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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1926
Page
4
A daily meditation notes that what is crooked cannot be made straight and a mag lacking can not be numbered. It contrasts personal defects with pleasure in others faults and cites Ecclesiastes and La Rochefoucauld.
The city’s appearance affects how people view it and its residents. Clean streets and daily gutter cleanup boost appeal, and Athens should support its street department to maintain and improve overall neatness and curbside presentation.
In the southwest, Curtiss planes replace trains for mail routes. A Dallas departure at 7 30 a m reaches New York next morning after rapid hops via Kansas City and Chicago. The system cuts weeks to days as pilots fly through rain and night, delivering mail by air.
The piece honors Walter Johnson in his twentieth big league season noting his 400th win and 200th victory. It recalls past doubts about his career, highlights his resilience, and credits him as a supreme general in pitching with consistent sportsmanship admired by Billy Evans and others.
Unclear text describes women and men reacting to makeup use and social impressions, mentioning guessing and perceived snobbery, with fragmented phrases about summer expectations and attitudes toward a woman deemed silly.
A double anecdote contrasts laziness with diverted energy. The first tale honors a Michigan farmer who fretted about his third son Henry Ford. The story implies Ford’s absent mindedness masked a focus on a bigger ambition beyond agriculture.
Report claims giant South American soltds studied by Rockefeller scientists reveal unusual psychology and a possible laziness germ. A stop watch test records a two minute fifteen second turnaround, but when approached the sloth bites a finger to the bone in under half a second. The piece ends with a warning about a worthless son awaiting meaningful work.
Mrs. Leslie Carter envisions longevity and urges careful self care to protect the body as a machine. The piece compares the human body to an automobile with vital parts that can fail, noting arteries and organs as weak points and highlighting limited options for replacement. It stresses preventive care to avoid breakdowns before wear shows.
Mrs Carter compares dogs and men on loyalty and secrecy while noting dogs cannot flatter a woman. The piece cites Madame De Sevigne and Henry Ford, arguing nine Ford words on wages reveal small pay hurts business more than labor, and that surplus wages fuel prosperity by boosting workers’ earnings above living costs.
The quote argues low wages will harm business faster than labor. It criticizes rich men for lacking imagination and intelligence, noting wealth often arises from focus on money rather than broader insight.
The passage claims American hijackers are amateurs next to a Chinese product. It notes bootleggers smuggling whisky and violent theft, then contrasts with Joseph Toplitzky who trains many in the real estate business. The tone implies cross national critique and crime comparison.
In China the temple hawker sells a prized artifact for half its value. After paying three times you may keep it. three payments trigger no gong. Paying half its value thrice costs 50 percent more than worth, yet is kinder than treatment from bootleggers or hijackers in America.
Los Angeles draws water from distant mountains to serve 1.1 million people while ranchers along the pipe line claim the city diverts water that should belong to them. They have clashed with the city for three years and recently dynamited the pipeline creating a 10 foot breach, wasting millions of gallons and risking supply.
The passage argues that water preservation across the west underscores a man’s passion and determination to protect land. It asserts that only individual land ownership established civilization, ended nomadic life, and drives citizens to defend their country, citing Verdun as a example.
A citizens’ protest voices outrage that mine owners, not workers, should pay decent wages. They urge government action to compel fair pay and prevent mine closures and hardship for workers and their families.
The Children’s Bureau reports heavy child labor in tobacco districts across Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia, and New England. It covers 2,278 children in 1922, detailing tasks from seed bed preparation to topping and suckering, and notes the physical strain and age of workers, with Kentucky using hand harvesting on some plants.
A light verse extols hiking and natural scenery as uplifting. It urges trying outdoor walks in old clothes and mud, noting the joy of nature but advises using judgment if offered a ride or a conflicting request.
A crowded touring season leaves families split as car shortages and unreliable vehicles hamper plans. The chorus of trips stalls, and households scramble for feasible alternatives amid travel pressures and scheduling conflicts.
A employee dismissed after kissing her employer faces potential remedies under labor law. Civil rights and workplace policy experts note that retaliation claims and unfair dismissal arguments could shape any subsequent action.
In New York a blind couple run a central news stand near a major rail hub and Broadway area. Their long partnership has drawn crowds as they sell papers from the “frantic Forties” era heart of Manhattan and remain beloved by theater folk and passersby.
Anxious residents feared losing a beloved Broadway newsstand and gathering spot but the couple, known as old friends to locals, won permission to remain. They reveal their son, a U S Army major in Paris overseeing a hotel skyscraper project, and insist the bustle and light of the Broadway belt remains essential to their life.
A small man argues with a much larger man, and when the big man begins to respond the smaller man hangs up the phone. The encounter highlights courage over intimidation in a brief verbal confrontation.
The Cincinnati Times-Star notes chorus girls make the best wives, attributing it to their limited experience with speaking parts. The remark underscores gendered views on performance and domestic roles in its era.
In New York a paralyzed woman writes opera highlighting resilience and artistic pursuit despite disability. The fragment mentions saxophone music possibly linked to a state asylum, noted by Urbana Democrat.
The Hocking Valley railroad added a modern blocking system between Athens and Columbus improving safety and traffic flow. Local business leaders advertised services including Wolfe Brothers seeds H H Haning insurers W B Dailey dentist and several others in Athens area. Ohio miners union began paying strike benefits to 35000 idle miners averaging $3 weekly.
Auto Sears and Roe buck make in good running order or der. Will take 50 dollars cash. See Fred Slaughter Moler Auto Sales company.
A compilation of Q and A covering why lights flicker and brighten, Philadelphia's population density, French Legion of Honor classes, golf drop rules and penalties, circus animal sources, Murray Hill Revolutionary War battle notes, and Japan at the Sesqui Centennial Exposition with a quip about Australia.
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