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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1924
Page
4
A 1840 cabinet curiosities era view praises rising luxury in ships and ocean liners while warning against vanity. The piece notes steamboat progress, cruising palaces, and compares past marvels to today’s flying machines, urging investors to rely on banks and agencies to avoid fraud and losses.
The piece notes the public wasted vast sums in 1914 through dubious ventures, estimating billions in losses and underlining a broad indictment of common financial judgment. It cites authority figures criticizing the era’s investment choices and urges caution in future capital ventures.
The bulletin from the Department of Agriculture states windbreaks protect crops and yield valuable timber. Commerce tests show benefits exceed costs and soil needs, urging public support as timber shortages rise and agriculture encourages timber resources nationwide.
The House backs the Butler navy bill restoring the 5 5 3 ratio, funding eight cruisers and converting six battleships to oil burners at 150 million dollars. It marks the most extensive program since WWI, with river gunboats to follow and potential Orient tasks. The move aims to prevent naval deterioration while noting future uncertainty about conditions. The nation should keep vessels in constant preparedness for instant battle readiness.
The piece outlines Peyote ceremonies among Plains tribes, their religious purpose, and public debate in Congress over whether peyote is an injurious drug or a sacred practice. It notes confusion with mescal, describes the circle ceremony, songs, visions, and varying methods of ingestion, and cites Smithsonian expert J. N. B. Hewitt on ritual aspects and safety concerns.
The article recounts doctor led experiments with peyote on human subjects, noting intensified colors, vivid blue skies, and unusual color sight but with nausea lassitude and potential respiratory risk. It reports links between vision and hearing and rare after effects as nerves slowly readjust. No Indian peyote group has been systematically tested for cumulative or lasting mental effects.
The piece notes Jews leaving Russia amid anticipated pogroms after the Soviet collapse, with immigration trends toward the United States Europe and Palestine discussed alongside anti Semitic currents in Germany and elsewhere. It also touches on US politics with references to Coolidge and remarks about Diana Manners and Britain's mandate in Palestine.
A New Yorker laments the nation's bootleg problem and urges pro tax shifts toward prohibitive taxes on gin and whiskey. The writer argues Jefferson favored taxing hard spirits and promoting light wines and beers, predicting slow adoption over decades.
Reader inquiry service from The Athens Messenger invites questions to the Information Bureau in Washington D C. It states it cannot give legal medical or financial advice, cannot settle domestic troubles or conduct research, and asks for full name address question and two cents postage for return mail. Replies go directly to the inquirer.
A compilation of questions and answers covers using an air mattress in pools, foreign investments in the United States estimates for 1914 1920 and 1923, tiger native ranges and migration, tidal timing between Boston and San Francisco, Presidents of the Continental Congress, and a Maryland Virginia barley tonnage value survey from 1930.
A disjointed set of Q A lines covers a variety of facts and quotes. Topics include Louisiana 1918 grain markets, the New York Post Office inscription attribution to Herodotus, what a cow cud is, and the Stone Crabs organization based in Belleair Florida with George Ade linked to leadership.
Bucyrus Ohio on June 4 reports a candidate for the meanest man contest while a lawnmower used by the Kings Daughters Home for Orphan Children was stolen.
Rocky Kansas remains dominant in the ring, landing a decisive first knockdown on Johnny Dundee and a later stoppage against Freddie Jack the Englishman. The Buffalo veteran keeps pace at the title level with strong punching power and steady aggression.
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