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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1929
Page
4
The Athens Kiwanis Club hosts the Second Annual Merchants Exposition at Ohio University Men's Gymnasium, offering latest household goods and fashions, prizes, and dancing. Leaders from local business unite for a community good, aiding those less fortunate while inviting public participation.
The piece notes several states have adopted headlight inspection laws to reduce glare and improve nighttime driving safety. It highlights Ohio drivers’ reluctance to inspect headlights and describes simple tests used to verify beam direction and intensity. It also reflects on public interest in former President Calvin Coolidge and the challenges of presidential retirement.
A bustling New York scene unfolds as a slim woman with groceries scrutinizes artworks, reacting to prices and a debate over Hungarian dishes. The piece quotes Rothenberg on cuisine while defending refined wine standards and criticizes tokay as unsuitable with meals.
A long reader quiz offers answers on Navy personnel 84,000 and world telephones 59 percent in the United States. It explains Fahrenheit’s thermometer history, Asia-America distance, undertakers origin, trans Atlantic telephone first Britain, Grant voting, nidification, Jane Cowl, and other trivia.
Dr Fane McCoy author of The Newest Way to Health answers readers on health and diet. The column discusses child development separate from physical strength and the value of all around education, plus Q and A on perspiration diet and finger grafting options.
Washington dispatch notes rising Soviet industrial output and growing Russian American trade. analysts foresee possible semi official talks on diplomatic recognition during Hoover's term if public sentiment allows. Russian expansion includes huge hydro plant, vast mechanized farming, and a 15 million acre plan by 1933.
Montmartre derives from Latin Mons Martis meaning mountain of Mars. In Roman Paris the hill hosted a temple to Mars and Mercury, giving the area its name.
Sixty five years ago today the Federal offensive began under General Grant who had just assumed command of the Union forces. Sherman took command of the Federal army of the Mississippi and McPherson and Logan were reassigned to new posts as the drive against the south began. The plan gathered scattered armies toward a common center to push the Confederate defense.
A Marshfield well drilled by Attorney Ed Sayre and Auditor Raymond Walker of Athens shows a very good oil showing, rivaling field leaders as pumping continues. Staneart buys the Halsey property on Poplar Avenue for 50 dollars from F S Road. Ohio rail commission to settle soft coal rates with Lake Erie futures under state oversight.
Readable puzzle debris with scattered clues and garbled entries. Appears as a crumpled cross word fragment listing horizontal and vertical hints, some legible terms, many jumbled letter groups, and stray word fragments from a crossword page.
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