The Invisible Empire in Louisiana and Its Silent Reach
A Washington Post dispatch portrays the Ku Klux Klan's alleged influence in Louisiana including disappearances and public shaming. Gov Parker calls the report 90 percent false while noting real abuses and secret condemnations without open trial, challenging Anglo-Saxon justice and 100 percent Americanism claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Washington Post
Louisiana
Ku “Klux Klan
Parker
Safety For Money at New Federal Reserve Building
The Cleveland Fed building under construction will house a vault with a 300 ton door and 20 ton hinge. The four foot thick door features intricate time locks designed to deter safe-blowers. Despite such security, many with little may continue their old ways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Reserve Bank
Cleveland
Christendom
Uncle Sam
Fragmented Local News Snippets on Sports and People
A collage of brief items covers claims about Jack Dempsey’s football team offer, a Kansas horse winning a jumping title, and controversies over athletics hormones heart effects. It notes a Bethlehem furniture plant fire, rising pork costs, a Congresswoman with four children, and musings on the ex Kaiser and movie work.
Day of Joy on Thanksgiving Day Reflections
Aided by historical roots in Pilgrim gratitude for liberty and worship, the piece urges not just money or prosperity but gratitude for family, hearth, and friends. It contrasts modest homes with grand feasts and extols the comfort of distant loved ones over public dining, celebrating true Thanksgiving spirit.
Congress and the Railroads
Washington dispatch outlines a railroad crisis with 150000 to 200000 cars missing and congestion from terminal limits. It notes calls for an extended Congress session after March 1923 to draft a broad transportation bill led by Senator LaFollette and possible abolition of the Railroad Labor Board amid rising rates and limited earnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Railroad Labor Board
American Railway Association
Congress
LaFollette
Labor
T He Railroad Labor Board
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Cummins
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Iowa
Badger
United States
le Ladepa
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pomeroy Cast Iron Signal Pedestals Recycled
Faded signal pedestals at Pomeroy street intersections, installed under the Automobile Club, were not paid for and the council refused to cover the bill. Crawford foundry reclaimed the unpaid $115.50 items and melted them down likely to be repurposed into shoe lasts or oil well fittings.
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Pomeroy
Automobile Club
Thy
Council
Crawford Foundry
Mrs Lieu Dodson Seeks Divorce in Meigs County Cruelty Claim
Walter Dodson asks divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty claiming his wife resents cooking for sawmill workers. He cites her opposition to his clothing purchases for his 15 year old stepson Edgar William Dodson and details a 1913 marriage date and one child Anna Isabell Dodson born March 30 1916.
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Lieu Dodson
Meigs County
Walter Dodson
Edgar William Dodson
Anna Isabell Dodson
Dodson
Middleport man named associate editor of Ohio University yearbook
Howard Lonestaff of Middleport has been chosen as one of the associate editors of The Athena the student year book at Ohio University Athens. Selection is reserved for students suited for special work and is regarded as a notable honor.
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Howard Lonestaff
Middleport
Athena
Ohio Atniversity Athens
Ohio
Henry Finsterwald Dead in Guysville
Henry Finsterwald of Guysville died at his home Sunday. Burial was Tuesday at two o'clock. His brother, who lives here with his son, is in critical condition and not expected to survive.
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Henry Finsterwald
Lewis Finsterwald
Pomeroy
R. W. Finsterwald
Guysville
Thanksgiving Wedding for Miss Margaret Wadsworth
Miss Margaret Wadsworth youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs A V Wadsworth will wed Mr Henry Johnson of Syracuse at the bride’s home in Syracuse on Thanksgiving Day.
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Margaret
A. V. Wadsworth
Henry Johnson
Syracuse
Accidentally Shot Youth Recovering in Charleston Hospital
Charles Edwards son of Phillip Edwards and wife of Middleport was accidentally shot in the fleshy part of his right leg by his young friend Eugene Baldwin grandson of Mr and Mrs B P Murphy. He is in McMillan hospital Charleston and expected to recover shortly. His father accompanied him.
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Charles Edwards
Phillip Edwards
Middleport
McMillan Hospital
Charleston
Eugene Baldwin
B. P. Murphy
Hartford coal and salt complex sold at public sale
The Mason Coal and Chemical Co holdings in Hartford were sold for 95000 dollars. Jacob Smith, representing Hamlin West Virginia and J K Olney of Huntington, bought the property. Purchasers plan to expand operations, including Rozers Capehart Humphrey coal tracts and associated salt and bromide plants and buildings.
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Mason Coal and Chemical Co
Hartford
Jacob Smith
Hamlin
W. Va
J .K. Olney
Huntington
Rozers
Capehart and
Humphrey
The
Hartford City Coal & Salt Co
Gone to Cindy Joe Schaeffer leaves for Cincinnati in lumber trade
Joe Schaeffer son of Mr and Mrs John Schaeffer of Mulberry Avenue departs Monday for Cincinnati to engage in the lumber business with a large firm there. He has worked at the Schlaegel Shoe store for several years.
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Cindy Joe Schaeffer
John Schaeffer
Mulberry Avenue
Cincinnati
Lunber
Schlaegel
Local Notes on Residents and Historical Q&A
McArthur reports Mrs Rebecca Verigan visiting relatives in Athens Glasgow and Luhrig before returning home. Ernest Ervin, ex GIs, works at Ford Detroit. Oscar and brothers in San Jose. Q and A cover colored Catholic priests to bluing dye and floor wax coverage. Hand measure explains horse height and NY Society for the Suppression of Vice started in 1873.
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Rebecca Verigan
Prattsville
Eliza Vernon
Athens
Glauster and
Luhrig
Ernest Ervin
Dundas
United States Regular Army
Ford Automobile Works
Detroit
Oscar
San Jose
California
Augustus Tilton
United States
Propaganda
Rome
St. Monica’s Church
Chicago
Department of Agriculture
New York Society For the Suppression of Vice
Anthony Comstock
Eva Lee Weds Harry Ross in Columbus Union
Mrs. Harrison Lee and Mr. Harrison Lee announce the marriage of their daughter Eva to Mr. Harry Ross in Columbus on November 1. Eva is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Baker Lee of Creola and Mrs. Rose Hitt of McArthur.
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Ross-Lee
Harrison Lee
Vinton County
Summit Street
Columbus
Eva
Harry Ross
Baker Lee
Creola
Rose Hitt
McArthur
Funeral for Mrs. Soule Held at Hamden Residence
The funeral for Mrs. James A. Soule, killed in a Sunday auto accident, was conducted at her Hamden home at 2 p.m. Wednesday by Dr. C. B. Taylor and Rev. S. C. Bates. A choir including Dr. E. H. S. Ray and others sang. Pallbearers listed, burial in Hamden Cemetery. Attending relatives included William Miller and family, Mrs. Snyder of Columbus, Mrs. Miessie of Columbus, and Curtis Brown family from Wilmington.
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James A. Soule
Hamden
C. B. Taylor
S. C. Bates
Ceir
EH. S. Ray
Harry Tripp
J S. Huhn
Smiley
John Smth
Marion Dye
Mollie Bagley
Edna Robbins
Messrs
FE. W. Martindill
William H. Dye
J. S. Huhn
Joseph Howell
J. ST. Ogier, Jr
C. C Roberts
William Miller
Loveland
M. T. Snyder
Columbus
Sophia Miessie
Frank Miessie
Columbu
Curtis Brown
Wilmington
Questions and Answers in The Athens Messenger
A reader asks about accessing the Athens Messenger Information Bureau. The notice explains the bureau does not provide legal medical or financial advice and will not research domestic troubles. Send questions with full name address request two cents in stamps for return postage.
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Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Thiaefer
Empress
Efficiency and diamond sources in early 1920s Q A
The Bureau of Mines notes stove heat varies with operation. Hot water systems absorb about 70 percent of heat, steam about 65 percent, average homes about 30 percent. Diamonds: South African fields supply about 98 percent of output. Prohibition taxes in 1921 totaled 82,598,065.01 dollars with 7.5 million set for enforcement.
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Bureau of Mines
Africa
T. FF. A
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Athens Messenger Materea
U. Postoffice
Gnn
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Ohio Select List
Associated Ohio Dailies
International News Service
Athens Messnger & Herald Printing Co
Messenger
Robert
Invisible Empire
Tom Sims
Jack Dempsey
Iinois
Boigney
Paris
Bethlehem
Kansas
Kansas Auto Speeders
Congress and the Railroads
Frederic J
U.S.A
Pomrroy
BIG Property
J. J. Dawson
Springfield
George Otts
Magegie Salts
Soule
Studebaker
W.B
H. P
F.o. B
W. B., Sow
W. B
Eaan
Moler Auto Sales Company
Moler Auts Sales CO
Nelsonville
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