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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1921
Page
4
The notice lists subscription prices by carrier and mail across Ohio and outside Ohio. Rates include yearly, six month, ten weeks, four weeks, and weekly options with discounts for advance payment. All subscriptions by mail must be paid in advance and end on expiration.
A business man confronts a detailed Federal Reserve loan questionnaire asking for assets liabilities and other material information. It probes cash on hand merchandise basis of value and bookkeeping practices, prompting honesty as the only workable policy to obtain credit and reveal hidden issues.
The remaining strike-leaning railroad groups push for better conditions, arguing operators want to erase protective rules. Unions insist rules prevent injustices in workers hours and earnings. They warn a strike could ruin the unions, while wage cuts drive the dispute.
A reflective line notes altered mood among U S troops after reconciliation with Germany. It hints at improved attitudes of soldiers stationed on the Rhine and a new sense of cooperation despite prior hostilities.
Planetary meddlers are asked to refrain from any Martin or Lunar transmissions during the arms conference to avoid distraction or interference.
A collection of quirky vignettes includes a street gamin smoking a cigarette, a medieval duke on the scaffold spared with courtesy, a baby name tale looping from A to Z, a boy drawing a horse while asked to write inside, and a child’s school composition on a horse.
A playful column notes fashions trimmed with gold and silver, mocks wealth as a disease, and quips about a baroness deceived by a wealthy suitor. It mentions a railroad strike contingency, rising food costs with air delivery, a Thanksgiving thought, and a Long Island man who will drive an ice wagon after a summer in a hothouse. It recalls Chaplin’s return from England and letters received.
Washington opinion questions American trend toward European dress and manners driven by fashion and diplomacy. It argues Americans imitate British and European models in clothing, manners, literature, architecture, and cuisine, calling for a distinct American style. It cites cultural insecurity and wartime shifts toward independence.
A column rails at moralizing ministers while praising Portsmouth gossip on marriage and divorce. It notes Athens amid rising divorce cases, wealth illusions, and the idea of a perfect home being tied to status, then shifts to local sports as Athenians praise a win over Baldwin Wallace and prep for Cincinnati.
A reader information feature lists Q and A items touching on topics from licensing automobile funds and sun altitude to chemical deliquescence iodine in foods and the Ring opera. It answers questions about wolves pine rust glow of June sun and other scientific curiosities with brief, sourced responses.
Hearings on the Mingo West Virginia coal mine dispute ended with over 14 000 pages of testimony awaiting inspection. UMWA economist W Jett Lauck urged government arbitration as the best path to peace and a fair working agreement directed by the President or the Senate committee with an impartial administrator to interpret it.
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