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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1928
Page
4
A column reflects on Oberlin College students who sat on a railroad track daring a train and the girl was badly injured. It contrasts youthful bravado with future responsibility, notes the need for vehicle inspections in winter, and urges safe driving and timely repairs.
The article urges shoppers to start early to avoid last minute rushes and ensure thoughtful gifts. Merchants report people begin in October and November, buying and hiding gifts to spread purchases over weeks. The piece emphasizes planning, devising suitable gifts, and easing store workloads for a happier season.
The article urges car owners to inspect their vehicles in spring or fall and again as needed to ensure reliability for winter. It highlights lubrication, tires, batteries, brakes, and fuel system checks, noting winter driving stresses differ from summer use.
Among wreck survivors from the ship Vestris 400 miles off shore are Mr and Mrs Louis Leuhauser both past middle age traveling third class with all they own to begin life anew in the Argentine. The report praises courage drawing young people to the Pacific Coast and notes old travelers fund western growth.
Professor Bowman of Columbia University condemns the United States for boasting of religious freedom while enduring Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish bigotry. He warns the bias exists and will persist for some time, with each group despising the others and sometimes making it evident.
The remark notes that some Christian Scientists believe all three faiths require improvement. It also says a man who takes his own religion too seriously is viewed as a bigot by other religions.
The text notes earlier excitement over Standard Oil reaching a value of a thousand millions and states that action followed. It implies government concern over U.S. wealth and ownership while hinting at a broader destiny of the nation’s prosperity.
The piece likens Standard Oil to an octopus with arms in New York New Jersey Indiana and California. It notes a baby octopus Mr Teagle s Standard Oil of New Jersey earning between 90 000 000 and 100 000 000 in profit last year and compares a billion dollar scale to ordinary units while mentioning General Motors as a multi billion enterprise.
The market roars with a wild trading rush on Wall Street as brokers struggle to cope with the volume. Proposals to add 600 seats would raise active members to 1,200, but about five hundred of the current 1,100 seats are owned by nontraders, leaving questions about true exchange activity.
Offer to sell seats at 500000 dollars each as demand comes, with proceeds divided pro rata among current seat owners.
The idea divides stocks into fast and slow classes and assigns two tickers per office. Each speculator watches a personal tape with an active and a dull ticker. When an active stock turns dull it switches to the other ticker and the public is notified.
In a Mt Etna lava disaster zone a mother and father carry their deceased infant toward a distant burial as their own graveyard lies buried under lava two hundred feet deep.
A grieving couple laments they cannot bury their baby at the site and worry about the buried residents escaping through lava. They hope Divine Mercy and the Angel Gabriel will attend to the situation.
The city promises firm action to curb grafting, echoing biblical bravado as critics question whether anti corruption measures will hold. The quote evokes Job while questioning whether the city can wield a hook to curb entrenched corruption.
The piece compares graft to the biblical Leviathan and Behemoth, noting bones of brass as a metaphor for entrenched corruption. It argues graft will persist until public interest sharpens, but as of now the public’s attention remains divided and preoccupied.
Reader questions on spine health diet and acne answered by Dr Frank McCoy author of The Newest Way to Health. He links spinal strength to overall health and warns against harsh treatments while promoting bending and limbering exercises and proper nutrition. He offers to send a special article on spine strengthening to readers who write with a stamped self addressed envelope.
By the Way recalls Rose Melville, famed in early theater days, and the author’s Michigan and town memories of dime novels, Sis Hopkins, Hy Mann’s barn, and the pull of nostalgic shows that shaped a generation. The piece reflects on aging, memory, and the lasting glow of past performers.
A compilation of Q and A on historical milestones and trivia from Frederick J Haskin. Included are dates such as 1777 1787 1806 1832 and notes on early theater capacity and political symbols, with brief answers to questions about the first negro play in America salaries and party emblems.
Washington dispatch analyzes Governor Smith’s radio address as a bid to keep the Democratic Party intact and prevent a two party shakeup. It notes the talk of reorganizing the party, the role of the minority in Congress, and potential shifts shaping 1932 politics and Roosevelt’s nomination.
The Civil Service Reform League was formed in 1881 to promote a merit based system for appointment promotion and removal in the U S civil service. It aimed to establish a nationwide standard for public service integrity and efficiency.
Mr and Mrs D H Moore and daughter Derre traveled to Cincinnati to say goodbye to Mrs Witt who planned a winter in California. Prof and Mrs Clement Martzolff moved from New Lexington to Athens occupying the Slaughter home on North Lancaster Street recently vacated by John Blackwood.
A brief theatrical notice advertises the Grand Theater offering a five cent show with a German comedian from Berlin performing a parody of Il Trovatore and two moving pictures.
Ten years ago Miss Greta Lash came back to Marietta to resume teaching in the public schools after a visit with her parents Mr and Mrs George B Lash. Ohio University played the University of Cincinnati to a 6 to 6 tie in a football game with Irish Kreiger Happy Nye Butch Grover and Peg Fuller on the Ohio squad.
The Allied armistice terms accepted by Germany were made public by President Wilson in an address to Congress using his exact quoted words.
Walter Bean of Athens and Noble J. Lax of Nelsonville were reported killed in action. The report notes their deaths as part of wartime records with no further details provided.
A crossword puzzle page lists horizontal and vertical clues for an IX letter word puzzle with items such as til, wheel pad, Bard, Eucharist wine vessel, and various body parts. Several clues reference placements, tools, and objects like den, bow, cabbage, organ, and linen square, with vertical hints including chimney neap dry allot and lace mesh.
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