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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1926
Page
4
In Chicago on October 11 the Cubs edged the White Sox to level the championship series as readers recall from a Messenger era recap. Headlines note a dramatic World Series game and other university and local notices from the time.
A thought for today urges diligence in tending flocks and herds from Proverbs. A Michael Angelo quote notes that marble waste fuels statue growth.
Ministers and university leaders have devised an affiliate membership plan allowing students to join a church of their choice without leaving their home church. Membership ends when the student leaves campus, and the scheme aims to boost church involvement and civic integration among students in Athens.
Gossip swirls as "Peaches" Heenan Browning returns home amid a chaotic pageant and family blame. Reports paint a nervous wreck and suggest pearls were fake while mother-in-law Catherine Heenan is pinned as the culprit.
A Peruvian magnate hosted a banquet for twenty South Americans in Paris honoring Ecuador's minister to France. The meal followed Taillevent recipes with archaic service. wine was served with thumbs, bones and refuse were discarded on herb scented tables, forks were absent, and napkin cloths served multiple uses.
The piece recalls Sir Rider Haggard and his wife shaping a romance after a church encounter. It notes his early aim to write on agriculture and an unrewarded book on Zululand before he and his wife began a collaborative fiction leading to Dawn and She. It suggests many great figures are diverted from their paths.
A gleeful account notes Queen Marie’s visit with 21 gun salutes and White House reception while the Unknown Soldier rests in tribute. It mocks crowds for commerce, hints at a possible rich son-in-law, and recalls a public car fire case. Also warns cotton prices drift lower harming planters, Wall Street, and politicians.
The United States continues financing Europe with loans totaling 100 million dollars each month as Europe faces ongoing economic recovery. The figure reflects sustained U S support during the recovery period.
The piece asserts Europe holds vast gold resources and cites Department of Commerce data showing 311 million dollars lent in July to September and 890 million in the last nine months. It discusses a harsh critic, a bored comparison to a Shylock, and notes Germany as the heaviest borrower. It closes with Anna Dechkan’s murder in Turkestan and a decree ending polygamy and child marriage.
G B Shaw discusses why U S cinema struggles to make good films. He contrasts American progress with British film makers and notes Shaw’s own age, vegetarianism, and teetotal habit. He warns that such lifestyle traits may curb thinking with age.
The fifteenth annual American Safety Congress will meet in Detroit October 25 29 with emphasis on preventing traffic accidents through education engineering and law observance. Experts warn against fatalism and urge public opinion to demand strict road safety and enforcement. A new factor Jay Walker or Jay Talking distracts drivers and complicates penalties, urging education to curb this traffic menace.
An evocative portrait of New York at night shows subway crews at work, miners under the streets, cranes and steam-hammers in motion, and a Metropolitan Opera backdrop. The piece contrasts the city’s unreal, dreamlike hum with real labor and the spectacle of theater crowds and chorus performers.
The Bureau of Standards says an irresistible force and an immovable body cannot exist simultaneously under known laws. Therefore it is impossible to state what would happen if the condition did exist. The piece also asks why hot tamales are so named.
Sen Swanson reports European reactions to the war debt settlement terms. He cites France’s ambassador Berenger believing a good bargain, while American negotiators claimed they extracted the last possible copper without bankrupting France.
The Virginian notes French readers were exposed to cables about a debt settlement commission. It cites Secretary Mellon Kellogg Hoover with Smoot Burton Crisp Olney Hurley and warns Smoot may face criticism in Congress while defending generous terms to France.
A reflective rooftop scene contrasts cool moonlit calm with a hot crowded city street below. A narrator remembers dining in a green dining room, listening to water whistles, and noting pet cats as the sole beloved companions amid urban social life.
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