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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1921
Page
7
A playful look at homebrewing as a popular indoor pastime during prohibition, with jokes and quips from newspapers and films. The piece notes audiences enjoy comedic homebrew remarks shown in Topics of the Day films and cites several quips from various papers.
The 197th annual report of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society notes widespread global disturbances shaping missions. Rockefeller gifts totaling 2 million established a permanent fund, while $267,000 funded relief in China and Europe amid inflation, famine, and political changes. India's postwar awakening is highlighted as historic.
A National Geographic Society bulletin describes Tarnowitz Beuthen Koenigshutte and Katowice in Upper Silesia as seized by Polish insurgents seeking control of the coal rich district. Beuthen is the oldest, with about 68 000 residents, while Koenigshutts and Katowice grew after mid 18th century coal and metal industries.
An 1890s style patent remedy ad promotes Othine double strength to remove freckles with a money back guarantee. The text then shifts to a Civil War veteran Hiram Burden of Olive township Meigs county Ohio, who died May 29 1921 after pneumonia, with a life sketch detailing service from 1862 to 1865 and family. The obituary notes his farm life in Frost and Reedaville and burial in Beedeville cemetery.
Ruth homered in an exhibition game at Columbus as Otto Knabe took over managing the Kansas City American Association club.
The Upper Silesian district hosts Konigschutte with its large iron works and Kattowitz a major coal market and Polish center. Tarnowitz is smaller but metallurgical, and nearby Beuthen fends off Russian raids as Germany defends key munition centers.
Washington reports that Secretary Hughes has ruled unauthorized reports about State Department activities must stop. The move accompanied a strong repudiation of a dispatch by a press association on renewal of the Anglo Japanese alliance.
In Evanston Illinois a pioneer class of 120 fourth to sixth graders enjoyed a 15 minute Pacific coast film produced by the Society for Visual Education. Students reported stronger geography understanding from moving pictures and many urged more film lessons over traditional books.
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