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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1929
Page
4
A short devotional note quotes Timoth y 3 17 about evil men growing worse and deceiving others. It follows with a line from La Bruyere noting cheats believe others as bad as themselves and cannot be deceived.
The article argues that parental responsibility is at fault for premature Halloween festivities. It criticizes parents who permit late October mischief and notes police and media efforts to curb the behavior, while calling for stricter supervision to end weeks of disruptions.
On Mott Street Chinatown, the Chinese movie arrives with thrillers from Shanghai via Great Wall Film Corp. Censors cut love scenes while captions appear in Chinese and English. The New Chatham theater hosts Chinese women with children, milk tea, and orange candy as Orientally filmed plays grow popular.
The author describes autumn as a season of hazy mornings and warm sun, where colors blur the hills and a sense of harvest and thanks emerges. It paints preparation and gratitude as defining moods of this season.
The 1929 World Series entertained more readers at the Messenger Building east scoreboard, drawing fans who also enjoy prize fights. The piece highlights Connie Mack and the excitement of public viewings, noting the newspaper’s desire for a future boxing event to lure nonattending fans.
A strike by gasoline truck drivers against big oil firms in New York highlights a Labor versus capital battle. Companies refuse union recognition, while unions face a long fight with public opinion potentially turning against drivers if supplies are disrupted.
A bizarre tale of a naked diver finding a perfect pearl worth 254 004 dollars and destined for a mature lady with costly storage. A separate note outlines New York colleges lobbying to loosen birth control disclosure rules urging maternal choice amid class disparities. Madame Currie appears in the fragment.
The piece recounts Rev. Dr. Manasseh Cutler of Massachusetts as the first influential lobbyist to sway Congress. It notes his 1787 New York push for the Northwest land grant, the Ohio Company backing, rapid three week passage, and his network among southern and Virginian allies.
A health column by Dr Frank McCoy discusses chop suey basics and origins, plus remedies for leg twitching at night, a clabbered milk diet for the elderly, and advice on restoring willpower with psychology. The piece blends recipes with personal questions and practical tips.
A fragment discusses radium funding for a Warsaw institute with one gram costing 850 000 funded by American women. It mentions vast radium potential from orn Lux and contrasts energy costs with aiding poor children, plus Seattle welcomed Flussians from Moscow and praise for Russian friendship and travel to see America first. It cites Dr Alanson Weeks for Canadian guides and notes Gerard Swope remarks on GE orders up 29 percent year over year to 116 million.
A reader contributed a mixed Q and A of brief facts and trivia. It covers airplane operating costs, expected occupancy date for a new Bureau of Internal Revenue building, World War Veteran eligibility, silver dollar production, kaolin etymology, holly ranch viability, and notes on All Quiet on the Western Front sales and trademark laws.
A compact reflection on common word errors with examples and guidance. It covers mispronunciations like Leghorn, misused adjectives and adverbs, and encourages vocabulary growth by focusing on one new word daily. The entry defines devoid as lacking or without.
Athens High plans first football game abroad against Williamstown with 16 players led by Coach Mackie. Scout Troop 1 admitted Homer Graves and Edwin Milla. several teeth donated at meeting. H. H. Brown Parson family to visit from Akron to see Guy H. Brown. Historical note recalls no running flouring mill in century. Athens Home Telephone opens with Ohio University electrical department class visit. Anna Marie Arlovki and family to Detroit. E F Bardin arrives from Los Angeles for Central Avenue M. E. Church dedication.
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