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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1935
Page
4
The Athens Messenger lists obituary notices and acknowledgments. It provides mailing rates: one year 64.50, six months 2.56, ten weeks 1.90, four weeks 1.00, and weekly carrier 15 cents. References to staff and associations appear in the issue.
Ohio officials argue that current county government is duplicated across multiple agencies and wasteful. They cite the county home rule measure approved last fall and a legislative plan offering permissive changes to cut costs and improve administration, claiming up to twenty cents of every tax dollar could be saved.
An anonymous Public Forum writer questions why the unemployed cannot return to the soil for security. The piece notes a wave of rural migration in Southeastern Ohio and surrounding counties, with many townspeople embracing country life despite financial limits, and cites a long historical arc of farm land demand and gradual national change.
A Paris note claims summer fashion will bring shorter skirts as an indicator of economic mood. The piece notes historians observed skirt length shifting with business cycles, with shorter hems linked to better times and longer ones to gloom. It calls this a curious gauge rather than a proven theory.
Alfred A. Stacey national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic argues the Federal Government should pay Civil War pensions to Confederate veterans alongside Union veterans. He says this humanitarian move would remove lingering bitterness and solidify postwar harmony between former foes.
A New Deal section chief describes political coercion by lawmakers to sway project judgments. He criticizes unqualified appointees and unequal salary levels while detailing upheaval in the New Deal bureaucracy and the retirement of Houser Moffett amid clashes with Governor Eccles.
In a White House executive council meeting months ago, President Roosevelt urged New Dealers to airing their differences privately. He said to fight it out among themselves and keep family rows inside the family, preventing outsiders from hearing disputes.
Rumors say Huey Long plans for 1940 despite 1936 bid. He reportedly tells some senators he cannot win next time yet hopes for a later chance. In his office he keeps a state separated list of eight million or fewer names of letter writers, a potential influence in his long movement.
Miss Rina Bean of Guysville visited Mr. and Mrs. How ard McCutcheon for a week. Kito Judo claims invention to mute airplane roar with German buyers offering 350000 dollars. Mrs. Frank Beiley of Columbus visited sister Mrs. L. W. Brown. Mrs. J. B. Allen entertained at the Colonial for Mrs. Charlies Welch. D. H. Moore motor trip to Washington. Prof. Evan J. Jones won a Harvard teaching scholarship and a Chicago offer. Mrs. Henry G. Williams and daughter visited Marietta. Mr. W. & Blackwood headed to the Pacific Coast for a month. Mrs. J. B. Dyer and three children of Anderson, Ind., guests of Mrs. Blackwood’s mother.
In clear tones the article explains hammer toe causes from tight shoes and birth, then compares treatments from amputation to tendon or joint operations with splints and improved instruments. It notes outcomes like a more normal toe function, some stiffness, and surgeon skill required.
A veteran journalist recalls a Republican state committee secretary in a Midwest city who laments no letters at all on his desk and no mailing list. He notes the White House holds the city’s largest mailing list, while incoming mail to the president has fallen but remains substantial.
A quirky remark links personality types to physiology, suggesting people with upside-down stomachs are inverts. The playful notion reflects casual chatter about introverts and extroverts rather than scientific consensus.
A WWII era veteran urges the United States to honor the bygone war by placing Confederate veterans on pension rolls. He notes the long gap since the blue and gray laid down arms and calls for a symbolic act of reconciliation.
Readers may submit signed comments on current events to the Public Forum. Letters should be concise to allow multiple contributions each day and must include the writer’s signature.
The account recalls Good Friday as Jesus bears the cross with Sim on Cyrenian helping. At Calvary the three crucified figures perish while a crowd watches and mocks. The temple veil tears, earthquakes shake the land, graves open, and a centurion proclaims this is the Son of God.
The cartoon recalls the Mamore Madeira Railway in Acre and a costly, fatalistic rush built by an American financier with many deaths along the jungle route. It then shifts to a Detroit man, Lawrence Mack, who in one year shed 123 pounds without dieting or exercise, claiming the mineral cure led to dramatic weight loss and renewed hope before a grim closing line.
Millicent Graves finds her employer dead in his office as a stranger, Jarvis Bapp, manipulates her into a new disguise and a cover story. She and Norman work to uncover clues, with a liquor store stakeout revealing a key witness and a cautious path toward solving the case.
Norman Happ and Millicent race to uncover a night time theft clue after a woman demanded a specific whiskey brand at a late hour. The pair seek details on clothing and appearance to identify a suspect described as wearing a black ermine coat.
A collection of brief quotes attributed to Mrs. Nellie B. Stull founder of the Widow and Widowers' Club of America L A Cuvillier Alyce Jane McHenry and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. The remarks touch on love ambition gratitude and world peace reflecting public figures and social movements of the era.
Reading from an OCR fragment, a dialogue mentions a woman seen with a man in a car, a back room with whiskey in bond, a transfer from the inside of a sedan and a spare tire. Details are unclear, but imply a crime related to bootlegging and an unknown male accomplice.
Olive Roberts Barton laments night time rail crossings near Rockville and cites repeated crashes caused by poorly visible locomotive headlights and distant warning lights. She argues engineers should improve grade crossing illumination to prevent further deaths and urges safer driving practices.
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