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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1923
Page
2
D. of A. degree staff will meet at their hall Friday evening. In Washington Rep. Thomas J. Blanton of Texas protested a two minute speaking limit on a bill to raise pay for District of Columbia school teachers, triggering dilatory tactics and required roll calls.
Friends report Paul Pickens severely injured at Tedron Mine No 3 and later operated on at Mt. Carmel Hospital Columbus with part of his lower limb amputated. Basi Lama resigns from the co operative store to devote full time to a monumental business venture.
The latest violence in Ireland targets municipal water systems. A rebel bomb exploded leaving Athlone’s water works in ruins and underscoring the ongoing clash with De Valera’s followers.
For 24 hours the crew clung to rigging before rescue by lifeboats and coastguards off the English coast. The Adolf Vinnen ship lies wrecked and nearly submerged in the sea as the dramatic saving effort unfolds.
London reports a major expansion of Croydon airfield under Sir Sefton Francker to handle rising traffic between Vendyn and the continent. The scheme adds new ground, separate arrival and departure platforms, doubled landing space, larger offices and depots, and a dominant wireless tower for weather data.
The phrase appears nonsensical for a news item and lacks identifiable people, organizations, places, or events to summarize into a reportable card.
An European discovery marketed as Korex compound claims to restore vigor quickly through a home tablet treatment. It appeals to the elderly, promises 24 to 36 hour benefits and guarantees refunds if no results after one week, with mail order from Melton Laboratories in Kansas City.
Navy and government sources had not confirmed reports from Manila that an explosion aboard the USS Hulbert killed six sailors. The wartime dispatches remained unverified late the afternoon.
Eveline Bolton, born March 18 1779 and died December 24 1922, reportedly lived nearly 126 years. The Georgia state health board authenticated the long life with church and family records showing 16 children, 48 grandchildren, and 191 great grandchildren.
Berlin and Budapest gain faster cross border communications with Siemens automatic telegraph machine. The device sends about 100 words a minute, far above the 40 words a minute typical in the United States. Other high speed gear handles Berlin to New York radio service with tape fed senders and automatic tape receivers.
A reflective note emphasizes prioritizing savings over expenditures, urging prudence and long term fiscal planning for future needs and goals.
The Chicago crime commission led by Northwestern University's Robert H. Gault finds criminals are shaped by home environments rather than mental abnormality. It notes feeble mindedness rates in delinquents mirror the general population and cites data from Boston youth studies and reformatories. About 50 percent of 7,500 boy inmates come from crippled families with dead or separated parents, suggesting early familial disruption links to delinquency. 25.3 percent of children 16 and under belong to such families.
In Paris the Fauvettes or warblers mark their 22nd year singing on streets not as birds but as working women and song girls. From 120 in 1909 to over 400 by 1914 they keep live tunes amid war, with free lunch hour lessons on corners and crowds buying song sheets for a franc.
An early 20th century advertisement extols Father John's Medicine as a safe family tonic. It claims 67 years of proven success and emphasizes building strength after influenza or pneumonia, soothing breathing passages, and aiding recovery.
In Astoria Oregon ashes found in a safe corner from a $600 roll after a recent fire were redeemed by the Treasury Department. Federal experts identified all but three five dollar bills and offered $585. Dr. E Nelson Neulen agreed to settle on that basis.
The first log house built by white men in Colorado was raised in 1816 for a Spanish cavalry troop patrolling Arkansas near Pueblo.
An 1855 prescription for Father John's Medicine is described as a powerful body builder. The text cites recent research claiming cod liver oil is vastly richer in vitamins, contributing to weight and strength gains for users and praising the medicine's scientific refinement.
The second trial arising from the Werrin mine massacre of last June was completed today.
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