Absence From Genoa Sparks Debate On American Participation
The article weighs arguments on whether the United States should have attended the Genoa conference. It contrasts non participation with full cooperation to aid European reconstruction, noting lessons for future policy and the need for a stronger American leadership in shaping Europe’s postwar recovery amid ongoing tensions. It ends with a wartime street anecdote about a mix up of soldiers and spectators in Trafalgar Square.
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America
Genoa
Europe
Getting out a newspaper is no picnic
After Dinner Stories notes editor woes and public judgment on publishing choices. A Scottish colonel seeks a sniper. Sandy, the regiment’s crack shot, finds a German in a bush and the captive cries Kamrad, mercy.
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Thunderation
Sandy
Womens Department Of Beauty And Domestic Science
A period column introduces a women’s page with an expert editor and reader submissions. It offers satirical beauty tips and home hacks such as removing freckles, odd cookware ideas, and humorous guidance on alimony and gardening, reflecting 1920s American popular culture and wit.
Perfume concert and color organ enter modern culture
Washington reports on science advancing sense of smell and color harmony as perfume and color concerts. It describes a perfume keyboard by Dr. Septimus Piesse with a three octave bass to middle C scale and notes how audiences may one day enjoy orchestrated scent experiences alongside color displays.
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Washington, D. C
Huysmans
Septimus Piesse
Athens Day by Day by the Messenger Watch Dog
Athens May 1. A modern Samuel Pepys diary style column recounts daily errands, town gossip, and personal reflections. The writer notes a mix of urban happenings including a farmer plowing up skeletons, a telephone pole incident, music on Congress street, and social calls at the Berry Hotel. He laments debt, longs for rain, and watches society chatter about police and local teams.
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Athens
Samuel Pepys
Times
McDougall
Tom Hoover
Nichols
Lancaster
Congress Street
Dorothy Slutz
Abrigal
Dimond
Buckeye Lake
Floyd Hull
Crooksville
Charles ‘Tedrow
Nelsonville
Berry Hotel
Baptist Church
Coultrap
Billy Golden
Jerry Sister
Miss Baer
Russian Czar Alexander II Assassinated in 1881
Czar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated on March 13 1881. The event occurred in the same year as President Garfield's death, marking a turbulent period in imperial diplomacy and reform movements.
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Garfield
Alexander II
Czar
Russia
Islands and rulers in a historical geography quiz
The text lists trivia questions and answers about islands and rulers. It mentions James I described as the wisest fool, Japan’s six large islands with many smaller ones, and Greenland or New Guinea as the largest islands depending on definition. It also notes preservation methods for newspapers in libraries using tissue between sheets.
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Garfield
James I
England
Sully
Christendom
Japan
U. 1
Australia
Greenland
New Guinea
Everett Introduces $1 A Month Telephone Rates
Everett joins cities with lowest rates as Puget Sound Telephone Company files new prices with the state commission. A telechronometer device measures service like a water meter, promising simplified billing and potential rate revolutions.
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State Public Service Commission
Puget Sound Telephone Company
How Alliance Differs from Entente Cordiale
Senator Reed of Missouri distinguishes the terms as a matter of tone not substance. He says an entente uses gentle language and is less binding while an alliance uses harsher terms and carries the same pledged faith of the signatory nations.
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Washington
Reed, Demarcat
Missouri
Senate
Reed
Machine testing leads to wide phone upgrade in city
The device was tested locally and by December placed on all 6 000 telephones after extensive tests. The state public service commission backed its usefulness following investigations and demonstrations.
Pound at Par Hopes Rise in British Budget
London May 1 Chancellor of the Exchequer Robert Horn outlined the 1922-28 budget and expressed hope the British pound sterling would soon be at par in the exchange market. A par pound would reduce Britain’s debt to the United States to 856000000 pounds sterling.
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London
International News Service
Robert Horn
United States
Supreme Court Allows Equal Credit Priority in Bankruptcy
The Supreme Court ruled that the Emergency Fleet Corporation is not entitled to priority in bankruptcy distributions and must share equally with other creditors. The article notes a naval salute tradition of 21 guns to the British sovereign, with 121 guns in India.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States Today
Emergency Fleet Corporation
India
Questions and Answers Information Service Notice
Readers are invited to ask questions to The Athens Messenger Information Bureau under Frederic J. Haakin. Include full name and address and enclose two cents for return postage. The bureau does not provide legal medical or financial advice or resolve domestic troubles.
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Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haakin
Washington, D. C
The
Inquirer
Facts and figures from early 20th century Q and A
A compiled Q and A snippet on topics like engine moth balls effect on gasoline, women voting age in England, Hindustan name origin, Venice turpentine, ivory supply by elephants, Edison patents, National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry, and U. S. Indian population growth since 1908.
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American Motor School
England
Hindustan
India
K. A
Industan
Venice
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Fadison
Camp Perry
Ohio
United States
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Athens, Ohto
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Poes
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Middlesex
Diana Manners
Marion Davies
Mae Murray
Chicago Board of Trade
Lady Astor
Jugo-Slavia
New York
Ela
Peru
Tolu
Portugal
Guyaville
Deuce
Canaanville
Guysville
Windy” Stephenson
Court House
Everett
Wash
Pound
Aluminum
New Kensington
Chesterfield
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
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