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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1920
Page
4
Henry Ford reduces car prices to pre war figures and keeps production running without cutting wages. He argues a price drop will stimulate demand, prevent unemployment, and benefit merchants and manufacturers nationwide. Ford praises his policy as wise and patriotic and notes gains from higher turnover.
A casual financial note from a newspaper editor encourages saving and using Liberty Bonds as a concrete example. It explains buying bonds at about $85 to receive over $100 later, with interest earnings and potential bank savings contributing to a $210 return per $85 invested in ten years, assuming favorable conditions.
Two and a half million women members of the National Federation of Women's Clubs have voted through their central organisation to continue club activities aimed at home improvement. The federation spans every state and community, uniting intelligent public spirited women focused on domestic science, thrift, and best practices for household buying and management. The piece notes their political awareness yet emphasizes foundational home betterment as essential to national life.
Edward Bok argues that play means a broader mind and freer spirit earned through discipline, but many older couples cannot play due to family and financial constraints. A West Coast train vignette shows a retired couple who saved for years, now facing desires they cannot easily fulfill.
The Maine election results show about half of women voters cast ballots, with total turnout up 50 percent from 1916 yet Democratic votes level or behind 1916. The piece suggests women favored Republicans or old Democratic defections, signaling a hard hit for Democrats with no comfort in the early tallies.
The French government backs Baron Hardinge of Penhurst for Paris. A veteran diplomat, he served as viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916 and held posts in Teheran Petrograd and as ambassador to Petrograd before his India tenure. He is related to Henry Hardinge and was created a baron in 1910.
A collection of corn recipes includes methods for corn soup baked with milk and butter, corn pudding with eggs and milk, fresh succotash with corn and lima beans, cold corn salad with tomato and mayonnaise, and corn fritters fried in hot fat.
After dinner stories for Dolly’s birthday she receives a tiny bulldog. Dolly adores the pup and even sleeps with it. In the morning her mother asks about rest, and Dolly explains she stayed up nursing Nelson the crying baby by making funny faces to comfort him.
A humorous misfit list notes quirks and oddities from law and life. It mentions sobriety in states, long whiskers, fly screens, Madrid kissing laws, and a bashful curate’s comic misadventure about Exodus.
Rome township agricul turists under Farm Agent Raymonds held a well attended meeting at Stewart to appoint leaders for dairy led by I W Barnes Coolville corn led by C W Hayes Stewart and poultry led by W B Spear Guysville. Plans include eliminating boarver cows loafer hens balanced rations improved seed and cultivation and forming a local shipping association to better market hogs and beef cattle. Fifty percent of state wool buyers will handle wool marketing and demonstrations will tackle parasites to raise production.
John B. Poston asks the common pleas court for a deed to River lot 366 to build a railroad switch for coal removal from No 7 vein in Dover township and to restrain Lee Lewis from harming him or workers. Flaud C. Elliott seeks divorce from Wendell Elliott on wilful absence since January 1915 and seeks custody of their daughter Alanna aged four.
Milford Ohio resident Herbert C Reed detective of Clermont County validates a tale of a Masonic emblem watch charm lost nine years earlier. A Canneton Indiana fisherman found it in a three pound catfish caught on the Ohio River near Huntington West Virginia aboard the steamer Greenland. The charm bore Reed’s name and Milford Ohio address engraved on it.
William A. Ketcham of Indianapolis was elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at its encampment in Indianapolis. The encampment adjourned today with Ketcham elected without opposition.
Police report a Detroit woman Letita Parmenaits aged 34 shot by her husband in Dayton after discovering she lived with another man. He killed her then shot himself in a murder suicide. A separate line notes an ancient papyrus roll as long as forty yards.
United States and Japan refuse to yield over California anti Japanese measures as the land law dispute looms. State dept officials say US can bar immigrants but cannot stop the November vote on Japanese land ownership. Ambassador Shidehara will push to block the California measure. Athens High plans six home football games this season with a two dollar season ticket sale to boost support.
Rev Belcher and his daughter returned Thursday noon from Columbus for treatment at Grant hospital. About fifty friends gathered at the U B parsonage Thursday evening, each leaving a token for the Belcher family. Rev Belcher will soon depart for Hamden. Rev Sheldon will preach Sunday morning at the M E B church and Rev Lewis at the U B church. The Standard Bearers met Thursday evening with Bessie Tinkham for overseas tidbits. An October meeting at the church with lunch in the basement is planned, with a real October lunch to be served. A rally day pageant is being planned by the M E Sunday school for October.
Several scrimmages leave six Athens High athletes on the injured list. Barnes has a bruised foot while Captain Oldfield nears return from a cold. Leonhardt ankles and Fetch a bruised hip linger. Battin Wise and Wilcox expected as three of four backs to start against Wells.
The squad names Leonhardt Dew or Feth as main backs with Battin, Wise, and other backs vying for permanent roles. The line features Sharp at center, Bolin and Guthrie tackles, Crow and Gandy guards. A big scrimmage is set for tonight before a short rest until Monday.
Mexico researchers report creating flour, starch, vinegar, textile fibres, alcohol, paper and cardboard from bananas. The effort explores alternative uses for abundant fruit to diversify materials and industrial products.
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