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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1930
Page
4
The Athens Messenger established 1828 lists Frederick W. Bush as publisher from 1896 to 1929 with weekday afternoons and a large Sunday edition. Gordon K. Bush is publisher general manager, Charles H. Harris editor, and affiliations include multiple press associations.
President Hoover plans a conference organized by a planning committee led by Secretary Lamont to study obstacles to home ownership. The event will address finance design city planning and transportation with emphasis on finance and the credit system in home building and how to strengthen financing for American homes.
An examination of the common house fly describes its filth origins and its unwelcome intrusion into American homes. It details the fly's low habits, its tendency to spread disease, and the potential health risks if one could closely inspect its body.
The passage explains how house flies carry germs from filth to food and human faces, spreading typhoid fever, enteritis, dysentery, diarrhea, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and scarlet fever. It notes that fly weeks reduce numbers, but daily home vigilance during fly season remains the best precaution.
William Green president of the American Federation of Labor proposes paying workers by the year instead of the day. The change would require drastic industrial reforms but could reduce seasonal unemployment and smooth production across the year. The editorial urges continued advocacy of the plan.
Newspaper commentators who crossed the Atlantic aboard the dirigible R-100 describe the journey as Kiplingesque in drama and romance. They imagine commercial trans Atlantic airship service as thrilling and transformative, a bridge from imaginative fiction to real technology, fueling public excitement.
The piece argues British officials scold American movies for shaping Indian discontent. It dismisses links between screen romances and Calcutta uprisings, saying films reflect a desire for happiness and that U.S. cinema serves as a bright advertisement for America.
New York on September 12 reports a wave of new dances taking over society and theaters. The piece notes the rise of tap and puppets in The Little Show, the social fever around trends, and mentions George Primrose’s soft-shoe as a highlight. It also introduces a London influenced dance called the mooch gaining interest.
The text praises Jack Donahue as the eminent tap artist for intricate footwork and floor work using rungs and back. It compares Bill Robinson’s staircase tap with a Harlemesque touch and suggests a wave of other virtuoso performers. Rumors hint at a sand dance returning soon.
A passage notes a Cambridge physicist Doctor Dirac at thirty years old challenges established ideas by stating nothing in the universe may be as it seems, provoking surprise among scientists as electrons orbit a central nucleus or sun-like proton core within atoms.
A compact discussion notes that the proton acts as the central body of the atom while electrons, though orbiting, are charged oppositely. It challenges common perceptions by labeling protons as a form of negative electricity and electrons as positive, emphasizing the strange nature of atomic components.
The piece notes the challenge of explaining why one electron could be 1800 times larger than its peers while acknowledging professors who applaud Dirac’s announcement admit most would find it too deep. It references relativity and quantum theory as central to the discussion.
The article highlights a finding reported to the American Chemical Society stressing its greater significance for millions of women than the atom's proton discovery. It frames the discovery as a milestone with broad social implications.
In Washington the article argues World War I sparked a movement of migration reshaping global populations. It notes rising nationalism, immigration controls, and bans on crime. highlights Nordic predominance in the US and heightened prejudice against Southern Europeans and others as Latins and Slavs entered in large numbers after the Civil War era.
Doctor MacArthur of the University of Buffalo reports a third, previously unknown pituitary hormone in one of its three sections. The finding suggests the gland not only influences mental capacity but may also regulate skin pigmentation.
Edison era speculation about rubber from vegetation shifts to a report from Burgess of the Bureau of Standards in Washington. Under Washburn, petroleum processes yield rubber crystals, with cautious hope they may benefit the commercial world and possibly render natural sources obsolete like scarlet dyes and purple dyes once derived from marine organisms.
A compact remark on petroleum rubber and an oil surplus. The speaker muses that finding an unbeatable oil well and draining it could lead to future dependence, using a cautious, almost prophetic tone about energy wealth and control.
Richard Whitney president of the New York Stock Exchange asserts the country is returning to a firm business basis and that the exchange bears no responsibility for the slump and related unemployment issues.
The passage argues that the stock exchange and ticker reflect prices but do not create conditions. It condemns the wave of stock gambling that wastes time and wastes fools' money, causing trouble, while insisting the exchange bears no fault.
Frank Kiernan of New York distributed 1500 small buttons reading Business is good. Anxious to prove a point about repetition, Kiernan says repeating a claim makes people believe it if true. One NYSE bear wore such a button to show support for the idea.
A compact verse sketch titled More Truth Than Poetry contrasts a minnows fragile life with human indifference to fishing, hinting at broader themes of mercy and survival despite a harsh world. A short quip mocks perpetual novelty and asks about dinosaur lore.
Freestanding questions and answers from Frederic J. Haskin’s Information Bureau outline inquiries on scouting, art, Hoover’s farm, patents for furniture, Canadian Northwest, edible lobsters, useful metals, melodies versus harmonies, moonlight brightness, Gideons, and Christy Mathewson. The piece showcases queries and concise replies across diverse topics.
State Department weighs Grow dispute with Peru over the aviator tied to Leguia forces. Grow, a Naval Reserve flyer, claimed civilian status while linked to Peru’s aviation service and accused of plotting a Arequipa bombing. Officials seek a square deal while avoiding a public dispute as diplomacy continues.
Mount Kenya in the Kenya Colony sits on the equator with a base around 115 degrees tropical heat while its summit reaches 17 047 feet and remains perpetually snow covered. This dramatic vertical climate shift is among nature’s quirkiest phenomena.
Frank Wetzel of the Flint team in the Ontario League posted 22 hits in 23 at bats in October 120 including 2 homers 7 triples and doubles. Tomorrow features the $50,000,000 Signature event.
Ohio University football coaches anticipate at least 30 men for the varsity squad and 25 candidates for the freshmen team. Meanwhile Fred Coffey, 31, of Crippen Wagon Co, broke his right arm Monday while cranking an automobile. Athens City Public Schools opened Monday. A family reunion honored a woman on her seventy third birthday.
Announcement states Miss Melba Harwick daughter of Mrs. A. W. Marwick of 231 West Washington Street becomes engaged to Harry W. August city editor of The Messenger.
Announcement received of the marriage of Miss Lola Frye a graduate of Ohio University and Edgar Davis. Steubenville.
Two B and O W freight trains were wrecked about two miles east of Mineral due to mistaken time dispatches given to train crews.
Anna L Grosvenor and Charles Mooney were married in Columbus on Saturday afternoon in a ceremony attended by family and friends.
George White of Athens suffered serious injuries when caught by falling coal in a mine accident at Clarksburg West Virginia.
Athens City Schools report a total enrollment of 1,108 students, down 142 from last year. The drop reflects reduced pupil numbers across districts as administrators review staffing and program needs.
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