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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1938
Page
4
The Athens Messenger published weekdays with a Sunday edition by Athens Messenger & Herald Printing Co. Gordon K. Bush is publisher and GM Charles H. Barris is managing editor. Rates list carrier and mail options for multiple Ohio counties.
Congress should consider rebuilding the crippled rail system with fair regulation and centralized control. Proposals call for mergers, removal of ruinous competition, and adequate tolls funded by taxpayers to restore jobs and even road-building costs.
A humorous portrait of commerce detailing the grind of early starts, missed appointments, impatient routines, and the paradoxes of selling. The piece highlights the constant patter of chasing customers while risking personal loss and stubborn barriers within a harsh sales world.
A district wide post Christmas effort saw firemen and volunteers devote nights and days to prepare toys for youngsters. The project involved collecting repairing listing wrapping and delivering items to those in need. Adults benefited as much as children from the human happiness created by neighbors outreach.
The text quotes George McLean Harper, Princeton emeritus, lamenting the severing of the American colonies. It notes the separation occurred long ago under George Washington and questions current relations with Great Britain as democratic friends.
A massive dinosaur skeleton was dispersed across three Utah museums with the head and neck, body, and tail stored separately. A fourth museum eventually traded for all parts to reunite the giant fossil.
British doctors dispense more than one million bottles of medicine to patients each week, a figure reflecting high prescription volumes across the National Health Service and primary care networks. The statistic highlights the scale of daily medical care and access to treatments for the population.
The University of Poitiers in western France traces its origins to a 1431 founding. Early academic efforts established the institution as a center for medieval scholarship and learning in the Poitou region.
Pegler rails at what he calls American gullibility as he decries claims that the Russian Revolution was externally engineered by a shadow group. He argues the Bolshevik rise was Germany backed to shift power and vilifies anti Bolshevik critics and religious allies.
John T. Flynn reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission may curb its study of the Trans-America Corporation a vast California headquartered bank holding firm with extensive nonbank holdings. The piece notes past Hoover era support for Trans-America and later New Deal shifts while accusing officials of failing to rein the holding company alongside its diverse enterprises. The mystery of who influenced any potential shutdown of the SEC probe is raised with no clear answer.
The passage argues that all creatures vie for survival and that each species regulates another. It claims removing restraint lets a race multiply unchecked and that humans have often paid the price for disrupting nature’s balance.
Estimates place England's annual candy spend at 200 million dollars and total consumption at about 350000 tons, reflecting substantial confectionery demand across the country.
A guitar dating to 1700 B C is identified as one of the oldest known musical instruments in the world, highlighting its historic significance and rarity.
Q and A on Arlington Unknown Soldier burial facts naturalization rules Ritz Brothers marriages and US military losses in Spanish American War with hospital origin details.
The Public Forum invites current event comments signers must appear with the contribution. Letters should be brief to allow multiple items per day and must be signed by the writer.
A long letter to The Messenger criticizes the educational system and calls for reform. The writer attacks high salaries and endless meetings, questions gymnasiums and coed sports, and argues good instruction comes from home. He questions biblical interpretation and promotes humane, practical religion and moral living.
The editor urges readers to enclose a three cent stamp for replies when asking questions of fact or information. It states legal and medical advice cannot be provided nor extended research undertaken and directs mail to the Messenger's Service Bureau at 1013 13th St Washington D C.
Miss Luciel Boden visits Antioch with her parents over Christmas. Miss Margaret Davis stays with her mother in Columbus. Mr. Max Lewis from Ann Arbor is guest of his mother. East Side School Christmas program features Parker Walker and several students.
Ensign Roe Zenner and Mrs. Zenner arrived from Newport Rhode Island to spend Christmas with his parents Mr and Mrs Henry Zenner. Ensign Philip Zenner was away for the holidays. Ensign Clinton P. Biddle on a five day leave from Brooklyn New York visited his parents Dr and Mrs T R Biddle. Sergeant Joseph E. Jewett in chemical warfare service at Willoughby was a guest of his parents Mr and Mrs W H Jewett.
Gallipolis planned three block street upgrade with asphalt surface on Second Avenue from Cedar to Court, and concrete gutters, estimated at nearly 14000 dollars, received no bids from the state highway department in Columbus necessitating readvertisement.
Sally and Dan rekindle trust during a hike by a brook where he reveals a benefactor who funded his comeback. Sally contemplates confessing a secret about her father while Dan vows Olympic ambitions and renewed faith in himself and in Sally.
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