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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1923
Page
4
The piece argues long strikes harm both sides and the public. It cites Heywood Broun suggesting arbitration by impartial experts, noting that economic issues in industrial controversies deserve fair, expert resolution rather than protracted fights.
The article surveys late 19th to early 20th century popular fiction nicknamed nickel thrillers and their cultural shift from youth dime novels to respectable relics. It notes Dr. Frank P. O’Brien collecting 2400 titles, likely to be archived at Stanford, and contrasts old heroes with modern Verne‑style fiction and emerging jazz and sex genres. It also recounts early electrical lighting advances including tungsten lamps, Just and Hanaman’s tungsten filament, Coolidge’s ductile tungsten, Langmuir’s gas-filled lamps, and the Gutenberg Bible as an early movable type printed work.
A brief devotional note cites Colossians 3 13 urging forgiveness and patience. It contrasts human strength with peace quoting Saadi that peace is better than strife even for the mighty.
An English scientist doubts practical cheap energy from the atom, noting two decades of effort with little progress while history shows major breakthroughs arrive after patience and chance. The piece contrasts this with Wright brothers and early automobiles, urging perseverance and warning against premature expectations. It also recounts U S Navy relief operations in Tokyo and Yokohama, where initial Japanese suspicion gave way to cooperation and mutual understanding, improving American Japanese ties.
An article notes reports from Japan and argues that fear and suspicion fuel international hatred. It cites reliable authority claiming that social tensions and hostile attitudes worsen misunderstandings between nations.
In 1919 only 47 students at the University of Wisconsin received teaching certificates with five men. This year 233 students earned certificates and 61 were men. The shift suggests more men and women are returning to teaching, but it calls for better pay and teaching conditions to retain talent and attract new educators.
Smithsonian Institution outlines the development of electric lighting from early experiments by Guericke and Hawksbee to the first commercial uses and Edison breakthroughs. It notes the growth of incandescent and tungsten lamps, rising consumer efficiency, and global lamp counts and demand.
The piece portrays life in Athens winter routines of trappers and families in rough huts on yellow clay hills. It contrasts winter isolation with spring renewal, noting education gaps, harvest meals, and evolving fortunes as few rise from poverty. A humorous nudge ends with a taunting invitation to enforce a spitting ordinance.
A quirky verse fragment about a young lady named Hila who fell and hurt her knee while noting she lacks a cane and uses an umbrella. It shifts to a playful Thanksgiving taunt about mucilage and a lesson to stick to it, ending with a casual invitation to meet again this evening.
Trial of the divorce suit filed by W. R. D. Stokes, a New York millionaire, against his wife Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, was postponed again until Monday amid strong objections from Stokes' attorney.
Common Pleas Judge Thompson postponed the trial of Dwight Harrison Columbus vice president and general manager of the defunct Rh L Dancings Co of Ohio from October 15 to October 22.
About 200 delegates from external churches gathered in Columbus for the annual Ohio synod of the Presbyterian church business sessions.
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