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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1921
Page
4
The proposed US naval saving plan is described as a potential $200 million annual reduction in government outlays. The piece argues the cut is not fixed but a yearly charge eliminated, with broader implications for international finance and peace, suggesting gains could reach trillions when shared with England and Japan and offset war spending.
The article reports that 92 percent of U S national expenditure is devoted to war preparations as President and delegates push for arms limitation. It notes a clear aim to keep discussions on disarmament central while allowing related global problems to be examined in context.
A hundred years ago an English duke Returned home at daybreak from a night at his club Only two woke near the early hour The duke and a cobbler greeting each other Good night friend Good morning sir marked the routine start of the day
A London and North Western official rides from Elephant and Castle to Herne Hill. A porter calls Helifant then Herne. The manager learns the names Jones and Clarke and jokes he will swap their jobs at the Elephant station.
A fragmentary column humorously reflects on politics culture and reading habits. The narrator jokes about Congress Swedenborg Bernard Shaw and Mars while noting politicians carry speeches and overdrawn checks returning home to roost.
Washington to host delegations from major nations for a high level conference. State Department logistics dominate as hosts house hundreds of officials and hundreds of visiting journalists. Hotel suites and even mansions are pressed into service to accommodate this international gathering.
A lively Athens column lampoons local dentists and their wives at a basement church banquet. The writer critiques the dental profession's grind, mentions several doctors by name, and teases social antics and hunting wishes, ending with a request for reader hunting tales and results from want ads.
Reader can submit questions to The Messenger Information, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington DC. The service offers information not legal or financial advice and cannot settle domestic troubles or provide research. Include full name and address and postage must be paid. responses sent by mail.
A mixed set of Q and A items covers topics from the Rhineland High Commission and Civil War pensions to Euchre origins, plant anatomy, petrification times, Custer’s Little Big Horn casualties, Washington’s last words, brass acids, and Canada’s apple yield. It also notes Hallowe en party attendees and a novel two-ended toothbrush invention.
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