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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1925
Page
4
The piece argues enforcement reduces wholesale bootlegging profits, but retail bootleggers persist as long as demand exists. It notes drug, crime, and lawbreaking patterns, with focus on financial incentives, backers, and the challenge of eradicating illicit trade. It emphasizes time and vigilance, identifying wholesale sources as the main profit driver.
The final report of the Commission on Bel Encinas tionesting recounts wartime governance goals and the vast resources deployed to sustain the nation. It asserts the commission acted with sovereignty and efficiency, accounting for every dollar and pound of food. The piece praises practical idealism and hard headed efficiency as unmatched in war agencies.
A Lithuanian immigrant named John was arrested at Coney Island after failing to remove his hat for a parade flag. He claimed he forgot and faced a $25 fine while the crowd questioned the officer’s conduct. He later pursued reading and night classes, and recalls offering to serve in the war but rejected due to a bad leg, pondering what the flag represents.
Dr William J Mayo argues surgeons should operate without knowing patients finances to focus solely on medical care. He notes the idea could create a troubling precedent for other professions such as lawyers if ethics shifted to pure altruism regardless of monetary concerns.
Navy Day marks the United States naval strength from the Revolution to World War I. The piece traces the navy’s growth, early independence ships, and the postwar drive to expand, aided by public education efforts and open house at navy yards.
Police nabbed a man for hurling an alarm clock through a firefighter’s home window in an incident described as an improper way to send in an alarm. The Toronto Tribune notes the act as a misguided attempt at signaling an alarm.
A humorous note from Charleston lore says a dancer bears the costs of the fiddler and the shoemaker, reflecting old customs where performers paid for their own music and footwear.
A New York observer notes a first night on Broadway with Tom Meighan and Frances Ring seen between acts. Michael Arlen, Ethel Narrymore, June Walker, Helen Hayes, Eben Mackay, D H Lawrence, and John W. Fischer with spouses are mentioned at various venues and events. Maxwell Anderson is tracked at the premiere of his new play.
The writer recalls public figures and entertainers from early cinema and theatre. Mentioned are Bobby Fol som an enchanting young entertainer who left home for success after struggling in comedies and operas. Catherine Dale Owen praised as one of the world's ten prettiest women. Reba Humphreys noted as a Belle of the Blue Grass. Leslie Howard seen as Broadway’s popular juvenile. Suzanne Daubet linked to Crane Wilbur and Sarah Bernhardt. Joseph Schildkraut famed for The Firebrand with heart enlargement. Charlie Chaplin seen with Louise Brooks. The piece parodies fame and social shifts, ending with remarks on Madame de Sevigne and contemporary musings on men.
The text cites Judge Gary praising honesty while warning against excessive talk by salesmen. It discusses management, successful enterprises, and advises restraint in conversation. It questions a separate air force and imagines President Coolidge reacting to air power in contrast with railroads and stagecoaches.
A reflective piece urges steady effort despite a rough road. It warns that shirking daily work drains spirit and that piling tasks tempt postponement. The text emphasizes discipline to overcome laziness and maintain productivity.
HAL COCHRAN'S Daily Poem advises that tomorrow cuts sorrow and that the best plan is to act now. It counsels stopping hesitation, telling readers to believe they can do what they ought to do today and not delay.
The excerpt describes Mrs Poleski deceiving her husband to pursue a utopian on earth, giving him wine laced with truth and forcing unconsciousness. She meets John Symick and he later suspects poison, knocking her unconscious then pushing her into a furnace where she dies. Symick fights a police officer and may face the electric chair.
A stark view of urban life showing the coarse restlessness beneath modern civilization. Alcohol loosens restraint, revealing a dreg of humanity hidden by polite façades. The passage questions any near utopia that truly includes all people.
A Cincinnati Times Star item notes a young man under a girl's influence as she wields social power while he circles with an engagement ring, illustrating a playful courtship dynamic.
A Lexington style quip notes a growing appetite for goats following Henry Ford's synthetic cow, implying a surge in demand for goats across the country as playful commentary from the East Liverpool Review-Tribune.
A fragment from the Akron Beacon Journal shows a man shouting in a domestic dispute scene. The short exchange captures a tense moment as voices rise and a conflict appears to be escalating.
The Canton item notes a man lacking hard coal turning to softer alternatives. Mansfield reports buses and trucks strive to reduce grade crossing dangers by making trains unnecessary.
A Youngstown Vindicator aphorism notes that the tool to lift a car jack is not the same as the tool to lift a mortgage. The line contrasts dual uses of jacks as a metaphor for financial leverage and personal responsibility.
A playful note urges travelers not to fret over a kitchen mishap as a Charleston step is learned from the scattered plate pieces.
Charles P. Stewart argues that domestic competition, not foreign, drives the slump in Down East textile industries. Midwest and Southern lawmakers will press Congress for higher import barriers while noting expanded Western power, cheaper labor, and growing Latin American trade shift. The tariff debate looms for the seventieth Congress and elections.
Dr Hugh S Cumming discusses balanced diets and the limits of single foods satisfying all nutritional needs. He stresses combining high and low protein foods to achieve bulk and proper nutritive ratios while warning against excessive sweets and cheap starches that cause malnutrition.
The text notes the B-34 crossed the Atlantic in 1919 from Scotland to New York, and the Los Angeles voyage from Berlin to Lakehurst in 1924. It answers a spelling question on Patronomatology as the study of family name derivation. It discusses wild horse management by the Forest Service and explains dew worm as British for earthworm. It also covers Doegs a variant of Toags, an Indians group in Virginia and Maryland, citing Smithsonian history on displacement and slave trade.
A New Jersey man laughed so hard he broke his jaw over a friend's joke. Kellogg bars Sakiatvala from entering the U.S. though he might try in disguise as a radio host. Pullman porters resist being named George or called at all. A joke about prohibition keeps a world storm discussion from daily life as a Hammonton storm rages.
The note laments reformers lack of action as crude oil output falls slightly while crude movie intake rises, hinting at a broader tension between regulation and consumption trends. Strong entities include reformers and crude products.
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