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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1921
Page
4
The American Engineering Council committee on waste calls organized labor to develop a policy to increase productivity. It cites labor causes about 25 percent of industrial waste and notes employers exceed 50 percent. It urges labor leadership and cohesive action to boost output and secure fair rewards within industry.
A speaker for a large industrial association argues that truthfulness in business can coexist with success. Honesty in advertising and general dealings is presented as the prevailing, modern standard, with timely warning that deceit leaves one behind the times. The piece urges young graduates entering business to adopt truth as the only policy for progress.
Government officials estimate twenty million dollars in annual revenue loss due to drug clerks failing to affix stamps. The inquiry finds that many proprietors would use stamps if required, but clerks are lazy. A sales tax could fix revenue collection, relying on monthly reports from responsible proprietors to deter evasion.
A keen-eyed woman questions a butcher about English mutton while the meat comes from a New Zealand born sheep with English parents. Two boys quarrel over a toy bank until a local financier admonishes the younger to save his money, prompting a witty retort about saving his own.
A Glasgow library returned political writing with penciled notes reading Silly ass across many passages. On the last page a later reader added in ink another hand D a fool this isnt an autograph album.
A mosaic of quips and opinions from a historical page notes quixotic lines on tax timing in June, Lenine on communism, Wall Street gamblers, yacht club knowledge, courts on evidence, beauty standards, self importance, and a satirical parade. It also cites a Eureka Herald landlord on self-billed notices and a July 4 home brew parade, plus a Fathers Day poppy remark and a famous lies gag about a model suit.
Fredéric J. Haskin profiles Amos Batchelder Ger a pioneer of road and air travel who as a longtime American Automobile Association leader championed federal road funding and a national highway system He recounts his early life a farm boy newsboy and printer apprentice and his lifelong drive to improve roads and aviation linking time and space through transportation innovation.
In this Q and A style piece the discussion reveals that original U S forests once covered 822 billion acres and two fifths are gone. It notes annual timber use at 51 billion board feet and asks about saccharin as the sweetest manufactured substance derived from toluol. It also touches on the origin of the name John Doe as fictitious plaintiff and Richard Doe as fictitious defendant.
The Messenger notes the City Federation’s broad work toward cleaning and modernizing the city. It commends a live membership, excellent cooperation, and unselfish civic service by a group of citizens focused on the city’s best interests.
A faded notice offers guidance for readers to submit questions for generic answers. It mentions the Athens paper and legal medical financial topics and asks for full name address and two cents in stamps for return.
A fragment notes a court clerk possibly using a pseudonym in an ejectment action. It covers simple questions on butter purity, ages of Declaration signers, overseas shipments, earth’s velocity, and weight units, ending with a line about Belgian interests exploiting Kingo papyrus for paper stock.
A lively campus vignette set in Athens recounts twilight scenes at Boyd Hall and North Hill, with students courting, a Salvation Army service, and questions about street cars. The column recalls Dan B. Stewart aka Uncle Dan, his mills, and a near fall from a grist mill roof, ending with a light joke about jeans.
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