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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1922
Page
4
A committee of business experts reports the current purchasing value of the American dollar is 61 cents, compared with 100 cents in July 1944. The rise from the 1920 peak to 49 cents is noted, with opinions that prices may stagnate or slightly rise, and that the 1914 price level will likely not return for years as war debts are settled and production grows.
The article notes a conference in Washington to regulate wireless use and protect the American boy’s access to airwaves. Herbert Hoover is cited as ensuring boys receive fair wavelengths and time, with emphasis on youth involvement in wireless progress.
A newly formed Brighter London society in London aims to improve civic life though writers note American towns would market such efforts as Bigger Better Brighter Busier Tendon.
A quip filled note jokes about abolishing roadside telephones as motorists complain that inanimate objects unfairly interrupt speeders. The piece humorously laments objects that seem to “rise up” and swat drivers, reflecting playful urban skepticism.
A foreign class of Slavs and one Italian prompts the lesson on disguise with a boy's sentence. Kenneth age five resists a bath in the tub and jokes about being bathed all over. A Neighbor overhears a family secret in a playful exchange.
A cashierly exchange reveals frustration with phonograph sales and a long tenure clerking, as staff say they have no new attachments for phono graphs and feel little attachment to the product after years of trying records for reluctant buyers.
A collection of social quips and items from Punch including a bishop recommending soap a curate's sermon joke a Mayfair disappointment a wrong number proposal a hen in Essex laying a large egg editorial quip on liquor law funding and a light remark on influenza.
The piece surveys Republican and Democratic prospects in Missouri Montana Utah Wyoming Washington New Mexico Arizona and more. It notes nominees and likely contenders including Reed Long Wheeler Riddick Mondell Spry Clark Johnson and Ashurst among others, with conventions and primary patterns shaping races.
The Common Pleas Court room buzzes with jurors and spectators as several citizens report for jury service amid cases of family conflict and alleged shooting. The discharged panel faced tense moments over a high profile dispute while anecdotes from the day light up the courthouse.
A Columbus Dispatch item recounts Judge D. Sayre’s campaign tale in Athens County and shares a series of trivia Qs. Topics include bibliomancy, basketball naming, Alaska Indians, ibra as pound abbr, Black Thursday in Australia, Rothschild wealth, U.S. mints, and cotton shipping ports Galveston and New Orleans.
Reader inquiry offer from The Athens Messenger directs questions to Frederic J. Haskin in Washington D C with two cents stamp return postage. It states the bureau gives information not advice on legal medical or financial matters and will answer questions by mail.
Burlingham Mrs. T. J. Violet spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Dale Hart and their children. William Murl and Ardeth were guests of Emmett Jones and family. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cullums and their son Ernest visited John O'Brien and family on Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Roger Cullums and daughter Florence called on Mr and Mrs Isaac Cullums Sunday. Music blessed E W Frost's Saturday evening. Attendees included Mrs Mabel Hart and her mother Mrs T J Violet of Flora Story Henderson Athens Mr and Mrs Fred Cullums and son Ernest Charles and Frank Henderson Frank Jones Dale and Vern O'Brien Leo Frost and Val McCumber Mr and Mrs Dale Hart and Mrs T J Violet spent Sunday with Herbert Violet and family Ruby Hines has been ill Harold Jones and son Robert spent Sunday at G T Henderson's Carl Williams and Geo O'Brien were in Athens at week’s end Hall Frost and Val McCumber attended the debate at Thompson last Friday night.
March 3 1803 Edward Tiffin became governor of Ross County. 1840 Summit County formed from Portage Medina and Stark. 1868 Rev Sylvester H Rosecrans became first Roman Catholic bishop of Columbus. 1885 Marion lodge of Elks instituted. 1899 William P Sprague banker and former congressman died at McConnellsville born Morgan County May 21 1827.
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