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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1928
Page
4
A 1930 Springfield Illinois national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic is proposed to honor Lincoln at his gravesite. The piece celebrates Lincoln’s enduring symbolism and urges inclusion of Confederate veterans, viewing the gathering as a unifying, commemorative act for democracy and national heritage.
A collage of notes covers Mellon speeches and a Newark man’s sudden death. It mentions a possible treasury tenure after 1929, discusses bootleg whisky shooting, and recalls Newton’s gravitation doubts. There’s unrest at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, voter registration shifts in Baltimore and New York, and a first folio Shakespeare valued beside other curiosities.
Public health column presents questions on infant feeding, skin care, indigestion, and general wellness attributed to Dr. Frank McCoy author of The Newest Way to Health. It includes meal plans, dietary tips for adults, and pediatric feeding guidance with cautions on digestion and safety.
Key events include 789 Congress establishing a regular army with 840 men authorized. In 1906 Britain and the United States referred their boundary dispute to an arbitrator, and an intervention in Cuba was proclaimed with William Howard Taft as provisional governor.
Gilbert Swan surveys trend talk in Fifth Avenue windows. He notes new stockings in a garish gunburn shade, a “whoopee” coat style from the early speakeasy era, and a Gimbel family origin tale from Vincennes. He also muses on oath forms and the theater crowd’s wage-driven influence on New York life.
Current Political History notes Governor Smith’s farm relief speech and Senator Norris influence in Nebraska. It cites Norris backing Smith on conviction and his aim to aid progressives, while Howell backs Hoover. Religious and German votes, wet versus dry lines, and farm relief’s evolving impact are weighed, with Lincoln’s Hoover leanings and Omaha’s Smith support highlighted as October approaches.
Twenty years ago Edson Cooley and two children returned Monday from Dayton where she had visited her parents Mr and Mrs Richard Barns. On her return she visited relatives in Columbus. Colymony attorney E J Jones went to the morning where he is interested in cages in the United States Court. Misses Alice Mulligan and Wame Gallagher left for Columbus to enter a fitness college there. R and Mrs R Biddle accompanied by their niece Miss Mary Poston will leave for Philadelphia to place Miss Woston at Ogontz School in Rydal Pa. Dr and Mrs Biddle will visit their son Ensign f ton P Biddle in Brooklyn N Y. The Social Literary Club will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Fred M McKay at Elmwood Place. Miss Grace Stickney came from Nitro W Va for a few days. M Foster returned from a tour of Gallia and Meigs counties where he spoke for the Fourth Liberty Loan drive. Athens County polled a record local option vote and rose law vote going dry. Mr and Mrs Clyde Littler and family visited by the Littler parents.
A scrambled OCR of a crossword with references to mountains such as Mount McKinley and Mount Vesuvius, various wordplay clues on electrical units, positions, and edits. It resembles a noisy, midstream puzzle page with fragmented lines and garbled phrases.
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