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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1921
Page
4
The Athens Chamber of Commerce reports a year of productive cooperative effort led by a capable secretary. Members credit teamwork with community progress and strong leadership for future ambitious goals and greater accomplishments.
The article notes that civilian accident tolls exceed wartime losses, with 126000 American civilians killed in peacetime accidents and 9 million wounded or injured at work and in daily life. It highlights the National Safety Council and legal groups, and Portland Oregon efforts to incorporate safety education in schools and civic instruction.
Six young actors ordered to report for mal attire were driven to a suburb and taken to a funeral home where they learned they would serve as professional pallbearers for a funeral scene. They performed the roles to earn wages amid a depression in the film industry.
A small boy struggles with a heavy hand-cart up a steep hill and rejects a clergyman's offer to help. The clergyman suggests pushing zigzag, but the boy retorts demanding a shove instead.
In a lighthearted exchange, Little Miss Gwendolyn chats with a wealthy widower about a doll. He asks if the doll should have hair like hers, but Gwendolyn declares the next doll should mimic her mother so hair can be swapped.
The piece mocks film reforms and movie logic with wry proverbs and social satire. A. A. Thomas is quoted imagining risqué scenes replaced by distant sofa seating and a marriage certificate. The text reflects humorous views on cinema and public morals.
A man argues with a taxicab and wins second prize a fractured arm. He receives one thousand berries from the company and checks from four accident insurers. He notes he would do the same, while remarking on celluloid collars fading among farmers.
The New York season features English infants ready for adoption by childless Americans through a joint British American Adoption Committee. Fifteen babies arrived with nurses and a doctor, then were dispersed to New York families, many from socially prominent homes. Miss Clara B. Spence notes strong demand and cites English law as more favorable for transfer of guardianship and inheritance rights. The Alice Chapin Nursery emphasizes individual care and affection, arguing that early attention supports healthier outcomes for adopted infants and mothers alike.
The Chapin Nursery acts as a clearinghouse rescuing babies from various places and keeping them until good homes are found. Foundlings, often with little known about them, are cared for until guardians secure suitable placements. The Chapins guarantee their babies.
Herbert Hoover argues that national progress hinges on continual productivity gains and that converting today’s luxuries into tomorrow’s necessities drives growth. He cites advertising as a force to educate habit and expand demand, highlighting the California Fruit Growers cooperative campaign that spent over $1 million last year to cut distribution costs and boost consumption.
A long Q and A piece covers world universities, early American shoe industry, French ivory cleaning, capital punishment, learn by heart, stamps in 1812, Civil War medal rules, orange advertising impact, and how advertising has driven cheap, broad access to goods. It argues advertising educates consumers and lowers prices via increased production and distribution.
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