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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1924
Page
4
The Heavy Wallet
A bank vault fantasy asks how much gold one could take in a single trip. Estimates vary, but the article notes that carrying 100 pounds of gold equates to about 980,000 in value, illustrating the impracticality of such a haul.
A Gold Robbery and the Burden of Heavy Wealth
The text muses on the impracticality of stealing large gold riches, noting that even a fortune worth thirty thousand dollars requires horses or a motor truck. It contrasts gold with silver, explaining the burdens of carrying coins and why the silver dollar lost popularity.
Silver dollars by tokens and tariffs in 1920s critique
The piece argues against restoring silver dollars, proposing aluminum tokens as government backed substitutes to cut upkeep costs. It then cites a 1921 Republican shift from Democratic lows, detailing Children's Bureau findings of widespread debt, wage pressures, and impacts on families and children during hard times and tariff policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Children’s Bureau
United States Department of Labor
Tax burden shift under government railways debate
Agitators for a socialist third party urge national ownership of railroads, arguing farmers would face higher state and county taxes. In Porter County Indiana last year irrigation, roads and rail taxes totaled 1,334,240 with railroads paying 193,326. If railroads were government owned farmers would face about an additional half million in taxes in that single county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Socialist Third Party
Porter County
Indiana
Ailroads
Weather as a Government Tool Shapes Nationwide Forecasts
The article outlines how the U S Weather Bureau gathers data from thousands of stations and ships worldwide to forecast 36 to 48 hours ahead and beyond. It notes the authority’s public reach through telegrams, mail, radio, and phone to millions of subscribers and ships at sea for storm, frost, and temperature warnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederic J. Haskin
the Messenger
Uncle Sam
United States
Weather Bureau
Canada
Alaska
West Indies
America
Europe
Asia
Arctic
Greenland
Spitsbergen
Jan Mayen
Washington
Chicago
New Orleans
Denver
San Francisco
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf
Great Lakes
Florida
Weather influence on industry and daily life in 1924 notes
A lengthy excerpt describes how a cold wave affects various sectors from greenhouse operations to rail transport and coal trading. It notes reduced output in ice factories, heat adjustments in fruit cars, gas pipeline management, and charity preparation, with a closing quiz about agriculture and survival in stone burials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
Charles F. Marvin
Frederic J. Haskin
Newspaper Careers and Historic Trials Across Decades
A column notes a variety of topics from a Prime Minister's son seeking newsroom work to Canada’s planned execution of six men for a bank messenger killing. It references age in journalism careers, medieval trials of animals, Washington’s dental woes, and critiques of the League of Nations protocol as war’s barrier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacDonald
Ifn
Canada
Ohio
Donahey
Alexander Kuzeik
Westermarck
League of Nations
League
China
Morocco
Information Bureau Answers Readers Questions
The Athens Messenger describes an Information Bureau service run from Washington D C. It invites readers to mail plain questions with full name and address and two cents in stamps for return postage. Replies go directly to the inquirer and the bureau will not give advice on legal medical or financial matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens Messenger’ Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Imquirer
Kaffirs Circus and Other Q A Stock Quiz Highlights
A compilation of Q A exchanges on stock terms, records and rail routes. Notable items include Kaffirs Circus describing a part of the London Stock Exchange linked to mining securities, John Weissmuller’s world swimming records, the Calais Constantinople Simplon Orient Express as Europe’s famed train, and snow and seed corn notes from US bureaus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. B
London Stock Exchange
Johannesburg
South Africa
John Weissmuller
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Europe
Calais
United States
Weather Bureau
Springfield
Illinois
Ilinois
New England
New Haven
The
Forest Service
National Forests
California
Colorado
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Australia
F. KR
Arkansas
General Chang
Behind Scenes in Co Health Board Office Policy Notes
This seventh brief outlines Athens County Health Board methods. It covers school examinations by Dr J M Higgins and Ohio University students, weighing tests, vision, teeth exams, milk testing, and lab analyses. Six months ending July 12 1924 show 2760 service visits. staff changes include two nurse resignations and a six week absence. Water and well improvements include New York Coal Co concrete reservoir in Lick Skillet and Hollister wells closure by Ohio Collieries Co, improving supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County Board of Health
Athens City
J. M. Higgins
Ohio University
Board of Health Dairy Inspector
N. W. Baker
Board of Health
State Department of Health
New York Coal Co
Lick Sk Ftlet
New Floodwood
Ohio Colleries Co
Hollister
Bellaire selects coal price for waterworks contract
The city council awarded the waterworks coal supply contract to a local firm at a price of 2.50 dollars per ton for the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellaire, C
Coal loading machines eyed to cut Ohio mine costs
East Ohio operators in Yorkville and nearby areas study coal loading machines as a potential fix for high production costs. The move aims to help Ohio mines compete with non union plants in West Virginia and Kentucky, according to a report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorkville
Fastern
Ohio
West Virginia
Kentucky
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Wrigley’s
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