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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1928
Page
4
The text notes dripping fields and weedy corn and warns of June rise along the Ohio River risking lowland gardens. Streams run muddy while baseball fields stay soggy and days are dreary. Sunshine is hoped to return. readers are urged to watch July and August.
A reflection on wealth not measured by giving or enjoying riches but by the hidden riches buried in the earth and the wisdom to value what lies beneath.
The piece argues ocean flights last summer spurred progress in aviation. National Air Transport plans seven cabin monoplane routes linking Chicago to New York via Toledo Detroit Cleveland. The text credits ocean flights with proving air travel is not riskier than auto travel and paving commercial passenger aviation despite fatalities.
In Athens a snowball bush bridges past and present linking settlers memory to current owners. The shrub survived moves and time, a symbol of home, childhood keepsakes and enduring family life through generations.
The column surveys a politics week with marches for relief, lavish fliers, and public debates. It mentions Lindbergh and the navigator’s praise, the film of political life, and the faded glamour around Hoover and party power. It ends noting Chicago election coverage.
Questions on health and diet are answered by Dr. Frank McCoy who offers articles on proper food combinations exercises for abdominal muscles and enemas. The piece explains digestion with small intestine villi and the role of the colon and toxins in auto intoxication. It includes two reader questions about anemia from orange juice fasting and a chronic throat cough potentially signaling tuberculosis or bronchitis.
A three day fast disturbs you and heightens bilious feelings. To clear jaundice and yellow eyes, extend a fruit fast to at least ten days while monitoring wellbeing and hydration.
In New York on a rain soaked night Mac and his horse drawn cab linger by Central Park near the Plaza. A taxi ride reveals flickering oil lamp glow like a firefly and a weathered cabman in a storm cape. A stroller recalls a baby carriage vendor selling poetry to fund writing with lines about Manhattan as a Babylon and a Greenwich Village poet rumor.
A compilation of Q and A on diverse topics including aviation output in 1927 cigarets manufactured in 1927 pears as a Florida crop church banners and flags dating to Constantine dogwood blossoms elephant lifting capacity and provincial furniture terms
A jumble of crossword prompts asks about who served as secretary of state under Harding, state nicknames, and various word clues across themes like text, science, and geography. The fragment includes garbled lines and stray letters from a puzzle page.
Hugh Gormley and Ambrose Gibbs broke ground for a new theater in Glouster. John Finsterwald named to Athens county board of education. W A Carpenter urged bringing a traction line into Athens city center. Cameron Gullette sang at Ohio University commencement. Secretary Taft of Ohio won nomination at Chicago convention. Prof F Treadley a popular speaker locally. Sun time noted in meeting times. Mayor Hedges and officials investigated poll tax delinquencies.
A Kansas City report reviews conjectures about Southern delegate bids for Hoover, Dawes and Lowden in an election year, and examines farm relief politics. It notes Dawes’s stronger nomination prospects, farmer attitudes, and the political risk of higher prices for both farmers and urban consumers within McNary-Haugen era debates.
The rebellion arose from a North India conspiracy to incite disloyalty in Sepoy regiments. Rumors claimed the new cartridges were greased with cow fat and pig fat, forcing soldiers to violate Hindu and Muslim dietary laws and caste rules.
On this date in history New York City was incorporated in 1665 while Iowa was organized as a territory in 1836. The Oregon boundary was set by treaty in 1845 and poet William Cullen Bryant died in 1878.
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