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Gordon K Bush publisher and gen mgr Charles H Harris managing editor. Members include American Newspaper Publishers Association Ohio Select List Audit Bureau of Circulation Associated Press Inland Daily Press Association. National reps John W Cullen Co Chicago New York Detroit. Advertising rates on request obituary notice nominal charge. Entered at Athens Post Office as second class matter under 1918 act.
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Gordon K Bush
Mgr
Charles H. Harris
American Newspaper “Publishers Association
Ohio Select
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Only Duties
Inland Daily Press Association
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Athens
Flood control drive gains momentum in Hocking and Sunday Creek valleys
The rains fuel a push for new dams in the Hocking and Sunday Creek valleys to curb flood damage along the Scioto Muskingum and tributaries. Officials argue storage schemes will protect farm land aid industry and aid recreation while promising a strong return on investment compared with federal outlays.
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Hocking
Sunday Creek
Scioto
Muskingum
Ohio
Diplomats and Mussolini Clash Over Ethiopia War
Opinion argues that Italy under Mussolini pushes toward war with Ethiopia while the League of Nations, England, and France hesitate. The author mocks diplomatic processes as ineffective and urges tougher action to deter aggression.
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Italy
Ethiopia
Mussolini
League of Nations
Illy
England
France
Atlantic
Literacy and city readers in New York contrast
A country reporter from Oasis Missouri, Mrs Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey, notes city papermen were surprised she knew more about literature than they did. The piece contrasts urban fast living with literacy, recounting a Tennessee evolution trial interview where a hillbilly quoted Greek, Darwin and Huxley.
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Mary Elizabeth
Oasis
New York
Tennessee
Huxley
Absence of Fatal Traffic Accidents Stuns City
In a large midwestern city a 27 day period with no fatal traffic accidents is celebrated as a striking, unusual record. The report highlights reckless driving and law disregard as the real issue, urging drivers and pedestrians to heed safety. It suggests that in the future fewer accidents should be the exception.
Inside the Ickes PWA Patronage Shakeup
Washington report says Edgar Puryear, named PWA personnel chief, will not grant major posts to Congressmen. His authority reportedly covers only lower paid jobs, with final approvals reserved for Barlew and Ickes. The promised patronage reform seems limited.
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Edgar Puryear
PWA
Puryear
Senator Cutting
Ickes
Burley
Barlew
Mr. Ickes
Ickes Teases Democratic Line With Farley Ties
The piece suggests Secretary Ickes is engaging with Democratic Congressmen and General Farley and hints a Farley ally may be on Ickes payroll. It argues the public credit may shift to Ickes for past work while noting friends say he did not probe Farley over PWA contracts raised by Huey Long.
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Ickes
General Farley
Mr. Ickes
PWA
Huey Long
President’s covert push to thwart House on utility bill
The President guided and approved each step of a covert effort to upset the House majority on the utility bill. After Cramer’s testimony on a health whispering campaign, Rayburn called the White House and announced another test on the issue. The White House was surprised as 57 percent voted against the President, down from 59 percent a month earlier, indicating a personal rebuke beyond public records.
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House
Cramer
Rayburn
White House
Obduracy of the House Timed by Lobby Bets and Honor
A newspaper summary notes reasons for the House’s stubborn stand including hints of bribery and a veteran lobbyist’s bet on the House not changing. He argues legislators fear admitting error more than defending a wrong stance, shaping voting behavior as a political confession to avoid public mistake.
Prominent figures seek coalition against Roosevelt. Johnson declines
Prominent figures discussed forming a coalition movement against Roosevelt and sounded General Johnson as a potential leader. He declined, noting he remains a Democrat who sometimes supports F D R, but disagrees on many New Deal policies and doubts the venture’s political practicality. Republicans favor a conservative Democratic ticket outside the national convention.
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Roosevelt
General Johnson
Democrats eye Atlantic City for next year convention
General Farley's aides hint the Democratic convention will be in Atlantic City to secure big money and sidestep geographic rules. Party bosses plan full control regardless of location while Republicans weigh San Francisco but fear proximity to Palo Alto and seek a Midwest backdrop.
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Farley
Atlantic City
San Francisco
Palo Alto
Midwest
Report on protest against Moscow propaganda at Third International Congress
State Department draft protested Third International Congress propaganda activities in Moscow but was suppressed and not announced. A raw official doubted the protest’s justification while American Communist speakers at the Congress talked of fomenting a Pacific Coast dock strike this Fall, raising questions about violating Moscow promise not to engage in domestic propaganda.
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Third International Congress
Moscow
State Department
Italo-Ethiopian talks sideline tiny nations
Behind the scenes League of Nations discussions on the dispute exclude little nations from the process. The United States regrets the Nazi flag incident in New York as public sentiment runs high, with people expressing sorrow in private.
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League of Nations
United States
Germany
New York
Denver professor notes decline in profanity
A Denver professor observes a sharp drop in use of profane language lately. Traffic police are told to be polite to motorists. A House committee rejects midget coins, sparing the nation from gimmicky penny gifts.
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Denver
House
District Tales of Long Ago in Southeastern Ohio
C H Harris recalls pioneer days in Meigs County Ohio with wolves roaming at dusk and depredations on livestock. Road viewers in 1827 slept in the woods guarded by fires as wolves howled. Elks panthers and deer filled hunts while gray foxes yielded to red foxes. Coonskin skins funded the Northwest Territory library at Amesville, earning the nickname Coonskin Library.
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Ohio
Chester
Meigs County
Sterling Bottom
Ohio River
Oldtown
Nehemiah Bicknell
Samuel Bowman
Lebanon Township
Groundhog Creek
Oldtown Creek
Washington County
Northwest Territory
Amesville
Coonskin
Poems from Messenger Readers to Lord Byron
Poets' Corner prints brief verse submissions with name and address. Kathleen Murphy of Athens Ohio laments Byron's freedom and the sea as she admires his life choices. Kay Semler from Athens Ohio imagines aging while collecting valued objects because someone mattered.
Notable Quotations From Public Figures Collide On Public Debate
A compilation of strong quotes from American and British figures including Newton D. Baker, Representative Compton I White, Dean Henry W Holmes, Captain Anthony Eden, and Lord Eustace Percy. The remarks cover industry, physical prowess, health knowledge, and diplomacy with sharp, contentious tone.
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Anthony Eden
England
Lord Eustace Percy
Rabble Rousers Debate and Defense Ideals Questioned
G Be Shoemaker of Cheshire condemns rabble rousers Senator Long Father Coughlin Upton Sinclair and Frank E Town send as un American. He argues lack of practical arithmetic in politics, questions patriotism, and criticizes appointive bias favoring influential families while calling for broader civic training and plain military service. Written from Cheshire dated August 4.
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the Messenger
Senator Long
Father Coughlin
Upton Sinclair
Frank E. Townsend
G. BE. Shoemaker
Cheshire
Ten Years Ago Heads: Browning Adoption Reported
New York dispatches say Mary Louise Spns was the newly adopted daughter of millionaire Ed ward Browning. Lewis Brown, son of Mr and Mrs H J Brown, returned from Charleston West Virginia after nose surgery. A motor trip to Detroit and Canada is noted for several residents. Mary and Louise Devlin visited by their grandmother in Palmer Street. An explosion and fire destroyed the Ben Fielder home Sugar Creek in 15 minutes, Mine No 210 belonged to the property.
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Mary Louise Spns
Edward W. Browning
New York Dispatches
Lewis Brown
H. J. Brown
Charleston
W. Va
Ben Fielder
Sugar Creek
Yesterday's Cartoon on Sark Rule by Dame of Sark
Explanation notes Sark as the smallest self governed Channel Island under the Dame of Sark. The island is described as the last feudal territory in the world and governed by a royal grant granting Dame authority.
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Island of
Sark
Channel Islands
Local Social and Civic Notes From Athens Area
Twenty years ago Mr and Mrs John Power and children returned from a visit with Mrs Powers mother Mrs Clara Durst Miss Alice Henry returned from a house party hosted by Miss Wilma Lane Cambridge Demolet and Cornwell won the contract to install automatic electric lights around the Athens High School Building to prevent spooning Pete Sargent killed two large blacksnakes County Recorder Fred Linscott and Mrs moved to a new home on North Congress Street Fire Marshal Hugh Meighen went on vacation Dan Sams filled in during absence.
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John Power
Paul
Rodney
John
Eugene
Demolet
Cornwell
Athens High School
County Recorder
Fred Linscott
Mrs. Linscott
North
Congress Street
George Fenzel
Jo Darien Finds Work and a Crest Lake Lure
Jo Darien begins job hunting after her father loses work and takes a part time position at a marine supply store. Wealthy Douglas Marsh offers her a hostess job at his Crest Lake inn causing friction with fiancé Bret Paul. Jo visits Crest Lake amid romantic tensions with Fragonet and mounting disapproval from Marsh's mother.
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JO Darien
Douglas Marsh
Crest Lake
Bret Paul
Marsh
Babs Montgomery
Peter Fragonet
Fragonet
Hollywood
Silas Drann
Stone
Bret
Tubby
Escape from Bret drives Jo to the Inn veranda
Jo Darien flees in tears after a confrontation with Bret Paul, tearing her dress and injuring her arms. Tubby guides her to the Inn back entrance where Mrs. Marsh coldly notes Jo's collapse and offers cold-water care.
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Bret
Bret Paul
Tubby
Lolita Montez
Jo Darien
Mrs. Marsh
Blood Pressure and Nervous Stress Effects
Tension in the blood vessels is controlled by nervous impulses and strong emotions can cause rapid rises in blood pressure. Doctors often ask patients to sit quietly before measuring. Temperature changes, fear, anxiety, and fever influence systolic and diastolic readings, with diastolic rises often followed by systolic increases.
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Morris Fishbein
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Henry W. Holmes
Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Howard Goodwin
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Louise Deviin
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