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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1921
Page
8
The writer laments Americans repeatedly study problems like unemployment and cost of living but rarely apply conclusions. Germans, by contrast, act on analyzed findings. if the U S adopted one fourth of responsible conclusions from investigations, the country would change.
The superintendent vows a strict economy in the NYC school system with no excess spending. The plan covers building care, sound construction and fire protection, careful buying and preservation of equipment, proper student classification, efficient clerical and teaching staff, and protection of taxpayers through prudent operation.
A newspaper brief recounts humor from workers and scientists, including two street sweepers debating a comrade’s death and Sir Archibald Gelki’s joke about a rent from mason work. A deaf institute attendant quips about summoning inmates to church with dumb-bells in a pronunciation of punning wit.
A letter to Roy jokes about preferring labor and toil over leisure, praising the mill’s work. The writer mentions reading about James A. Stillman seeking a divorce and asks if Roy has any insight. The note ends with a quip on fall fashions and celluloid collars.
Montreal features a rubberneck wagon craze with megaphone guides who narrate city sights from buses. Vendors joke at buildings and landmarks while tourists ride, the fad expanding to towns as cabs fade, Mount Royal offers a scenic ride, and prohibition humor inspires guide patter.
A diary entry from Athens D dated Oct 4 describes daily scenes with wife Abrigal over hats, social visits, a mandolin, and local events including a canteen trip, theater, and discussions with friends. It also mixes humorous past hardships, reader questions, and brief Q and A items on local trivia and general knowledge.
Report notes a revolving door has been installed at the post office. Mrs. Fred Killan keeps the front door at Security Savings bank closed. Pedestrians on Court street smell strongly of moth balls. The heavies were not given a chance to air before being put into service.
A reader information offer outlines how to submit questions to The Athens Messenger Information Bureau. It lists director Frederic J. Haskin, Washington DC, and notes advice limits, mailing address, required full name and address, and two cents for postage. Replies are sent to the inquirer.
The passage notes Thoreau Channing Abcett and Margaret Fuller as central transcendental figures. It describes the philosophy as focusing the mind on the highest traits, while neglecting baser aspects. It links transcendentalism to the modern New Thought movement and its ideas that shape thought and self-development.
San Francisco authorities announce that the information against Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle has been completed and filed in the superior court, quelling rumors the charges would be dropped.
Rumors that the Cromwell Steel Plant at Lorain Ohio would be bought by the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company were denied by officials of Jones and Laughlin in Pittsburg Pennsylvania on October 5.
A dated note urges grocers to adopt a sharper approach by showing 13c pricing and insisting on Blue Devil branding, signaling a retail critique or ad copy from October 3, 1916.
The veteran head of the Baltimore detective bureau declares women are too emotional to succeed as detectives. He frames gender as a barrier to professional effectiveness in law enforcement.
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