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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1920
Page
1
The piece traces bathing suit styles from heavy dress-like outfits to modern skimpy one-piece designs. It notes dramatic changes in hemlines and stockings, with reformers and fashion fixers shortening skirts and ruling out stockings as styles evolved.
Paris dispatch reports Italian Premier Nitti urging the council of premiers to reopen the peace treaty with Hungary. He argues the Adriatic pretext benefits Hungarian aims and questions ongoing Turkish policy in Constantinople. The piece notes heated debates about Allied postwar obligations and US reactions.
Pasadena report says the Cubs cut holdouts to ten after Charley Deal, the third baseman, agreed to the club’s proposal. Manager Mitchell confirmed the deal. Barber and Newkirk remain unpaid and have not reported.
Jack Sharkey out pointed Roy Moore of St Paul in a ten round match here last night Sharkey won seven rounds to Moore's three in Detroit boxing action.
Daniel Bougland aged 28 was electrocuted in Cleveland when he touched copper prongs of an electric switch at the Pork Drop Forge Plant. He died en route to the hospital.
Columbus officers urge ex service men to reinstate war risk policies before July 1. Captain H W Chesley notes 25 percent of Columbus veterans let policies lapse due to lack of information.
Charles Martindale aged 60 died in a Columbus hospital from the effects of wood alcohol said to be in whiskey. His place of residence was listed as unknown. The incident is treated as an accidental poisoning in the report from Columbus Ohio.
The American consulate in Zurich Switzerland was partly destroyed by a bomb explosion last night. the State Department was advised today.
Charleston March 4 The West Virginia state senate adjourned without ratifying the national suffrage amendment. The prior House vote was 47 to 42 in favor, while the Senate tied 14 to 14 on reconsideration of its defeat last Monday.
Chicago court reports Judge Hebel refused to quash indictments charging a conspiring scheme against a teen in a case tied to a million dollar matter. The brief notes the iminal court proceedings and the continuing legal actions in Chicago.
Senator James J. Walker introduced a bill in Albany classifying beverages with 2.75 percent alcohol or less as non intoxicating. It would allow sale of beers and light wines in hotels restaurants and by wholesalers and retailers for home use. Retail sales must not be consumed on premises. The measure mirrors a prior proposal defeated over saloon opposition and was referred to the judiciary committee.
A Black student at Douglas School for Negroes in Cincinnati struck his colored teacher in the arm in front of 45 students. He did so after blaming her for a whipping given by the principal.
London report states Switzerland’s national council approved joining the league of nations, removing the prior condition that entry depended on the United States joining.
Hickman Kentucky influenza ravages town with many deaths forcing cemetery to sell out. Mayor J O West purchases two acres for future burials due to epidemic this winter.
Chicago March 4 Colonel W C Proctor head of the wood committee says his candidate will be on the ballot in every presidential primary except possibly California.
Mrs Eunice Irene Howard of Jer seyville died at one a m of neuralgia of the heart, hours after attending her husband Andrew Jackson Howard's funeral. She was 76. he 94. Burial beside him is planned at Mt Zion Church Saturday at 1 pm with interment in the cemetery.
Madison authorities warn Athens merchants about a bad check artist posing as a student. The crook loiters near campuses and shops, buys items, then uses fraudulent checks. He has been linked to Wisconsin events and was last heard heading to Purdue University.
The Spanish War Pension Bill, passing the House by near unanimity, would raise disability pensions to a maximum of 30 dollars and a minimum of 12 dollars. The 1890 Act set 12 to 6 dollars, while Foster’s earlier proposal favored 40 and 15 dollars, and Foster claims the current bill is the best obtainable.
The census bureau announced preliminary populations for five smaller cities. Peoria Illinois reports 76,121 residents, Bloomington Illinois 28,638, Grand Rapids Iowa 45,566, Belleville Kentucky 7,738, and Beaumont Texas 35,351.
Soviet ambassador Ludwig C. A. K. Martens told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he ordered his government to take appropriate action if he is deported. He acknowledged sending the cable after counsel Ellis read a copy to him.
At Defiance Ohio on March 4 a fire raged through a residence. Firemen rushed inside but could not reach a parrot trapped by flames, and the bird died.
Congressman Robert Y. Thomas Jr. of Kentucky mimics Tom Heflin by injecting humor into a House speech on the agricultural appropriations bill. The excerpt includes a mother and child joke about a baby who has dug a hole and wants to bring it in.
Three persons were injured when an automobile struck a Ridge Road bus in Canton last night causing the bus to overturn. One man was seriously hurt and was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Federal Judge Clarence W. Sessions announced that motions to dismiss charges against defendants in the Michigan election fraud trial were denied. He stated there is evidence from which a jury could reach a guilty verdict as the cases stand and that it would be an abuse of judicial discretion not to submit the cases to the jurors.
Boy Scouts Troop One will hold its session this evening at 6 30 at the Presbyterian church. Leader and attendees plan a brief meeting followed by activities and announcements for the troop members and parents.
Mary Pickford, star of film and television, obtained a divorce from Owen Moore in Douglas County Nevada. The hearing remained secret with Pickford emotional in court while Moore was absent, reported to be in Minden. Pickford wore a shabby suit and was joined by her mother Mrs. Smith.
In Washington on March 4 the House votes 6 to 36 against repealing the Volstead prohibition law. Democrat Representative Eugen of New Jersey urged halting all applications for beer and liquor licenses at this time.
Artis J. Walker of Middletown sues Celestabal Walker in Hamilton Ohio for divorce seeking child custody. He claims she shamed him over his occupation and urged misrepresentation to relatives as a more lofty pursuit, alleging she refused to accept the situation.
Five boy witnesses testified before Probate Judge Krichbaum in Canton Ohio that the Black brothers urged them to steal and kept a theft record to pay the youths. Compensation ranged from a cap worth one dollar to a camera priced at twenty seven fifty, with thieves receiving four dollars. One boy was instructed to steal watches and diamonds from jewelry stores.
Helen and Stanley Zincsoviski aged four and two died when their home burned in Cleveland Ohio last night. Their father escaped with a third child but could not reenter due to the fast spreading flames.
William Cooper Proctor Cincinnati manager for General Leonard Wood’s campaign says no 2:11 a.m. nomination at the Chicago convention. He asserts Wood’s backers press surrender and plans to mobilize women’s clubs across Ohio for the primary and to send a Harding women’s delegation to Chicago.
Mary Pickford, who won a divorce from Owen Moore, passed through San Jose with her mother and another woman bound for Los Angeles. The party rode in a closed car to the railroad and evaded interviewers. They were unrecognized before reaching San Jose, and were believed to have left Reno the previous night.
Mrs. Nancy Smith, 80, walked into woods near North Christian in Hopkinsville Kentucky to visit a neighbor and lay helpless in rain and cold for four days. A farm dog found her and brought help, keeping her conscious. doctors expect recovery.
Madison Kentucky report says J W Gentry came back from Tampa to prove he is alive after a local paper ceased sending copies following a death notice unrelated to him. Gentry claims the notice was a mistake and asserts he is living in Florida.
In Knoxville Tennessee Judge John L Greer fines a former bootlegger $25 for loitering after the man admits bootlegging was his chosen trade but says the law has taken away all his work. He asserts his job has been outlawed by authorities.
Washington March 4 The Shipping Board has become owner of Hog Island. A check for 1 000 000 was mailed to the American National Ship Building Corporation, former owners. The Board is ready to consider offers for the base of the ship building material on it.
Three persons are dead and more than twelve others injured when the Jersey flyer of the Central Railroad of New Jersey crashed at high speed into a Newark local at Elizabethport New Jersey last night.
Roy Woods of Martins Ferry, a Wood candidate for delegates in the eighteenth district, sent word to General Wood headquarters that he and fellow contenders are so confident of victory they have already made hotel reservations in Chicago for the Republican convention.
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