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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1935
Page
4
The editorial urges Athens and Nelsonville to cooperate with district WPA headquarters to win low cost public works. It notes voters rejected WPA bonds despite federal spending and calls for immediate local action to place several hundred men to work repairing streets and improving property and citizen comfort.
A sprawling flurry of oddities unfolds as 180 volunteers fearfully attempt Dr Ralph Willard’s cold storage experiment. Proposals and curiosities proliferate from gimmicky coins to strange political notions while bizarre crimes and eccentric acts punctuate the landscape.
A new federal measure aims to regulate buses and trucks in interstate commerce, giving the Interstate Commerce Commission control similar to railroads. It would require federal permission to operate, set rates, hours, and safety rules, and supervise stock issuance. The move seeks equal footing with railroads as truck usage rises on high cost short hauls.
The proposed law, set to take effect in Ohio, advocates stronger patrols with more officers, compulsory vehicle inspections, and universal drivers license enforcement. It cites nationwide trends toward stricter controls, notes Georgia as an exception, and urges careful compliance to protect drivers and the public.
Washington reports a dramatic tax policy flip in the Roosevelt era as Senate leaders alter the La Follette plan. A window observer notes proxy votes, while Barkley moves to reconsider and absences tilt an 8 to 7 result. Senate lobbies and missing figures fuel speculation of strategic manipulation. Howard Hopson’s whereabouts loom as House and Senate probe.
A New York businessman was held captive for over three hours in the Crop Reporting Board room after being mistaken for a board member. He remained locked in as cotton estimates were finalized, missing lunch and a prior engagement. The note cites past crop report rumors and varied political anecdotes alongside unrelated tidbits.
A whispering campaign alarms observers as rumors spread that Mussolini intends a gas attack in Ethiopia. The report suggests he will travel to the front, prompting indignation and debate over the danger of such actions.
Continuation of Allen Braley and Morgan raid memories in Meigs County focusing on Langsville bridge burning July 18 1863. Rebels arrived at the bridge fired at a rider, halted locals, and planned obstruction removal with dam gates. A Langsville saw mill owner Hubbell helps unlock gates. Rebels camped nearby and pressed for bread and horses while sparing homes. Narrator recalls cold July night and wary welcome as families sheltered at locals’ homes. The account ends with observers noting Sunday-like atmosphere and questions about militia arms and gunboats.
A fragmentary clipping presents quotations from Adolf Hitler, Dr B I Rell, Postmaster General Farley Clark Williama Mrs Gable and Lady Astor, touching on war, politics, Hollywood and birth control. The piece strings disparate remarks without a single cohesive report.
The forum urges Americans to say daily that the African war is none of our business. It compares current events to 1914 and warns against entanglement from Ethiopian Italian tensions and propaganda from both sides. Citizens are encouraged to sign letters briefly for multiple daily contributions.
In a Messenger column readers respond with a poem by Minnie Tuttle from Long Bottom Ohio lamenting farmer hardships lack of recognition and taxation. Washington reports the House Coinage Committee killed the president's plan to issue midget coins for sales tax collection.
Yesterday's cartoon outlines Patin the French physician and writer 1602 1672 as College of France professor and foe of modern medicine. It notes his denial of quinine antimony and blood circulation and his vast but restricted library of 10000 volumes imported and destroyed to evade capture.
Enson Tan reports Jo breaks engagement with Bret Paul over her Crest Lake hostess job at Douglas Marsh’s resort. Jo travels with film star Peter Fragonet to Crestmont then Hollywood, where Marsh’s mother clashes with Jo and Fragonet’s plans for a film career.
Dr Morris Fishbein notes no complete acne cure yet and discusses causes. X-ray offers dependable results in up to eight percent of treated cases over three to four months but is not permanent for those under 18.
The readable lines mention a trip to California and a coast related incident with injuries. Names and places are garbled, but reference to a Columbus family and a cousin Emily or Emma Williams appears alongside mentions of a superintendant and relatives.
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