Athens County Fair Rebuilt By Local Businessmen
Howard Cline and Curt Baker led the Athens County Fair through years of revival boosting farm home life exhibits and harness racing. They funded improvements with no extra taxes while engaging farmers and youth, earning broad public support and gratitude from Athens and nearby counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Howard Cline
L. C. Baker
Athens County
Athens County Fair
Ohio
Athens County Agricultural Society
Howard Cline
Curt Baker
Athens
Rape and murder discussed as forms of child sex offenses
Washington psychiatrists outline causes of offenses against children including mental decline brain disease and poor upbringing. They debate cure rates and advocate medical care or confinement while noting lawmakers varying between hospital treatment and jail. Public reporting prompts concerns about reporting and police involvement.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Rep
Chelf
Kentucky
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
America
Newspaper Rates and Reflections on History
The notice outlines subscription prices for daily and Sunday delivery in Ohio and West Virginia with mail rates and carrier options. The text then shifts to a reflective commentary on judging historical behavior by modern standards, urging context through climate history economy and culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio & W. Va
Athens
Ohio
Postoffice
Nina and Hal's Christmas Wish Sees Time Stand Still
Hal Boyle recalls a tender Christmas with Nina Camp Palmer a toddler growing up beside his godfather role He imagines time freezing as Nina prepares to leave for Italy with her parents for three years and wonders how Santa could stop ageing The story shifts to a murder plot involving Hagar Blair a cameo clue and Stephanie Smith racing to unlock the box before Andrey Yakov arrives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Santa Claus
Des Moines
Nina
Jack
Jill
George
Helen Camp Palmer
Italy
Rome
Rochester
East River
Central Park Zoo
Holland
Hagar Blair
Hagar
Martin Faber
Neil O'Neill
Stephanie Smith
Neil
Andrey Yakov
Stephanie
Yakov
Mr. Reddy
Police Department
Miss—~ Smith
Charlie Reddy
Otto Urich
St. Petersburg
Dr. Urich
Chekov
Hager
Reddy
Shallow Thinking of the Gilded Age Morality
The piece argues historians and readers mirror present attitudes onto the past and misjudge a period’s moral temper. It notes biographers label late 19th century businessmen as robber barons, though careful historians question that simplistic framing and emphasize complex events and figures.
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United States
Nature of multiple births and twin types explored
The article discusses quintuplets rarity with estimates of occurrences in confinements. It explains differences between fraternal and identical twins, noting that identical twins share sex and resemble each other, while fraternal twins may be same or different sex and vary mentally and physically.
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Medillin
Colombia
United States
Multiple Local Tidbits Span Athens County History
Athens county notes recount Kilpatrick elected Ohio Recorder Association treasurer and two year old Bobby Boice taking his train ride with Miss Unn Parker aboard the Hocking. Other items include a rabbit hunt yielding two large snakes, an oil well in Ellis County producing 631 barrels daily, and a Gal lopolis visit by Floyd Gill from Palm Beach California. 25 years ago five Nelsonville residents injured in a Athens Columbus Rd wreck and fines for cider possession near Athens.
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Georgia Kilpatrick
Athens
Ohio Recorders Association
Bobby Boice
R. E. Boice
Middleport
Hocking
Unn Parker
Gallipolis
Cecil Roberts
Shade
Nelsonville
Athens-Columbus Rd
Rockbridge
Ralph Parks
W. H. Parks
Orla Rider
Lew Rice
Parks
Anthony Toerner
Logan
Byron Moorehead
Toledo
City
Cady
Helwic
W. N
John Phillips
Aderimman
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
William Christie
Pomeroy
Frank Koehler
Silver Ridge School
Christie
Quiz Hall Answers for Men Women Teens
A printed quiz with ten multiple choice questions covering baseball records military ranks Cabinet posts biblical lines world geography and weekly magazines. It includes the scoring scale from Genius to Average and an illegible answer key line with a mix of distorted text.
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National Park
Mount McKinley
Hot Springs
Shenadoah
Yellowstone
Peggy Sinatra
Perry Fitzgerald
Ella Como
Frank Lee
Lee
Babe
Pharoah
Joseph
Egypt
Better Homes & Gardens
Reader's Digest
Saturday Evening Post
France
Russia
Europe
Public Forum urges traffic light at Second and Lancaster
Athens reader John M. Myers relays a public forum letter to The Messenger criticizing delays in installing a traffic signal at the Second and Lancaster intersection on Route 33 50 and 50A. The chief engineer notes city control within state law and calls for a new study to assess needs amid rising traffic and near accidents.
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Department of Highways
Second
Lancaster Streets
Athens
N. Lancaster St
Highway Department
Division of Traffic and Safety
Ohio
John M. Myers
Radio Programs Listing for Cincinnati and Columbus Area Stations
A detailed schedule for Wednesday December 14 and Thursday December 15 listing NBC WLW ABC SVCOL WSAZ CBS WBNS WCHS WPAR MBS WHKC WMOA with time slots from 6:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. featuring news, music, dramas, quizzes, and variety shows across networks NBC CBS ABC MBS and regional repeats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NBC
WLW
Cincinnati
Abc-Svcol
Columbus
WSAZ
Huntington
CBS
WBNS
WCHS
Charleston
WPAR
Parkersburg
MBS
WHKC
WMOA
Marietta
Cbs Network
Abc-West
Mbs-East
Mbs- West
Nba
Abo Beulah
Cbs News
Abe
Abe Jack Smith
Cbs Daily
Abe Mr. Chameleon
Abc
Gildersleeve
Abe International
Nbc-Tv
Abe Mr. Feathers
Abe Bing Crosby
Abe Burns
Allen
Lawrence Welke
Abe Lum
Abner
Cbe
News
Nancine
Abe West
Eddie Albert
The
Clevelandaires
Arthur Godfrey
Rob Poole
Cba
Hollywood
Abe Ladies Fair
Abe Bride
Abe Queen
Hob Poole
Ciarry Moore
Cbs Ladies
Cbs Melody
Abe Hoe
West
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Oberlein
Princeton
N. J
Emery Thomas
Fargo
N. D
Oberlein College
Oberlein, O
Thomas
Oxford University
England
H. Harris
Vale's
Meigs County
Vinton County
John Quincy Adams Vale
Point Rock
Vales Mills
Bundy Martin
Mamie Vale Martin
Bigony
Vale
Albany
Little Vinton County
Arthur Vale
Th Vinton Rural School
Charles Axline
Zanesville
Axline
Yale
Pennsylvania
William Penn
Vale’s Mills
Raccoon Creek
Associated
Chicago
New Orleans
Virginia Teale
NEA Service, Inc
Hal Boyle
Jerusalem
Wise Men
Herod
William E. Gilroy
D. D
Edwin P. Jordan, M.D
Wilton FE. Hall
Babe Ruth
Ty Cobb
George Sisler
Jimmy Foxx
U.S. Army
Robert T. Lincoln
President Lincoln
the Public Forum
By Galbreath
T. M. Reg
U.S
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