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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1926
Page
4
A brief devotional note cites Proverbs 27 9 and Sir Philip Sidney praising friendship. It links heart happiness to ointment perfume and the strength of a friend’s hearty counsel. The piece emphasizes interwoven benefits as friendship’s foundation.
A movement in France proposes taxing visitors payable in their own currency based on stay length. Authors Henri Faber de Andre Hesse suggest scales from 20 francs for under 48 hours to 200 francs for under a month. A tongue in cheek note compares taxing imported gowns by quality with dollar equivalents.
Secretary M B Tomblin notes a recurring proposal to fix silver at 16 ounces per ounce of gold. Producers warn it would be bootlegged, while others push silver utensils and coin substitutions to expand use beyond arts and small change amid high mining costs and falling prices.
A 1910s etiquette note states the caller should terminate the call, but with exceptions. If a man and woman talk the woman ends the chat as her privilege, while during business hours she should avoid lengthy talks. If two women converse the caller ends it. Long calls are poor form due to others' obligations.
An excerpt extols The Man Nobody Knows as the year’s best seller, praising a self assured inner man who believes in himself. It stresses quiet strength over flash and claims the reader also holds a birthright to be the man or woman who knows.
The text urges daily quiet reflection to meet the best version of oneself. It promotes replacing boastfulness anxiety fussiness and curtness with steadiness balance and confidence. It emphasizes knowing the most valuable possession the true self.
Arthur Brisbane comments on Yom Kippur 5687 and Jewish population in New York City. He criticizes cruel prison games and urges the New York governor to rebuke Sing Sing officials for a Labor Day pie eating contest involving tied prisoners.
The piece contrasts brutal historic prisons with modern reform, then notes a cheerful stock market after Labor Day. It warns that wage agitation by railroad workers could push higher pay, potentially adding hundreds of millions to payrolls and shaping railroad prosperity.
A historical column questions railroads profits and public rates while arguing for worker pay. It contrasts railroad owners with laborers and mocks the rise of women in gainful occupations, praising public figures like Abraham Lincoln and referencing Clarabell Barrett who swam the channel but faced debt and public indifference.
A Department of Commerce report shows U.S. exports rose across most continents in the last fiscal year, led by South America and Oceania. Gains in automotives boosted Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia and Venezuela, while Europe saw declines due to lower prices and crop shortfalls.
The Q and A covers Maine forest area at about 65 percent with lumber used for pulp and paper. It notes 99,100 producing oil wells in the United States as of January 1, 1925.
In Manhattan near Fifth Avenue the Mark Twain residence now split into small apartments draws visitors and rent at surprisingly low prices for the historic site. A fiction writer rents the famed room claiming inspiration from Twain’s writing, while the building faces pressure to be demolished for a 20 story hotel.
A room in the New York Public Library offers stock ratings company histories and financial data. Clerks distribute volumes while readers study percentages, rush to brokers, and scan New York papers for familiar names before departing.
Twenty years ago Professor D J Evans of Ohio University spoke on The Boy's Religion at the Troy township Sunday School convention. Also notes on football practice, social events in honor of brides to be, and local club activities in Coolville and nearby communities.
Washington discusses how primary election expenses and regular November costs will be debated in Congress next winter. The piece notes possible limits on campaign spending, the shift toward primaries, and the political pressures from recent scandals. It also suggests primary spending may spread from senators to representatives and warns investigations are contagious.
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