Athens Day by Day by the Messenger Watch Dogs
A narrator visits Pomeroy and Middleport and laments the one street town with thirty five miles of street and no cross streets. He repeats jokes about local boosters and breweries, recalls a brewery visit, and jokes about Kiwanians and Sunday schools while hoping to return home to Abrigal’s voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Abrigal
Pomeroy
Middleport
River Street
Athens Court House
Ohio River
Hills
Oliver Hartley
Volstead
Pomeroy Methodist Church
Local School Superintendent Reemployed For Next Year
James Slauterbach, 77, dies at his Creola home. A $100000 home belonging to S B Stevenson, president of Wellston Furnace, burns completely two miles south of Jackson on Oak Hill Pike. Mrs Cyril Garrison of Bremen arrives to visit brother Carl Moyer and wife Kathleen Peacock. Cyril's husband Ed Moyer and parents also visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Slauterbach
Creola
S. BE. Stephenson
Wellston Furnace Company
Jackson
Oak Hill Pike
Cyril Garrison
Evelyn Moyer
Bremen
Carl Moyer
Kathleen Peacock
Ed. Moyer
Forecast of price shifts across commodities and rents
A 1913 price index shows breadstuffs at 181 and coal at 193 with metals at 84 and oils at 188. The analyst Forbes predicts metals and livestock will rise while coal and coke fall, rents decline later, and wage levels stay near current, as cost of living and earnings converge. He questions whether enduring lessons from hardship will guide future economic readjustment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Forbes
Mexico Becomes Stronger Market for American Exports
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce notes improved conditions in Mexico since the revolution. 1920 exports included 65 locomotives valued at 866000 dollars, rising in 1921 to 57 locomotives worth 10675000 dollars. Passenger auto shipments grew from 3500000 to 5183006 dollars, with autos and textiles remaining steady. Mexico stands as a logical, near neighbor market for American goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Mexico
Canada
After Dinner Stories CURRENT Eeeee
The excerpt presents a humorous rural dialogue with a colored man trying to stop a runaway cow and a birthday joke about an elderly resident. A stranger in the village asks questions while locals discuss life insurance and a burly man threatening a watch in a mock game of put and take.
Elizabeth Wall McConnors Engaged to Indiana Polist
Forest Cliff Drive, Lakewood, announces the engagement of Elizabeth Wall to John A. McConnors of Indianapolis. The item appears amid a periodical mix of political references and ads.
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Lakewood
Ohio
Richard Wall
Forest Cliff Drive
Elizabeth
John A. McConnors
Indianapolis
Woman Nominee for South Dakota Governor Makes History
Alice Lorraine Daly, backed by the Non-Partisan League, becomes the first major-party nominated woman for state governor. Daly campaigns on farm relief, state ownership of key utilities, and wage equality, arguing governance is housekeeping on a state scale and calling for legal reforms and disarmament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
South Dakota
Alice Lorraine Daly
League
Democratic Party
Miss Daly
Non Partisan League
Non-Partisan League
Government Grain Corporation
University of Minnesota
Emersonn College of Oratory
Boston
State Normal School of
Miss Daily
Questions and Answers from The Athens Messenger Quiz Panel
The Athens Messenger presents readers with a Q and A column from the Information Bureau. It explains how to submit questions, details about return postage, and includes sample questions with concise answers on topics from hydrodynamics to music, animal tears, and boxing reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
The
Inquirer
Questions and Answers on Money, Railroads, Animals and Science
A series of brief Q and A items covers topics from New York drafts to Hawaiian railroads and tame flamingos. It also cites 1913 Ohio and Indiana flood losses, molecular size estimates, a flood tide anchor, Heidelberg Castle’s giant wine cask, the Florentine Experiment, corn planting rates, and the meaning of semi annual interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lon Ton
New York
Post Office Department
London
Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands
Oahu
Ohio
Indiana
Heidelberg Castle
Ohio Fuel Well Near Wilksville Yields Gas At High Rate
On a farm outside Wilksville County Commissioner J A New owns the property. The Ohio Fuel well drilled to 400 feet through a stray sand is producing nearly one million cubic feet of gas daily. Driller Harry Stretton oversees the operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
J. A. New
Corporation of Wilksvilles
Logan
Harry Stretton
Hiram
Cox
Clinton
Charles Kenney
Wilksville
Fee
Jackson
Walter J. Beckley
G. W. Husan
Fred Diles
Elk
Charles Goodrich
D. H. Hayes
Ralph Herrold
Brown
Lafayette Ward
Chris Herrold
Jacob Butcher
J. W. Allison
Eagle
Ed Waters
Rance Scott
Probate Court Adjudges Tinkham of Unsound Mind
Albert Tinkham age 22 son of Charles Tinkham of Clinton township declared of unsound mind and sent to the state hospital at Columbus today by Sheriff Lockel and Special Deputy Pearl Dunkle. The petit jury for the June term includes W. R. Barnhart Swan township Mrs. B Newton Jackson Charles Newman Clinton Mrs Ilber Fry Swan.
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Albert Tinkham
Charles Tinkham
Clinton Township
State Hospital
Columbus
Lockel
Pearl Dunkle
Petit Jury
W. R. Barnhart
Swan Township
B. ©. Newton
Jackson
Charles Newman
Clinton
Ilber Fry
Swan
Treasury Roof Fire Extinguished Without Damage
Washington May 16. For the third time in two weeks the roof of the United States treasury caught fire this afternoon but the flames were extinguished with no damage. The fire confined to a wooden substructure on the tile roof of the building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States Treasury
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Athens Mesenger & Herald Printing Co
Messenger
Robert E. Ward Inc
Fifth Ave
New York City
Wabash Avenue
Chicago
Rutland
Merrit
A. N. Benge
Grandview Kennels
Mr. Bingel
Henry Eberts
James H. Baker
L. B. Canney
Knox
A. B. Kirkendall
W. A. Sowers
Richland
John Dunlap
Harrison
Philip Hill
Madison
May Anderson
O. G. Forest
Bertha Timmons
J. M. Cottrill
Vinton
S. Bar Craft
Hamden
Easley
F. J. Beasley Milling & Grocery Company
Suse
Ufe
Lloyd George
Kaiser Bill
China
Trotzky
America
Margot
Joan of Arc
Hydrographic Office
Eben Rexford
Harthouse Danks
Jess Willard
Jack Dempsey
Common Pleas Court
J. W. West
Flint Coal Company
Ferrell Hatcher
Pearl Clements
Jacob Clements
Thomas R. Clark
J. W. Darby
C. E. Vollenweider
Chesterfield
Liggett
Myers Tobacco Ce
Columbus Oil Company
Columbus, Ohio
Lostro Auto Sales Co
E. Norris
Athens County Buick Co
W. Hopkins
Cooley-Daugherty & Co
Standard
Guthrie Auto Sales
Jess Francis
Haydenville
Pearl Coe
Albany
Nelsonville
Buick Co
R. H. Wagner
Buchtel T. McManamy
Jacksonville
Gaston Brothers
Guysville
W. M. Dixon
New Marshfield
R. H. Hysell
Jno
Wilson
Amesville
Mr. Pierce
Stewart
O. Lige Corrille
M. L. Cottingham
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