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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1921
Page
4
The piece argues that women may play a key role in diplomacy by forcing transparency. It contrasts views that women cannot keep secrets with examples showing why openness can avert harm, and it ends with a child’s gum restitution dilemma illustrating disclosure and responsibility.
The piece discusses women balancing homemaking with paid work, noting modern small homes with time-saving gear and the potential for part time employment. It weighs whether women pursuing work by choice deprive lower paid workers and argues women should find congenial jobs without taking from others' wages.
A compact critique notes the long standing poor condition of local roads despite rhetoric of a good roads era. The piece contrasts the unchanged rough routes here with the slightly deteriorated paths to elsewhere, highlighting ongoing infrastructure neglect.
A shipping reporter asked Chairman A D Lasker about proposed La Follette act amendments. Lasker replied with a Weber and Fields style quip about a bank and returning money, deflecting the interrogation with humor.
Mrs Jones laments fires while a child riffs on causes. The youngster links the cyclone to making the house fly and jokes that blacksmiths, jockeys, and children cause things to fly, delivering a lighthearted domestic moment.
A collection of quips on education work life and society. The notes poke at pensions rent fashion and weather while riffing on old fashioned ideas and urban humor from a bygone era.
A very old feeble man sits on a chair in the sun on our street. His son runs a tailor shop in the basement. The writer reflects on the image, likening it to releasing a canary on an ocean liner and recalls the saying Honor thy father and mother.
Washington dispatch questions whether congressmen are lawmakers or multipurpose aides. It notes the expanding duties, growing volume of laws, and pressure from constituents as they juggle legislation, jobs, and political campaigns under a new Republican regime.
A brief note urges sufficient lean meat milk eggs vegetables and fruit with fresh whole milk highlighted as key to preventing or curing a disease. It also poses a science query about factors affecting sound travel. wind lowers speed more than fog or rain. The Hessian fly mainly harms wheat though oats are spared and barley rye may suffer occasionally.
A satirical sketch of Athens life praising patriotism with locals such as barber Robert Burden and Mayor J. P. Miller. It recalls Civil War memories at the Court House, the World War monument, and a comical milk-maid episode involving Sam Blume in Logan.
Mrs. J. B. Newman of Washington will depart for Cuba to serve as special assistant to General Crowder in drafting a new banking law framework for the island republic. A member of the District of Columbia Bar, she is noted as an expert on Latin American banking law.
In an observed yard scene a six weeks old calf nibbles grass while a city girl studies it in silence. She asks her hostess if it truly pays to keep such a small cow, highlighting a rural economy moment in Harpers Weekly tone.
Next week the winter students arrive and you should have rooms ready. If you have old furniture you want removed, you know how to get rid of it.
A terse ad describes dirt shedding from clothing when using Blue Devil cleanser. It mentions a germy theme and a house washed with Blue Devil as a visual cue. The note logs prices like 18 cents and references a date pattern 9 6 15.
Readers are invited to submit questions to the Athens Messenger Information Bureau Washington with Frederic J. Haskin directing. The service provides information but not legal medical or financial advice and requires a return postage stamp two cents.
Quicksand is a loose sand in which heavy bodies sink. formed of tiny rounded particles that do not pack under pressure and flow when moistened. It occurs in glacial deposits and can be found in practically all states at some time, with cures of pellagra noted as not a catching disease.
An advertisement touts Nerv Worth as a quick uplift for tired, nervous individuals. It cites a testimonial from J. E. Wilson of Sidney Ohio claiming improved energy after two weeks. The copy urges readers to try the tonic this season and promises a refund if dissatisfied.
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