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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1922
Page
4
A writer argues crime grows as society treats lawbreaking as fashionable. He cites rising theft, booze, and reckless driving tied to home life and culture, noting a shift where even honest people imitate style over conscience, urging lawkeeping to regain prestige.
Lloyd George said the Genoa conference has signed a provisional peace pact lasting about eight months. He urged nations to adopt a peace habit to replace prolonged feuds and believed progress could be made through peaceful adjustment even if full readjustment fails. The piece notes Joe Fordney as a leading figure in Congress after evaluating peers.
Advertising rates on application at home or foreign offices. Nominal charge for obituary cards of banks. National Advertising Representatives Robert E Ward Inc at 501 Fifth Ave New York City and 6 South Wabash Avenue Chicago.
Representative Frear of Wisconsin mocked the rising expense of wearing apparel at a Milwaukee dinner. A banker joked with a second hand shoesman about prices. A housemaid mistook a ringing charwoman for a telephone, highlighting humorous misperceptions.
Barney Barnard recounts a Gentile who bought a packet of cigarets from Isaac Jeanestein. The customer accused the tobacconist of giving a bad shilling in change. Isaac asserts he never handles bad money, then asks if the man passed it on. The customer confirms paying the bad coin for the cigarets.
A household piece titled How to Give Animation to a Porch urges porch life in Long Island as a humorous example. A crowded drug store scene leads to a child’s blunt weight reveal prompting laughter and exit.
Washington May 23 The Lincoln Memorial dedication on May 30 will feature President Harding, former presidents Taft and Wilson, and others including Robert Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. The marble monument by Daniel Chester French, with Guerin paintings Emancipation and Reunion, cost 3.9 million dollars and stands on the Capitol axis near the Potomac River with 36 exterior columns and 48 festoons.
A Logan Ohio column dated May 25 mixes daily life with social observations. The writer notes golfers in tweed, fashion curiosities, a courthouse, Hammer Club chatter, bus incidents, barbershop talk, and hints at Memorial Day preparations. It blends neighbors, local anecdotes, and light humor.
A reader information notice from The Athens Messenger describes the Washington D C Information Bureau run by Frederic J Haskin. It outlines that the bureau answers questions for two cents postage and does not provide legal medical or financial advice or domestic dispute settlement.
The census reports about 11.6 million of roughly 24 million families own their homes while 13 million rent. The Army and Navy Journal ranks the U S Army twenty fourth among the organized powers.
Superintendent Ridgely of Logan Ohio schools spoke to public school administration students at Ohio University on Thursday evening. He delivered a strong address on the economic spending of school funds as classes met in Music Hall.
Federal agents found 300 packets of official documents at the home of G. Patchell an IRS bureau employee in Washington. Commissioner Blair defended the removal of C. C. Childs and A. G. Sumner from the treasury department amid the dispute. A modern battleship uses about 3 000 gallons of fresh water daily.
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