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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1921
Page
4
Vague snippets show a conversation about helping water and a teased moment. The text is garbled with missing names, actions, and context, rendering it difficult to extract a coherent event or participants. No clear incident, place, or date is identifiable.
Recount of the Athens flood in March 1997 with rescues by Hal Woods in a tiny boat, Tom and others perched on a tree or handcar, a coop of chickens saved, and ironic images of the waters sweeping through streets. Notes include local residents and a corn undertow joke amid the heroism.
A skin specialist says fiery eczema can be quickly overcome by Mentho Sulphur. The germ destroying preparation soothes irritation and heals the skin, often leaving it clear and smooth. sufferers are advised to obtain a jar from a druggist and use it like a cold cream.
Dr. R. F. DeMers D M D opened his new dental office in Athens on Monday after being approved by the Ohio state board. A Taft Medical College graduate from Boston, he practiced four years in Manchester New York and moved to the city last March. He resides with his wife Lena Foutch at the Foutch home, and now begins general dentistry on the second floor of the Foutch building.
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis tells Columbus that no true American businessman seeks to crush workers organizations. He urges patience and mutual understanding and warns employers against setting wage scales by the hungry crowds at factory gates, calling such wages temporary.
A juvenile court judge argues that misunderstood offenders can reform through suitable work. He cites a pyromaniac reformed by firing fur bearing skins, showing that almost any crime or vice may be redirected into legitimate, satisfying effort with proper guidance and purpose.
Harry Hale, secretary of the King County Fair, demonstrates a simple onion peeling method that supposedly prevents tears. He advises starting at the root end and peeling upward to avoid crying, presenting approachable science for the general public.
The American Bar Association censures Judge Landis for holding simultaneous positions as a judge earning 7500 dollars yearly and a baseball executive earning 42500 dollars annually. Some speculate on ethics versus envy driving the action.
A southwest touring salesman waits in a depot as a flashily dressed stranger jokes about the town. The local man answers that fifteen years have passed with little change and the fire-scarred town shows no difference despite the visitor’s departure.
Representative Kahn denounces the Shipping Board as a costly fiasco revealed by the latest inquiry. He mocks the board’s apology for vast losses, comparing it to a boy’s exaggerated tale. A mother’s shouted reprise about a boy and his four missing teeth punctuates the scene.
Oscar Wilde, asked if he knew George Moore in Paris, quips that he knows him so well he has not spoken to him for ten years, underscoring a long running tension between the two writers.
An American traveler recalls resting in a Yuste inn where he leapt onto a bed only to be dragged off by the hostess for flattening rows of rising biscuits beneath him. The tale blends a comic misstep with a note on rising biscuit hazards.
Frederic J. Haskin argues for a nationwide plan to create game sanctuaries in forest reserves. The proposal, backed by sportsmen groups and lawmakers, would prohibit hunting in reserves, destroy predatory animals, and propagate game to restock surrounding areas. Maryland and other states would gain improved wildlife while overlong protections of migratory birds persist.
The War Department suggests burning out a cloth in a gun barrel with a hot wire, but warns to proceed with great patience to avoid overheating. The Post Office Department has not set a rule on rail road post office spacing. it depends on population and local needs.
In a humorous local column a sheriff named Parker drives a flivver to warn Corning’s flood approaching Athenians. Residents praised his quick action while others quipped about disrupted sleep and winter plans. The piece also notes farmers facing spoiled croquet hopes and a joke about golfing husbands. The American Legion Band thanks J D Brown for a candy box delivery to the group.
Graham flour is unbolted wheat meal ground from the whole kernel. Whole wheat flour uses the entire kernel except a portion of the bran. Chemical analysis shows graham has higher total protein than entire wheat or patent flour milled from the same wheat. Prussia first granted international copyrights in 1836, extending protection to writers of other countries with reciprocity.
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