Athens Messenger Advertising and Home Improvement Notes
The Athens Messenger edition highlights building advice urging readers to consult architects, focus on upkeep and resale value, and avoid ostentation. It urges diversified home improvement like proper roofing, siding, chimneys, porches, and landscaping, plus economical paint choices. It discusses farming diversification, clay industry links, and the need for varied investments for regional stability.
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Athens Better Homes and Grounds Committee
Akron
Detroit
Giants of the 3 New York newspaper world recalled
In a New York piece dated April 2, veteran newspaper figures from Park Row era are described as the siuriens. The article recalls writers, sleuths, and editors now scattered across publishing, many with fame or faded fortunes, and notes a long, colorful craft past. It mentions figures like Ike White, Robert E. Livingston, and old anecdotes tied to Sage, Lindbergh, and Chauncey Olcott. It also covers personal tales of A C Blumenthal and Peggy Fears, plus Buddy Rogers career trials in Bridgeport and California mining dreams.
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Boston
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Bridgeport
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Mother Lode
California
You Have Facts Wanted To Know You Have Facts Wanted To Know
An informational column explains a request service offering free answers to questions, with limitations on medical or financial advice, and lists sample Q A items about potlatches the Earldom of Portland and alien citizenship waiting periods. It notes questions should be sent to The Athens Messenger Information Bureau directed by Frederic J. Gaskin in Washington DC.
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Oregon
Alaska
Weston
Portland
Earldom of Portland
Richard Weston
Earl of Portland
Wiliam Jit
William Bentinck
Duke of Portland
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The March of Progress in a Fixer Upper World
A reflective poem laments aging cars and clothes yet notes modern markets do not prize age. It recalls Chippendale's durable wares and suggests a spring for home improvements, closing with a Biblical proverb from Deuteronomy.
Inhuman Revenge Tale and Aluminum Weight Facts
A fragment discusses the Believe It Or Not style tale of Agastya who held his arm aloft for twenty years as penance, criticizing self inflicted punishment for dire consequences. It also notes aluminum’s density 2.56 and 160 pounds per cubic foot versus sand’s 4 to 110 pounds per cubic foot. Tomorrow: With Ripley in Haw.
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Agastya
Agostya
Ripley
Public Forum Letter Promotes Rural Self-Reliance
Athens Ohio March 29 letter argues city residents should not expect big town perks in the country. It urges using available road funds for jobs and labor to aid residents, favors local work over dole, and stresses farm life requires capital and hard work.
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Messenger
Not Milk and Honey and No Work Returns to the Land
The article argues that moving back to farming is hard work and not a life of ease. It notes many abandoned farms in the region and urges homestead seekers to plan carefully to grow food and sustain themselves. A cow and other basics are possible with effort.
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Postage stamps: secure investment for all time
The Athens Messenger touts stamps as an absolutely secure investment, claiming government bonds may fail but stamps never yield interest yet can appreciate with proper selection and firm day covers. It promotes EVERYBODY'S STAMP BOOK as essential, offered as a companion to EVERYBODY'S COIN BOOK with a six cent coupon per booklet.
Information request for stamp and coin book order
The note from the Information Bureau directs sending cents in coin or stamps for a stamp book. It references "Everybody's stamp book" and "Swertsody's coin book" with a mailing address on Nome Street. The message asks for payment as a check and mentions preferred coin or stamps.
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Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D.C
CIA
Swertsody
Relief committee answers editor about local relief grocer needs
In a public forum response, JOE MIHALEK ARTHUR GREEN and FRED ANDERSON defend the relief committee’s handling of the commissary for destitute families. They denounce the anonymous writer "A Miner" for demanding personal comforts and accuse critics of lacking appreciation for street-to-door fundraising efforts. Nelsonville, R. D. i.
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Relief Committee
Joe Mihalek
Arthur Green
Fred Anderson
Nelsonville
Idle Men and Relief Needs Across Amalier Communities
The report notes many idle men in amalier communities and also women and children in need who require assistance from agencies. It urges avoiding relief funds used elsewhere and considers using gaso Nne and moter tax stands in larger Of aNd AMONIES to help idle men. It suggests the possibility of special measures if needed.
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Miner letter defends commissary committee aims to aid miners
A miner signs Wednesday reply defending the commissary committee. A committee member’s wife says the group works in all weather to collect food for the poor miners and invites the critic to visit the commissary and verify its generosity. The writer notes some locals are narrow minded while praising the committee’s efforts.
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Unemployment bill battle in committee amid NY figures
Senator Hiram Johnson and Senator Wagner debated the unemployment bill while New York labor commissioner Miss Perkins argued, demonstrating women’s competence in public matters. Senator Copelting and others from New York observed as Miss Katherine Doys remained noted in the scene.
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Wagner
Miss Perkins
New York
Smith
Roosevelt
Copelting
Katherine Doys
Rural Improvement Society plants fruit trees citywide
A Rural Improvement Society, formed by local women, has planted over 50 apple trees near homes and along public roads, inviting the public to share the fruit in coming years. Other items note local purchases, campus moves, bonds, and a nationwide coal strike.
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Parental warning about a squirrel street accident
A narrator recalls two tame squirrels Frisk and Mrs Gray Tail near her home. Frisk is nearly as large as his mother and ignores danger, leading to a close call when a car nearly strikes him. The tale stresses the risk of street traffic and urges children to stay off the road and cross carefully while watching for fast vehicles.
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Mrs. Gray Tail
Roosevelt gains in Democratic race as Smith falters
Washington April 2 core analysis argues Roosevelt holds lead for the nomination while Al Smith struggles amid party dynamics. The piece notes Smith’s weak candidacy perception, Roosevelt’s broad, nonregional appeal, and the shifting signals from leaders on the convention outcome. It highlights Smith’s NH primary defeat and the broader stop Roosevelt movement facing collapse if Roosevelts lead falters.
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Washington
Roosevelt
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