Legion Drum Corps Inspires Memorial Day Parade
The American Legion drum and bugle corps from Athens made its first appearance on Memorial Day, adding color to the annual parade. The piece reflects on veterans, the legacy of fife and drum music, and hints at shifts in local military and civic tradition.
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American Legion of Athens
Athens Hills
Grand Army
Legion
Veterans’ Organization
Ohio
Legion Corps
Athens
American Legion
Weathering Ohio Spring Brims With Green Growth
The 1931 crop of 17 year locusts hints at abundant vegetation and egg laying for future broods. Rainy spring across Ohio renews meadows fruit trees and gardens, easing drought. Road work slows briefly but vacation travel rises as streams fill and water tables stay normal. An airplane landed in Athens and refueled at a station.
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Ohio
Athi
Practical joke leads to hoax party after New York win
A Manhattan hearse driver learns of a supposed pool win and throws a grand party for friends, only to discover the tale was a hoax arranged by undertakers between funerals. The piece weaves a theater anecdote with a backstage racehorse bet prank from old stock-company days.
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Manhattan
Pete
Astoria
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Charlie Ruggles
Olf
Los Angeles
Moroses
Louis Store
Rogeie
Victor Schertsinger
Ruggles
Victor
Louis Stone
Stone
Athen IInformation Bureau Answers Scholarly Queries
The document presents a Q A format where Frederic J. Baskin directs readers to the Athens Information Bureau for inquiries. It includes questions about Venezuela meaning little Venice, the Russian siege of the Preemyat fortress, authenticity of The Virginian characters, and England's education minister.
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Masein
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Venice
Lake Maracaibo
Preemyat
Radko Dimidriev
Selivanov
Conference of Birds and Poem Reflections
A poem describes a mock conference of rooks and crows in evening, with birds debating as humans do, followed by notes on Trial Day decorations and flowers boosting local business in Ath ens and surrounding towns. A closing Thought remarks on sin as a temptation connected to the devil attributed to John.
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Athens
Ile
Strange rites and balloon legends span eras and places
An aged account describes Aissaouas in North Africa performing self mutilation under religious frenzy in Kairouan, contrasted with Hamadschay customs. It also recounts a 1920 Fairfax balloon experiment that frightened 2 000 cattle near San Gabriel and notes a German castle name meaning Cat's Elbow linking to Katlen tribes. Tomorrow: The State Where an Encyclopedia is unlawful.
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Aissamuaa
Sdi Mohammed
Aisua
North Africa
Hamadschay
Zaouia
Kairouan
Tunis
Cattmelibocus
Teutoburg Forest
Germany
Lehua Light rises on remote Pacific island beacon
A new automatic gas lighthouse 702 feet above Lehua Island in the central Pacific now sends a white beam across 20 miles, improving navigation near the Hawaiian group. The installation faced harsh conditions, birds and reef cliffs, with six month inspections planned.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Pacific Ocean
Central Pacific
Hawaiian Group
Lehua
Bicate
Orient
United States Lighthouse Service
Pacific
Athens Messenger Publishes New Official Road Map
The Athens Messenger promotes a new road map produced by AAA cartographers. The map covers major resort areas and touring objectives with highway numbers and pavement details and includes a reverse side with state and DC motor vehicle laws, U.S. routes, mileage charts, and touring data. Readers can order by sending a coupon with name, address, and fifteen cents.
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American Automobile Association
District of Columbia
U. S
Pope Cancels Italian Eucharistic Congress Amid Unrest
The Pope, facing anti religious agitation and hostility in Europe, cancels the Italian Eucharistic Congress planned this week. He notes sadness on his birthday and isolation, once supported by Spain and Austria, now distant as anti religious outbreaks spread. Senator King of Utah criticizes the national debt and warns taxpayers will rebel if the burden persists.
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Europe
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Austria
King
Utah
Capital buys and sells old gold at U S mints offices
Washington reports that many people try to sell old collar buttons rings and wedding keepsakes to the U S mints and assay offices for cash or metal. The process requires $100 minimum value and most sales go through pawnbrokers or traveling buyers.
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Rodney Dutches Menenger
Washington
Uncle Sam
U. S
Aasay Ortiveso
Far West
U. 5S
Mint Bureau
Philadelphia
Denver
San Francisco
Seattle
Boise
Heleda
Salt Lake City
Carson
Nev
New Orleans
New York City
Bureau of the Mintsers
About Your Children and The Hazing Dilemma
A narrator discusses how hazing and stigma in schools harm boys and girls, citing a case of a "Queen Httie" boy bullied for being educated and well mannered. The boy moves to a private school and finds happiness, while a mother plans to move her son to a better community to protect him from abuse and help him thrive.
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Httie
America
Hin Crandmether
Probing the Nation’s Debt and Prohibition Critique
The piece rails at taxation and national debt while condemning wartime spendthrift and prohibition policy. It argues the United States bears enormous fiscal burdens from bonds and mortgages, questions the value of human intelligence, and blasts self governing leaders as idle. It condemns New York City spending, wartime costs, profiteers, and European disdain.
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Northcliffe
New York
United States
Europe
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