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Newspaper
The New Vienna Reporter
Location
New Vienna, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1925
Page
2
The New Vienna Reporter lists advertising rates including 28 cents per inch for ads and 3 cents per line for obituaries. It notes poetry at 5 cents per line and cards of thanks limited to 8 lines or under at 50 cents per line. The paper is published weekly in New Vienna, Clinton County, Ohio.
A traveler on a hotel roof reflects on the world below and the value of purpose. He observes individuals pursuing happiness, links personal effort to meaning, and contrasts busy, productive people with those who merely loaf.
A reflective note on prioritizing people who actively do things over merely talking or looking the part. It urges supporting the industrious and aiding strangers the street, plus a call for schools to have music and for practical public health measures to control pests and improve housing to curb rat populations.
The State Department of Agriculture launches a campaign against rats in buildings where food is manufactured or stored. Pest control is rated at $200.
Large totals show 21 million letters and 803000 parcels headed to the Dead Letter Office last year. Only 100000 blanks enter the mail yearly, with 55000 dollars in cash and 12000 in stamps recovered from misdirected mail. Three million in checks and money orders never reach owners, and Uncle Sam spends 1.74 million dollars annually to look up misaddressed mail.
The text argues yearly waste in one city costs $500 daily and suggests returning mail with addresses and wrapping parcels securely to reduce needs. It ends with a moral noting everyone knows their own address if not their correspondent's.
Helen C Walker of Cincinnati has been named by Governor Vic Donshey as the first woman and youngest member to the Combined Normal and Industrial department board at Wilberforce University. She fills the unexpired term of Rev J F Smith ending June 1928.
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