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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1925
Page
4
A moral line about deceit and truth from scripture and George Eliot contrasts honesty with suspicion. The quotes emphasize the danger of lies and the harm deceit causes to relationships and trust. The message urges integrity and warns against dwelling with deceitful people.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger reports that two coal banks failed in the Pittsburgh area amid broad soft coal stagnation blamed on Pennsylvania's phase of the issue. The Jacksonville agreement of 1924, backed by John L. Lewis, is cited as triggering a shift to nonunion West Virginia production and widening the industry’s decline across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
John Garibaldi Sargent, the new Attorney General, is depicted as a tall, plain, principled figure with Coolidge–like reserve. He eschews ceremony, enjoys fishing, and is seen as a capable, law‑driven leader ready to move justice with steady hands.
Defiance Ohio Crescent News notes that if a planned beer resort on Pelee Island attracts many thirsty patrons, Canadian officials may need to rename the island Melee in a tongue in cheek forecast.
In New York the gypsy clans arrive for the season and swap autos in the Lower East Side with women selling bright shawls and fortune telling to attract patrons from Fifth and Park avenues. Most come from Balkan states, Romania, Poland and Russia. They prefer storerooms or cellars over tenements as they set up fortune telling booths along Avenue A Grand Street and Broome Street.
Nomads engage Belasco star Fannie Brice discovered selling Brooklyn newspapers. Her career spans amateur nights in Brooklyn, a row company, burlesque, vaudeville, and reviews with a blend of comedy and pathos. Compare her balance of humor and sorrow to Chaplin's art. Dean Inge argues autocracy can outlast democracy in wartime, citing Germany's wartime feats.
Will Scheffler of Brooklyn often stands near theaters after the Follies show ends. Curious spectators who have just seen the performance mistake him for Will Rogers and shake his hand congratulating him on the act.
Fannie Brice and Lenoir Ulric are cited as parallels in stage romance. Ulric has just ended her association with David Belasco, while many actors seek to appear under his banner. Ulric’s career began when she was found dancing to a hurdy gurdy in Milwaukee.
Simple home remedies for prickly heat include bay rum or cologne cooling applications followed by starch and zinc oxide powder. For itching, bicarbonate of soda in water is applied. after bathing, a carbolic acid boric acid zinc oxide glycerin and alcohol lotion is used, with a dusting powder of bismuth subnitrate and zinc carbonate.
The piece describes radicals singing and stamping in the opera house diamond boxes where fashionable patrons, wearing pearls and diamonds, sit. It contrasts their presence with African jewelry and mocks the era’s social pretensions while noting stock market anxieties and a Roman lurid image.
New York banks processed 1.697 billion dollars by check on Friday, surpassing the previous high set by London. The result marks a new peak in bank turnover in the city.
Clarence Dillon of Dillon Read Co. paid a record amount of 146 million dollars for the Dodge motor concern. The note reflects large scale in U S corporate finance and the push for global competitiveness against Europe’s national business approach.
The speaker argues that individual concerns like Judge Gary's steel company and Mr Rockefeller's oil business, along with Ford's automobile enterprise, eclipse others worldwide and that the aim is to maintain this supremacy as the central goal of national industry.
The Very Rev Inge argues that German autocracy hinges on the Kaiser. He says autocrats are accidents of birth, with rulers varying from strong to foolish across reigns and leaders.
The speaker argues that the Catholic Church maintains strength through papal selection by the College of Cardinals while kings are accidental births. He likens democracy to a baby in nurse's arms and predicts America will eventually walk, aided by plutocracy, as Britain keeps a symbolic king.
Ned M Lean argues the agricultural bloc seeks ICC action to force railroad rate changes. He criticizes farmers for asking markets and policy to bend to rail interests and notes government already enforces supply and demand while railroads operate as a separate business.
New York sailor awarded $75,000 damages allows a week ashore. Ford produced 7594 cars in one day. French plan a nonstop Atlantic flight. Question raises if this follows Hindenburg election.
Washington observers debate Japan's May 27 naval maneuvers as a response to U S Hawaiian exercises. They note Tsushima's anniversary as a reminder and doubt Japan could rival a first-class fleet, citing shipbuilding flaws and training limits.
A humorous verse follows a child who asks for stories after questioning. The youngster tracks the newspaper’s sounds, returns to dad’s lap, and asks for funnies to be read, ending with a playful nudge for reading aloud.
The text lists measurements for Douglas Fairbanks at 5 feet 10 and a half inches, 143 to 150 pounds, current about 145. A postman serves about 1250 families daily. Thunderstorms are not proven to sour milk, though pre storm temps may. The 180th meridian was chosen for convenience as the International Date Line. Normal mouth temp is 98.6 F, with variations up to 104 F during intense activity or 107 F in some baths. Frijoles refers largely to beans, especially in Mexico the brown or spotted varieties known as kidney beans.
A string of pasted quotes from Ohio newspapers offers satirical takes on men, society, and culture. The lines touch on practicality and folly from Youngstown to Defiance with references to Lucretia Borgia and clever but cynical observations.
A thief raided a Michigan cement dealer on two consecutive nights, apparently believing the victim had ample concrete. The Canton Ohio News notes the unusual motive and timing of the incidents.
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