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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1929
Page
4
A Mes senger report from Athens Ohio discusses springtime noise on East State Street with speeding motorist complaints. It pairs life wisdom and reflections on youth love and marriage, aging, and memory from the 1929 period.
A fifteen-year-old Athens girl ran away from home and writes of her intense love for a man three times her age. The piece argues adults misjudge young love and cataloging a child’s mentality may cause heartache, noting many have felt similar impulses in youth.
Opinion urges fair treatment under open shop amid mining layoffs. Emphasizes mutual trust between operators and 4500 miners to sustain employment and revive Hocking coal markets after three years of suspension.
In New York City a colorful chronicle describes Sam's snipe shop on the Bowery a street-level enterprise selling discarded cigarette butts as tattered treasure. The piece notes how a few boards and boxes form a market for snipes bought cheaply and sold for pennies while dodging overhead and appealing to street life. It also mentions sleeping car accommodations on Manhattan buses and a sharp quip from actor Wilton Lackaye as city gossip.
Dr Fane McCoy answers readers questions on heredity instinct and fear formation, childhood conditioning, and safe exercise. He urges avoiding fear-inducing parenting, advocates balanced diets and mental retraining with psychologists, and offers Q&A on cysts diet weeds and burnout remedies.
The article notes the 20 percent price drop in stocks did not trigger a recovery and warns small investors to exit before further losses. It questions the impact on general business and flags the new President's interest in avoiding panic or hard times, with markets volatile at morning hours.
A jumble of standalone trivia and notes covers topics from ancient empires to eggs preserved with carbon dioxide. It includes quiz Qs on jade figures in the Smithsonian, Iceland's rail status, Quaker numbers, and ventriloquism mechanics, plus detailed shipping oil records and early 20th century biography mentions.
A century and a half ago the Senate debated a censure against President Andrew Jackson. The episode centered on his removal of government deposits from the Bank of the United States and the cabinet resignations that followed, ending with Taney appointed as treasury chief.
A large petition signed by more than 175 conservationists college presidents editors educators economists business leaders labor figures bishops governors authors and others urges President Hoover to convene an international conference on conservation of natural resources. The goal is a world inventory to support global prosperity and peace.
The Travelers' Aid assisted 22 672 people in the year in Washington D C. Of these 2 800 found temporary lodging 1 259 were children traveling alone and 942 were immigrants many with no English. Aid also reached the aged feeble runaway sick and stranded without funds.
A review of old items notes the U S rail system with $1 05 billion in Mallona lines under Hines in Pittsburgh and moonshine crime in Blue Ridge per internal revenue reports. Mary Pickford paid $210 000 in income tax. Ohio University plans a bronze tablet for war service. Also reported are past events from 20 years ago including Otterbein University, Rebekah meeting in Lima, well drilling in Gas and Development, and a petition for new trials in Nashville.
Puzzle text lists clues and garbled fragments about fame of Daniel Boone John Greenleaf Whittier Titan and related wordplay. It hints at answers and cross references but is largely unreadable. The readable bits indicate a standard newspaper crossword with clues on pioneers poets and mythic figures. The page contains stray letters and corrupted lines.
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