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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1931
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows subscription and advertising notes from Athens Messenger with addresses in Chicago and Detroit. Mentions rates for foreign offices and a card of thanks. Details are garbled but indicate publication office, subscription gates, and office strains in year context.
Merchants report robust early shopping as households finish debt payoff and stock up for winter. Stores display holiday merchandise at favorable prices while farms and households hold ample winter supplies, suggesting strong demand and limited restocking time.
The piece argues Britain’s prosperity hinges on global conditions, noting rising unemployment near three million, failed export trade, high import needs, and a weary balance of payments. It cites tariff barriers after World War I, costly unemployment insurance, obsolete machinery, and high factory costs as factors.
The head of a major life insurer challenges the view that today’s mood is the worst in U S history. He cites 1839 bank failures and 1873 mass unemployment to argue depressions recur, urging perspective in the Magazine of Wall Street interview.
A. A. Milne, creator of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh, appears modest and unpressurized during a New York visit. He attends luncheons discreetly, smokes a pipe among dignitaries, and avoids public lectures while Gene Tunney garners attention alongside Henrik van Loon.
The excerpts discuss the timing and signing of the Declaration of Independence, noting adoption by the Continental Congress on July 4 1776 and signing by members on August 2 1776 with later additions. It also explains precocial and altricial bird development and describes who presides as President of the Senate when the Vice President becomes President.
A narrator recalls failed life dreams from aiming for the presidents chair to a circus career and clowning, then settling on wealth as the lure. He admits no fortune or public success, cherishing private plans while noting that the closest goals are those others do not want us to obtain.
The speaker argues the current condition is not as bad as past hardships and that cold comfort should not obscure the fact that worse times have occurred before. The tone urges perspective on national adversity without dramatizing the present.
A verse from Isaiah 40 11 reads he shall feed his flock like a shepherd and carry them in his bosom guiding those with young. This brief meditation emphasizes gentleness and care as a guiding principle for daily conduct.
A long delayed road project between Athens and Pomeroy faced a two year setback as Meigs County funds were diverted to a Chester linking road. The item recalls a past note on state money use and regional transport plans.
The cartoon describes the Waldorf Astoria Hotel rising on tall steel legs above railroad tracks on Park Avenue New York City. The building rests on anti vibration mats to shield it from train rumble and sits above a narrow two inch gap to the street.
Moscow physician Dr Aleksei Sukov confessed in an ante mortem letter to poisoning forty patients as incurable cases. He took potassium cyanide on October 10, 1931, ending his own life and sparing a fiancée. He sought forgiveness while noting his mercy toward his victims. The Soviet Government plans a monument to his humanity.
The Washington Letter reports plans for a new Archives Building as part of the Triangle’s development to house priceless national records. Officials note original autographs from Hamilton and Gallatin, Jackson correspondence, and Lincoln notes were found in aging sites and face risks from fire and vermin until the new fireproof facility is completed.
The Athens Messenger lists a ten cent booklet titled Presidents and Their Wives. It profiles six presidents under fifty at inauguration, noting ages from 42 to 68, one who died before 50, one who lived to 90, and careers post White House as a representative or senator. It includes portraits and family stories, compiled by the Washington Information Bureau for readers with a coupon.
Information Bureau seeks a copy of the booklet. Encloses ten cents in coin or stam p for postage. Sender provides name street and city but lacks complete address.
The speaker notes the nation still owes over twenty billion dollars from prior war costs and a sizable deficit. He predicts President Hoover will not rush into a new war before the current burden is digested.
J. R. Plummer of Winchester Ohio grew a pumpkin vine fifteen hundred feet long this fall that covered the entire garden and produced a big wagon load of pumpkins. The tale begins with a boy noting pumpkins on vines while preparing for Thanksgiving pie.
Ohio University traveled to Marietta and defeated Marietta College 6 to 5 on Thanksgiving Day. Nearly 100 fans from Athens attended and praised the sportsmanlike treatment shown by Marietta.
Rodney Dutcher reports on national anxiety about unemployment and war while the Sentinels of the Republic attack the Federal Children’s Bureau over maternity and infancy programs. The bureau defends its work offering expert maternal and child care guidance and a public health information network reaching about 350000 inquiries yearly.
The narrator recalls teaching in slum districts and recognizing hunger among pupils. He regrets not doing more to help Tony Tarpo and others, noting worn shoes, dull eyes, and illnesses from malnutrition. He reflects on providing food, coal, and small gifts, and urges action this fall and winter to aid hungry students.
A fragment notes a tree portion three and a half inches thick climbed a cherry tree, topped a high fence, and spread over an adjoining field. No further details are readable.
The text argues that good soil and fertilizer make overpopulation a non issue for the next thousand years. It claims Texas with intensive cultivation could feed all 18 to 19 hundred million people on Earth and still have room for more oil wells.
The Nizam of Hyderabad wed toons to Abdul Mejid Eifendi the ex Caliph's niece and daughter in a match arranged with a buying of wives. The ex Caliph received 1.2 million dollars as payment, a boost after Kemal's removal of his spiritual earnings.
The Nizam, often labeled the richest man, is described as modest in marriage. His father had a similar reputation, and the feature highlights his temperate approach to婚 life amid wealth.
The passage notes a seven hundred wives versus three hundred wife count among a Nizam, then discusses Muslim beliefs. It claims loyal Muslims shun wine and women on earth, while Mohammed allowed many wives for earthly wealth. It mentions heaven with houris and musk bodies, plus endless wine.
A claim asserts that Mohammed’s Koran was written by 48 intelligent Jewish friends who chose appealing passages after examining all religions. The article notes that millions still follow the prophet and turn toward Mecca as evidence the choice was intelligent.
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