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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1929
Page
6
The Washington roundup lists government data on fisheries jobs, forestry planting, marriage and divorce trends, educational legislation, coal production, road mileage, and travel by national parks. It notes rising vehicle registrations, poultry projections, and inquiries on joints in concrete pavements.
Ohio voters wake to taxation reform as prohibition mobilizes turnout. The piece notes past stock market crashes and current reform momentum, urging educated public demand to curb hidden interests and sustain fiscal change. It highlights the role of educated voters and reflections on market history and trust in reform efforts.
The piece notes that over 200,000 Ohioans supported a taxation change in the recent election, suggesting rising public education and signaling a shift toward constitutional reform. It argues that such interest is rare outside prohibition and that the issue has now been handed to the Legislature for action.
The Traveler's Life Insurance Company reports 2900 people killed in American automobile accidents in August, a 23 percent rise from August 1928. The piece laments national complacency toward motor traffic fatalities and warns of the growing death toll.
The Dornier seaplane carried 152 people in a Germany trial flight, claiming heavy load capacity rivaling the largest dirigibles. Early results suggest a potential shift in air travel balance, though long-distance tests remain.
Dr Mayo criticizes modern hospitals for being too costly for millions. He argues fear of debt deters care more than fear of illness and says care should not be a luxury for the wealthy while being unaffordable for average people.
New York opens the world’s first all news reel theater edited like a newspaper. Programs refresh as fast as incoming footage arrives, letting patrons see near real time shifts in news events. William Fox origin and a nationwide rollout are planned if Manhattan success continues.
The passage compares early and late newspaper editions to live market reports and crowd scenes. It notes quick stock exchange rushes in panicky times and fevered crowds in the streets, with "hot news" reels arriving from Paris to resemble extra editions.
Thousands of school children in suburban spots near New York City must pay $15 weekly for taxi rides to and from school. Taxis pick up each morning and return children to their homes, a daily round trip many families cannot manage. Some students travel up to about 15 miles, similar to farm children commuting to city schools. The city school department operates within New York City limits.
The article notes a free bus line operated by the New York American to its newspaper plant, while other routes charge five cents and pass through dense student districts. It’s described as one of the few free services available.
Street panhandlers have adopted a line asking for help after losing money in the stock market. One victim reports a beggar pausing to pretend poverty and then producing margin call slips as proof of lost funds.
The report shows total light and power rents, home use totaling ten billion kilowatt hours and industrial use rising to ninety five billion kilowatt hours as electricity moves to heavier industry.
A New Jersey utility urges extending affordable installment plans to supply isolated farms with electricity, likening the idea to auto financing. The letter argues widespread rural electrification would boost domestic use and economic productivity, calling for practical credit terms.
A farmer balks at a proposed $600 bill to extend electric current from the main line to his farmhouse and cow barn. The high cost is seen as prohibitive and potentially adverse to the power company’s plans.
Senator Gillette of Massachusetts voices frank views displeasing to prohibitionists. A former Speaker of the House he recalls representatives under the influence of liquor while laws were made.
A House member notes that voting behavior crosses party lines as a distinguished Senator is praised for backing prohibition yet abstains from whisky when sober, illustrating the fluid stance on liquor in politics.
The passage argues that even in ancient times many opposed cannibalism sincerely but practiced it, and that cannibalism faded as people recognized its wrongness, driven by those who knew it was wrong even while engaging in it.
Moscow recently dispatched four fliers by air to New York to prove capability. Tokyo reports Red planes bombing Chinese railroad stations and plotting to ruin coal mines key to the Chinese Eastern Railway operation.
The piece argues Russia has a cunning regime with the brains to conduct genuine aviation and agricultural experiments, contrasting it with a supposedly benevolent but complacent Western government that merely promises relief for farmers.
The Prince of Wales plans a hunting expedition to Africa using a small airplane with an expert army pilot. The aim combines shooting with flying, though sportsmanship may discourage spying and shooting giraffes, lions, and elephants.
Dr Frank McCoy surveys wheat origins from western Asia to Americas and China. He traces ancient grinding tools from mortars to rollers, highlighting the shift from stone to mechanical mills and noting bran preservation in stone milling for whole wheat flour. He also answers reader questions on child development, grape juice for high blood pressure, and thyroid-related skin dryness.
The text describes a method where an airplane would locate targets and ground shooters would then fire. It implies coordinated air and ground involvement by royal sportsmen in a hunt.
Mrs O writes about her one year four month old baby not yet walking and asks for guidance or information. The fragment indicates parental concern and a request for medical or developmental advice.
The passage compares Tiger shooting to firing from an airplane or an elephant and declares the Tiger has no chance in either method, labeling killing him as a blessing.
A mixed set of questions and answers covers silk stocking sales in 1900 and 1929, the first Thanksgiving observance by pilgrims in 1621, Gulf of Mexico salinity, seaside resorts near London, Pocos de Caldas springs in Brazil, spoon capacities, Frances Willard and Annie Wittenmyer, and the origin of stenography with Timothy Bright.
An excerpt praising science as the chief helper of humanity. It notes that automo bile trucks relieve horses from icy streets, heat, and overload while electricity lifts bricks and mortar to upper floors, transforming labor. The hod carrier rises from $1.50 to $9 a day through industrial progress.
In Pittsburgh, Virginia, Mr. L. O. Maines notes local chimneys are cleaned by the vacuum process. Suction removes soot buildup, especially with oil heaters, seen as progress after past methods that risked starving apprentices to fit down chimneys.
Ramsay MacDonald returned to London stating he expects good results from the United States peace talks and that he did not discuss the war debt. He noted this stance sets him apart from other distinguished Britons who visited the United States.
J. H. Thomas now Lord Privy Seal announces MacDonald's Labor Government will invest 200 million pounds to address joblessness in Great Britain, signaling a major economic effort.
The Labor Government plans to pay real wages for real work rather than dole to 009000 idle men, aiming to secure productive output in return.
The Pallas club will meet Saturday at 2 o clock with Mrs. C E M Jennings on East Union Street. Mrs C F McBee entertained the U C D Sewing Club at her South College Street home Thursday afternoon where Mrs J E Woodworth read a story.
Fred Alderman, J. P. Wood Jr., Terry T. Sullivan and Will Fletcher are in Columbus today to attend the Ohio State Case football game.
Master Richard Dagett traveled to Chillicothe yesterday to join his mother who is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hoffman.
Ten years ago Ohio University planned speaker representation by President Ellis J P Wood FE J Jones and I M Foster at two major conferences in Columbus this week.
The local American Legion post announced that November 11 is the final day for recruiting service men and women. After Tuesday no additional charter members will be accepted.
Eight thousand coal miners remain idle, with only a small portion finding work with farmers husking corn and handling other odd jobs in various locations.
Loyal workers of the MEB Church prepare a Christmas party and pie social in the church basement Tuesday morning.
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