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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1922
Page
4
Deputies sworn in by Justice JC Adams seized a bootleg operation at the old Big Four mine. The haul included a two-boiler still welded from corroded copper, a top coil, a flour paste lid, mash containers, a coal oil storage setup, and a 52 gallon barrel with about eight gallons of stock. An investigation continues with no one at home at discovery.
The Vatican shapes a policy on duelling across Europe amid a revival of the field of honor after the war. The discussion centers on moral and legal implications and how clergy views align with emerging postwar codes of conduct.
The present immigration law expires in 30 days, with the House voting to extend operations for a year and the Senate expected to follow. The 8 percent restriction has eased intake to perhaps 300,000 this year, but advocates seek a permanent policy and a system allowing selection in origin countries or ports. The House committee will draft a new law to replace the current measure, aiming for stability for several years and a return to normal business conditions.
The Department of Commerce reports 1921 export volume matched 1920, despite deflation in value. Valuation fell but shipments remained strong, signaling a solid export base as conditions improve. Last year’s exports valued at 4.485 billion dollars, well above 1913-14 levels of 2.364 billion.
A young girl rebuffs a millionaire twice her age claiming even Cupid cannot move her stone heart. Perkins and Brown spot an old buddy, Bill Bristow, whom Perkins recalls married early in the war, noting his discharge dates.
A Georgia town’s leading Black residents open a bank and invite Black depositors. A visitor named Jim Johnson arrives asking for ten dollars, claiming to have deposited funds six months earlier, but the cashier confirms there is no such balance and jokes the interest was eaten.
A satirical reflection on biblical promises, Lincoln era politics, postwar peace hints, and a Kansas City loan scandal. The piece riffs on taxes and elopement humor while noting the first stirrings of peace and voting rights for women amid playful jests.
Washington reports the Chemical Warfare Service is converting war gases for peaceful uses. Projects include safer ship fumigation, ammonia leak protection, gas masks with new absorbents, pest control, forest fire control, and industry applications like odorless perfume from chlorine-based gases, charcoal production, and insecticides.
The Athens Messenger Watch Dog column blends a March day’s woes with humor as debts, weather, and shopping gloom clash with a breezy narrator who finds joy in small comforts. Letters from readers in California and Ohio showcase the paper’s community reach and light features.
U. S. Army Corps Chief of Engineers says a bridge across the Mississippi near New Orleans could be built but plan not feasible due to high costs. Delawar e bridge justification rests on linking Camden and Philadelphia despite expense. Maple sugar production in 1920 US estimated at 36,373,080 pounds from tapping 19,031,325 trees. Gulf of Gabes location noted in relation to the U S S Utah.
Funds raised at tonight's college lecture course go entirely to the Red Cross for charity work in Athens County. Organizers urge attendance to help the relief effort.
The Athens Messenger advertises a reader information bureau run by Frederic J. Haskin offering to answer questions. It states the bureau provides information only and cannot give legal medical or financial advice, requests full name and address, and two cents postage.
Broadwell Mrs Hattie Cook evangelist of Columbus has helped in the revival and returned Friday. Families from Athens New Marshfield Amesville and Lathrop visit over the weekend. Jerry Conant, bedbound two years after a mine accident, suffers colds. An ad about a West Virginia non union mine led to a failed job and a long return home from Charleston. Jievorts have been circulated in the community.
Dr. J. M. Knowlton died in Youngstown at midnight from convulsions after taking a dose of medicine mistaken for a stomach remedy. Coroner Hays ruled the death accidental.
Foster B. Houston aged 55 former president of the Houston Bank South Charleston Ohio was found dead Wednesday afternoon at his daughter Mrs John Quinns home in Cincinnati Officials say his death was caused indirectly by worry over the bank failure of his institution
Pope Pius XI has excommunicated Duke Torlonia for fighting a duel. The action signals the Vatican’s stance on personal honor and conduct among Italian nobility as tensions rise in Rome.
The advertisement claims a teaspoonful of California Fig Syrup opens the bowels within hours, removing poison and waste from a child’s system. It targets sick, feverish, colicky, or cranky little ones and urges mothers to choose genuine California Fig Syrup with bottle directions.
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