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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Dec 02, 1928

Page

6

Beauty of New Ohio Building Unveiled at Alumni Memorial Auditorium

Ohio University residents view the completed Alumni Memorial Auditorium interior in Athens Tuesday night during a Paul Whiteman concert. The building is described as the most modern university auditorium, with a heating system, vacuum cleaning setup, and artistic decor enhancing the campus backdrop.

Virgene Brill Ohio University Athens Alumni Memorial Paul Whiteman University Auditorium Ohio United States

Living Room Corners Build Family Harmony at Home

A detailed look at utilizing living room corners to suit each family member, creating semi private retreats and shared spaces. Describes reading, sewing, games, and radio nooks, plus the modern auditorium style stage setup, exits, and extensive lighting and safety features in the new Athens building.

New Gymnasium To Be Built At Carbon Hill By Logan Man

Bids opened for a new gymnasium and manual training building at Carbon Hill with John Krieg of Logan named successful bidder. Three other bids. financing via $1200 in bonds. Building will be 67 feet, eco brick, steel arches raise ceiling to 28 feet for indoor games. Construction to start soon.

Ward Township

Quake Proof Homes Follow New Styles

Japanese engineers are devising new architecture to resist earthquakes. Through inner-truss braces and innovations a steel building reportedly withstood shocks double those of the previous major quake. The design claims to tolerate vibrations up to ten inches in amplitude.

Popular Mechaniscs Magazine

Modern Theater Lighting and Seating Improvements

Describes updated auditorium lighting using switchboards for stage ticket office and projection booth. Details include 22 red exit lights, amber glass disk balcony lighting with ten lights per disk, four large disks of five lights, three suspended lights for stage area, bowl-type fixtures for banquet lighting, and floor-level aisled lighting. Exterior fixtures are wrought iron.

Real Estate Deals In Regional Office

Real estate transfers listed including deeds and warranties across multiple towns. Names such as J Clyde Ediuredee Warren The Pirse Preshy and Nora Stewart appear with tracts 2648 and 18 in Athens Carthage Nelsonville and Troy noting warranty and quitclaim deeds among others.

Fred Yellis Mel Warren the Pirse Preshy Athens The Bank Company Ixander Fon Nohi Noraly Emmi Woodaerd Dietta Tya Nora Stewart

House Open for Inspection Today on May Avenue

A new house built by J C Tardin on May Avenue near Morris Avenue will be open for inspection Sunday announced by Mr Raritin. The ivory frame home with white trim features a large front porch with eight columns, tinted green shingles, and a spacious layout including a basement with three rooms and laundry, a first floor with living, dining, breakfast nook, and rear porch, and two bedrooms on the second floor with organized closets and tinted walls. Professor C D Glauque has leased the house and will move in tomorrow.

J- C. Tardin May Avenue Morris Avenue

Sugar cane research aims to revive industry with cross breeding

A Department of Agriculture party travels to New Games to explore cross breeding as a method to revive the sugar cane industry. The piece notes price index movements for September, hogs and dairy trends, and recalls a historic wet day in June 1911 in the Philippines with record rainfall.

Drandes Department of Ericulture Aeen Department of Agriculs

Bower of Greenery Enhances Its Appeal

A small bungalow with Moorish doorway and red brick, set amid wooded surroundings, offers harmonious contrast with greenery. Interior uses all space efficiently, features living room with windows, open grate, dining alcove, kitchen with two refrigerators, two bedrooms, bath, basement, and a $9,000 construction estimate. Ohio can supply drawings for duvign leaflet.

Common Brick Manufacturers’ Association Cleveland Brick Construction Ohio

Yew Trees Urged as Best Evergreen for Home Use

Ohio State Forester Edmund Secrest praises yews for home, garden, and park use. He highlights Japanese yews Taxus cuspidata and Taxus conspicata capitata for size and year round color, Canadian yew Taxus canadensis for slow spreading habit, and English yew Taxus repandens for adaptability. Yews are long lived, insect and disease free, easily transplanted, and thrive across diverse soils and settings.

Edmund Secrest Ohio Olio

New Roofing Trends and a Prowler Near Home

A fragmentary report recalls changing methods in roof rebuilding and warns women to heed safety. A storm prompts police to investigate a prowler near a home, while a waiting sweetheart interacts with a man who faced delay and risk.

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Weekly report shows building work in Ohio cities

Ohio weekly report details broad construction activity across multiple cities. Notable items include Columbus seeking 90 009 for waterworks expansion and bids opened for the central police station at Gay and Walter Streets. Other entries note hospital, school, and infrastructure projects, with several towns reporting new facilities, improvements, or openings and a focus on sewer, rail, and street work.

Ohio Columbus Gay and Walter Streets St Findlay Continental Sugar Company Ohio State University Port Clinton Gibsonburg Pany Lacy Fuk New York Central Station Lakeside Ted Delphos High Teaston Philadelphia Philadelphia. Ree Dty Ex ‘Ures Warren Alliance Stark County Tuberculosis Hospital Here Junction Greenville Interlations Gorcester Company Thla Nlaece St. Clairsville Temple Oakridge Green Springs Sanitarium Company Ohio Farm Bureau Beaverdam Toledo Thats HD

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