Sault Ste. Marie Canal tonnage vs Panama Canal
The 1920 gross tonnage through Sault Ste. Marie Canal reached 79 282 496 with 9 374 489 tons of cargo. Bowhead whales may yield up to 275 barrels of oil and 2000 pounds of whalebone. Muskegon’s Charles Henry Hackley erected a McKinley statue in 1901. Atlantic City sits on Absécon Beach island off New Jersey’s mainland.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Greenland
McKinley
Charles Henry Hackley
Muskegon
Michigan
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Absécon Beach
One Year Of Prosperity Then Slump Warns Financial Authority
A financial authority predicts a year of general prosperity through 1928 with an initial rise in prices and activity followed by a decline toward year end. He notes rising inflation will likely reverse as incomes constrain spending, urging steady fair prices and profits over fleeting gains.
Winter Health Aims for Smart Winter Living
A doctor advises that winter health hinges on right living not fate. Breathing moist air, frequent ventilation, outdoor exercise, and reduced exposure to others’ germs can prevent illness. Even in winter, open air and care lower germ inhalation and medical costs, valuing thoughtfulness over needless trips to the doctor.
Beware of gland fakers selling glandular cures
Public interest in monkey glands spawns fakers peddling pills and liquid dopes as marvelous cures. The piece notes a pattern since Brown-Sequard, 33 years ago, facing ridicule for theories on restoring youth and mental vigor via endocrine glands.
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Brown-Sequard
Endocrine Gland Treatments Warned as Experimental
The piece cautions that Brown Sequard's ideas point to future possibilities, but emphasizes endocrine therapies are in their infancy and dangerous without skilled medical care. It notes the thyroid's known influence on intellect and health, and warns other glands carry greater risks of heart, nerve, or mental harm if improperly treated.
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Brown Sequard
Omnibus of quirky sayings and musings from a column
A collage of aphorisms and observations touching on love money fame aging and invention. Notable lines include peace as fighting insurance fatness and appetite humor about marriage masters and paymasters and a health quirk about playing trombone at midnight.
Hunting With the Camera Gains in Popularity Across Eastern Marshes
The article notes a rise in camera hunting this season, especially in eastern marshes and woodlands, as youth and outdoor clubs trade guns for field glasses to photograph wildlife. It highlights pioneers like the Wallihans and experts such as Hornaday and Dugmore, who proved camera hunting can yield artistic, enduring images without killing.
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Washington
PD. C
William Hornaday
Kodak
Hornaday
America
Wallihans
John M. Phillips
George Shiras
Carl F B. Akeley
Norman McClintock
Edwin R. Sanborn
Kermit Roosevelt
Edmund Heller
W. Ly
Athens Day by Day as Seen by the Messenger Watch Dog
Day by day jottings from a modern Samuel Pepys in Athens O A. The writer notes gas bills, Halloween talk at Lindley Hall, and a dog that hunts rats. He visits the office, pays expenses, reads Mark Twain, attends church, plays the mandolin, and ends with reflections on the day and Christmas suggestions.
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Athens
Samuel Pepys
Abrigal
Professor Cooper
Selby
Lindley Hall
Mack Sennett
Robert Goodman
Hocking
Methodist Church
Dr. McGurk
Outcry over tobacco and party badges in local clubs
A reader mocks Ike Beecher for avoiding voting while praising Salvation Army efforts to remove a tobacco chew from a member. The piece jokes about eradicating a goatee like wart and urges removal of Republican badges from Hammer club president Mont Kurth.
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Salvation Army
Brother Mont Kurth
Hammer Club
Questions and Answers from The Athens Messenger
In a reader Q and A column the Information Bureau answers questions on Gretna Green marriages New York versus London population compar isons the origin of scot free habeas corpus rights and more. Answers discuss Scotland law, census figures, etymology, and historical legal authority with named figures and dates.
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Amy Reader
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
New York
London
New York City
Bureau of Census
Greater
Greater London
Local Social News from Amesville and Nearby Areas
Mrs. R V King attended the grand lodge session in Columbus with her husband. Miss Edna Glazier of Cincinnati visits L B Glazier’s family. Mr and Mrs G L Fleming depart for Orlando Florida for the winter. Ruel Finsterwald of Pomeroy and Rice family members visited the Wells farm at Stewart. Rev Haskins reports birth of Dorothy Pauline nine and a half pounds at Bidwell on Oct 23. Joint temperance meeting of local churches held at the M. Church.
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R. V. King
W. M
The
Eastern Stars
Grand Lodge
Columbus
King
Edna Glazier
Cincinnati
L. B. Glazier
G. L. Fleming
Kissemee
Fla
Ruel Finsterwald
Pomeroy
Rice
Local social events fill week with gatherings and dances
Community notes describe Hallowe en parties and masquerades at several homes, with Dean Voigt to speak next Sunday afternoon. The Sun day School class meets masked. a high school box social and minstrels fund a Victrola. Visitors from Mc Connelsville and Stewart join Wells Farm guests as Herman Ahle remains ill from blood poisoning.
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W. R. Wells
Precilla
Clara Henry
King’s Daughters
L. B. Glazier
G. W. Lovell
Edwin, Earl and
John
McConnelsville
H. C. Joy
Ruel Finsterwald
Pomeroy
Don Campbell
William Rice
Lenoré
Mildred
Gertrude Rice
Stewart
Wells Farm
Altho
Herman Ahle
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Athens Esener Hermanine
Athena, Ohta
St. George and the Dragon
Panama Canal
J. H
Tom Sims
Cupid
Maude Adams
He O
Pina
Bominal
Colorado
A. G. Wallihan
Man Underwood
Radclyffe Dugmore
Clark
Dugmore
Duremore
Salem
J. M. Phillips
Dr. Hornaday
Phillips Corneret
Fred J. Haskin
London Times
Scholasticus
Klaus Pomeroy
Casablanca
Morroco
Ike Beecher
J. M
Greta Green
England
Scotland
General Scott
Taney
Congress
Lincoln
Amesville
Biddle
Messers. Haskins
Kuppenheimer
Scott Haney Co
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