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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1934
Page
4
The governor and lawmakers clash over Ohio's tax plan next year. The House rejected a sales tax centered plan while the Senate readies a broader program shifting burden to business. Critics warn higher taxes could harm industry and wages, urging a solution that preserves school funding and local governments.
Ohio coal mining safety efforts paid off in 1933 though injuries remained higher than 1932 due to more workers and higher tonnage. Production rose from fourteen million tons in 1932 toward an estimated twenty million in 1933, while safety education expanded across mines and both miners and operators benefitted from lower relative accident costs.
A recent Cleveland city survey outlines the dollars and cents required to clean up slums. It details financial needs, shows estimated costs, and points to funding implications for urban renewal efforts.
Washington April 11. Administration strategists grow uneasy as rumors of a Wirt revolution spread. A Missouri letter claims 168000 rifles hidden in Chicago and trenches around Toledo, illustrating how fantasy mutates into serious-sounding talk in Congress.
Roosevelt political watchers warn a large segment of voters who ignore newspapers will believe absurd stories about the administration. They say denials lag behind rumors and predict the president may receive advice to take strong public steps after arrival, amid talks in New York of broader stock market regulation.
Backstage coverage shows Speaker Rainey selecting three hard shelled Democratic examiners for the committee while Republicans choose two, highlighting the political maneuvering. Democrats aim to mock Wirt, Republicans portray him as Napoleon, but neither side fully succeeds.
Farmers claim they are unpaid as dealers cite price cutting. With further cuts expected, tensions rise and settlement seems unlikely within a week. The dispute centers on payment terms and market pricing, foreshadowing a brewing conflict in Chicago’s dairy trade.
A large blighted district in Cleveland shows startling stats. Under 3 percent of the population, yet over 21 percent of murders, 26 percent of houses of ill fame, 10 percent of juvenile delinquency, and 10 percent of tuberculosis cases occur there. In 1932 taxes were under a quarter of a million while government and social costs reached about two million. Slums burden city finances and society nationwide.
A fragmentary diary style reminiscence begins aboard a sea voyage near Cape Hatteras. The narrator recalls Eugene O Neill, Freudian hints, and a humorous tale of an aging sea captain, describing doubts about safety, rumors of a haunted stateroom, and a risky cross Atlantic trip toward Trinidad. The voice blends literary allusion with seafaring lore and老 playful self reflection.
Passenger recounts near dawn on the Mauretania as waves flood the ship’s smoke room and life boats are lost. A steward recalls the liner’s long service since launch, noting the ship “makes her own weather” amid storms and a lingering sense of danger.
A nostalgic tribute recalls the old ship that sprinted across rough seas at near thirty land miles per hour. The narrator remembers a seven hundred mile gale free run, the ship’s speed, and the plan to revive the Atlantic record with one final tune up before retirement.
Congress seeks information before tax legislation. New York debs and their mothers play pole on kiddie cars. mothers win. Observers note older women nearing their second childhood.
Dr Morris Fishbein explains damp environments threaten workers in fishing leather glove laundry sewer farming and paper industries with colds rheumatic disease and skin changes. He warns silica and asbestos dust cause silicosis and related lung damage and outlines prevention methods including wetting dust using ventilation enclosures helmets and regular X rays.
A reflective essay on teaching needs, temperament matches, and the balance between sympathy for students and institutional demands. It argues for selecting teachers who understand children, noting changes when capable elders are replaced, and urges separation of discipline from classroom duties. Also brief, unrelated clippings appear about New York spies and a Michigan man with a tiger.
Bradley Burson survived a gunshot to the head in an accident described by doctors as a miracle and a one in a million case. The bullet passed behind his eyes, pressing on the brain but leaving the eyeballs intact aside from blindness in one eye. The incident arose from a warned against act of playful shooting. Tomorrow a memorial is planned.
The piece extols gardening as more than exercise or labor. It highlights the thrill of first flowers and harvests, the nonmonetary rewards, and the life-affirming act of helping nature grow. It urges readers to start a garden and enjoy its simple privileges.
A poem from Chester dated April 10 voices farmer frustration over low corn hay and dairy prices. It argues farmers lack bargaining power and must organize to set value rather than accept others’ prices, urging collective action.
A speaker advocates space to voice ideas of the unemployed, arguing unemployment stems from faulty distribution and machine-era shifts. The text asserts the unemployed seek an equitable distribution without charity, comparing the issue to the slave question and calling for collective action.
News of Song From The Messenger reports plans to push a 106 mile road project anchored by the Automobile Club at the Dew Hotel in Nelsonville. It lists week end guests such as Miss Mary Frances Goldsberry and Margaret Spragu along with multiple social visits. Engagement news notes Clinton Poston of Glen Ridge NJ as a partner of Mr. and Mrs. M. Twiss and Jo returning from a weekend visit hosted by the Twisses.
A pocketbook containing 600 dollars, taken from M C & C agent William Amesville, was found with only 12 dollars in checks left. Miss Carrie Williams, visiting Marietta, was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Williams. Harry Beckley spent Easter with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Beckley at Moria. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Millikan recently bought a home on North Hill. Mrs. H. D. Moore and daughter spent a few days in Findlay visiting Mrs. R. J. Berry.
A fragmented history notes the first child born in Orange Township, the first mill by Asa Dean in 1810, and the Gow farm along Middle Branch of Shade. It mentions the township school on the Gow farm, the first teacher Marilla Ther, and a 19th century post office at Tuppers Plain with Hiram Kilton. Alfred and Hoffman areas near Five Points are referenced.
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