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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1921
Page
6
A look at the hen as a cornerstone of agriculture and economy, noting chickens and eggs valued at over a billion dollars annually and representing about 40 percent of U S livestock production. The essay argues hens are shrewd economic actors amid rising demand and shifts in rural investment.
A discussion argues workers are their own employers and the public pays wages. It suggests wages should reflect value in goods, not dollars, and notes price changes drive wage levels. The piece also includes humorous vignettes about a child named Willie, Scottish jokes on temperance, and a Aberdeen resident’s reaction to votes.
An optimist sees heavier mail as a sign of revived commerce, while a skeptic notes slack periods give the post office a chance to clear undelivered backlogs.
A satirical pet scientist offers ten “gules” for long life including drink only city water, contract no disease, avoid fast trains, marry early, remove oyster shells, avoid calling a man a liar west of the Mississippi, skip acetylide color factories, never be an innocent bystander, refrain from shouting Trotsky in Wall Street, and mind your own business while warning that eloping in a Ford rarely stays secret. An Indiana couple’s elopement ends with the father waking and stopping them.
Washington D C Sept 18. A travel feature chronicles the rising army of auto campers on transcontinental highways. Gypsy life expands as more motorists convert cars into mobile homes with full kitchens and beds, while nomadic families and itinerant workers flood the roads.
A compilation of reader inquiries and brief Q A responses covering topics from rainfall definitions to Brazil’s states and birds in the United States. Includes practical tips on dye setting and notes on historical figures and cultural trivia.
The Athens Kiwanis event featured a mock Indian pow wow with painted performers and a war dance led by Clarence Horn. Hats were smashed as part of the revelry while Sam Siegel and the Messenger Watch Dog drew light ribbing.
In the Argonne engagement two soldiers Ikey and Pat were wounded and found by a visiting priest who gave Pat last rites. He asked Ikey if he believed in the Father Son and Holy Ghost and Ikey groaned insisting he was dying and not for questions.
The Department of Agriculture states the bur clover can be planted without huiling, naming it as the suitable variety for seed planting without that process.
An advertisement promotes Blue Devil product to address wrinkles on hands, dated September 12, 2016. It highlights a solution claim and urges readers to try the item.
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