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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1930
Page
4
A short devotional contrasts fear and duty with virtue. It cites Jonah 1 16 and Goldsmith noting fear drives duty while virtue based on love of virtue is rarer. The piece reflects on moral motivation and restraint.
The piece recalls Memorial Day logistics and veterans marching from Argonne to Vicksburg, acknowledging sacrifice across generations. It argues small cities can gain growth and pride through consistent, modest civic projects like resurfacing West Union Street, urging steady effort over years.
The piece reflects on sacrifice and service, noting that true love is shown by laying down one’s life for others. It suggests that if a path exists for living for others, celebrations will follow, and invokes peace on earth. It recalls men who marched tomorrow once went to War.
Citizens notice improvements as enforcement of traffic rules reduces reckless driving and jaywalking. Officials insist arrests target unsafe habits like curbstone blocking and night driving with one headlight. Pedestrians and motorists report better awareness of rights, and the city administration is seen as serious about control.
New York May 29 Sophie Tucker, famed red hot mamma, appears distraught backstage with red rimmed eyes and a trembling lip yet vows she is hotter than ever. An orchestra tunes nearby as she readies to perform Nobody Knows What a Red Hot Mamma Can Do and delivers a brassy comeback.
A performer recalls Mollie Elkins a longtime dresser who died. she treated Mollie like family and raised a boy. the company buries Mollie and vows to continue the show.
The fragment hints at a dramatic finish to a Sophie Tucker story, contrasting artistic interpretation with the straight news approach. It suggests a moment of unresolved tension between performer and reporting.
The late Rodman Wanamaker left $60,000,000 according to executors. He worked hard nearly to his death, directing his business and promoting aviation, a field he helped pioneer. It is what a man DOES that counts, not what he MAS.
A writer notes Wanamaker family tradition of leading by example. John Wanamaker, past 70, works in his New York store in heat of summer, saying he keeps his manager Mr Ogden from taking a vacation by sending him home and taking the desk.
Encouraging London reports say business girls reject long skirts as impractical and embrace short skirts as sensible. The piece frames the trend as practical fashion adapting to modern work life.
She will soon go back to London the city she loves and hopes to stage a new English show written by two young Britons with Sophie as the sole foreigner. She will avoid talkies unless a story she likes appears and she longs to appear on radio, though her material is considered too hot. She enjoys seeing European titled people in stylish dress join in chorus to her songs.
A brief commentary urges affluent women to avoid dragging dust into rooms by selecting practical attire and resisting the control of fashion creators. It advocates health and cleanliness as guiding principles.
A Navy pact faces strong opposition from top officers who call it unfair to the United States. Senators prefer accepting a flawed treaty to abandoning naval limitations, arguing the U.S. should keep its freedom to build as it chooses while European nations with tighter budgets reduce their armaments in response.
Jacques Gordon, famed violinist, carrying a $40,000 Stradivarius once owned by Paganini, dressed in threadbare clothes and played on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue to collect coins in a sidewalk concert. He typically earns $1,000 per concert.
A London street scenario shows genuine gold sovereigns offered for sixpence each, prompting skepticism from passersby. The incident illustrates that reputations seem real only if listeners are informed, as the crowd remains doubtful despite the authentic coins.
Diet guidance from Dr. Frank McCoy outlines a week of meals including specific breakfasts lunches and dinners with dishes like coddled eggs roast veal Salisbury steak and roast mutton. The notes also include a Q&A on dark circles under the eyes and belching with dietary corrections.
Dwight W. Morrow plans to tell New Jersey voters he is not a presidential candidate in 1933 and seeks no antagonism with President Hoover. The anti saloon league figure McBride suggested the idea, hinting at a possible dry wet friction. Morrow is described as a businessman who focuses on one task at a time.
Four American mothers whose sons died in the war laid wreaths on the Unknown French Soldier tomb. A French general who had seen royalty and statesmen visit the tomb said he had never seen such deep feeling as those mothers showed. Only a mother knows what war means.
In a Columbus session the Ohio Conference voted to include Ohio University. Professor H R Wilson represented the university during the proceedings.
Miss Florence Clayton and Miss Elizabeth Mytinger of Chillicothe were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Clayton on North Congress Street over Sunday.
Mr. Frank S. Roach Mr. B. F. Stout and Mr. Sherman Dils of Parkersburg returned Sunday morning from a few days business trip in Detroit Michigan.
Mr and Mrs J A Lovell traveled from Marietta to spend Saturday with Mrs and Mrs S N Hobson in their home as guests of the Hobsons parents.
A local chapter of the American Association of University Professors will be formed soon as a majority of Ohio University’s leading professors have been elected to the organization.
Athens High fell to Huntington High 5 to 4 at Huntington. Littler Wise and Sharp played unusually well for Athens in a tight game.
Fifty plates were set for the annual dinner last evening of the Social Literary Club entertained at the home of Prof. and Mrs. T N Hoover Elmwood Place.
Cleveland attorney James P. Wood is spending over Sunday in Athens with his father, Judge J. M. Wood, a fact noted in local society circles.
Washington observers map 1930 Senate races with 30 primaries in 29 states and a mix of certain and doubtful outcomes. Republicans look to win in Pennsylvania Oregon Iowa Maine Minnesota Kansas Nebraska Wyoming Michigan New Hampshire Idaho while Democrats expect gains in Alabama Texas Virginia Mississippi Tennessee Arkansas South Carolina Louisiana Georgia New Mexico. Montana North Carolina offer potential swings, with other states showing varied odds for both parties.
A compiled Q A set covers figures from William Powell to Voltaire and history for readers. It includes details on ethics standards in money, Hercules labors, umpire fines, Kathleen Norris education, India under British rule, ballads, Ziegfeld, Stiegel glass, transcontinental mail, Indian beards, Voltaire real name, aircraft noise, plaster cracking, English policing, General Sheridan, dentistry history, linoleum invention, and abecedarian Psalms.
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