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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1921
Page
4
Advertising rates on application at Home or Foreign Offices with a nominal obituary charge. Cards of banks and related notices. National Advertising Representatives listed as Robert K. Ward at 225 Fifth Avenue New York City and 6 Southe Wabash Avenue Chicago.
The spry widow Mrs. John A Logan celebrates her eighty third birthday in the garden of her Washington home. The photograph shows her tending the old fashioned yard with quiet vigor.
President Harding tells Army War College officers that conflict remains possible and armed forces may always be needed. He adds that progress toward disarmament is real and a conference could advance peace, though speed depends on future education and enlightenment.
An editorial urges extending the health benefits of vacation outdoors into daily life. Regular outdoor exercise and hobbies, especially one day in seven outdoors, can add years to life and improve well being beyond the annual holiday.
The excerpt offers reflective lines on fashion, labor, authorship, and investigations, without concrete events, people, or places to anchor a news summary. It reads as editorial musings rather than reportable content.
A humorous digest notes tipping ends at a restaurant on Main Street with hat check fees and waiter rewards tallied. It wryly comments on old customs, fashion, and dated quips about diplomats and Victrola misprints while brushing with lighter domestic asides.
After dinner story, turf gambler Smiling Dick Barney dreams of hats and a race entry named Hatteras. He bets heavily on the four to one shot, but in the home stretch the field surges and Sombrero is announced the winner.
A playful dialogue questions the term motive power for moonshine. Three drinks allegedly make a man stumble and whirl around, imagining a merry go round and causing lamp posts to dance the fox trot.
A country store hanger on, picked by a director for a rural role, constantly eyed the camera and caused a tilt when he bumped it. The director confronted him, asking if he had lost his mind, to which the man replied, Maybe, but I don’t miss it none.
A writer reflects on Hearst's media role and the quirky claim that floodwalkers wear flowers in their buttonholes because they won t stay in their hair. The remark hints at broader observations about appearance, media, and public discourse.
Frederic J. Haskin discusses how public figures are judged by bias and rumor and argues for scientific psychoanalytic style analysis as in the book Mirrors for Washington. He notes the rise of unbiased critique and hopes a new, clearer journalism will replace partisan hype.
The Athens Watch Dog notes Class Six volunteers plan to store fuel food and clothing for Athens County families this winter and to send a quartet and speaker to country churches. It also recalls local happenings including a minister groom serenade police involvement Lavelle wedding and humorous items about Nobby Snyder George Whipple and Fred Fenzel plus a rodent caper at the ice plant.
Readers submit inquiries answered by the Information Bureau. Topics include Philippine Supreme Court history cotton treatment martin birds wintering hydrophobia geography halibut anatomy Labor Day observances and a closing adage about honesty.
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