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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1925
Page
4
A brief collection of proverbs notes that joke about vanity and folly. Beel remarks that laughter proves vanity and Hare warns that only a foal believes itself always right. The fragment evokes caution on wisdom and self assurance.
The League of Nations confronts France over its Syrian mandate after Syria agreed to independence pledges in World War I but was occupied postwar. Damascus massacre cited as latest atrocity, with calls to revoke the mandate and redraw governance, urging accords that honor pledges and restrain French control.
A 35 year old woman enters a crowded streetcar with an armful of dies. A young flapper in giddy attire offers her seat, which the older woman refuses. The scene captures a moment of unsolicited courtesy on public transit.
In a tense train car scene a woman asserts dominance over a younger girl, shoving her back into her seat and denouncing the flapper for offering a seat to a man. The exchange highlights social tensions and gender expectations of the era.
A New York financial writer reports a Wall Street banker saying the public is driving a bull market as brokers’ wires stay hot. He warns the peak may come when public money runs dry, while real estate shows lagging yet rising interest, especially in Florida, with a potential nationwide land boom next year.
Election day has passed and voters chose or rejected measures and candidates. The piece urges citizens to fulfill registration and voting duties and cautions against complaints if officials do not meet personal expectations.
The piece notes the U S Indian population near 350 000 with Oklahoma housing a large share. It highlights Osage per capita wealth from oil royalties and bonuses, detailing 1925 1926 incomes and the 1870 land transfer from Kansas to Oklahoma, plus tribal escrow management by government agents.
John Fortesque argues that under today’s immigration rules the first white Americans would be kept out. He says even the founder of Christianity could not enter unrecognized and suggests such a figure would be told to go to Russia by our best minds.
Standard Oil will place large roof signs on its buildings along the west coast. The signs will display town names and other information to guide filers and provide a clear reference across locations.
The text suggests modern travel follows a path similar to Moses guiding through a desert once crossed by pilgrims now with quicker methods. It notes a forenoon pace and the idea that governance will establish new systems for filers amid this progress.
Scientists in California say saber-toothed tigers and imperial-tusked elephants inhabited a jungle just south of Hollywood before the area became a moving pictures hub. The find hints at ancient ecosystems and potential land value insights.
The text ponders future California population and cites Britain with 95 000 square miles and 42 million people plus Italy with 118 000 square miles. It presents comparative area and population figures without finishing the thought.
In New York Betty a shop magicalist with a British war service medal recalls her past as a front line nurse. She cared for a wounded soldier who died in her arms and later joined a convent before marrying. She now works as a manicurist while fortune telling booms with returning gypsies roaming basements and empty lots.
A vivid slice of urban life from Broadway, with phrenology and palm readers lining windows while uptown ladies visit in their fine cars. The piece contrasts showy model parades on election nights with the ambitions of a new weather station funded by Argentina and guided by American experts.
Charles P. Stewart reports that the long-range weather prophets, led by Director Charles G Abbot of the Smithsonian, plan a new solar observatory in Africa and Asia to daily measure the sun's heat. The goal is to forecast earthly temperatures years ahead, though progress has been hampered by few vantage points to monitor solar changes.
The text compares land and population figures, noting California covers 168000 square miles with 4,000,000 people while Great Britain has 38000000. It argues California could easily raise enough food to feed three times Britain's population and still have surplus.
A column presents brief Q A items on telephony, leaves and humus, shoe wear damage from perspiration, the shaddock pomelo grape fruit origins, Victor Lawson’s YWCA bequest, illiteracy claim in American Samoa, Maxfield Parrish and Howard Pyle, Bible opening at Coolidge era event, willows for baskets, and the Old Ironsides poem incident.
The Rt. Rev. Benjamin I. Ivins argues against claims that United States civilization is collapsing. He says Puritan restraints and social norms endure, and civilization is not failing but preparing for a fresh start after the war.
A Fortoria Times remark notes frankness as admired by the modern girl while a Defiance Crescent News blast claims Opportunity ignores readers who sleep. Cincinnati Times-Star and other papers comment on ultra violet rays and blondes as fashionable equipment in society.
The Urbana Democrat and Bellefontaine Examiner column snippets mock social norms highlighting rising prices and aging, with satirical remarks about broadcasting age and praising masculine stereotypes. The excerpts reflect regional press voice and humor from Ohio newspapers.
A man in Youngstown Ohio becomes intoxicated and mispronounces a sophisticated term, drawing local amusement as he struggles with spoken language while clearly inebriated.
A northern Ohio journal notes the return of a man known for daily cold baths and for lying about other matters. The item reads as a brief local curiosity column from Mansfiela.
Detective Adrian Klyne pursues the Rain Gauge lead as Sir Guy Lathrop and Margaret confront the Roake case at the Grange. Roake, Klyne and Adela Larkin collide over deception while Klyne prepares a long path to Long Paston Manor with a fake clerical persona.
A daily poem compares a system to a machine at the wheel urging steady pace and careful driving. It counsels keeping seriousness, staying on course, using brain power, and avoiding reckless moves to reach success.
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