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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1929
Page
4
The text lists Dr Frank McCoy’s weekly menus with breakfast lunch and dinner items including eggs, meats, vegetables, desserts and a note on preparing ground beets. It includes health questions and answers about heart murmurs rose apple back pain goiter and an offer to send a special article.
Washington reports tobacco expert Benjamin C Hill explains why American cigarettes face diverse reception worldwide. Tariffs monopolies and local tastes limit imports. Europe and Asia favor different blends while prices abroad can be steep. Americans still export billions, with China consuming the majority.
A meditation on credit risk and honesty, noting that easy credit tempts overspending and deceit. It argues sellers and banks must scrutinize buyers’ assets and capacity, while urging steady toil as the path to life’s nobility and purpose and the reward of perseverance.
A business man expresses the wish that his son enjoy life with money and leisure, but notes true richness comes from dedication to work. He warns happiness does not come from wealth alone and reflects on Mr. Average Man who imagines a less demanding future for his family.
The Hoover administration law enforcement commission seeks an impartial expert to study prohibition enforcement. After two months the position remains unfilled as hearings begin, with Treasury and Justice officials invited to participate. The sub committee led by George W. Wickersham pushes for state cooperation while a 12 committee division is outlined.
The piece traces the evolution of New Yorks Provincetown Players and the Theater Guild from their Cape Cod beginnings to Broadway influence. It notes pioneers, key figures like Eugene ONeill, and the shifting fate of small theaters as artists move uptown and compete with commercial stage.
The article notes the end of summer for Hocking Valley youths and the start of the new school year in Southeastern Ohio. It contrasts short vacations with expectations of expanded educational opportunities and more school buses in hill counties next year.
The text surveys American tariff talk, sugar interests, and protectionist policy, warning that duties aid Asiatic laborers in Hawaii and the Philippines while marginalizing sugar growers. It references Cuba as a potential tariff target and cites St John Ervine urging British readers to move to America to preserve Nordic dominance, with notes on British female labor and demographic fears.
The article notes Christopher Columbus as partly Spanish and partly Jewish, and Judge Halstead I. Ritter from Florida says prohibition will win in the end. He predicts speak easies will close when public sentiment drives official action, but the timing remains uncertain.
Judge Ritter says Florida, a center of bootlegger activity, uses a powerful incinerator for liquor cases. He notes bottles shattering and flames reaching forty feet as thousands of bottles of foreign liquor await burning. The judge remains dry in tone.
The question asks about the causes of heart murmurs and their meaning. A murmur may arise from turbulent blood flow due to valve abnormalities or other heart conditions. If persistent, seek medical evaluation to determine location, severity, and necessary treatment.
The document presents a series of Q and A entries on diverse topics. It names Paul Oliver as Frank Munn and Olive Palmer as Virginia Rae, discusses Niagara River depths near Horseshoe Falls, notes the Bardstown Rowan home as a preserved shrine, explains the professor title, and covers Mount Vernon fronts, Alexander the Great bringing cotton to Europe, Boston’s original naming, the Zofingen named Swiss student society, and barn fires from spontaneous combustion.
A compact note teaches proper usage for words and pronunciation. It defines unimpeachable as blameless and irreproachable and gives example phrases. It emphasizes daily vocabulary growth through mastering a single word.
The Herbartian view holds that apperception results from the clash of a new datum with the mass of organized past experience. The mental outcome, formed by this interaction, is termed apperceptive mass, shaping meaning and interest in new experience.
Auditor A V Donahey on an autos tour through southeastern Ohio visited Athens last night and lauded W E Peters as the best informed man on Ohio land titles in the United States. Athens County schools will not open in September due to a teacher shortage. emergency certificates will be used to cover vacancies, says County Superintendent Alex Root.
Dana Connett and Wilhane Sil vas visited the L. E. Talbott family in Portsmouth. The Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will convene at Jackson starting September 15 with strong attendance from Athens and Athens County. The 1st battalion of the 5th Regiment A B R E of P comprising Athens Nelsonville and Glouster companies will proceed to Warkersburg Monday under Major Butts. C G Matthews Professor Hiray and A J Laverty returned Friday after a ten day fishing and hunting trip in Wisconsin.
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