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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 29, 1932

Page

4

Ree The Athens Messenger Publication Masthead

The snippet shows the Athens Messenger publisher lineup and signature staff with rates and press affiliations. It lists Gordon K Bush publisher and Geo. Mgr, Charles H. Harris editor, Inland Daily Press Association, and various circulation terms. Subscription prices include yearly and weekly options, with rates in Ohio and mail offerings.

Prederick W. Bush Athens Messenger & Berald Printing CO Gordon K Bush Geo. Mgr Charles H. Harris

Better Days Ahead for Ohio Wild Life and Cooperation

Radio speakers from multiple Ohio conservation branches urge protecting and increasing wild birds and game across the state. They note farmers can help with natural cover and food, while fair treatment by sportsmen improves harmony and reduces lawbreaking activity.

Ohio

National Child Health Day appears in home focus speech

A speech urges emphasis on the home as the core for child health and welfare ahead of National Child Health Day on May 1. It calls for informed parenting, better food and health knowledge, and mobilization of agencies and civic clubs amid economic stress.

Grandfather Do It Too In Campus Egg Throwing

A light editorial notes Ohio University student election excitement mirrors historical politics with egg throwing, recalling Civil War era mischief and broader community demonstrations. It argues that political fervor spikes suddenly in campus life as in any town.

Ohio University

Married Women at Work Reopens Payroll Debate

The article argues that married women seek employment out of need, not whim, countering the view that they work for extra funds. It contends that many married women join the workforce because of financial necessity, just as men do.

A Thought for Today Quote from James on Law

A brief devotional line quotes James 3 10 stressing that keeping the whole law matters and one offense makes a person guilty, offering a reflective prompt for readers.

James

New York Eats In Automats Amid Hard Money Mood

In New York the hard money mood spurs easy money schemes and a shift to automats. High stakes betting and counterfeit lottery chatter mix with a rising tide of budget dining as fashionable folk sample penny-pinching meals at automats replacing costly lunches at once glitzy haunts.

New York Manhattan Hotel Lorraine Fifth Avenue Avenue Lorraine Park Avenue Wellers

Questions and Answers on Music, Homesteading and Cherry Trees

An excerpt presents a Q and A on instrument classification by sound, ex service men homesteading near Hoover Dam with delayed opening until irrigation requires 1933, and notes on US zoo counts and early paper money by colony. It recounts Tokyo gifting cherry trees to Washington with planting events and Taft involvement.

Hoover Dem Hoover Dam United States Massachusetts Uth Carolina Connecticut New York New Jersey Rhode Island New Hampshire North Carolina Pennsylvania Maryland Delaware Virginia Georgia Washington D. C Tokyo Japan U. S. Department of Agriculture Taft Chinda

More Truth and Poetry Attacks Modern Super-Pictures

The speaker laments cinema's modern trend toward accurate speeches and costumes. He prefers old thrillers and Restoration or Elizabethan impulse over films infused by academic influence. He argues educated pretenders ruin dramatic flair and anachronistic charm.

Athens News Reel: Temple site vote and local boosts

At a mass meeting of four Athens Masonic bodies the Walker and Connettiots site on West Washington Street was nearly approved for a new Masonic Temple. Athens counts hundreds of high school students at the second interscholastic meet and oratorical contest. Ohio University beat Marietta College 3 to 9 in a debate.

Athens Masonic Walker and Connettiots West Washington Street Masonic Temple Athens County Ohio University Marietta College Ford Motor Company

Public Forum Letter Stylistics and Reader Responsibility

The Messenger notes letters lack signatures may not be published and that column opinions reflect contributors not editors. It argues direct taxation weighs on average people and praises home training and work responsibility as essential for citizens.

Jeter Colin

Painless Taxing to Painful Tax System Debate

The piece surveys differing views on reforming taxation with some favoring a broader income tax to make all citizens tax conscious. It argues the present indirect burdens fall unevenly, leaving small property owners taxed while others escape direct levies. The author warns that excessive pain risks overburdening districts.

Children and Work Editor Opinion in The Messenger

The Messenger editor argues parents must teach children the value of hard work and thrift. He laments easy money and gambling proliferating in towns and warns that reliance on luck harms youth more than it helps. He urges instilling responsibility and burdens appropriate to growth.

Nelsonville Nelsonville, O Great

The Carrasco comet and a view of world trade tensions

The piece discusses the dollar standard and free trade, noting U S commerce decline and wealth distribution. It explains the Carrasco comet as observed by Harvard Observatory, describing its size, tail length, and travel driven by sun gravity. It reflects on historical fears of comets and the improbability of earth destruction.

United States Congress Sam Harvard Observatory

The World War remade the map of Europe

The Athens Messenger presents an up to date color map of Europe showing old and new boundaries and spellings, with detailed statistics on areas populations coinage debts transportation and more. The map measures 21 by 28 inches on heavy paper and is available through a Washington bureau at ten cents postage and handling using the attached coupon.

Europe Washington Information Bureau

Request for Map of Europe with payment

A brief notice from the Information Bureau by Director Frederic J. Haskin offers a map of Europe in exchange for ten cents in coin or stamps. The reader is asked to provide name street and city.

Europe

Protecting Your Children From Contagious Illnesses

A columnist urges strict home precautions to prevent spread of illness among children. Recommendations include isolating sick kids, using separate rooms and utensils, sterilizing items, wearing aprons, and using thermometers to monitor fevers. Emphasizes cautious convalescence after serious illnesses and vigilant eye health.

Bravery in Politics Hard to Find in 1930s Dialogue

Washington dispatch reflects on courage in Congress and in the White House. It notes economic cuts, unemployment figures, and the sharp rhetoric aimed at Hoover Roosevelt and party leaders, with criticism of opportunistic bravado and graft concerns.

Washington

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