HAPPENINGS ABOUT THE CAPITAL Hints of cabinet fates and reform
Washington notes discuss cabinet members in six months of administration. Critics praise Brown Good and Hyde for reform efforts in the Post Office War and Agriculture departments. Adams and Wilbur face ridicule for gaffes and impulsive promises, with Wilbur cycling from forests to Indian policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Jimmy Good
Walter F. Brown
Arthur M. Hyde
Agriculture
Public Service
Brown
Post Office Department
War Department
A Thought For Today And A Hugo Quote
A devotional line urges not to harden hearts in temptation. The second quote from Victor Hugo notes that love's power lies in tenderness that can become nearly unbearable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Hugo
Golf Surges as Nationwide Sport Draws Mass Participation
The article notes golf surpassing baseball in popularity as millions join in the game. It highlights resort towns expanding courses, rising golf gear demand, and age inclusive appeal, contrasting with rougher traditional pursuits and emphasizing spectator-to-participant shift.
Motoring and Literature Observations From Hills and Broadway
A columnist contrasts driving in the Hocking Hills with crowded city roads, praising varied terrain and solitude. He then surveys current American literary trend using celebrity-derived characters, noting works by Abdulla, Millay, Dos Passos, and others and recounts Harlem slang and Broadway gossip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund Wilson
Manhattan
Daisy
Edna St. Vincent Millay
John Dos Passos
Cognoscenti
Nancy Hoyt
Isadora Duncan
Tally Bankhead
Rural districts urge roads in less traveled areas
The passage argues that rural districts seek better roads in routes not commonly used, contrasting with current city conditions across the country. It highlights the difficulty of achieving improvements in less dense areas.
Good roads and good schools in Athens County
The article argues for school bond issues tied to road improvements in Athens County and neighboring areas. It notes statewide trends toward consolidating schools, the long term savings, and the modern motor age shrinking distances. It urges taxpayers to support bonds to ensure better buildings and schooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
Ohio
Athens
State of Ohio
Carelessness Blamed For 205 Labor Day Deaths
A national holiday toll of 205 lives was attributed to accidents and carelessness. Auto crashes, fires, explosions, drownings and other mishaps occurred as Labor Day ended, with officials urging safer conduct.
Modernistic House Idea Sparks Creative Room Debate
The article notes a magazine plan for a six sided modernistic house with a central mast and transparent walls. It highlights a triangular room labeled the creative room intended for private creative bursts, prompting reflection on whether past artists lacked such a space.
Reducing Airplane Production Proposed to Deter Arabs
The suggestion compares cutting aircraft output by a thousand planes to mobilizing 500,000 troops on foot or horseback to quell Arab unrest, arguing air power could more effectively deter rampaging actions.
Palestine outbreak comment stirs religious tensions
A newspaper piece argues Christians and Jews both face Arab violence in Palestine, noting religious war mobilizes Muslim zeal for killings of Christians or Jews and suggesting Arabs may favor Jews due to racial links and shared religious borrowings from Judaism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palestine
Mohammed
Wall Street Opens Week With Record Advances
The market resumes activity after Labor Day as speculation runs high. Investors watch Federal Reserve moves for signals while analysts note a lively start to the dull summer season ending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Federal Reserve
Real estate and business boom noted in ticket items
The article lists diverse ventures from real estate to theaters and dry goods, mentions brokers loans replacing old mortgages, and notes the death of Mrs. Fannie Fe Pierson at ninety two who kept studying at Columbia University. It hints at public perception of these ideas and a lingering allegation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie FE. Pierson
Columbia University
Health and Diet Advice by Dr Frank McCoy
Dr Frank McCoy discusses autosuggestion and mind health influencing illness. He advises replacing negative terms with health images, using constructive thoughts, and focusing on sleep and daily actions for a happier life. He answers readers on gas related indigestion and anemia diet, starch needs, and hypertension treatment by diet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank McCoy
Mussolini Has Fifth Child and Chicago Tabloid Launch
The note reports Mussolini having a newborn daughter, his fifth child, alongside Chicago launching its first tabloid newspaper. It ponders the differing fates of a baby in Italy and a new paper in Chicago and questions long life and nourishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussolini
Chicago
Italy
Prince of Wales views Schneider race planes and sea craft
The Prince of Wales flew from London to Calshot to inspect Schneider racing planes and a tiny Italian sea plane said to be the fastest moving object. He favored a British entry but notes Britain has none and cites cost as a barrier. Spokane reports tire shortages in the north woods amid fires and possible new uses for airplanes in firefighting. The Yale psychology congress discusses science being more Christian than churches as science cures disease with serums and vaccines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince OF Wales
London
Calshot
Britain
Italy
Spokane
North Woods
Dupont Company
Standard Oil Companies
Congress of Psychology
Yale
World Empty Without Power Above Science Quote
A fragment quotes a stance that without power above science nothing in religion or humanity holds meaning. It challenges faith and knowledge, declaring the world a joke if there is no higher authority beyond human reason and flawed experiments.
Answers to scattered questions from a late 19th century quiz
The text quizzes on seismograph paper types, Pendleton Round-Up dates, Los Angeles County agricultural values totaling 95 278 732, and notes coffee urn history. It also covers Tristan da Cunha population, Women’s Bureau origins, Belleek porcelain, early wholesale grocery, jumping beans, and Pomorze demographics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
Pendleton
Bk. A
Los Angeles County
California
M. BR
Boston
Tristan da Cunha Island
H. G. Moore
Great Britain
Women's Bureau
England
London
Grocers’ Company of
Sebastiana
Pomorze
Athens County Board Proposed To Fix Food Profits
Prosecutor Bartels urged the attorney general to create a board to regulate profits from farm to consumer. In other local news the Athens County Curve Jersey Association formed by pure blood hog breeders met with the county farm agent. Dean Voigt seeks 150 private dorm rooms for students as dorms fill to pre war levels. Former Ohio athlete Butch Grover hired to coach Harvey High School athletics in Harvey, Illinois. Veterans and widows collect Civil War pensions at county offices. Knights of Pythias hosts Labor Day guests from the region. The smallest class of the year sat for the teachers exam at the high school. Miss Mary Kahler departs for Kingston to assume high school principal duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foe
Athens County
Bartels
Price
Athens County Curve Jersey Association
Brandon
Butch) Grover
Ohio
Harvey
Harvey High School
Copeland Family Returns From Uhrichsville Visit
Mrs. C. M. Copeland and her daughter Nelle returned yesterday from a week long visit with relatives in Uhrichsville.
Tiny Tom Thumb Bible and Washington portraits quiz
The Q and A discuss Pomerania history and postwar Poland, list the tiny Tom Thumb Bible printed in Aberdeen at L670 as 1 inch square, note a obtainable Mite Bible at 13-4 by 1 1-8 inches, identify Charles Wilson Peale as the first painter to portray Washington with fourteen likenesses, and explain that fruit trees grown from seeds may bear fruit though unlikely to resemble the parent exactly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomerania
Poland
Aberdeen
Scotland
George Washington
Charles Wilson Peale
Washington
Virginia
M.N. A
Daily study note on correct English usage
A compact primer lists word usage basics and common errors. It contrasts elicit with illicit, explains pronunciation guides for alpaca, and notes misspellings such as inoculate. It offers a daily word, mutually, defined as in a reciprocal manner, with example usage.
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The
Athens Messenger
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Ohio Select List
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Dailies
Full Based Wire Report
United Press Service
Palestine Mandate
Rodney Dutcher
Hyde
Charles Francis Adams
Navy
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Pontifical College
Interior
Wilbur
Adams
Boran
Norris
Ray Lyman
Hocking Hills
Gilbert Swan Messenger
New York
Acmed Abdullah
David Belasco
Lindsay Parrott
Harlem
Lee Posner
Donny
Jack Wheeler
trans-Atlantic Telephone
Winston Churchill
Central
Broadway
Anne Nichols
Fiske O'Hara
Abie
O'Hara
O’hara
Miss Nichols
Merica
Arthur Brisbane
King Features Incorporated
Saints
Health Prom Altoslogestion
Miss H
G. F
K. J
Belleek
Ireland
Prussia
Germany
Dean Voigt
Knights of Pythias
State
West Virginia
Hig
Mary Kahler
Kingston
Honolulu
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