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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1922
Page
4
The piece assesses the long standing opposition to ship subsidies and weighs whether the United States should finance its merchant marine. It argues a viable fleet supports export trade, urges fair competition with foreign ships, and notes the President's call for a moderate subsidy and relaxed rules as potentially necessary to revive American shipping.
The push for reforestation in New York shows a 33 percent rise in demand for young trees compared with the prior year. State nurseries face rapid orders for spring planting and an increasing number of stock requests for communal forests. Cities towns private plantings lumbering firms and clubs are all expanding forest holdings and preservation efforts. The trend likely mirrors other states.
A wartime column cites an American judge valuing a wife at $8,000 and proposes using Europe’s female surplus to settle Allied debt. It suggests 1,375,000 marriageable girls be sent to the United States as payment, framing the idea as a quick solution to the foreign debt.
A Washington report notes a new censor in an English village overseeing tombstone epitaphs to keep graveyard humor from public view. It traces how epitaphs evolved from ornate verse to bland public decor and calls for a national epitaph censor or a guarded tombstone museum.
A boy at his garden gate cries that his parents wont take him to the movies. A passing lady questions the crying child and learns his folks sometimes take him and sometimes not. A sales pitch about a washing machine contrasts with advice about local laundress routines.
Mr Bibbles asks who penned the line about man's inhumanity. Mr Jagsby cannot recall. A quirky twist reveals a ten dollar charge for a quart of cold tea as the anecdote’s spark.
A north side man jokes with his wife after thinking about receiving $100,000. He says he would return the full amount to the giver to avoid paying it out in installments, and then suggests they go to a movie.
James Bundy, ninety three, begins a five year jail term. A shoe store has been robbed three times in two weeks, hinting the thieves could target daytime receipts. The public Opinion item notes spring robins returning and a resignation at Model Shoe Shop. References to a sea captain's wife eloping, a tobacco day, and actress Lile Chester seeking heart balm finish the brief dispatches.
The article explains drop biscuits as biscuit dough with more liquid so batter can be dropped from a spoon onto a sheet without spreading. It also describes keel hauling as a naval punishment where a convicted person is dragged under the ship by the keel, weights at the feet ensuring sinking.
Wolfgang Kapp in Sweden declares in a Dresden Nachrichten letter that the present German government owed its power to high treason and thus cannot judge treason cases. He expresses willingness to return to Germany to face trial for the March 1920 revolt.
Deputy state fire marshals and Cincinnati police probe seven fires found in the Buckeye Supply Co. plant over the past month. Investigators seek the cause and any links between incidents.
A vintage ad touts a cheap cough remedy using 214 ounces of Pinex mixed with a pint of sugar syrup or substitutes. It claims fast relief within 24 hours, alleged to ease bronchitis and related throat and lung symptoms, with guarantees and refund.
Woodlyline New Jersey announces municipal policy to tar road bandits and supply feathers. Major William D. Kramer outlines plans to use a tar tank and feathers at the calaboose for the next approaching highwayman.
A Columbus reader denounces a youthful literary effort by a Crooksville teacher’s student. The letter defends Lyceum theatre, condemns the piece as frivolous and improper, and mocks the author’s methods while urging better humor and honesty in writing.
A long column mixes jokes about a Glouster resident Gee and barber jokes in Athens with a trivia quiz. It includes Easter date calculations, France territorial gains, Calamity Jane, Zane Grey, Philippine trade, a rarefied airship claim, and notes on the Shah of Persia, earthquakes, and a waiter mishap.
Readers are instructed how to submit questions to The Athens Messenger Information Bureau in Washington D C Directed by Frederic J Haskin and Frederic J Haskin It explains no legal medical or financial advice is given and urges senders to include full name address and two cents postage for reply.
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