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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1924
Page
2
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Joseph L. Hempstead, a Chicago artist famed for color etchings, is described as a dangerous expert capable of perfect copies. Once headed a Boston engraving plant, he trained workers for war bond work in Washington. He learned his craft through hands on work, study in Paris, and self developed color printing.
U S Senator Frank B Willis opened the UNRepublican pre primary state convention in Columbus Ohio urging return to courts for trials and condemning public trial by opinion. He praised Harding Coolidge and urged no factional disputes in Ohio Republicanism while touting postwar debt reductions.
Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton of Ohio vice chairman of the Republican National Committee will oversee all women’s activities at the Republican national convention opening in Cleveland. California Republicans report Los Angeles as the first woman delegate.
Sir Herbert Samuel the High Commissioner orders entry of more than 7000 Jews into Palestine within six months. The group includes 2400 working individuals with dependents, among them 1000 agricultural workers, 409 builders, and 900 skilled and unskilled laborers from Eastern and Central Europe.
San Mateo police search for a sour cornetist after Willis Polk, notable California artist and architect, complains the musician disturbs neighbors by bugling late at night and cannot play a lick. The case prompts a townwide inquiry into the noisy musician.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a ten percent reduction in express rates on fruit berries vegetables butter and eggs on car roads. The cut takes effect on or before June 21.
May 20 reports that photographs can be sent by telephone from any city to New York with a five minute delivery. A Cleveland to New York wire transmitted 15 photos, testing the system for personal sharing and future commercial use by the telephone company.
The nation is in a period of economic readjustment and business is on a more sound basis now than ever before, according to representative American manufacturers quoted by International News Service.
Pennsylvania State Police and local officers hunted for suspects in Tiltonville after a July payroll robbery at West Company Moosic, Pa. One bandit, Jack Scummy, 28, was dead from self inflicted wounds while accomplice John Toni, 43, lay critically wounded in a hospital.
Mrs. Alice Hill of Warren Ohio endorses Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription for expectant mothers as a beneficial tonic. The ad urges prospective mothers to obtain the product from local druggists in tablet or liquid form, claiming it helps during pregnancy.
Charles Mariner, an Athens contractor in charge of the Athens-Sugar Creek road project, was arraigned before Magistrate Helwig on a charge by Columbus deputy George T. Hagemann. The affidavit says he kept workers on the job beyond eight hours daily, violating Ohio Code sections. He pleaded not guilty, waived examination, and was bound over to the grand jury, released on his own recognizance.
The Athens County bureau issued marriage licenses on Monday to two couples. Irene Scott and Piera Prother, both in Athens, with Scott from Elkins West Virginia and Prother a 27 year old teacher. Cecil Davidson and Anna Charlotte Dishong, both of Athens, with Dishong aged 17 and Davidson a 24 year old clerk.
Prof Croasman urged oil stockpiles for peacetime and war while Prof Smith pressed stronger voter participation and a nationwide primary law. He noted Ohio voter indifference with only 16 percent turnout. The meeting at the Presbyterian Church discussed reforms to presidential candidate selection and civic engagement.
Funeral services for Dr G W Martin are set for Wednesday at 1 PM at Cross Roads Church with burial in the adjoining cemetery. The cortege will depart from the Morris Avenue residence at 12 noon.
An advertisement touts Joint-Ease as fast-acting relief for stiff joints and swelling. It promises deep skin absorption and relief down to ligaments and bones, urging use for rheumatic and other joint pains. The copy also advertises Joint-Base as the broad remedy, available from druggists at 60 cents per tube.
J Arthur Jeffers has been appointed manager of the Washington Division of the American Red Cross, succeeding Mrs. John Allan Dougherty who resigned March 1 and is in Paris. Jeffers, active since the war, led soldier relief work in Pueblo, Colorado and served as director of civilian relief in Philadelphia before transfers to New York and finally Washington. He is well known in the Washington Division and has spoken at regional conferences and visited the Athens county chapter repeatedly.
Hazel Moore was held in Athens county jail in default of a $500 bond on a charge of abandonment filed by her husband Harry Moore. She was released Monday evening on her promise to return to her children and home. It is believed the charge will be withdrawn.
M. Ke. Milligin of Columbus was arrested in Bucyrus Ohio on a charge of impersonating a deputy state prohibition officer. Police chief Philip Trautman said Milligin's arrest followed the arrest of eight others charged with liquor law violations.
Amateur radio operators reported in Paris on May 20 that they captured trills and chirps of nightingales broadcast from Surrey England during the previous night.
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