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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1922
Page
4
The article notes a first in two years with over 1,000,000 freight cars moved in a week despite car shortages. Unemployment drops and labor demand rise, while a sustained building boom and strong auto production forecasts, with 2.4 million cars for the year, mark a broad era of unprecedented prosperity.
The American Employment Exchange reports white collar salaries down 10 to 20 percent from a year ago and a falling barometer. The average weekly wage for bookkeepers is about 22 dollars, with prospects of further decline. The piece laments their moral stature and laments lack of organization while noting the canceled Zybszko wrestling event to hear Paderewski.
An inventor Elmer A Sperry perfects Metal Mike an automatic ship steering box that steers six times more accurately than a human. The Moffet a Standard Oil tanker traveled 4000 miles guided by the device. It detects deviations and corrects course instantly but lacks human judgment raising questions about machines replacing human work.
A collection of light quotes and notes from TOM SIMS SAYS lampooning winter care, tariff politics, fashion shifts, and a brainy doctor’s cereal remark. It notes a Reading, Conn. horse thief arrest amid modernization chatter and common habits among men and wives.
Washington’s Center Market operates under the Department of Agriculture with the government owning buildings, renting stalls, and enforcing sanitation. Experts view the market as a living laboratory guiding other cities toward modern, high standard facilities while preserving farmer and shopper access to fresh perishable goods.
A fragmented riverfront poem and humor column envisions a simple home by the water. The writer mocks riverbank life, mosquitoes, fish lore, and salt works, interwoven with local oddities and regional jests about Pomeroy and nearby towns.
Readers can mail questions to The Athens Messenger Information Bureau Frederic J Haskin Direc tor neeton DC for answers. The notice requests brief questions and two cents postage for return mailing.
A compilation of brief Q and A items covers tourist camping rates in Minnesota with estimates of 20 percent camping and 80 percent using hotels, Minnesota’s about 280 natural lakes, a hominy based spoon bread recipe, the meaning of date A L 922 in a Masonic system, laundering of soiled paper dollars, and how the British Cabinet is formed with a royal invitation and ministers.
Quiz compiled from a period reader asks about Cleopatra’s son Caesarion who reigned as co regent with his mother from 47 to 30 B C. It notes his claim as son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar and confirms his reign period.
Washington officials note the post office receives letters addressed to former postmasters general. Letters have piled in for Walter Q. Gresham who led the service in 1883, and for Will Hays Burleson and Hitchcock who served under Wilson and Taft.
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