Athens Messenger Publisher and rates notice history snippet
Obscure OCR fragment from The Athens Messenger includes publisher names and rates. It references The Messenger Publishing Co with Gordon K. Bush as publisher and general manager, plus Ohio circulation details and AP association notes. It reads like a 1896 to 1929 era masthead and subscription pricing for various delivery options.
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Athens Messenger
Frederick W Bush
Iblisher
the Messenger Publishing CO
Gordon K. Bush
Mgr
Charles HH
Harris
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Ohio Newspaper Association
No Hope for Tax Pay-As-You-Go Plan by Congress
Opinion argues Congress rejected the minority drive for a pay-as-you-go income tax system. The piece claims the Roosevelt administration opposed forgiveness of taxes and that party politics and war-time concerns shaped the outcome. It contends new-rich war workers would resist direct taxation and urges removing Republican labeling in future debates.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Treasury Department
Treasury
House
Distribution concerns loom over food supply
The article argues that both production and distribution face critical labor challenges. It highlights high labor turnover in retail distribution due to work-or-fight orders, agency raids, and the draft. It warns that without trained handlers, price controls and rationing would fail and food could fail to reach consumers.
Food shortages in war plant centers threaten workers
The piece argues southeastern Ohio shows shortages not in rural areas but in major war plant hubs. It notes plant centers may require up to 45 to 50 million pounds of meat weekly and warns mismanagement of production and distribution will drive workers away. Rationing may be needed to stabilize supplies and reduce labor turnover.
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Ohio
Profitable Salvage Helps Unemployables Find Work
Providence Rhode Island experiment makes unemployables self supporting returning 87 for every dollar cost. Each person gets tests then training matched to aptitude and a job found via the U S Employment Service. For $400 spent in a month the program saved $2 720 by placing workers instead of paying them.
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Providence
Rhode Island
U. S. Employment Service
Suppression of War Material Shortages Draws Fire
The National Dispatch reports that WPB officials suppressed an Automotive Council for War Production letter revealing a critical materials shortage. C C Carlton of the Automotive Parts and Equipment Manufacturers Association warns that April layoffs and labor unrest loom, while the WPB promises corrections and newspapers push for truth about weapon supply risks.
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Washington
War Production Board
Automotive Council On War Production
WPC
WPB
Automotive Council For War Production
C. C. Carlton
Automotive Parts and Equipment Manufacturers Association
Carlton
United Press
Roosevelt to field lawmakers on United Nations conferences
Washington reports that President Roosevelt plans closer Senate and House engagement in postwar UN preparations. He may regularly place members on American delegations to future UN conferences, with food relief finance minerals and oil talks likely next. Wilson's Senate relations noted as a cautionary example.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
United Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
League of Nations
League
Senator Lodge
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Versailles
Menaters
Paris
Henry White
White
History in the Making President Roosevelts partial relief for agricultural machinery
The article criticizes President Roosevelt for partially lifting the prohibition on manufacturing and selling agricultural machinery late in March. It argues the move was insufficient, delayed, and failed to meet farm needs, urging stronger domestic relief to support farmers and food production amid broader wartime concerns.
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Roosevelt
North
Central West
America
Washington
Spring weather in Russia could shape Allied war move
War column argues mud and slush slow Soviet frontline fighting but aid Allied strategy. March toward decisive Western front needed by summer to counter Hitler while eastern pressures persist. Warns Nazi gamble likely this summer if western front loses focus.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Russia
Europe
Hitler
Red Army
Fuehrer
Bolshevists
All Highest
Caucasus
Tunisia
Birth of Gary Lee Spencer Mar 29 to Pvt Harry Spencer
Pvt Harry Spencer and Mrs Spencer announce the birth of a son Gary Lee on March 29. Grandparents include Mr and Mrs Cert Turn Jobs and Mr and Mrs Asa Spencer of Sand Run. Pvt Spencer joined the armed forces March 20 and is stationed at Fort Sill Oklahoma. Pvt John Turn transferred from Sheppard Field Texas to Westover Field Mass. Waveline Lonberger is ill. Social notes mention visits by Mrs Phil Young in Nelsonville and others visiting local families including Mr and Mrs Car Turn Mr and Mrs Everett Stoner and daughter Mrs Charles Horn Haydenville and Mrs Mable Sowers in Nelsonville.
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Jobs
Pvt
Harry Spencer
Gary Lee
Cert Turn
Asa Spencer
Sand Run
Spencer
Armed Forces
Fort Sill
Okla
John Turn
Sheppard Field
Texas
Westover Field
Mass
Waveline Lonberger
Phil Young
Nelsonville
Opal Meys
Car
Everett Stoner
Charles Horn
Haydenville
Awger Somers
Mable Sowers
Athens Rotary in Malta for inter city dinner
Rotary Club members traveled to Malta for an inter city dinner meeting with high scores awarded in a bridge dinner by M A Grubb and Mrs Grubb at Hillcrest Inn. Pears peaches plums and other fruit were damaged by a cold wave in Southeastern Ohio. Meigs County relief agencies faced a year end deficit of 44748 dollars per state relief commission estimate. Pauline Cone as Peter Pan won the costume prize at the Chi Omega annual dance with Mr and Mrs Thomas L Byrne and Miss Pauline Jones as chaperones.
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Athens
Rotary Club
Malta
M. A. Grubb
Athens High School
Grubb
Hillcrest Inn
Ethel McEwen
Wayne G. Henderson
Ohio
Meigs County
State Relief Commission
Pauline Cone
Peter Pan
Chi Omega
Thomas L. Byrne
Pauline Jones
Night Rescue Flight Over Superstition Mountain
Captain Carr maneuvers a tow ship through a violent storm to locate Pat Friday’s sailplane. He spots her stranded on a mountain slope and, arguing with Loraine, prepares to evacuate using a parachute as night nears. The dramatic rescue ends with Carr taking decisive action.
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Carr
Pat
Loraine
Jimmy
Captain Carr
Captian Carr
Piane
Fellows
Sky Harbor
Number Nine
Pat Friday
Pati
Loraine Stuart
Jim Carr
Jimmy Carr
Bishopville Social Briefs Recap of Sunday visits and gatherings
A parish of social notes from Bishopville details birthdays and family visits. A. B. Phillips celebrated with kin including Frank Phillips of Glouster and Miles Kasler at the daughter Mrs. M Kasiler’s home. Numerous relatives and friends such as the McDonalds and Werners joined weekend calls from Columbus to Parkerburg and Glouster.
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Bishopville
A. B. Phillips
M Kasiler
Frank Phillips
Glouster
Dean Pedicord
Daugh Wahneta
Ferndale
Miles Kasler
Charles Milhoan
McConnelly
J. M. McDonald
Fred Harper
Odale
I. N. Price
Victor Norris
Columbus
J. McDonald
Norris
Danger
Jean
Mary Marget Taylor
McDon
Don Withem
Jacksonville
A. G. Carter
Lucille Pedicord
Parkerburg
W. Va
K. Wolfe
Jo Carter
Linda,lumbus
Answers to common questions from a historic Q and A page
The text presents a series of Q and A items covering Stalin's titles and roles, a U S work week rule, a war bond death allocation, pinochle meld calculations, and monastery leadership terms. It reads like an archival trivia or exam section with concise factual answers.
Local Blue Lake News Briefs Highlight War Era Updates
Mrs. Virgin Finley Kitt has passed all WAACS exams and will be stationed in Palm Beach Florida. Sgt John Holcomb on leave from Illinois Camp visited family. Miss Ethel Wooten returns home after wartime duties. Glen Stover 19 buried at Mina Chapel. Eugene Wogan ill at Pomeroy. Sammy Kemper ill with scarlet fever. Pvt Jack Ellis home on furlough from Miami. Local families report illnesses and moves including Clark Graham family relocation to Huntington. Born recently to Sgt Eugene Clyse and wife.
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Blue Lake
Virgin Finley Kitt
WAACS
Palm Beach
Florida
Bert Finley
Gallia Acad My
Sargeant John Holcomb
Illinois
Elmer Holcomb
Robert Johnson
C. E. Sheets
Mary F. Wogan
Belle Roush
Russell Wooten
Ethel Wooten
Kilgore
Robert Wooten
Glen Stover
Mina
Russell Stover
Harold
Eugene Wogan
Pomeroy
Wynne June Sheets
Cecil Thornton
Ie City
Lizzie Carmen
Sammy
Sam Kemper
Jack Ellis
Miamia
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O. Cleveland
David Lawrence
National Dispatch
The
Automotive Council
Raymond Clapper
Carl Dunkle Sheppard
Akron
Ohio University
George Fetch
Dick Faubion
Richmond
Washington, D. C
T. L. Morgan
Joe Chiki
John Kline
Millfield
Joe Kachman
George Grayson
John H. Grayson
William Carr
Philip Ruth
Hollister
Mike Barto
Joseph Uliney
the Plains
Andrew Guy
Frank Guy
Louise Trasin
Frank Sabo
Murray City
H. T. Mulligan
Richland Ave
Helen Ashworth
O. F. Ashworth
Marion
Roy Pierce
Oklahoma
Co. L. Jones
J. A. Fuller
H. S. Burson
M. I. Bowers
Clarence Laughlin
Ohio Independent Telephone Association
By Oren Arnold
NEA Service, Inc
Glade
Bishopville Social Briefs
Orland Richardson
Colubus
Russell Smith
Johnnie
Jimmie
Glover
P. M. Smith
Dwig Smith
Barberton Sund
Parker Lincott
Howard Elliott
Lancaste
Miles Easler
Carl Welling
Talor Ridge
Dwight Smith
J. M. McDona
Erna Mullins
Dwight Smit
John Milhoan McLeish
Floyd Milhoan
By Galbraith
Tokyo
Yokohama
Joseph Stalin
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Council of People's Commissars
State Committee For Defense
Supreme Soviet
Communist Party of the
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