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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1922
Page
4
The Athens Messenger lists advertising rates on application at home or foreign offices and notes a nominal obituary charge for cards and bar notices. National advertising representatives are Hopert K Ward Inc located at 501 Fifth Ave New York City and South Wabash Avenue Chicago.
The piece argues that lifespans may exceed 100 as habit and health improve. Dr. Royal Copeland urges ten minutes daily of exercise, fresh air and sunshine, ten hours weekly outdoors, balanced work and play, a three mile daily walk, temperate eating, daily 15 minutes of relaxation, plus happy thoughts and structured weekly activities. It questions whether people will adopt this regime but notes rising healthful living.
A writer urges dissatisfied tenants to research lot prices and house-building costs. Knowledge of fundamental conditions could help tenants secure fair treatment and reveal landlords' challenges. The idea aims to improve outcomes without miracle results through informed understanding of economic realities.
A compact excerpt lists playful slang definitions such as Flapper Dictionary and Binocular a far seeing young woman, Boomerang an invitation implying return, Brooksky boy an overdressed youth, Blah phony, Bookkeeping making engagements, and Twister a popular dance partner.
A quirky glossary of slang terms such as slunge subchaser puddle-jumper and high-hatty contrasts with cheeky lines about famous historical figures and modern mores. The piece humorously notes too many subscription funds and puns on well known names.
Prof W E Grange notes cynicism about love in ancient and modern times. A humorous Arkansas man, Hank Buckley, trades a dog for a fiddle then a gun and back, losing $19.25 while trying to swap for the next item.
Grace Porterfield Polk notes Indiana leads in fostering local talent through annual prizes for original songs by residents and a statewide American Songwriters Festival in Greenwood. Junior clubs promote early composition efforts with small prizes, recitals, and instruction, including memory tests using well known pieces to spark interest in orchestral and vocal works.
Mrs. Juliet Griffith Mosher, a young Brooklyn singer, rose from struggle after meeting Mme Calve the famed French opera star. Calve invited her to Europe to study as her pupil at the Calve chateau in the Pyrenees.
A rambling day-by-day column from Pomeroy Ohio narrates river sights, street scenes, homes, churches, shops, and residents. The author references local figures such as Sunny Jim Lyman, Meigs County court house, and Hammer Club. Foregrounds vary from ferries and nurseries to alimony talk and bank ads.
Reader questions answered by the Information Bureau cover geography physics chemistry and practical topics. Entries include Czechoslovakia size steel springs carron oil cartridge paper felt grain coal to electricity sugar yields bad debts butter cream candy and a question on US Britain friction around 1849 with brief factual responses and guidance.
The survey recalls the Caroline incident of 1837 risking war between Britain and the United States. It notes a 1840 trial in New York of Canadian McLeod who boasted involvement, ending in acquittal. It lists Civil War era cut flowers such as daphne camellia abutilon calla sweet alyssum heliotrope and a few tea roses. It also cites golf practice advice favoring solitary practice and time on the short game, with emphasis on irons over woods.
Paris officials said the Genoa conference is expected to conclude tomorrow as foreign office sources provide the latest on the talks and any final decisions anticipated.
The Plains notes list Sunday visits to Ath eny Circle Hill Connett Rock Riffle and Marion Ill as families including Humphrey Hamer Guess Shreves Cook Carpenter Loomis Hutchins Loomis and Vore. A report mentions a 4 pound son born to Mr and Mrs Tom Gabriel at Marion marking ten years of marriage.
The state rested its case Wednesday in the treason trial of Blizzard, an indicted miner accused of leading a miner army that marched on M last summer in Charleston, West Virginia.
Dublin May 17 The Iri peace committee told Il Ir eeann that agreement could be reached though negotiations collapsed causing deep gloom. No man can have pride in himself who has no pride in his worthmanship.
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