Athens Messenger publication details and staff
The Athens Messenger describes weekly issues with a half day afternoon schedule on weekdays and Sunday mornings. It lists Gordon K Burh as Publisher and General Manager and Charlies H. Harris as Managing Editor, with John W. Cullen Company as national advertising representatives. Obituary card rates and postal matter information are noted.
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Who Pays the Taxes in a Taxed Economy
The article argues that every family bears tax burden from purchase costs to government debt. It cites a 4.2 person family earning 1184 dollars with a 300 dollar tax bill and 1800 dollar debt. It asserts bread and goods carry taxes from farmer to baker, totaling about nineteen cents of every dollar spent by households. It warns that rising government costs push tax share higher for workers.
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United States
Limited Horizons and the Call for Meaningful Reading
The piece argues that routine life dulls awareness of world events and ideals. It says mass pulp is escape but not knowledge, urging readers toward substantial, thought provoking material to develop social consciousness and a philosophy of life beyond thrillers.
Jobs in New Industries and Unemployment Solution
The article argues that new industries must create large scale jobs to absorb displaced workers. It cites 1929 data from the National Industrial Conference Board showing one seventh of American workers in industries not existing half a century earlier, with autos and electrical machinery examples and mentions fountain pen makers. It suggests true recovery hinges on developing brand new industries and jobs.
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National Industrial Conference Board
Japan's Navy Opens Strategic Exercises Near Kurile Islands
The report notes the annual grand maneuvers of the Japanese navy underway in the northwest Pacific near the Kurile Islands. It contrasts with recent U S fleet exercises and observes pacifist reactions in the United States, suggesting little concern on the other side of the Pacific.
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Kurile Islands
United States
Pacific
Tax bill praised with doughnut joke by congressman
Washington reports a Democratic congressman who helped draft the tax bill quipped that the plan is acceptable given committee scope but privately he compared it to Morgenthau's doughnuts, hinting the social tax program should be refined or delayed.
Three Democratic lawmakers share cautious praise for tax bill
The piece notes three Ways and Means Democrats call the bill “all right, considering” while ghostwriting by L H Parker shapes the proposal. It recalls political sniping, White House calls, and a caper with Chairman Doughton’s suspenders illustrating Capitol antics.
District Tales of Long Ago at Ohio Peeca University
The Ohio Peeca University trustees in 1815 planned a new college building with 376000 brick from William Dean at 4.50 per thousand and 28000 feet of lumber from Christopher and Daniel Herrold at 1.12 per hundred, with stone from Bingham & White and foundation work by Pilcher & Francis. Cutler Hall cornerstone laid in 1816 and completed next year. wings added 1836. A 1814 lottery plan to fund a college edifice failed. In 1820 faculty included Irvine, Dana, Lindley, Hoge, and Ward. early societies formed and apparatus secured. The Ohio Company aimed to endow a richly endowed university, with trustees from several cities and one Virginia trustee, Rev. James M. Brown, named in 1842. By 1869 there were five instructors including the president Solomon Howard.
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William Dean
Christopher
Daniel Herrold
Bingham & White
Pilcher & Francis
William
James Weir
Cutler Hall
Board of Trustees
Ohio
James Irvine
Josh Dana
Jacob Lindley
Samuel D. Hoge
Henry D. Ward
Ohio Company
United States
Marietta
Steubenville
Chillicothe
Cincinnati
Lancaster
Worthington
Zanesville
Waterford
Weat Union
Athens
Gallipolis
Columbus
Virginia
James M. Brown
Solomon Howard
Memories in the Rain Poem Sent By Garnet Sedwick
Poets Column readers invited to submit verses with name and address. Memoried lines recall rain and memory from one night last fall. Garnet Sedwick from Amenville Ohio signs the piece.
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Messenger
Garnet Sedwick
Amenville
Ohio
Quotes on work, housing, liquor, faith, and theater
A collection of notable quotes from Buster Keaton Stewart McDonald Edward Mulrooney John Haynes Holmes and Elmer Rice. The statements touch on marriage to art housing prosperity liquor industry church labor rights and theater’s role in public life.
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Buster Keaton
Stewart McDonald
Durant Sets Goal to Write History of Civilization
Noting recent European upheavals and political turmoil, the professor contemplates a broader history. In New Orleans anti Long officials resign, while citizens who wish to resign face obstacles. If the AAA is struck down, many girls cheer their freedom from tight shoe sizes.
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New Orleans
AAA
Fleet drills mimic wartime maneuvers as tensions rise
The thread laments that both sides practice potential war tactics while casualties occur on both shores. It notes American and Japanese fleets rehearsing combat moves and questions who has been harmed by these preparations.
Public Forum Letters on Current Events and Morality
Readers sign their pieces to the Public Forum column in The Messenger. The letter from R. B. Carson of Middleport dated July 20 reflects frustration with taxes politics and the state of affairs. It laments public woes while urging individual responsibility and perseverance.
Athens News Roundup Highlights Local Visits and Regional Events
Mrs. A T Lawhead and daughter Theodora visited in Columbus while Dr and Mrs Chrisman hosted Mrs O C Lukenbill of Indianapolis on a tri p from Edinburgh Scotland where she attended the Women s Christian Temperance Union world meeting. The Athens Delphian Chapter met with Mrs B M Haffy and Sue Bloom returned from the East. A 105 year old woman crossed the Atlantic en route to Beirut. A three million foot gas discovery was reported at Fisher oil field south of Athens with new wells described as promising. A new track at Union Depot allows trains of both lines to use the station simultaneously. Dr and Mrs E B Morrison hosted a picnic for son Josephs sixteenth birthday with guests Wheeler Dew Richard McKinstry Donald Swaim Charles Woodworth Edward Clark Burdette Foraker Joseph Basom Clark Biggins and B F Toops. C M Gill secretary of the Athens County Agricultural Association returned from McArthur after the Vinton County Fair. Prof C N Mackinnon began a Eastbound tour while Dr W N Alderman left for Detroit to sail for Georgian Bay to bass fish for a month.
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Chrisman
O. C. Lukenbill
Indianapolis
Europe
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Edinburgh
Scotland
E. B. Morrison
Joseph
Wheeler Dew
Richard McKinstry
Donald Swaim
Charlies Woodworth
Edward Clark
Burdette Foraker
Joseph Basom
Clark Biggins
B. F. Toops
Crest Lake Inn Entangle Jo with Love and Rumors
Jo Darien, newly back to Crest Lake, faces a moral tangle as she contemplates staying at the inn with the charming actor Pete Fragonet in town. Marsh reassures her and they discuss trust, rumors, and whether she should stay, while the social complications at Crest Lake loom.
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JO Darien
Douglas Marsh
Crest Lake
Bret Paul
Marsh
Babs Montgomery
Peter Fragonet
Fragenet
Tubby
Lone Tree
Tom
Maresh
Pete Fragonet
Hollywood
Pete
Blood pressure and its role in heart and kidney disease
Dr Morris Fishbein explains that deaths from heart and kidney diseases often trace to blood vessel problems. He notes pressure exists in arteries veins and capillaries and argues the term blood pressure misleads, since arteries bear the main pressure. Insurance firms monitor early artery changes.
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