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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1928
Page
4
A quoted meditation contrasts halting between opinions with servile doubt that fears misfortunes. The reflection cites I Kings 18 21 and Aaron Hill warning against mental impotence and cowardice in facing odds.
Elsonville hosts a five day Home-Coming celebration showing civic spirit and cooperative effort. The old town is lively with business displays and industry, signaling a healthy fall and winter economy for the Hocking Valley center. Employment is rising as citizens join the effort and prosperity returns.
Ebene Gillespie of Millfield commends Athens for its warm reception of the recent Ohio Parent-Teacher Association convention. He notes the city's hospitality left delegates feeling royally treated and hopes for a statewide Grange meeting in Athens next year, which could boost the city’s status as a convention hub.
The piece notes a public craving for travel fiction as a substitute for actual exploration. It highlights diverse books and periodicals selling vivid word pictures of distant lands and adventures from jungles to polar seas. Readers, unable to voyage, satisfy wanderlust through stories and press-driven promotion.
The Athens gathering showcased executive talent among men and especially women, inspiring confidence in local leaders. Delegates praised the city’s ability to host, hoping it yields better citizenship and proactive effort in future civic projects. The article notes strong local pride and warnings about social issues.
A volatile mosaic records drownings, arson suicides and jail blazes across the nation. Annie Newberger’s mother dies of grief after a drowning rescue attempt. A Chicago mother and three children die by gas. Junction City sees a jail fire kill seventeen convicts. New York reports multiple bootleg whisky deaths linked to denatured alcohol and government actions.
Prince Potenziani and Prince Lancellotti dueled for thirty one rounds of two minutes each. Potenziani won after pricking his opponent’s upper arm and wrist. Mussolini and the Catholic Church weigh in with potential penalties and a papal blessing offered to avert excommunication.
Lancellotti accuses Potenziani of graft in office. The passage contrasts past belief that victory cleared a guilty man with a modern doubt in divine oversight of such outcomes.
Two American passengers insure their lives for 1 million dollars each for an ocean flight on a German dirigible. At five thousand feet above the Pyrenees a fine hotel and gambling room entice visitors to Andorra a tiny republic seeking autos new furniture and luxuries and now selling out to gambling interests.
American visitors to Biarritz will carry impressions back from the mountain republic. The virtuous will sigh yet gambling and travel will jolt Andorrans into thought. Germany rushes two fastest steamships from New York to Southampton in five days and an ocean airship to Berlin in fifty hours. The war did not stop German enterprise.
A masked quartet robs Stein and Goldmuntz in New York City’s diamond emporium, threatening a $200000 reward while diamonds glitter and a safe is opened. Separately Henry Alexander attempts a Ford ascent of Ben Nevis, aided by a pack horse after a fatal horse slip.
Health and diet guidance from Dr. Frank McCoy includes okra as a versatile vegetable with mucilaginous jelly. Recipes cover okra tomato dishes, okra escallop, okra lima bean soup, corn and okra, and chicken gumbo soup with practical cooking tips and a brief note on water's role in metabolism. A reader asks how to tighten loose teeth. the answer advises consulting a dentist about possible alveolar bone absorption and treatment options.
The answer explains excess urinary phosphates stem from mental overwork and nervous energy. Recommends reducing nervous strain and drinking large amounts of water between meals to help. notes water can be considered a food as a major bodily component.
In New York City mass mausoleums rise as space runs short and costs mount. Crypt towers promise room for thousands while urban anonymity grows, as crepe symbols fade on rooming house doors and fortune tellers lure winter crowds.
A scrambled crossword listing numerous malformed clues and unmatched letters D and Lh. The puzzle item appears garbled with partial words and misplaced hints across horizontal sections, offering little solvable content.
West Virginia leans Hoover but Democrats hope to mobilize Smith sentiment, aided by LaFollette split, anti-Klan activity, and labor voters in the panhandle. Rosenblum backs Smith, Neeley seen with Republican business backing, primary discontent limited, while prohibition and Tammany politics shape turnout.
Mrs A O Sloane travels to Akron for the state W C C T U convention while Mrs J B Clayton hosts guests including Miss Emma Bricker and Mrs Alice Hamilton at Hotel Berry. Higley Circle meets for the first gathering of the year. Pallas Club to convene at Elmwood Place. Cooley couple return from Stockport after attending the 63rd Ohio reunion. Ten years ago Allied forces near victory. influenza confines County Superintendent Alex Root. Miami University President Hughes visits. Dean Voigt to resume Ohio University duties soon amid flu. Tra E Mickle learns son Leater arrives safely overseas.
The text explains that a central in Cuba refers to a sugar mill, sometimes called ingenio. It notes that pits of wild cherries contain traces of prussic acid and should not be used for edible purposes.
On October 10, 1780 Connecticut offered its western lands to Congress. The record notes a historic land offer during the era of American expansion.
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