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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1924
Page
4
The notice lists publication times and exceptions: every weekday evening except Saturday, with a Sunday morning issue. Editor names include F. WV. Bush and Chas. H. Harris, with Mandging Editor as a title.
A brief devotional note warns that lying lips offend the Lord while truth brings delight. It urges steadfast honesty as a lifelong virtue, contrasting deception with the call to integrity in daily conduct.
A narrator describes a man convinced of illness despite no medical proof and recounts how mental states trigger physical symptoms. The piece then shifts to broader reflections on psychology, spirit belief, and the social value of electricity for lighting, health, and daily life.
The leader of an electrical league says most city residents live in lighting that equates to dungeons and blames this for 75 percent of adult Americans with defective vision and 60 percent of workers impaired at work. He also links 25 percent of schoolchildren to poor sight, though his zeal may exceed accuracy.
The article describes China as unpoliced, large and disorganized with little national unity. Rebels menace Shanghai amid refugee flows and civil conflict. Foreign powers protest as Uncle Sam dispatches destroyers to protect nationals while Japan’s policing role is debated.
An Ohio man John Simpson died 1901 and his widow in 1904 leaving a codicil to distribute 100000 among his brothers and sisters and their children after 20 years to “such beneficiaries as are worthy.” The trust company refuses to judge worthiness, pushing courts to decide, sparking a Solomon like dispute over merit and motive.
New England plans a strong push to showcase products during New England Week September 15 to 20 with the slogan To know New England products is to want New England products. Fall River and other cities will host industrial exhibitions as New England seeks to promote regional industry and attract national buyers.
The article discusses Fall River's cotton industry growth, water access, and refining capacity, noting a 158 percent price rise from 1913 to 1923 and a large local refinery. It also includes a Q and A section on World War I health facts, such as pneumonia deaths, flu cases, and the Custer Massacre survivor, plus snatches of European political notes and social curiosities.
Readers are invited to send questions to The Athens Messenger Information Bureau directed by Frederic J. Haskin in Washington D C. The service provides information only and cannot give legal medical or financial advice or solve domestic troubles.
The dialogue covers whether Congress can compel voting and notes state control beyond the 15th and 19th Amendments. It also gives 1920 DC population 437 571 with 109 966 colored, about 25 percent. Finland’s president Dr K J Stahlberg and Lutheran majority noted. Gas emissions from fuel oil depend on combustion and burner draft.
The article cites President Coolidge admonishing against foreign influence on American governance and opposing a single “government type.” Senator La Follette is mentioned, with attack lines against General Dawes as labor clashes loom. It urges readers to begin the new year with decisive effort, noting Maine’s early 1924 Ku Klux Klan election test.
The Ohio Teachers' Association announced principal speakers for fall sectional meetings. The Eastern Ohio meeting in Cambridge on October 24-25 will feature Dr. Reuben Post Halleck of Louisville, Dr. Payson Smith of Boston, Margaret Maguire of Philadelphia, and C. Mase of Dover. The Southeastern Ohio meeting at Athens on October 24-25 will feature Dr. E. B. Bryan of Athens, Dr. RB. H. Bode of Ohio State University, and J. J. Tigert, U.S. Commissioner of Education. Washington DC’s H. H. Eccles, of Port Clinton, serves as association president.
Attending physicians in London D. believe William Holland, a farmer from near the area, who was severely injured when struck by a grain binder, is likely to recover.
Herrin Illinois September 3 with a small militia guard present to keep order Williamson county endures a brutal feud as six men slain last Saturday are examined in inquests. Attendees watchful and tense as Sheriff Galligan deputies meet alleged Klan leaders amid fears of renewed violence.
Interests tied to Wilson and Co Chicago Packing House expect the company to emerge strong after a New Jersey court order moves its receivership case from state court to a U S district court. Flies can travel five feet per second, a minor note in the dispatch.
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