Ten Years Ago in Athens Community Preview
A memory column notes ten years ago N W Baker was first Athens donor to War Chest. Mrs Hughes and Mrs Hoover spoke on Habits before kindergarten club. Moore visitors in Columbus. Theater attendances noting fire department presence at opera house. Seniors listed at Athens High: Will Lee Phillip Rose Blaind Goldsberry Don Grones Raymond Connett Alonzo Palmer. Weiher read Walt Whitman to Pallas club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. W. Baker
Athens
City Fire Department
Will Lee
Phillip Rose
Blaiid Goldsberry
Don Grones
Raymond Connett
Alonzo Palmer Weer
Athens High School
Thought for Today Scriptural and Literary Quotes
A brief reading note cites a Bible verse from Matthew about fruit and a Shakespearean line about deeds earning prizes, presenting a concise reflection on virtue and merit.
Night ride over Rim of the World road sparks winter fantasy
The piece describes a snow bound journey along Sky Lite Rim of the World road through Morgan and nearby counties. It contrasts winter desolation with distant views of Athens Hocking and Perry counties, likening the landscape to pioneer days and suggesting a rare thrill of travel in harsh conditions.
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McConnelsville
Morgan County
Athens
Hocking
Perry
It Takes Lots of Living to Make a Home
A reflective, regional meditation on abandoned houses in rural Ohio. Describes derelict homes, overgrown thresholds, missing glass, and quiet desolation. Considers how neglect erodes warmth and memory, echoing Guest’s line that “It takes lots of living to make a home.”
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Ohio
Ie Guest
Where as Cant Go By Bruce Catton
The article argues that scientific progress reveals greater mysteries rather than complete understanding. It compares medical advances with enduring unknowns like cancer and the common cold, noting how knowledge expands while uncertainty persists across life and the universe. The frontier of ignorance continually recedes as discovery continues.
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Bruce Catton
Sci
Millikans
Pupins
Bantings
Fragmentary line about stars and questions in ancient voyage
A fragmentary passage describes stars wheeling across a Mediterranean sky and raises a question about who made them. It ponders knowledge and formulas, noting the persistence of inquiry from past to present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward
Wanamaker Son Rodman Dies At Sixty Four In New York
Arthur Brisbane notes the death of Lewis Odman Wanamaker at 64. He became partner at 20 and led the Wanamaker firm in New York Philadelphia and Paris. An aviation supporter he financed a trans Atlantic flight and offered airplanes in the New York store.
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Lewis Odman Wanamaker
John Wanamaker
Rodman
New York
Philadelphia
Paris
Odman Wanamaker
Rodman Wanamaker
Busi Ness
Messrs
Appell and
Whalen
Bears of yesterweek and a boom day in stocks
Three million seven hundred thousand shares traded yesterday as Gener al Motors rose above 159. Bears faced losses and had to buy back short positions despite advice. The message warns against gambling and suggests some stocks may rise to high values in time.
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General Motors
California Leads in Automobile Ownership and Road Spending
The state plans seventy eight million dollars for good roads and already has the most good roads and car ownership. If other states matched California in roads and ownership, the U.S. would have about sixty million cars instead of twenty four million.
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California
Houdini’s feared code word to signal spirit contact
The magician Houdini worried that a spirit communication could be staged and left a three letter code with a friend. He warned that even the code might be guessed and used to impersonate his spirit.
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Houdini
Philosophers Question Logic With a Shifting Stick
An Arabian philosopher presents a challenge to a false proof by transforming a stick into a live serpent. Even if the change occurs, he asserts that twice two do not equal three, underscoring the limits of paradoxical reasoning.
Spirits Talk Yet Silence Follows Across The Veil
The text argues that spirits lack physical speech organs and cannot communicate with the living, though they may converse among themselves. It notes that human ears only perceive sound waves from material organs. A tambourine says nothing to the living.
Chicago crime surge prompts prayers for solution
The piece notes 259 robberies 14 bombings and 55 murders this year in Chicago not counting March. It cites a gathering of 10,000 citizens praying for less crime and urges focus on ending bootleg profits of about seventy million dollars a year as a key remedy to curb organized crime.
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Chicago
Two LA teens found semiconscious after alleged kidnapping
Police report two sixteen year old Los Angeles girls found in a gutter half unconscious said they had been forced and drugged. Investigators learned other youths including a fourteen year old had taken habit forming pills sold openly. Officers question sale of those pills. Bootleg whiskey and drugs were new to school life as yet. Some women accept divorce to protect assets and status from unhappy marriages.
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Los Angeles
Health and Diet Advice by Dr Frank McCoy
Dr Frank McCoy answers readers on health and diet and argues for eye examinations for all drivers and licensing rules. He links accidents to nervous tension and urges calm driving, proper eye care, and public policy changes.
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Frank McCoy
McCoy
Scarface Spencer Falls To The Racket After Big Win
By the Way in New York recounts how the Broadway gambling world marked the Scarface after a massive score. Police and a detective named McGowan identify the battered victim found in the Manhattan morgue as Spencer, whose night of triumph ends in tragedy.
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Scarface
Spencer
Manhattan Morgue
Answers to Questions by Frederick J Haskin
A Q A column notes inquiries and answers on currency coin redemptions card etiquette and song counts. It lists Haskin replies about coin redemption if genuine, woman’s visiting card names, Ernst Ball song output, eggs shells air porosity, corps plural history, and the first public motion picture shown in New York City on April 27, 1896.
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Treasury of
United States
W. H-A
Anna Brown
Smith
Murray
Scotland
Koster & Beal
New York City
Auction Bridge
Iron Rule Brings Fear of Revolt in Cuba
Rodney Dutcher dissects Machado's dictatorship in Cuba as seen from Havana and Washington. The piece cites suppression of opposition, press control, arrested editors, labor reprisals and a looming revolution feared by Cuban opponents and American investors.
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Rodney Dutcher
Washington
Havana
United States
Gerardo Machado
Mister Machado
Machado
Ths
Coolidge
Democratic Party
Cuban Congress
Cosme de la Fermente
League of Nations
Enrique Jose Varona
Havana University
Cuba
Climate and cultivation of the English walnut
The English walnut originated in southwestern Asia and has been cultivated in the United States since 1890. It thrives mainly in California Oregon and southwestern Washington with a principal center near Los Angeles. Planting is expanding in central California and northwestern Oregon. It prefers altitudes below 2000 feet and needs moderate uniform temperatures ample moisture and no radical temperature drops.
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Asia
United States
California
Oregon
Washington
Los Angeles
Portland
March 12 in Early American History Highlights
Timeline notes events from 1692 New Hampshire forming a union with Massachusetts to 1907 Mrs Russell Sage establishing the Sage Foundation with ten million dollars. It also recalls 1861 credentials issue at the secretary of state and 1888 Atlantic coast blizzard damages and fatalities, plus 1906 Supreme Court rule on anti trust witness testimony.
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New Hampshire
Massachusetts
John Forsyth
Alabama
Martin J. Crawford
Georgia
Atlantic
Supreme Court
Russell Sage
The
Sage Foundation
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Miss Weiher
Walt Whitman
Pallas Club
Shakes‘peare
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Jeon
Egypt
Lewis Rodman Wanamaker
Bears OF
Yesterweek
Watch Mother Britain
Arthur Brisbane
Ibn Saud
Hedjaz
Nicaragua
Britain
Ibn
Mohammed
America
By the Way
Gilbert Swan
Broadway
Havre de Grace
Lexington
Longchamps
Brooklyn
Nick
Jack McGowan
McGowan
Frederick J. Haskin
Congress
Italy
Armando Andre
Antonio Lowere
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of I
Brotherhood of
Longshor
Stret
Green
A. F. of
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Poe
Gala
Seauainey
Tealian
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