Prohibition Rates And Subscriptions In The Athens Messenger
The Athens Messenger lists subscription rates for Ohio and outside regions including annual and six month terms. It notes foreign service pricing, carrier delivery, and second class mail status, with advertising rates available on request. It references press associations and distribution details for readers.
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Associated Prose
Ibis
Ohio
Onic
Messenger
Athens
Act of Ibis
John W. Guffen Company
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War drives postwar progress and faster living, says Merle Thorpe
Merle Thorpe argues in Nation's Business that World War II accelerates movement in all forms from weapons to daily appliances. He notes a war born urgency to transfer speed to peace as factories and offices repurpose innovations. He envisions postwar America as a stage where capable individuals, energized by promotion and effort, go ahead in business and society.
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Merle Thorpe
America
Wickham Steed
The Buyer Says Cost of Living Misleads Housewives
The piece argues that official 27 percent rise in living costs understates actual family expenses. It notes that shifting prices and scarce items push shoppers to pay far more for common goods, especially meat, making real costs higher than statistics imply.
Don’t Make Soap Warns Against Self Made Soap
Frightened by rumors of a soap shortage many families are making their own soap. This diverts fats needed for munitions and harms the war effort. Officials insist there is no actual shortage and urge against home soap making.
Trials of a Bureaucrat and Civil Service Reform
Harold Ickes laments the civil service makes dismissing subordinates hard while Eliot Kaplan argues firing a civil servant is simple with proper charges and defenses. The piece notes that formalities aside, a civil servant can be discharged for any reason except politics or religion.
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Maximus
Harold Ickes
Eliot Kaplan
National Civil Service Reform League
Pacific War Needs More Air Power and Attention
David Lawrence argues the Pacific war lags due to Roosevelt and Churchill underallocating resources. He cites limited air power, misallocated pilots, and slow progress, urging greater U.S. effort and faster base and base-building. He notes Britain’s loan of ships for a postwar merchant fleet and Churchill’s focus on Britain’s afterwar interests.
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Washington
Pacific
Roosevelt
Churchill
Pacific War
London
New Zealand
Australia
South Pacific
Great Britain
Horne
Japan
United Nations
United States
United States Navy
America
North Pacific
Attu
Europe
Britain
Mussolini should be killed, not exiled, says Clapper
In a wartime column Clapper argues Mussolini’s execution would be a proper, decisive response to his crimes. He contends neutral nations must not harbor him and compares this to swift punishment of common murderers. He cites Mussolini’s role in Ethiopia, Spain, and Italy’s 1940 actions to justify a quick killing.
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Allied
North Africa
Mussolini
America
Rome
Napoleon
Roosevelt
Sweden
Goering
Switzerland
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Hitler
Ethiopia
Spain
France
History in the making Roosevelt seeks fourth term
An unsigned proclamation declares F D Roosevelt a candidate for a fourth term and possibly more, arguing war outcomes and the Atlantic Charter shape his continued leadership while naming potential rivals and noting political reactions. The piece ends by asking readers for their view on milk ceilings and rationing.
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Italy
Germany
Hong Kong
China
Thailand
Malaya
Singapore
British
Burma
Dutch East Indies
Churchill
Roosevelt
Atlantic
United States
Senate
F. D. Roosevelt
Africa
France
Spain
Portugal
Belgium
Casablanca
White House
America
Morocco
Henry A. Wallace
Allied bombing may hasten Allied victory in Europe
War Today notes the Allied aerial campaign against Germany and occupied territories is delivering crushing and potentially decisive blows. Dispatches from Swiss and Swedish sources describe a population under terror and a morale strain akin to 1918, with bombings disrupting resources and communications and shrinking Nazi resistance as industrial and transport networks crumble.
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Germany
Reich
Stockholm
Churchill
Senate
House
Washington
Italy
Laurel Cliff Social Notes
Laurel Cliff events feature host Dana Oliver of Pomeroy and a Sherwood Garden Club gathering with eight members and a guest. Prizes went to Karr Evans and Howell. refreshments served. next meeting at Karr’s. Various local visits and visits by families noted through the week.
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Laurel Cliff
Dana Oliver
Pomeroy
Sherwood Garden Club
Charles Karr
Joe Evans
Marion Howell
Pearl Jacobs
Paul
Bettie
Columbus
Ross Poulton
Canton
Everett Tracy
Bull Run
Dale Heath
Zanesville
Pearl Gilkey
Thomas Fork
N. E. Schaefer
Clarence Ackley
Walace Stahl
Charleston
Invasion of Russia Opens War as Molotov Confirms
The article recalls the June 22 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany. It contrasts Napoleon’s Moscow campaign with Hitler’s massive assault, detailing initial Soviet unpreparedness, rapid border breaches, and widespread mobilization. The narrator, a Moscow-based correspondent, notes flight and confusion, then shifts to observing Molotov’s radio announcement and the Russian public’s stunned reaction.
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Napoleon
Hitler
Russia
Fuehrer
Moscow
Soviet Union
Western
Kiev
Sebastopol
Kaunas
Zhitomir
Brest-Litovsk
Belostok
Graf von der Schulenburg
Molotov
Kremlin
Germany
Red Army
99Th
Jacob Kreuzer
Przemysl
Old Poland
Riviera Hotel
Sochi
Black Sea
Witt Hancock
Turkey
Q and A Briefs on Flags Light Travel Holidays and Notables
Questions cover the White House flag from sunrise to sunset signaling the President on site, light travel time from sun to earth about 498.7 seconds, nations observing holidays with Congress only declaring one national holiday in 1869, Vatican protection by the Swiss Guard and Papal Gendarmerie, and Richard C. du Pont guiding glider training as adviser to General Hap Arnold.
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U. S
Congress
Richard C. du Pont
Cheshire Social And Personal Notes Mixed Weekend Visits
Cheshire residents share weekend visits and furloughs with family in Gallipolis Columbus Watertid and Salinas California. Names mentioned include Donald Thomas Dorothy Ward Clara Ward Flora Yeanger Lottie Roush and many others as local social notes describe gatherings and relatives across several towns. Record ship tonnage goal cited as 19 006 000 deadweight tons for United States shipping.
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Cheshire
Donald Thomas
Gulfport
Thomas
Dayton Kennedy
Watertid
Homernedy
Mary Wergen
Salinas
Fornia
Ernest Ward
Akron
Clara Ward
Julius Chan
Maneter
E. S. Casto
Pt. Pleas
E. O. Yeanger
Thomas Ragen
Gallipolis
Lottie Roush
Flora Yeanger
Columbus
Ger Yeanger
Charles King
Clifford Harris
Jim Grover
Kathryn Kemp
Isabelle Lloyd
Ella Long
A Yeanger
Ida
Fielding A Corning
Epee
Gallina
Vance Reesé
Gan
George Hawley
Lloyd Rous
Raymond Thomas Anter
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