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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1921
Page
4
An observer questions Briands claim that France faces imminent enemies and argues the main danger may be economic. Germany and Russia appear less threatening, while France bears the economic risk of maintaining a costly army as Germany arms through peaceful industry using its labor and resources against France.
The article condemns hostile propaganda tied to the arms conference, calling for its source and motives to be exposed. It warns that racial and factional hatreds persist and that certain blinded elements seek to inflame relations among the United States Great Britain and Japan, labeling them traitors.
A man narrates a chaotic evening in which a plan to pull a Leviathan into an apartment is abandoned. He endures delays for dinner theater and misseatings, pays high prices for poor service, loses a hat check, and ends up borrowing money for a taxi. He vows never again, then repeats the ordeal that night.
Mr Cobbles remarks on his son returning from college who renames the home place and invites college friends for weekends. He notes that the father and hired men still keep the same labor hours as before the son’s return.
The American Forestry Association reports much of Vermont as a vast Christmas tree farm supplying about 5 million trees yearly. Balsam fir and spruce dominate, with holly and mistletoe key festive accents. To prevent exhaustion, regulation, fire protection, and managed harvests are urged, including artificial cultivation of holly and mistletoe.
In Athens a Messenger Watch Dog column reflects self supporting college students from villages who work to fund education. They scrub, wash, waitress, sell books, and endure hardship while mothers cheer their perseverance. The piece argues poverty fuels creativity and that those who pay the price achieve high aims.
Reader questions can be answered by the Athens Messenger Information Bureau in Washington D C. Provide full name and address, enclose two cents for return postage, and allow delivery of replies. The bureau does not offer legal medical or financial advice or research on domestic matters.
A Tennessee note lists Alfred Taylor as current governor and brother of former governor Robert L. Taylor, both cited as party rivals. It also answers short questions on the eagle emblem on money, sterilizing razor blades, Americans as a national designation, Scott novels, mail recalls, and Carnegie library origins with terse explanations.
Billy Williams and other prominent Athenians came home from a hunting trip in the hills south of Albany with many valuable pelts and part of a prehistoric skeleton. The unidentified relic draws attention in Williams's shop as speculation grows.
Charles Kircher and Frank Murphy will join Art Wolfe and Clarence Heaton at the pond mentioned previously. The group plans a fishing outing with the same participants noted in earlier credit.
A new entry appears on the Watch Dog's list as Professor Mackinnon becomes a want ad booster. The item mentions finding keys but no gold ball, suggesting the seek for a response continues and a new ad may be needed.
The 1920 Whist Club of New York rule sets state that the side with more points wins the rubber. Previously the rubber was won by the side that won two games, making “winning a losing rubber” possible.
Ohio State University home demonstration workers campaign to boost milk use and dairy nutrition among farm families. Delaware and Summit counties plan school milk feeding demonstrations with warm noon drinks, periodic weighings, and evening lectures at schoolhouses and grange halls to reach both children and adults.
Rev G B Borrill of Islington paid his taxes after ten months of self confinement in his home to avoid service of process. Police guarded outside during the period while friends delivered food and mail, and he watched from his window while rope-pulled items. Judge Taft good 5c cigar.
In Saranac Lake New York William Reyell of Bedford faced a rare nocturnal encounter when a great blue heron attacked him in a dark barn. The bird fought back as Reyell tried to subdue it, eventually leaving him seeking care at a Plattsburg hospital with possible eye injury.
Cleveland November 30. Students at the women’s college report clog dancing as a new craze. They describe it as lots of fun and note the activity has quickly taken hold across the school.
Local weather bureau warns flood stage of fifty feet may be exceeded by Friday or Saturday as reports from Marietta East Liverpool Portsmouth and Pittsburgh indicate rivers could rise to fifty one feet near Cincinnati.
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