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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1925
Page
4
A brief spiritual note quotes I John 4 7 about loving one another and the divine in love. It adds William Law on how love is the spirit of truth and happiness in the soul.
A satirical reflection on commencement speeches and public rhetoric. The speaker mocks sentimental grading, overblown orations, and the rise of cynical leaders who push dogma with certainty while critics seek simpler pleasures like a nickel cigar.
The piece rails at calls for invading Mexico amid Mexican tensions and criticizes a Tennessee school board moving away from a Darwin based biology text. It quotes Arthur Hunt claiming evolution as fact and discusses broader public reaction to these controversial moves.
The author urges disregarding overzealous citizens who push annexation for profit and calls for calm orderly procedure under international law to address Mexican issues, stressing no reason for wild excitement and advocating dignity for the United States.
The piece humorously suggests gifts for Father’s Day on June 21 urging neckties socks garters belts suspenders tobacco and even buttoning to mark each year of his age. It notes haberdashers promote the idea and pokes fun at traditional gifts.
The Grace Dodge Hotel in Washington operates without tipping and employs pay for meals. It began during World War I to address housing but now houses both women and men, with many double rooms and baths. Miss Lindsley leads a female head of department and oversees a staff of about fifty hires, plus a hundred over a year. Employees receive annual paid vacations and a Christmas fund shared by guests. The hotel trains college girls and helps mothers with children by providing nurses and child care services.
In New York on June 18 Fred O'Brien and many literary figures including Benny Leonard Sinclair Lewis Clarence Darrow and Samson Raphaelson were observed among street life and club scenes. A Grace Dodge Hotel piece praises women run operation and staff pay equity while a child friendly dining room story reflects modern housekeeping. Visitors include Dr Louise Stanley and Miss Lindsley with a Christmas party description at a hotel drawing 400 guests and carols by local churches.
A collage of notes on figures seen in Broadway life including cartoonist Art Young and writer Peter Kyne, performer Fay Templeton, violinist Godfrey Ludlow, and social reflections on death and fashion. Includes a joke anecdote from a column and a playful aside about Plum Island’s ferry.
A woman in New York killed herself leaving all her fortune to her first husband whom she had forced into marriage. She disinherited her real husband and penned a final letter praising the first husband. The piece warns wives to heed signs of neglect and temptation.
A deceased American woman in Paris left instructions for a large bonnet of roses to be placed in her arms as she lay dead, part of her final wishes. The fragment suggests a personal, somber gesture tied to her last acts and remains incomplete in the text.
The passage envisions historians compressing two world war eras into a single sentence. It imagines 200 years hence rewriting 1914 as Germans following a Kaiser into war, initially disastrous, later offset by a prosperous republic.
Investigators allege Livermore sold 50 thousand 10 bushel lots of wheat he did not own, dumping prices. The plunger selling short contrasts with farmers who raise crops, as officials hint at firm regulatory measures in response to market manipulation and huge profits.
The day’s commentary states the United States seeks no quarrel with Mexico and that Americans hold friendly feelings toward their southern neighbor. It emphasizes good relations with Mexico as neighbors and reassures that no actions will jeopardize the cordial ties.
The remark suggests that what Calles said to us mirrors what we would have said to him in response to a complaint like his. It emphasizes that the issue is not the complaint's justice but the mutual aversion of nations to criticism.
Captain James V. Martin predicts twenty years hence commercial aviation will dominate travel and distribution. He argues planes will surpass ships and submarines, require bases, and render battleships obsolete. He warns that future warfare centers on a decisive first strike with no defense against planes.
The dialogue explores whether bulk freight will move by air or remain with ships. Martin argues oceans tie up capital and time, while planes could serve oil interests seeking faster delivery despite higher costs. The exchange weighs long hauls, fuel, crews, and the economics of new rail and air options.
German scientists led by Dr. Ida Tacke announce the discovery of two additional elements leaving three still undiscovered. The progress follows Mendeleev's early table of ninety five elements forming all substances observed in earth air and sea, as shown by spectroscopic study.
The moderation league notes a 120 percent rise in drinking in thirty four southern cities under prohibition claiming the increase is statewide. It argues the problem is not regional taste but the whisky quality now being more dangerous to drink nationwide.
A Cincinnati Times-Star note remarks on mid-summer fur advertising while a Columbus Dispatch quips about snow shovels and skates offered for sale in August reflecting off-season goods. The exchange hints at seasonal retail humor.
The Ohio Crescent News reports that dry chiefs plan to extend the alcohol struggle into interior regions, noting several specimens already showing signs of this shift.
A Beacon Journal note discusses a controversy over decency in art with strong opinions on artistic merit and public standards. The brief reflecting reader sentiment highlights tensions between cultural expression and community norms in Akron.
A rustic verse about craving a ripe melon and retreating to shade. The speaker imagines picking a big round melon and eating until sick, savoring the juicy payoff and the gleam of juice in the eye.
A humorous verses captures HAL COCHRAN'S speaker craving a ripe southern melon. He jokes about eating in rustic style, vows to save seeds, and plans to grow his own melon next year despite the temptation today.
A Q and A roundup notes top US surnames from a WWI era survey led by Smith Johnson and Brown. It also states cavalry horses walk about four miles per hour. A piece on nude movement in central Europe cites groups like Band of Sun Friends and Nacktkultur and notes 500,000 to 3,000,000 adherents. It also covers automatic telephone systems reducing local operators, with 30 to 90 percent removed depending on exchange size.
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