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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1921
Page
4
The notice lists annual and six month subscription prices by mail within Ohio and nationwide. Rates include 7.00 per year, 4.50 for Ohio, with options in weeks and ten week blocks. Subscriptions are payable in advance and end on expiration.
A middle aged couple dismiss a success book as superstition and fear grips them. The author argues no magic in success writings. true power lies in courage persistence initiative and resourcefulness to drive steady progress toward a goal.
A plea that Decoration Day renews the push for disarmament. While praising dead soldiers who sacrificed for country, the piece condemns ongoing warfare as barbaric and urges every grave to symbolize the end of wars. It argues civilization should end bloodshed and seek peace through art and reason.
A Washington man used a neighborhood boy to carry a note to a young woman living nearby. He gave the boy a quarter and told him to hurry. The boy returned, giving the money back and saying Miss Jones would be glad to see him that night but did not want the quarter.
A teacher assigns a composition topic about sudden wealth. One boy, after nibbling his penholder, returns a blank sheet and quips that blank paper is what he would do if he had $10,000. The line highlights humorous restraint and wit in a classroom setting.
Judge Daniels states no more marriages in Indiana while a nephew, newly married, asks how. The exchange centers on a legislature allegedly banning marriages by those deemed weak-minded, a line that highlights satire and family dynamics.
Jimmy Jones writes an answer listing six seals four polar bears and one walrus. The teacher records the slate response as the class task answer.
The piece muses on new messages from Mars and public belief in harmonics and fortune telling, noting optimism and skepticism in equal measure. It playfully questions whether signals are cosmic or home made and ends with a quip about bachelor life.
In New York City on May 27, Margaret Severn revived masked drama in the Greenwich Village Follies with W. T. Benda masks. Director John Murray Anderson champions ancient mask theater, while Benda crafts each mask by hand shaping cardboard and gold leaf for lifelike effects and limited wear due to breathing.
About 500 women attended a Chicago meeting described as a study group rather than a political, religious, or relief event. The audience, labeled home bodies, aimed to learn how advertising from a buyer's view could save money and improve home comfort, noting their prior benefits from reading ads.
Mrs. Leona Krag argues that invention and advertising free women from domestic toil and enable intellectual growth. She urges readers to trust advertised goods as dependable after expert scrutiny and to teach children to buy wisely based on ads in newspapers and magazines.
A experienced businesswoman urges women to study advertising and heed buying suggestions. She argues running a home is a major business requiring keen business acumen to secure best prices for food and clothing.
A testimonial urges all women to study advertising as a free tuition school in daily reading. It promises practical lessons on where to buy quality merchandise, when to seek price concessions, and how to maximize comfort and pleasure while saving money. The message claims advertising equips women to be business like buyers and to reap profit from informed choices.
Readers submit questions to The Athens Messenger Information Bureau. Topics include poison bait for rats using meat vegetable and cereal with one to four parts poison, bronze plaques for soldier memorial trees, repairing underwater cables, xylophone woods and tuning, eel habitat, and measuring planetary distances using the meridian circle from ephemerides.
A narrator muses on a puzzling morning scene with Charley Harris and Congressman Foster suspected of theft as they walk together. He notes their appearance and odd choices of clothing then recalls cafeteria observations about women, hairstyles, and Ferol Strickland, ending with a humorous worry about being counted as unmannerly.
The fragment hints at curious local happenings including a doctor quote about eating, an archer or carpenter figure strolling with a cigar, and speculation on Dan Bardin’s actions in a new home along with a college flag pole scene.
The Plains and surrounding towns report visits from families and friends, a high school play repeated due to demand, a surprise marriage in Parkersburg West Virginia, and various local movements. People travel to Buchtel Nelsonville Athens and Millfield as relatives visit and relocate.
Frost Mrs. Mattie Welch visits sister Mrs. William Stone in Wheeling. Miss Rosa Barnhart helps Mrs. C. G. Ladd with housework. Mrs. Guy Richardson returns to Beverly after a short visit. Rome and Addo Frost visit grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Herman Frost in Belpre. The Ritenour truck repaired by G. G. Dunfee and Clayton Stone is ready for service. Mrs. Clyde Richardson travels to Decatur due to her mother Mrs. Alex Gruey’s illness. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Welch visit with Mr. and Mrs. Add Russell at Fairview. Eugene Linton makes a business trip to Athens. B. L. Frost works on the new Stewart school building.
Murray City James Bryan died at his home on Tuesday May 24 after a sudden illness. The funeral was held Thursday at noon at the deceased’s home with Rev. Bishop officiating. Burial followed at Carbon Hill cemetery. Mr and Mrs Ben Begs returned Tuesday from a visit with daughter Mrs William Roberts of The Plains. Will Jones visited Buchtel on Saturday. Prof Harley Tuttle of Shawnee attended the commencement exer...
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