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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1930
Page
4
The Athens Messenger printing company announces publisher and editor credits, contact lines, and advertising rates. Subscription options include yearly, half year, ten weeks, and quarter year plans for Ohio readers, with pricing and mailing details.
A columnist laments food styling over substance in American dining. He argues that cooks overemphasize appearance, citing sugar in corn bread and te tomatoes, urging traditional grains, proper textures, and genuine flavors to sustain the home fires. He defends old fashioned methods and criticizes modern alterations.
A nostalgic portrait of patched clothing and evolving male dress. It notes old time wearers with worn patches signaling bank accounts, praises denim blue, gray tweed, and patched elbows, then surveys changing men’s fashion from plus fours to new silhouettes. It contrasts frugal times with emerging individuality in town and city styles.
A March dispatch profiles early lives of major entertainment figures. Belle Baker, Eddie Elkens, Fred Waring, John Golden, Flo Ziegfeld, Edger Selwyn, George Kelly, Jed Harris, B. A. Roele, Lasky, Louis B. Mayer, Lewis Selznick, Frank Harris, Ponselle Sisters, Constance Bennett, Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, Mae West and Arthur Hammerstein, tracing how humble beginnings and unlikely paths led to fame in vaudeville, theater, and cinema. The piece blends anecdotes of training, jobs, and breaks that launched storied careers.
Readable excerpts show labor unrest with demands for work and free rent, plus debates on prohibition and its political implications. Commentary by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and General Atterbury weighs economic consequences, moral duty, and public safety measures amid evolving policy and social pressures.
Health column by Dr Frank McCoy discusses sweet potato virtues, storage, and cooking methods. It includes recipes and dietary advice, plus readers questions on rheumatism remedies and a tuberculosis case, with medical guidance on bowels, slippery elm, and hydration.
Washington March 1 Herbert Hoover nears the end of his first year as president and confronts tough issues. Domestic political frictions, foreign affairs, and farm relief loom, with naval disarmament talk in London unlikely to reduce armaments. Congressional elections could shift supports, party governance rifts persist, and enforcement debates mark ongoing policy fights.
A quiz style page answers queries about George Cohan Broadway Tynes 1917, demography, Confucius dates, clergy children study, World War I casualty figures, brick pavements since 1872 in Charleston, Jack Little biography, Sherlock Holmes first story 1887, and Edam cheese named after Edam town in North Holland.
Biss C Augusta of West Washington Street celebrated her 70th birthday with a midday luncheon Monday attended by twenty guests. Exalted Ruler election at BPOE named EB H Walker as leading knight and M Z YTwisk as secretary with J P Rocky as treasurer. Mrs Bessie Golden Cable of Pittsburgh visits her parents, Maj or and Mrs Llmer Golden. Mary Chambers Teft today for a several days visit to Lancaste r and Columbus.
A compact editorial style note presenting a daily English usage lesson. It highlights misused words such as lured, fidelity, and consumption, and suggests focusing on correct pronunciation and spelling. The piece emphasizes expanding vocabulary by mastering one word per day and cautions against copying or misusing terms.
A fragment describes a public forum note about Mr der Jonas serving six years as marshal of Triple IF Just Sant. It mentions an unexpired term of Abner Biddensin and a recent election last November. The text is garbled with several place and name distortions.
Readable fragments reflect a geographic query about eras and locations with scattered letters and parenthetical markers. The text appears incomplete and lacks clear events, entities, or formulate a discoverable news item for a standalone card.
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