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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1926
Page
4
A 1925 view contrasts two trader types. The merchant pursues aggressive marketing and efficiency to overcome inertia, often thriving, while the storekeeper laments gloom, deterring customers and risking bankruptcy as markets favor proactive rivals.
Western university reports widespread cheating in classes and exams. A faculty student committee urges immediate stricter penalties and student moral campaigns. The piece argues there is no middle ground for students, claiming cheaters remain cheaters after graduation and fairness is essential.
Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden touring America admire New York women and particularly their silk stockings. Princess Louise tells reporters she plans to bring back dozens of silk stockings, praising the well-dressed American woman and criticizing Paris fashion influence.
Sherry, the restaurateur behind the famed Sherry’s in New York, died recently. Though many patrons believed him French, he was born in Vermont to a poor farmer family and built a world renowned dining name. His rise from humble origins to wealth and prestige marked a lasting imprint on American hospitality.
The Rev Tertius Van Dyke will leave his metropolitan New York church after disputes over circus themed demands. He plans to return to rural ministry where he believes traditional preaching draws true crowds. The move divides readers with some urging him to stay and offer steadier sermons.
The piece notes Pepper’s Pennsylvania primary loss cost at least 1.3 million, compares it to Newberry’s campaign, and hints at a boss-driven path to cheap victories. It also mentions Borah planning a coast to coast speech tour as he eyes the presidency, and Dawes and Lowden seeking farmer support.
Wise politicians foresee a tight 1928 race between Al Smith's wet Democratic faction and Calvin Coolidge's dry Republican faction. The contest is framed as a battle of temperance positions shaping party headlines and voter choices.
The Bronx marked its rapid growth as the New York Evening Journal opened a Bronx plant at 149th Street and Mott Avenue with half a million dollars in presses. Borough President Buckner notes quadrupled land values on the Bronx Concourse, with prices rising from 3 000 to 20 000 in three years, and warns, real estate interest surges as the population swells by 800 000 over two decades.
Dr Edward Mayer of Pittsburgh, psychiatry student, asserts Mussolini shows hyperboulic traits described as high drive and reaction to stimuli. He links hyperboulia to strong personalities and notes prohibitionists and dictators share this trait, calling a hyperboulic a go-getter in his dialect.
Dan Crawford, an English missionary, spent years in Africa saving souls. He was held by King Mushidi, who reportedly kept him for years against his will. After escaping, Crawford translated the Bible into several African languages.
The author muses on translating the Sermon on the Mount into African languages and questions how much locals would grasp it, comparing understanding to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. He concludes the Bible relies on inspiration, not reader intelligence.
Canada plans to borrow one hundred fifty million with Wall Street ready to fund the full amount. Officials tout Canada’s obligations as nearly gold standard, contrasting them with weaker European bonds that have lured some American investors.
More competition and price cutting are expected as good cars are produced at very low prices thanks to mass production. Mr Kettinger of GM’s experimental lab shows an American worker using American methods makes thirty times as many finished cars as a European worker, questioning European competition.
The speaker argues that while Europe praises capital and machinery for the automotive edge, moving pictures reveal a different kind of supremacy that cannot be captured by gear alone. He asserts that photography and actors are universal, and real dominance lies in a yet unspecified factor.
The piece notes the League of Nations trusting Dr Coue’s repeating mantras while flagging three acute European war problems and warns that US entry with funds could have sparked early fighting amid Mussolini Kemal Pasha and Bolsheviks.
Congress eyes naturalization hearings by Commissioners of Naturalization to cut judge load and expands the Board of Tax Appeals to hear tax disputes. Prohibition case volume grows, sparking calls to reduce litigation by fewer laws or court reforms. Chief Justice Taft supports simplification but warns against undermining court authority and rigor.
Washington June 15 The Senate mourns as Albert B Cummins loses renomination to Smith W Brookhart from Iowa. Cummins 76, a towering figure for eighteen years, faces a crushing political defeat while colleagues mourn his sudden reversal and reflect on the admin strife over farm relief measures in the West.
The text notes Cummins popularity in the Senate for serving as presiding officer during President Coolidge’s fractional first term without a regularly elected vice president. It describes him as kindly, considerate, and scrupulously fair to both opposition and his own party.
Army band drum major leads all parade formations and conducts marches and drills but does not play. The band master marches to the right with conducting baton and also does not play. Persistence time in movies equals one sixteenth of a second. sixteen frames per second create continuous motion. A boxing championship may be won by a decision, not only a knockout.
The article notes orders to tear down the old hilltop brick building and select a site for a new high school. It mentions a meeting to organize Athens baseball to fill the gap left by college baseball, describes an elm growing from rock near Nelsonville, and recalls A Price Russell as Ohio penitentiary warden and former Athens Journal editor.
The Hum O the Mower shows a lawn scene with a mower on the job. It celebrates outdoor care and the discipline of trimming grass while noting humor about domestic life and marriage.
In a blunt literary vignette the orator struggles to move his audience through a speech he deems life changing. After a pause he asks his wife for help and she bluntly counsels him to pass the hat for involvement and reaction.
The Bureau of Plant Industry states native cedar should not be planted in an orchard because it can carry cedar rust to apples, while other evergreens do not harm. Monaco Principality includes Monaco, Condamine, and Monte Carlo.
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