Athens newspaper heritage and publishing details listed
The Athens Messenger family paper notes its history since 1826, editors and publishers listed, association memberships cited, and subscription rates by carrier and mail across counties. It explains AP news use rights and engraving of local content, plus obituary and notice charges.
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Athens Messenger
Frederick Wah
Athens Messenger & Herald Printing Co
Gordon K. Bush
Charles H. Hartin
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Ohio
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Ohio Newspaper Association
Inland Daily Press Association
Associated Press
Athens
Igt
Ise & Week
Gallia
Hocking
Mole
Vinton
Washington
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Cleveland
Mome
Get An Education For Life After Service
The piece urges young men to pursue education now despite military call up. It argues that schooling aids military performance, enables faster adaptation, and improves future career prospects in a competitive postwar job market. It notes exceptions but emphasizes lasting value of educational training.
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Phi Beta Kappas
Fisherman Notes Seven-Pound Blue Cat In Hocking River
A Logan angler hauled a blue catfish over seven pounds from the Hocking River last week. He recalls days of abundant blue catfish and bass in local streams and laments pollution that limits fishing. He argues a modest cleanup could revive local waterways without costly artificial lakes.
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Logan
Hocking
Athens
Beating Something With Something Beating Something With Something
A Cleveland Hospital Service Association plan secures hospital care for 500 000 people via regular premiums. In seven years it has paid over a million dollars to one hospital and helped over 100 000 cases, reducing worry and tax burdens while demonstrating cooperative effort can curb calls for socialization. It takes something to beat something.
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Cleveland Hospital Service Association
Italy Takes What's Left After Nazi Plunder
An eye witness account notes German troops seized food in Greece and sent rest to Germany before moving on. Eighty thousand Mussolini troops were left to police the conquered area, but the Italians found little food remaining. The tale is read as a forecast of postwar Italy under Mussolini if Italy wins.
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Greece
Ralph Kent
Germany
Russia
Mussolini
Italy
Hitler
Raymond Clapper on the evolving US role in WWII
In London, Raymond Clapper argues Britain and the United States share the same dangers and that American intervention remains unlikely in the near term. He urges ramped armament production to aid Britain and Russia and to prepare the United States for possible action, noting Japan and Germany widen the war front.
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Churchill
United States
Britain
Pacific
Japan
Far East
Hitler
America
Russia
Washington scene reviews on Wallace economic board delay
Peter Edson notes Vice President Wallace’s Economic Defense Board will start after Milo Perkins recovers from illness. Perkins, 41, ex AAA official, and Wallace ally, will head planning for postwar economics. The piece also covers Thurman Arnold’s Hot Springs talk urging price ceilings, standardization, and distribution of minimum necessities, arguing the New Deal isn’t dead.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
New Economic Defense Board
Miss Perkins
Milo W. Perkins
Wallace
Perkins
Department of Agriculture
Milwaukee
Texas
AAA
SMA
Southern Farm Bureau Training School
Hot Springs
Ark
Thurman W. Arnold
Arnold
America
Public Forum Letters Policy and Signatures
The Public Forum invites comments on current events to be signed by the writer. Signatures must appear with each contribution and readers may see multiple letters daily. Letters should be concise to allow space for several viewpoints.
Paradoxical Contingencies Letter to the Editor
Frances Maxwell from Athens writes about the world off center from its axis and the need for leaders to switch to giving rather than combat. She urges a divine principle over human strategy and imagines relief through charitable food shipments aiding workers. She concludes by hoping leaders gain a new light and let God judge who is right.
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the Messenger
Washington
Frances Maxwell Athens
Local church quartet and county school staff listed
The Metho dist Church quartet in Nelsonville includes Mrs Henry Lancaster Mrs Edna Shough Mrs Elmer Bay and Mrs Walter Whitlatch. FE J Arnold is new superintendent of Nelsonville schools. Albany Consolidated School teachers and Athens County music supervisors are named with several staff members and supervisors listed.
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Methodist Church
Nelsonville
Henry Lancaster
Edna Shough
Elmer Bay
Walter Whitlatch
FE. J. Arnold
Twenty Years Ago in Athens Streets and Visitors
Twenty years ago in Athens City streets about 25 556 410 bricks were counted, with Stewart blacksmith adding Roy Parsons from Amesville and Zanesville. Miss Connie Jewett Trimble hosted friends with music and games, naming guests such as Wunice Gran ny Flora Walker Leola Walker Hannah Hunter and others.
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Athens
Stewart
Roy Parsons
Amesville
Zanesville
Connie Jewett
Trimble
Wunice Granny
Flora Walker
Leola Walker
Hannah Hunter
Alice Grim
Lucy Hahn
Evalena Bauer
Lucile Orme
Thelma Robinson
John Skinner
Orville Copenhauer
Roy Bauer
Charles Kittle
Clyde Walker
John Ganan
Wilbur Drake
Eldon Skinner
Cornelius Gary Damon Davis
Childhood Days in Kanauga by Rosalie West
A nostalgic poem recalls barefoot childhood days, playful mischief, and scrapes from tree limbs. The speaker, Rosalie West, signs with Kanauga, Ohio. The verses reflect growing apart yet cherishing shared memories of youth.
Home-Coming Planned Near Zaleski At Madison Church
Annual homecoming and basket dinner set for Sunday at Madison Baptist Church east of Zaleski. Wirt Robinson, 75, died at his Lakewood home on August 21. funeral held Saturday. Robinson, born in Zaleski, was the last of his family. A string of local visitors and travels marked the week as families gathered near and far for kin and community events.
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Zaleski
Madison Baptist Church
Wirt Robinson
Lakewood
Allen
Amanda Robinson
Buenna Lyons
Homer Robinson
Harry Wyatt
Howard Graham
Sally Madge
Carl Fried
Columbus
John Schneider
Schneider
Ella Murray
George Stellabeuer
Laclede
Harry Legge
Roseanne
Johnny
Cuyahoga Falls
A. A. Boal
Flora Dill
Anna Shipley Young
Frank Trojan
Dill
Newark
N. J
Huntington
W. Va
Albert King
Minnie Jayjohn
Paul Hudson
Jimmy Jayjohn
J. E. King
H. A. Reeder
Athens
Ada King
Washington
D. H
C. E. Martin
Bobby
Anne Elizabeth
Lou Huffman
Geraldine Huffman
Indianapolis
Edgar Sauders
Buchtel
Will Carrick
Wilburn
Margaret Anne Bedinghaus
Mary Alice
Cinvernatiene
John Hayman
Clara
Charles
Crooksville
Charles Rhodes
R. H. Thomas
Clarence Hayman, Jr
CCC
Rockbridge
Thomas
E. G. Diles
Anna Diles
Dorothy Diles
McArthur
P. H.diles
Groveport
William Gooden
George
Mary Anne Kellerman
Oliver
Bundy
John
Homer Tripp
Hamden
Russell Parsons
West Virginia
Phyllis Diles
Middleport
William
George R. Chandley
Iona Chandley
Corning Social Notes Highlight Local Visitors and Returns
Corning social notes record visits from Mrs. Robert Johnson of New Lexington to her parents, William and Mrs Fail, and many town residents hosting relatives from Columbus, Lancaster, Cincinnati, Detroit, and Michigan. Mickey Swartz returns home from Camp Shelby with an injured knee. Rebekah School of Instruction attendees from Sherwood chapter include Marie Keller and others.
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Corning
Robert Johnson
New Lexington
William Fail
Gladie Morgan
Marie Keller
Morgan Cottage
Buckeye Lake
Helen McCloskey
Columbus
McCloskey
Helen Hardy
Burdett Walters
Morgan Walters Sr
Congo
Ronald
Mickey” Swartz
Camp Shelby
Miss
Rebekah School of Instruction
New Straitsville
Sherwood Chap
Wondrosoap Brings Hopeful Heiress to Sales Battleground
Kay Donovan inherites 400 dollars from her inventor father and forms a plan with Ted Andrews to launch Wondrosoap. Ted proposes teaser ads and a page one classified box to build demand while Kay weighs manufacturing and a future sales campaign. The pair outline a deal: Ted gains 25 percent or a salary with commission as they prepare for production with Hans Stadt in Texas awaiting.
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Kay Donovan
Ted Andrews
Park Bench
MacLeod
Goldberg
Flynn
Want
Kay
Hans Stadt
Texas
Ted
Mike Flynn
Miss Donovan
Tim Donovan
Flyn
Katie
Andrews
Donovan
Daily Jteasers
Honey
Ken
Shade Social And Personal Notes From The West Trip
Mr. and Mrs. George Malloy and son Jackie and Mr. Charles Bobo return from a 2500 mile westward trip visiting Elmer Malloy in Maysville Missouri and friends in Milan St Joseph Kansas City and Troy Kansas. They stopped at Monticello and Deland Illinois. Leonard Malloy accompanied them to Ohio. Bobo saw Jesse James hideout and cattle feed lots. Dorothy Bobo returns after six weeks with Roy Lee Miller born to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Miller Ravenswood W Va. Mr. and Mrs. Miller announce their nine pound son Roy Lee. Verda Belle Chapple visited Pontiac Michigan. George Brady South Solon hosted by John Cowan for a weekend.
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Shade
George Malloy
Jackie
Charles Bobo
West
Mr. Malloy
Elmer Malloy
Maysville
Missouri
Milan
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Troy
Kansas
Monticello
Deland
Ilinois
Bradbury Social Notes and Local Appointments
Attendance at Bible School Aug 24 in Bradbury was 39. Mr and Mrs S M Gilmore and daughter Sarah returned from a week in Columbus. Dave Haggy moved to property of Renna Smith. Henry Kade left for Circleville for work. Phillip Russell of Columbus spent the weekend with his family. Jessie Dodson is ill. Charles Ricketts of Pomeroy visited with Sanford Dodson. James and Clair Russell of Crooksville visited with Dana and family. Rev Garvin, retired Church of Christ minister, will conduct services at the church Sunday at 10 30 AM.
Langsville Social Notes Highlights and Visits
Langsville residents hosted visits from relatives and friends including Bruce Morris and family from Wilkesville, Raymond Miller of Parkersburg, and Dr. J F Miller of Akron. A Langsville church ice cream social netted 24 dollars. the Ladies Aid held an all day meeting at Mrs. Vona McKnight’s home.
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Langsville
Bruce Morris
C. Denny
Wilkesville
Raymond Miller
Parkersburg
Alice Miller
Elbea Savage
Ray
Emmet Lynch
Fameily
Eleanor Nelson
Frank Nelson
Star Hall
Langsville Ladies Aid
Vona McKnight
Addison Miller
New Orleans
Alice Ward
Wellston
W. A. Miller
F. C. Taylor
Columbus
Akron
J. F. Miller
Miller
Atta Crosby
DeLand, Fla
Herman
Herbert Folden
Edith Harrison
Everett McKnight
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