Chows and Congress in Deadlock
Arthur Brisbane writes from his tower on broad themes of modern life. He compares wealth and poverty across New York and distant cities while noting dramatic, tense scenes from society, crime, and politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ritz Tower
Angel Gabriel
Sunlit Roof Playgrounds Feature Happy Chow Dogs
The roof is divided by neat green fences into playgrounds where chow dogs roll, tumble, and enjoy the sun. They breathe clean air far above fumes and dangers, basking in the healthful actinic rays.
Children Play In Gutter Gardens As Rent Burdens Grow
The passage notes children in the streets dodging trucks and inhaling exhaust as no roofs serve as playgrounds. Fathers face low rents and the writer warns against fussing over the issue, suggesting it could lead to Bolshevism.
King’s horse wins class ic after winter ray treatment
In a note from London, the king’s horse, winner of his majesty’s first class ic race in years, was treated all winter with artificial actinic rays. The report also mentions actinic ray therapy used on valuable apes for climate tolerance in London.
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London
Decoration Day Parades To Honor Civil War Veterans
Civilians attend Decoration Day events with veterans from the Civil War and younger participants displaying golf scores, reflecting community traditions and recollections of the past.
Congress adjourns amid party cheers and nomination talk
The House adjourned amid cheers for Longworth and Dawes. The Senate endorsement hints at Dawes as material for the Republican nomination if Hoover is affected. The article centers on intra party dynamics and the looming nomination question.
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Congress
House
Longworth
Senate
Dawes
Hoover
Women threaten split vote over Hoover nomination
Ladies in politics warn the G O P that they will defect to Smith if Hoover is not nominated. They are likened to a boy who planned to eat worms in the garden, a bitter parable recalling the old quip.
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Hoover
Smith
Chrysler Dodge Merger Sparks Advertising Debate
A columnist warns the Chrysler Dodge automobile merger could lead to concentration in the industry. He notes further combinations might reduce competition and ad demand, while a publisher argues such consolidation could harm ad revenue or, alternatively, benefit the market.
Advertising Drives Automobile Growth In America
The text argues for shifting from a one car family to a two car family and then to a three car family through intelligent advertising. It notes twenty four million cars are in use in America and at least ten million more are needed, urging mass adoption.
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America
Seven Great Statesmen cited for Baron Von Stein life
A note on the tomb of Baron Von Stein honors his seven hundred year rule on the Lahn and his virtues as humble before God and just before men. The passage invites reading about his life in Andrew D. White's Seven Great Statesmen.
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Baron von Stein
Lahn
Andrew D. White
Whittemore Gang Epitaph and Long Jail Terms
Justice in New York chronicles the Whittemore gang’s downfall with Nate Weinzimmer facing about forty years in prison. Leader Richard Reese Whittemore was hanged in Baltimore, Milton Goldberg serves twenty years, and Baltimore Willie Unkelbach along with Leon and Jacob Kraemer receive forty-year sentences in Dannemora. The piece warns young men that crime does not pay.
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Justice
New York
Whittemore
Nate Weinzimmer
Richard Reese Whittemore
Baltimore
Milton
Goldberg
Willie’ Unkelbach
Leon
Jacob Kraemer
Dannemora
Texas hunter returns with seven foot lioness
A Texas farmer while rabbit hunting mistakenly shot a large lioness that measured about seven feet, prompting concern and calls for careful wildlife handling.
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Texas
Health and Diet Advice From Dr Frank McCoy
Health and diet guidance stresses potassium rich foods like tomatoes and celery to aid tissue pliability and acidosis prevention. Questions cover oleomargarine’s origin in 1870 by Mege Mouriles and a nervousness related hand sweating remedy via diet and exercise, with a call for a stamped self addressed reply.
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Frank McCoy
McCoy
Mege Mouriles
Central America
Mary J
Charley the door man and a New York life tale
Special writer recalls Charley a hotel doorman near the Pennsylvania depot. After nine years without leave he vacationed in Vermont but soon craved the Manhattan hustle again. The piece also notes Bible society efforts for diverse languages and a long serving ships’ agent, plus a pig sign at Central Park zoo.
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Charley
Pennsylvania Depot
New York
Central Park Zoo
Cooling drinks cause stomach sensitivity
The reader reports cold liquids trigger a cold and heaviness for weeks. The advised plan is to switch to warm or only slightly cool beverages and avoid very cold liquids, as some stomachs react strongly to cold.
Answers to Questions By Frederick J. Haskin
A compiled Q and A list covers topics from the Communist song International to sugar plastic recipe, listerine composition, ornithopter, Hague Tribunal advocates, law student numbers in New York, New England sheep trends, old samplers, poetry submissions, and the Great Pyramid history with sporadic measurements.
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Frederick J. Haskin
New England
W. B. Kh
New
P. A
William Ellsworth
Great Pyramid of
Egypt
Cheops
Ten Years Ago War Limits Pot and Pan Production
The piece notes wartime limits on aluminum tin and granite to aid the war effort. A motion picture titled The Kaiser The Beast of Berlin played at the Grand theater. George Sherman, son of Mr and Mrs Sherman, was killed in an airplane accident. Over 100 Athens residents visited Athens county soldiers at Camp Sherman.
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Kaiser
Berlin
Grand Theater
George Sherman
Jacob Sherman
Athens
Camp Sherman
Athens County
Athens Lumber worker injured in head and face cut
Twenty years ago J. R. Baker sustained a painful head and face cut while employed at the Athens Lumber company. The Valley Register newspaper of Nelsonsville was sold to F. M. McKay of Logan.
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J. R. Baker
Athens Lumber Company
The
Valley Register
Nelsonsville
F. M. McKay
Logan
Preparations for Memorial Day in Athens and Surrounding Towns
Miss Ida Bowser traveled to Jan caster to attend social functions of women’s clubs in that city as part of Memorial Day preparations in Athens and nearby communities.
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Athens
Ida Bowser
Jancaster
Chain Stores Stir Turmoil as Government Weighs Regulation
Washington report notes rising influence of chain stores on groceries drugs clothing and other goods. Congress backs FTC study and bills to curb unfair practices while critics warn independent retailers may be forced out and prices rise. experts cite rapid growth and extensive cross holdings.
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Rodney Dutcher
Washington
Congress
Senate
Smith W. Brookhart
Federal Trade Commission
Emanuel Celler
New York
National Association of Retail Meat Dealers
Celler
Iie
Clyde Kelly
Pennsylvania
The
Trade Commission
Paul H. Nystrom
Columbia University
Nystrom
Chicago
Denver
Baltimore
Providence
Kansas City
Seattle
Atlanta
Syracuse
Woolwarth
George Soule
New York Stock Exchange
Beno
Monumental Tombs Built by One Hundred Thousand
Herodotus notes the structure required about 100000 workers for twenty years and used as royal tombs. It consumed roughly six million tons of stone across 1 to 2 acres of land for construction.
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Herodotus
This Date in American History June Highlights
Key events listed include 1785 John Adams becoming the first American ambassador to the country. 1792 Kentucky enters the Union. 1796 Tennessee joins. 1861 mail communication with the Confederacy halted and Richmond chosen as Confederate capital. 1908 the two cent postage rate set between the United States and Great Britain.
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John Adams
George I
Kentucky
Tennessee
Richmond
United States
Great Britain
Cross-Word Puzzle Clues Mix While Streetside Phrases Bloom
A muddled crossword clue set references New England coast values money social Angwer yesterday's Fuxuis vertical flavor and a list of cryptic terms. It hints at phrases like punishment fondle stoning death entrance color carmine fright and wear away.
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Carmine
Gloria
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Athens Messenger
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Ohio Select
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Dailies
United Press Service
Authorn A4
Gnas
Air Bus
Luke
Arthur Brisbane
Teufelsdroeckh
By the Way
Ty Gilbert Swan Messenger
Vermont
Manhattan
George W. Carter
New York Bible Society
William G. Jones
Society
New York Harbor
Mr. Jones
International
Eugene Pottier
Adolphe Degeyter
Mountain Park
Phoenix
Arizona
A. Schiey
Sir Joseph Lister
S. WM. A. Ejlhu Burritt
Con Inecticut
England
High Court of Nations
New York City
New England Coast
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