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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1935
Page
4
The article notes rising parental involvement in Southeastern Ohio schools, with fathers increasingly attending meetings and supporting classroom work. It warns of uncertain funding next year due to higher education costs and tax revenue constraints, urging focus on school finance in upcoming programs.
Rexford Tugwell, a member of the brain trust, proposes employing out of work individuals on public projects such as conservation sanitation slum clearance and related schemes. He argues the unemployed deserve a chance to work and help build lasting benefits for the country as prosperity returns remains distant for displaced workers. He notes the need to prepare the jobless for other lines of activity and to reduce maladjustments as the nation progresses.
The Little Red Schoolhouse has become barbecue stands filling stations homes and dance halls across southeastern Ohio. One room schools have fallen from over nine thousand to less than a third, some with as few as twenty pupils. Consolidation is pushed for economy and better rural education aided by road improvements.
Washington reports detail Father Coughlin’s plan to build a political bloc while avoiding Huey Long. He aims to organize five groups labor farmers veterans professionals and small businessmen with state-by-state drives from Michigan Ohio and beyond. The piece also notes Cotton leaders pressing Roosevelt over farm policy and a projected budget surplus of 216 million with sinking fund obligations.
Former AAA man Jerome Frank now with the RFC argues the RFC may not be the government and should bring its own legal cases rather than relying on the Justice Department. The dispute stirs controversy with about 2000 cases pending against the RFC in district courts.
Mr. Roosevelt receives Charles A. Beard's The Open Door At Home proposing economic nationalism. Coughlin invites more Congress members to his next meeting. last attendees included Nye, Thomas of Oklahoma, Lempke, Connery, Sweeney, and O Malley.
The piece reflects on state aid pressures pushing districts to yield. It notes parents watching children board school buses to central points and questions the motives of a rich man opposing wealth-sharing, implying future benefits to his daughter via a foreigner.
General von Hindenburg, former military leader under Kaiser Wilhelm, was elected president of the new German Republic by an overwhelming majority. Gibbons Tunney McTigue and Berlenbach were in spring training for boxing matches. Miss Bernadine McClure Malta was the house guest of Miss Theodora Lawhead. Mrs. Edward Schloss returned from Detroit. Mrs. A. F. Farnum visited La Crosse after a stay with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr and Mrs F. D. Forsyth. Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Holmes Albany en route from Florida visited J. Austin Holmes. Frances Webster spent the weekend with her parents.
Theodore Roosevelt was invited to attend the Ohio State Spelling Con test in Columbus to make an address on the importance of good spelling. The Progressive Party will be in the fight in 1916 with either Victor Murdock or Hiram Johnson as leader. Mrs Mary A Morrison and her daughter Mayme Hoobler spent winter with Dora Barth and left for Coolville for the summer.
Review of The Empire of the Snakes by Carnachan and Adamson recounts an African journey to Tan ganyika for animal collection and encounters a shadowy lodge with vast medicinal knowledge. It describes venom immunity to the black mamba and a drug turning users into robots, plus medical notes on reversed internal organs in hundreds of cases.
England reduced flower imports by about half from 1952 to 1983 and increasingly grows its own blooms. The shift reflects a move toward domestic cultivation to meet floral demand and reduce reliance on foreign suppliers.
A reader recalls changes at the Athens water and light plant from 1905 to 1916. He notes initial moonlight street lighting, 60 W bulbs costing 1.10, floods in 1907, gas lights losing favor, and the rise of electric appliances and higher voltage motors by 1916.
Ohio Gazetteer of 1826 describes Leading Creek in Meigs County rising in Athens and flowing to the Ohio River at Salisbury. Marietta is noted as an early important town with a post office, churches, a bank, printing office, and 20 stores. The Vatican statue Sleeping Ariadne is claimed to be the only marble figure with eyelashes.
Captain Gerald Lowry of the Sec on Royal Irish Rifles was blinded in 1914 on the Western Front. After leaving hospital on Christmas 1914 he became a doctor of osteopathy and excels in swimming running boxing and golf. He drives 225 yards from the tee guided by a sighted caddy. The note notes his remarkable comeback.
Millicent hurries to apartment 309 after a sudden alarm. The scene shows a torn disorder in Norman’s absence with footprints of struggle and a suspicious downstairs neighbor demanding answers.
A distorted dialogue portrays a tense confrontation with a distressed speaker and a frustrated interlocutor. The exchange hints at a domestic or street incident with unclear details and escalating urgency.
The passage compiles remarks from Roosevelt Huey Long and David Niven about science ideals politics and social norms. It contrasts faith in science with self confident political stance and social codas from Hollywood culture.
The article outlines simple steps to relieve stress and spasmodic disturbances. Create a quiet room, lie with eyes closed, breathe 20 to 30 times, and have a helper gradually ease you into a limp, relaxed state focusing on head and neck muscles.
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