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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1931
Page
4
Local notice outlines subscription options and rate card for the Newark market. Readers are offered weekly, bi weekly, and four week plans with prices listed in cents per week and total amounts for longer periods.
A strong argument that Athens and Athens County must align with farmers rather than fragment into many small clubs. The piece laments funding gaps, limited farmer inclusion, and rival towns building beneficial ties, urging unity with Grangers, Farm Bureau, and orchard groups to solve marketing and experimentation farm issues.
The article discusses two California high school boys who turned to crime to fund books and a military trip, later killing a policeman. They were from good families and appeared model students until a sudden disaster. It asks why such paths exist and argues for understanding youth before tragedy.
A traffic engineer surveys the nation’s auto crash problem urging four root actions: separate traffic flows, enforce car inspections, ban grade crossings, and build overpasses or underpasses. He warns delays raise deaths to 75 000 or 100 000 annually and cost billions, while labor and tax burdens grow.
A New York writer laments becoming a bourgeoise fisherman after reading Fortune and planning a Canada trip. He recalls past fishing in Yellowstone and Sierra streams, chats with a Canadian rail official and a Belgariand show promoter, and ends uncertain about starting a Nova Scotia voyage.
A reader asks about seating capacities of American League parks and details on gowns of White House wives. The bureau replies with park capacities for Boston Chicago Cleveland Detroit New York Philadelphia St Louis and Washington and notes a publication on White House gowns. It also answers questions on the number of medieval crusades Kiwanis meaning and Mackinac pronunciation.
A compact verse sketch contrasts Franklin strolling with bread and a clever line to a damsel with Byron’s sharp literary retaliation. It muses on revenge, cautioning that swift, blind retaliation fails while a poised retort proves superior and shows true genius.
A devotional line cites Kings 2 3 urging obedience to the Lord by walking in his ways keeping statutes commandments judgments and testimonies. The verse notes prosperity in all endeavours when one adheres to Moses law.
H S Butler urged land and farmer prosperity at a Kiwanis luncheon as the Athens County Fair drew thousands. The Athens banking firms closed for the fair, fireworks lit the night, and Sheltering Arms hospital handled major and minor operations during the event.
Cartoon explains Elliott Wilbrod of Chicago who makes bullet proof vests and tests them by letting police shoot him. The drawing shows Lieut. Charles Egan firing a .45 Army automatic at Wilbrod during a 1926 police chiefs convention. Tomorrow topic is the army.
Uncle Sam’s census shows about one eighth of Illinois hotel receipts come from incidental sources such as hat checks cigars barber services laundry and tips. The survey covers 986 hotels with 109 410 rooms and total payroll 28 540 000. rooms 51 638 000 meals 19 335 000 and incidental revenue 12 000 000. Fortunes vary by plan European American and mixed. tips favor transient guests and individual owners predominate over corporations.
The Athens Messenger promotes an etiquette booklet from its Washington Bureau. It urges parents to model good manners for children and invites readers to send name and address with six cents to obtain a copy.
Frederic J. Haskin of Washington D C encloses six cents in coin or stamps to obtain a copy of the booklet on Modern Manners, indicating a request through the Information Bureau.
A survey suggests most hotel room centers do not feed guests on site. American plan hotels collect large sums for rooms and meals as permanent residents grow, with 182 of 986 Illinois hotels reporting three quarters of guests are permanent residents. Permanent dwellers seek freedom from routine dining, yet are not as free a spender as transients.
The article notes Beaverbrook's belief that the Russian five year plan will fail and he hints the reasons would be of interest, mentioning a possible arrival in London around the government transition.
The passage cites Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and Stalin as leaders who carried out plans shaping Russia. It contrasts Ivan’s creation of a nation, Peter’s shift toward Europe, and Stalin’s asserted Asiatic roots and long-standing Russian identity.
The passage notes Peter importing English merchants Italian artists and French mechanics while Stalin imports American engineers machines and methods. It praises Russians as a great people with undeveloped power and wealth and warns against underestimating them.
President Hoover and Walter S. Gifford head of the Telephone and Telegraph Company map relief efforts at Rapidan Camp. They seek to avoid winter hardship while contending with the political risk of dole funding and its feared stigma.
A historical reflection questions wartime policy as officials justified large subsidies and land grants to street car companies railroads and the shipping board to aid national development during the war era.
Jefferson Calhoun and Clay were famed for good roads advocacy and the road question ranked alongside tariffs as a top issue before Congress. The argument emphasized the need for more men to address infrastructure concerns at the present time.
Immigrant deportation policy and Tao Hsuan Li case stir debate in Washington. Officials say Li’s fate hinges on court rulings and policy, noting past incidents where deported political refugees faced execution, while pledging to avoid handing over political dissidents to death.
The piece notes a return to large families as fashionable in England and similar trends in America among young couples. It discusses the problem of welfare and adoption requests by parents with many children, some driven by need, others by shifting responsibility. It asks whether economic changes will reverse or reinforce class differences in birth rates.
The speaker argues against regular cash subsidies to unemployed families, warning that giving fifteen or twenty dollars weekly would shock the financial system like an elephant with pneumonia. The tone emphasizes economic fragility and calls for alternatives.
The speaker argues that big taxpayers and the government fear funding welfare. They warn against relying on charity groups and ad hoc appeals to fix a failing industrial system, suggesting worse consequences if drift continues.
In the Belgian Congo natives protest oil and palm nut prices plunging over 80 percent. A witch doctor and native priest rallies savages into a religion of the Satanics claiming Satan will arrive at night via a subterranean passage with money, goods, bountiful crops, and bullets that spare believers.
The text describes natives killing a Belgian government agent and dismembering him for charms, followed by casualties among the natives as white forces fired. It claims Congo oil issues were unsolved and suggests a better solution is needed.
The piece spotlights Dr Pauling a 30 year old American chemist who won the Langmuir Prize. It notes the rarity of wider recognition compared with Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey and claims Einstein after hearing Pauling’s explanation admitted he must brush up, acknowledging Pauling’s prominence in chemistry and molecular bonds science.
Ohio University announces the Edwin Watts Chubb Library will open to Athens residents on Monday August 31. Most books have moved from the Carnegie Library except government documents and children’s books. Remaining tasks include moving furniture installing lighting sanding floors and varnishing woodwork.
Izaak Walton League officials in Waterloo Township report workers clearing a lake site for the project. Funds will be raised via two watermelon stands at the Athens County Fair this week. League members will run the booths for four days on assigned days.
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