Athens Prepares for Christmas Season Festivities
Athens merchants report record holiday stocks while evergreen decorations grace Court Street. Mayor Cliff Cornell promotes free evergreen displays at City Building and urges neighborly goodwill. Stores extend hours and offer discount gift wrapping, with charges only for items under two dollars.
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Athens
Court St
Fagles Lodge
Cliff Cornell
Cornell
Athens Retail Merchants Association
Order of Eagles
Marion Remedy Sold as Family Cough and Chest Cold Aid
A long standing Marion Ohio cure for coughs and chest colds has been marketed for years as a trusted household remedy with broad local use and recognition.
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Marion
Ohio
Ohio University football player escapes injury in crash
Ohio University quarterback Andrew Szalay 24, and teammate Richard Hayes 23, escaped unhurt when their car crashed into a bridge on Route 33 south of Nelsonville. Szalay, driving, was cited for driving without an operator's license after pleading guilty.
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Ohio University
Andrew Szalay
Richard Hayes
Mulberry St
Route 33
Nelsonville
State Highway Patrol
Szalay
Robert Miller
Cliff Cornell
Leroy Fisher
Canton
Sharpsburg Hill
Wilfred Frosh
Lathrop
Fisher
Clark
Amesville
Dense radiation fog rolls over Athens with clear skies beyond
Weather notes from Columbus forecast continued warmth in Athens with noon temperature at 57 and a Sunday high of 65. Dr. C. L. Dow explains the dense fog as a radiation fog caused by high pressure and clear skies, stating fog depths of 500 to 700 feet with skies above remaining clear. A Fairfield arrestee, Howard Murray of Fairmont, pleading guilty to intoxication, was fined 10 dollars plus costs. Netherlands East Indies population rises about 23 percent since 1920 to surpass 1,000,000.
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Athens
Columbus Weather Bureau
C. N. France
C. L. Dow
Ohio University
Dr. Dow
Fugitive Boys Take $22 From Gas Station
Two 14 year old Belpre boys John Frazier and Francis Taylor who escaped from Meigs County Jail robbed an Albany gas station cash drawer of 22 dollars. They fled to Columbus then Albany hitch hiking through Athens where owners turned them in. The $22 was found in an Athens alley and the youths were returned to Pomeroy.
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Belpre
John Frazier
Francis Taylor
Meigs County
State Patrol
Athens
Albany
Columbus
Pomeroy
Pomerfoy
Skywriting Over Athens Airport Visitors Praise Light Planes
The Athens airport hosts a chorus of visitors and pilots admiring 65 hp Taylorcraft light aircraft. Civilians with limited hours train and fly to nearby fields, while pilots recount safe landings in cornfields and roads. Local residents and instructors, including Dr. Floyd and Hjalmar Olson, report active cross country flying and lessons daily.
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Grasshopper
Air Facts
Strohmeier
Athens
Hocking
Mid-West
Dorr’s Run
Nelsonville
F. M. Floyd
Ohio University
Chicago
Naval Reserve
Hjalmar Olson
Emerson Houf
H. T. Houf
Houf
Marine Corps
John Wisenbach
Shade
Pete de Luca
Wisenbach
Bill Warner
Ohio U
Airways
Fred Stickhorn
Olson
Claire C. Haas
Airway
Taylorcraft
Haas
Mid City
Kent
Hobart
Okla
Texas
C.P.T.P
Lasher Leads National Editors Banquet in New York
Professor George Starr Lasher of Ohio University attended and directed publicity for the National Interfraternity Conference in New York November 27 to 29. He also presided as toastmaster at the College Fraternity Editors Association dinner at the Waldorf Astoria.
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Lasher
New York City
George Starr Lasher
Ohio University
School of Journalism
Theta Chi Fraternity
College Fraternity Editors Association
Waldorf Astoria
Jessica Daves
Vogue
George L. Macy
Otto L. Weise
McCall's Magazine
James Young
International News Service
Far East
National Interfraternity Conference
Commodore
National Panhellenic Congress
Lowell Thomas
John G. Bowman
University of Pittsburgh
H. W. Prentis, Jr
National Association of Manufacturers
Lynn Stambaugh
American Legion
Robert G. Sproul
University of California
Cornell University
Jean Dickenson
Reinald Werrenrath
Bruce Boyce
Alexander Gray
Only Post and Athena Approved by Committee
Laurence W. Lange addresses Athens merchants detailing a 1938 agreement by the Campus Affairs Committee and the Retail Merchants Association restricting advertising to two official Ohio University publications the Ohio University Post and the Athena. He urges merchants to verify requests and to cooperate to safeguard interests.
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Laurence W. Lange
Ohio University
Athens
Merchants of Athens
Retail Merchants Association
Ohio University Post
Athena
Campus Affairs Committee
Family welcomes daughter in Sheltering Arms Hospital
Mr and Mrs Frank Dicken of 301 W Union St announce the birth of a daughter this morning at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Also noted are emergency appendectomy for Mr George Cain USN Athens Route 1 and minor surgery for Mrs Lillian Oxley Athens Route 5. Vaughn Earich Trimble admitted for lacerations after a Mine No 6 accident. Louise Nein and infant daughter Athens Route 4 released Sunday. Summit Hill coal mine has burned since 1860.
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Frank Dicken
W. Union St
Sheltering Arms Hospital
George Cain
USN
Athens
Lillian Oxley
Vaughn Earich
Trimble
Louise Nein
Athens Route 4
Governor's Cup to Ath ens Company B of Ohio Guard
Lonel Col. W C Christy will present the Governor's Cup to Athens Company B for rifle marksmanship achieved at Camp Perry last August. Dinner follows at the Elks Club with a 9 p m public presentation at the Athens Armory.
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W. C. Christy
Ohio State Guard
Athens
Camp Perry
Elks’ Club
W. A. Drake
Col. Brannon
Otis Harris
C. D. Lee
Cordray
Jessie Oldham
Louis Houser
Byron Jacoby
Headquarters and Service Company
Ohio University Department of Military Science and Tactics
James M. Churchill
ROTC
James Golden
C. M. Davis
Charles Fair
Jack Sampselle
Harold W. Jones
C. C. Cornell
Joseph Grogan
Roger Connor
James Cumley
K. T. Crossen
American Legion
A. B E. McConkey
Propaganda Analysis Talk by Dr Clyde R Miller at OU Convocation
Dr Clyde R Miller founder of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis will speak on Propaganda Analysis tomorrow at 9 40 AM at Ohio University convocation Introduced by Mary Katherine Carter president of Kappa Delta Pi Miller has been editorial writer for the Ohio State Journal and the Cleveland Plain Dealer He is associate professor of education at Teachers College Columbia University since 1928
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Clyde R. Miller
Institute For Propaganda Analysis
Ohio University
Miller
Mary Katherine Carter
Kappa Delta Pi
National Education
Ohio State Journal
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
Painter Pleads Guilty to Intoxication Charged in Erie
Lester Barlow a 53 year old Erie painter pleaded guilty at arraignment before Mayor Cliff Cornell to intoxication. He was fined five dollars plus costs after police arrested him Sunday night at a Court Street hotel.
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Howard Murray
Fairmont
W. Va
Cliff Cornell
W. Union St
Lester Barlow
Erie
Court St
Doctor's Olive Tablets: Stirs Liver Bile For Better Digestion
Advert reads Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a vegetable remedy to stimulate bile flow aiding digestion and relief from constipation. Claims to energize mornings and improve elimination with prices 15 30 60 cents at all drugstores.
Walton League To Meet Masons Meet Tuesday
The Izaac Walton League holds a regular meeting on Tuesday December 2 at 7 30 p m in the Fire Department rooms. The slate of candidates for offices for the coming year will be presented.
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Izaac Walton League
Royal Arch Masons Meet In Athens Tonight
Athens Chapter No 39 Royal Arch Masons holds a monthly meeting at the Masonic Temple. The Mark and Past Master Degrees will be conferred on a large class of candidates after the business meeting. High Priest T E Gibson urges good attendance.
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Athens
Royal Arch Masons
Masonic Temple
T. E. Gibson
New Hampshire Population Rises Between 1930 and 1940
New Hampshire's population grew from 465 293 in 1930 to 489 716 in 1940 indicating continued demographic growth across the decade.
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New Hampshire
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