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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1924
Page
2
Athens SGT reports on the Loeb Leopold case with parents split over visiting Richard Loeb in Joliet. Dr. Max G. Schapp analyzes mother’s selfish love and father’s ex chosen logic, noting differing responses to a son’s disgrace and confinement.
A dialogue on motherhood contrasts emotional instinct with reason. Dr Schlapp argues that a mother’s protective selfishness is constructive, while a father facing a son’s refusal to go may feel martyrdom in pride. The piece questions whether modern women grow more unstable emotionally.
Readers are invited to submit questions to the Athens Messenger Information Bureau directed by Frederic J. Haskin. The bureau provides information on general topics and cannot assist with legal medical or financial matters. Include full name and address with your question and one or two cents postage.
Vegetables with the highest water content include cucumber 95.9 percent lettuce 94.7 percent celery 94.5 percent turnip 95 percent and tomato 94.3 percent. Watermelon has 92.4 percent water while Irish potato has 62.0 percent. The Philippines offer over 3 500 miles of fine macadam roads benefiting motorists.
Moscow dispatch reports martial law declared in Leningrad as flood waters of the Neva recede. Twenty deaths recorded and food supplies are being sent from Moscow. Panic telephone subscribers in Paris face possible arrest.
The ZR-3 dirigible built in Germany for the United States government launched at 9 a.m. for its final trial before voyage to America. All American officers and 22 passengers aboard. departure to the U S next week if motors work. The craft will stay aloft 36 hours over northern Germany to bid farewell. Winds delayed the start by two hours. Dr Eckener commands the test.
Hamden Miss Mildren Thomas visited Wellston on Tuesday. Vernon Wallace, a State Highway Department employee on the Ore ton road for months, left for Dayton Monday to take new work.
Joseph Dixon of Fast Radford West Virginia and the Dixon family visited Dr and Mrs F E S Ray in town and stayed with Mr and Mrs Carl Wortman of McArthur the same day. Other visitors include Mrs Leo Stanton from Jackson and Miss Celia Scott's family guests.
Fragmentary OCR shows a druggist praising Peterson's Ointment for eczema and suggests good results. The text is incomplete but indicates a remedy claim and sales talk by a pharmacist.
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