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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1927
Page
4
A short inspirational note quotes Luke 12 35 urging readiness with girded loins and burning lights. It adds Emerson praising concentration as the key to strength in politics war trade and all management of human affairs.
An editorial weighs Ohio State coach Wilce and Yale veteran Tad Jones, noting fluctuating support as team fortunes rise and fall. It contrasts Wilce’s improved past with a tougher present and cites Jones’s retirement discussions after delivering strong seasons. The piece shifts to postwar reparations, arguing Germany paid as much as possible under the Dawes plan amid doubts in the Rhineland.
Thousands plan winter travel to the Southwest visiting Grand Canyon Santa Fe Pueblo towns Painted Desert and petrified forests. The sparsely settled states offer scenery unique to America with real cowboys and rugged charms.
Yale News describes fraternities as a destructive influence in student life. The piece argues elections are driven by fraternity reputation and connections, with houses seeking members who amplify prestige and individual candidates seeking glory through association.
The region endures freezing weather as restoration advances swiftly. Mail is delivered by air and horseback in some towns while couriers risk roads and streams. Rail service from Boston to the west is restored via the Hoosac tunnel. The Red Cross assists as New England eyes future prevention with federal help.
A Chicago woman who married six men is jailed, with historical context on polyandry and polygamy. References Westermarck’s history, noting how multiple husbands lived and worked, often with oldest brother as head. The piece cites Angola’s polygamy as a frank cultural example.
Two New York doctors from the Lying-In Hospital, Dr Asa Davis and Dr Willian Gwathney, reportedly developed an analgesia method that brings children into the world without pain or danger and without putting patients to sleep.
Professor Fisher of Yale argues that 80 percent of Americans barely earn a living, with "gainful professions" averaging $2,000 annually. He notes value depends on the definition of living, recalling times when $2,000 could hire two slaves for life.
The passage notes a yearly perceived gain of two thousand dollars for the well employed yet averages only five hundred for the total population. It states the country’s income at ninety thousand million dollars and quotes a commentator who says the situation is better than being struck by a sharp stone.
The piece cites wealth in cars and radio stations, then warns that superior flying machines would yield mastery over the nation’s assets. It recalls Croesus and Solon to imply a future threat if other nations surpass U S aviation, radio, and auto capacity. The tone is cautionary about technological edge and national security.
The text contrasts two suicides in Vienna and Newark. A young theater manager in Vienna takes poison before a mirror, while in Newark a man waits till dawn to die, writing to his brother that darkness and mice frighten him. He blames booze and warns bootleggers' customers.
Health column by Dr. Frank McCoy urges stopping all drugs and undergoing a water fast lasting four to fifteen days to relieve asthma. After fasting, a regimen of light exercise, cold showers, and a plant based meal plan follows, with repeated enemas for weeks and avoidance of dairy and sugar.
Scraps from a week in New York recount Evelynette’s Broadway venue opening and a night with Max Reinhardt’s Austrian troupe. The piece notes Rosamond Pinchot performing in German, Ciloria Swanson in town, Gloria’s rumored studio shifts, Constance Talmadge’s theater aims, and Dudley Field Malone’s wide activities.
Rodney Dutcher reports from Washington that thousands seek a stake in the coming Congress. Major groups including the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Federation of Labor, Chamber of Commerce, American Automobile Association and American Legion outline farm relief, labor reforms, tax changes, flood protection, highway aid and veteran hospital programs for the 71st Congress.
The Q and A column covers baseball records daylight at the poles and Shakespeare Memorial Theater funding. Dazzy Vance tied a record for consecutive strikeouts in 1924. Daylight reaches from pole to pole at equinox with solar refraction causing sun to appear near the horizon. Edward Harkness adds $100000 to the American Shakespeare Foundation fund bringing totals over $660000, with a $1900000 American quota and ongoing endowment plans for Stratford-on-Avon theater and company.
Champaign Ill Nov 28 Bud Stewart of the University of Illinois has set a travel record by covering 24522 miles in recent seasons. He has played on the Illini football basketball and baseball teams and plans to continue with both the cage and diamond squads in 1928.
A. L. Scofield of New York defeated Donald Parson of Youngstown in the finals of the Carolina golf tournament at Pinehurst. Scofield posted a score of 73 to claim the medalist and defending champion honors.
A period ad extols California Fig Syrup as a safe laxative and growth aid for children and infants. Claiming a vegetable formula, the "purely vegetable" syrup is priced at sixty cents a bottle and urged for parents to ask for the California product by name.
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