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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 20, 1931

Page

4

Beetusia Area Waiver Notices From Gerald Printing Co

Obscured text mentions a waiver notice affecting five counties including Beetsia and surrounding communities. References to Gerald Printing Co and General Lee address imply public or legal notices circulated to regional residents. Details are garbled but indicate a formal notice in a local newspaper.

Beetsia Nelsonville Glouster Cogan Pomeros Middlefort Qoolville

Noise crackdown gains momentum in Athens area traffic

Police push to curb night driving and cars with single headlights. Sheriff and county officers plan arrests and fines to reduce dangerous, noisy motoring. Towns like Zanesville join the effort as drivers are urged to reform and respect others on the road.

Zanesville Athens Robert Wood Ae Wayne Wingett

Youths in Ohio Youth camps thrive with scouts and 4 H

Summer activity among Athens County youths grows through Boy Scouts Girl Scouts and 4 H projects. The region offers camping along streams parks and outdoor life with funding to boost outings and leadership while urging more community support and time from adults.

Ohio Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Athens County Boy Scout Pn Laodeesty Dhat Srey. Com

For Today Man Say Ye Mighty and Strong Men for War

A quoted biblical line from Jeremiah 68 14 appears as a devotional exhortation. The text frames men as powerful and ready for conflict, reflecting wartime morale and religious assurance.

Jeremiah

Broadway Echoes of Selznick Legacy and New Film Paths

New York story notes David Selznick seeking Broadway outlets for independent pictures with Lewis Milestone. It recalls Lewis Selznick’s influence on early cinema, Clara Kimball Young, and the birth of the star system. It mentions Selznick family history, a famed czar message, and shifts toward small production units with independent directors like Cecil B De Mille and David Wark Griffith.

New York David Selznick Broadway Lewis Milestone Ace Astor Lewis Selznick Selznick Clara Kimball Young Adolph Zukor East Side Russia Selanick Sélznick Kiev Myron Zukor Young David Cecil de Mille de Mille David Wark Griffith

Baseball trivia and Gulf Stream questions from old quiz

A mixed snippet presents baseball trivia about players who had six hits in six at bats, noting Bottomley and Delehanty as two-time realizers, then includes a geography question on the Gulf Stream origin and a note on the ear trumpet first by Dr Yeardsley, followed by seating capacities of National League parks.

Bet P. T. A. Bott Bottomley Frisch Cobb Carey Bancroft Cuyler Keeler Delehanty Canary Cape Verde Islands South America Lesser Antilles Caribbean Sea Yucatan Channel Gulf of Mexico Yeardsley London W. B Boston Brooklyn Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis

Fortune Follows A Wealthy Man Yet Keeps His Pace

A fortunate mortal recalls daily visitors at his gate and morning calls seeking rides and cigars. He travels long distances for free or cheap experiences, while neighbors tease and a wife warns vanity may grow. He contemplates buying a new car to satisfy restless desire.

Lindberghs Plan Round-the-World Flight After Tokio

The column notes Charles Lindbergh and his wife will continue flying around the world, praising the flier's natural habit of air travel and downplaying risks. It argues critics have grown accustomed to his daring and wish him luck.

Lindys Hnolonel Lindbergh Mrs. Lindbergh Tokio Lindbergh America

Explanation of Yesterdays Cartoon and Curiosities

Explanation of yesterday's cartoon on a blind Tyrolean sculptor and a brief note on the Changeable Frog, the Booze origin linked to E G Booz, plus a teaser for tomorrow's feature about a 110 year old orange tree.

Booz E. G. Booz Rutgers University

Cooperative medical systems abroad and in the United States

The article outlines international and domestic health co operatives where members pay annual or monthly fees for medical care and sick benefits. It details Workmen's Circle in New York with 57,601 members, 43 physicians, 24 specialists, and hospital clinics, plus a tuberculosis sanitarium in Liberty New York. It notes other unions and social insurance schemes in Cincinnati and England, and describes preventive work in Bengal and Soviet Russia.

Washington,d. C Orient United States Workmen’s Circle New York City United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Workmen's Circle Liberty N. Y Lfe Garment Workers America International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union New York Cincinnati Amalgamated Clothing Workers Europe English Cooperative Wholesale Society Seeakig Leema England Ipswich Cooperative Society City of Ipswich Nottingham Society Coventry Society Bengal Soviet Russia

The Athens Messenger Publishes Women Career Booklet

The Athens Messenger offers a booklet on careers for women. It answers many questions about economic independence and details new and existing opportunities for women in various fields. To order, enclose six cents for cost and postage with the coupon.

Athens Messenger

Careers for Women booklet offered by Athens Messenger

The Athens Messenger informs readers in Washington D. I that a six cent coin or stamp payment encloses to obtain a booklet titled Careers for Women. The notice requests readers to send the payment with mailing details to receive the publication.

China floods drive tens of millions from homes

The report notes floods in China that have displaced thirty million people and left at least ten million destitute along the Yangtse River, a calamity likened to uprooting populations from several major states.

China Yangtse

Paris fashion authority predicts hoop skirts return

In a report from Paris, Monsieur Tappe predicts that this fall and winter will see women’s evening dresses with hoop skirts and a modified bustle. The article notes strong opinions on fashion trends and questions the aesthetic impact of such silhouettes.

Monsieur Tappe Paris Garden of Eden

Turtle find ties locals to longtime teachers and families

At A. J. Carpenter farm near Carpenter a turtle bore an inscription reading J W and J F carved two years earlier for the late John W. Pickett a neighborhood teacher and his wife Ida F. Fisher. The Amesville Grange picnic featured Hopkins and choir music with A W Carnes presiding and W J Warrener H W Elson on the program. Over 200 men from C M Copeland's First M E class joined at Lan caster Camp Grounds for study hour.

Claude Chase A. J. Carpenter Carpenter J. W J. F John W. Pickett Ida F. Fisher Hopkins Grange Amesville Grange McDougall Grove A. W. Carnes W. J. Warrener H. W. Elson C. M. Copeland M. E. Church Lancaster Camp Grounds

Athens County Farm Bureau Meeting Draws 59 Farmers

Interest in organized agriculture appeared as 59 farmers attended the Athens County Farm Bureau meeting. Under County School Superintendent Guy Dinsmore the truancy officer ensured all children ages 6 to 18 were in school.

Athens County County Farm Bureau Guy Dinsmore

Athens County Fair prep marks best year at fairgrounds

Mary and Frances Lawson twins wed Dwight S Stont and Wedell G Miller as the 38th wedding anniversary of their parents Mr and Mrs G C Lawson is noted. Weeds were cut fences repaired and painted buildings refinished trees whitewashed and the new hog barn completed at the Athens Fairgrounds for the Athens County Fair upcoming week.

Helen Bowles Mary Frances Lawson Dwight S. Stont Wedell G. Miller G. C. Lawson Athens Fairgrounds Athens County

Capitol Happenings on Child Labor and Schooling Policy

Washington notes urge keeping children under 16 and married women from work to free jobs for men, while recognizing poverty drives child labor. The Hoover Emergency Committee on Employment backs a campaign to keep kids in school and improve living wages, with White House and Children’s Bureau reports urging measures like mothers’ aid and scholarships to reduce child employment.

Washington Mary Anderson Woman's Bureau Hoover Emergency Committee On Employment White House Conference On Child Health and Protection The Children’s Bureau White House Montana Ohio Utah Wyoming

Infantile paralysis warnings and home prevention tips

The article urges vigilance as infantile paralysis returns each August and outlines practical steps. It stresses ensuring clean milk supplies and dairy practices, washing fruits and vegetables, eliminating flies, maintaining clean hands and clothing, and keeping sick children away from others. It notes the disease affects rich and poor alike and calls for proactive measures rather than despair.

MISS ANITA GREW SWIMS BOSPHORUS STRAITS CROSS

Miss Anita Grew daughter of the United States minister to Turkey swam the Bosphorus from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara covering 19 miles in hours on Tuesday. Her father and two friends trailed in a boat supplying hot chocolate and music during the voyage.

Miss Anita Grew United States Turkey Bosphorus Straits Black Sea Sea of Marmara Leander Miss Grew

Music in warfare cited as strength enhancer and morale aid

The article asserts that lively phonograph music and chocolate fuel soldiers’ vigor, noting that music has long been used to inspire marching and fighting. It claims armies rely on military bands to boost morale and performance.

Dust exposure danger to stone workers warns public health service

The United States Public Health Service cautions granite cutters and other stone workers that air must not contain more than nine million specks of dust per cubic foot. It warns that higher levels, up to sixty million dust specks per cubic inch of air, put workers at serious risk.

United States Public Health Service

The Washington Wash

Washington friends of Charley Lindbergh relish privacy for he and Anne away from mill ing and goggling crowds. They enjoy calmer moments and avoid constant readers about themselves, though fame still clings as admirers shout and press.

Washington D. C Charley Lindbergh Anne America

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