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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Dec 29, 1929

Page

14

Vic Dixon Carries Mail 25 Years on Athens Route

Athens Post Office honors Vic Dixon for 25 years as rural mail carrier on the Athens route. He traveled over 200000 miles on road conditions that improved from mud to year round surfaces, maintaining a daily average of about 36 miles on a route serving Shade Pratts Fork and nearby communities. Dixon, born in Alexander Township, farms and works a sawmill, and despite heavy loads now uses motor vehicle while keeping a strict schedule with multiple horses historically.

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Athens coeds favor longer evening dress

Report from Ohio University interviews across campus shows most coeds endorse longer feminine evening gowns for dress-up events while deeming them unsuitable for everyday wear. A minority oppose, and a few prefer shorter styles for certain occasions.

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Census Truth and a Honeymoon Car Theft Scandal

A Meigs County census slip details face questions with penalties for nonresponse, including potential federal prosecution. The report notes radio audience data and home classifications. In Berlin a couple on their honeymoon stole and sold car parts, repeating crimes across six vehicles before capture during a seventh theft.

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Former Pomeroy Boy Writes Snook Case Story

Otto B B Philp once a Pomeroy boy and Columbus police detective pens a detective fiction piece in a modern magazine. He authors a tale on Dr. Janes Snook and the confessions wrung in a case linked to the Mystery of the Thirteenth Keys. The story appears in the current issue and draws readers from the Nick Carter school.

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Pomeroy Salt and Cinder Club Recalls Old Town Ties

Former Pomeroy presidents now in Columbus form an old group named The Pomeroy Salt and Cinder Club. They reminisce on town trades, a salty past, and a luncheon ritual ending with an egg shaped crown and a salt bag presented with flowers.

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Praised Athens Man Head of Dayton Insane Asylum

The Dayton institution profiles Del Hooper an Athsnan and long time medical leader. Highlights include its expansive grounds dairy nursing school and annual maintenance of about 108100 dollars. Hooper trained at Ohio University St Clair Hospital and Ohio Medical College before serving in the Army Medical Corps and later becoming superintendent of the Naylor institution and then the Athens facility.

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Henry Ford on love and happiness in old age life

An interview segment with Henry Ford explores dancing as exercise for the elderly, the nature of love, and personal happiness. Ford discusses activity, purpose, and fulfillment, noting love as a dynamic force beyond mere physicality and urging constructive living.

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C U Graduate Studying in Uruguay for Ohio Firm

A 1926 Ohio University graduate, W Tong West, now in Montevideo Uruguay with a branch office of a Drylen firm, writes of urban beauty and spring, noting traffic, language need, and travel through Brazil to Santos and Sao Paulo.

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These Young Folks Learn Printing at Trimble High School

Students at Trimble High School study printing under Will C Merritt with a 19th century press. The school notes improvements in equipment and methods, including an electric motor drive, highlighting progress in local education and journalism training.

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