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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1928
Page
4
Dr Frank McCoy answers health and diet questions via the paper. He argues rice heavy diets hinder civilization, promotes brown rice with vegetables and meats, and warns against mixing rice with meat. He notes comprehensive diagnosis for health issues and answers a reader on bladder irritation from citrus and sugar with whole wheat products.
By the Way in New York recalls Second Avenue as a melting pot where old world traits mingle with Broadway style. The piece notes Olive-skinned women in shawls, Russian emigrants, and Jewish traditions amid modern cafes, flappers, and theater life, illustrating coexistence and tension between nativist habits and cosmopolitan change.
The Lillie class held a party for mothers with Ina Beverage Garnet Hostottie Sarah Guthrie Bernice Roach and Mildred Riley on the program. Mrs T N Hoover led the Childs Conservation league meeting at East Side school. Mrs Herbert Hoover headed the national committee for an eggless Easter.
A devotional note quotes Philippians 1 21 and recalls Dr Derby describing the pleasantness of dying. The reflections center on faith and mortality through remembered phrases.
In the Hocking district the coal industry is declared dead after long conflict and failed attempts at revival. The piece laments lost jobs and capital, urges shifting labor and capital to new ventures, and calls for using coal, clays, and shales under workable conditions.
The Ath ens county Grangers promote a campaign to beautify farm homes and grounds as a shared goal for town and rural residents. They cite industrial interest in home beauty, note Athens has planted for years, and urge schoolchildren and communities to begin spring planting to foster healthier citizens and better neighborhoods.
Traffic experts urge drivers to stay focused and patient amid crowded roads. The piece notes rising car usage, urges care for passengers and others, and warns against taking needless risks in traffic.
A column satirizes Senator Borah pushing prohibition and campaign finance reform while criticizing old politicians and energy interests. It questions the fate of unaccounted bonds from oil deals and cites paleontologist Dr. Gilmore noting North Carolina sand crab relatives dating 25 million years.
The speaker notes that insects possess inherited knowledge far beyond human perception. Humans may endure 100 million years more barring catastrophe. Future babies could inherit accumulated knowledge ready to tackle new problems in a race worth pursuing.
In Fabre's observations, mud wasps conduct complex surgical actions without parental instruction or training. The wasps appear to possess innate knowledge of nest repair and tissue management, showing surprising precision and adaptation in their behavior.
The Rev Doctor Stratton in California to debate evolution fears Americans especially youth are drifting from religion and from respect for the laws of God and man. He warns the nation and race are threatened, recalling ancient Greek and Roman priests who predicted decline before Christianity brought improvement.
Experts say unemployment is not as severe as before but a single jobless man still faces hardship as he searches for work and stability. The remark offers context but provides little comfort to those without employment.
The text argues big business predicts recurring unemployment and opposed the reserve system, later praised, and dismisses any anti unemployment plan as socialistic or anarchistic while noting their reluctance to accept new ideas.
The article notes unemployment not worse and claims Ford’s plan would raise wages and implement a five day week. It cites improved machinery enabling 33 men to do what 100 could do in a 4, and suggests men would have two free days to spend their earnings.
The text argues that full development of industry requires workers to be both producers and consumers. It asserts workers should buy goods like automobiles and radios, and proposes giving producers sixteen hours free per day and two full days off weekly to ensure demand and prevent overproduction.
The speaker argues against labeling reforms as socialism and praises high wages, low prices, and quality production. He contrasts Europe where the rich own cars with a U.S. image of mass car use citing 24,000,000 vehicles. He claims industrial progress makes such prosperity possible.
Police uncover a device used to age whisky rapidly claiming it makes liquor appear aged in months. Investigators warn the apparatus can age drinkers too fast, aging users and causing death within a year or two.
Women increasingly fill roles once dominated by men, and the traveling saleswoman stands at the forefront of this shift. The piece highlights how women’s mobility and entrepreneurial drive are reshaping field sales and commerce.
The reader clarifies a blood test question, noting the count 3,966,000 refers to red cells not hemoglobin. He explains hemoglobin is the blood color carried in percentages and that red cell counts below four and a half million indicate disease, so the patient should seek medical advice.
Chronology of notable events includes 1493 Columbus returns to Spain 1820 Maine statehood 1871 Philadelphia establishes a paid fire department 1879 Bishop McCloskey becomes first American cardinal.
Major Edward Bowes, famed Capitol Theater host, is Irish Catholic. He is a Major and Staff Specialist in the U S Army Officers Reserve Corps attached to the Adjutant General's Office in Washington, D C.
A jumbled OCR page poses riddles and trivia questions on geography religion biology and history. It asks about the mother of Isaac the first Tuberculous children preventorium and desert burdens camels and fur bearing seals in the Pribilof Islands among scattered clues and a yesterday’s puzzle answer.
In Washington March 15, Senator Walsh defends probes into electricity and power, citing past investigations like oil, Veterans' Bureau and slush funds. Lowman clarifies cracked ice rules for prohibition, while rumors swirl about Governor Fuller’s Hoover Lindbergh ticket and an ineligible, with talk of Muller.
The California site reports a depth in excess of 8,000 feet from a shaft drilled by electric power, surpassing prior records by 250 feet. Drilling ran over two years. batteries several times melted at high temperatures, and the shaft deviated then corrected to 28 degrees at 8,000 feet.
Heavy rains in Santos Brazil on March 14 hindered rescue efforts as crews struggle to recover bodies from Saturday's landslide disaster.
A short laydown of the letter golf game rules. Change one letter at a time to form valid words in a fixed par. Maintain letter order, use common words only, and complete a jump each stroke. The example shows cow to hen via how and hew.
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