Road costs rise to meet speed demands in Ohio highways
Demand for speed is costly, with highway builders facing mounting expenses to upgrade roads. The author argues motorists should pay higher tolls for faster travel and notes rebuilding efforts across hills, including new bridges and widened curves from Athens to Logans. Ohio highway work aligns with modern motor needs, but more speed requires safer, costly roadbeds and tolls.
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Suer Tea Works
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Logan
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China Uses Boycott as Tool in Sino Japanese Strife
A China focused analysis notes the enduring power of economic boycott as a weapon against Japan, detailing historic campaigns since 1923 that undercut Japanese interests and shift commerce toward white traders. It argues China’s method disrupts Japan’s profits and signals possible future Manchurian action amid ongoing tensions. The piece then shifts to U.S. holiday accident fatalities, blaming American carelessness for rising Christmas tolls and calling for a national effort to reduce holiday casualties. It ends with a brief Foreign section on a postal quirk about Santa Claus Indiana facing heavy Christmastime mail, framing it as a bureaucratic burden.
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China
Japan
Shantung
Near East
Manchuria
United States
New York Critics Name Notable Arts of the Year
Manhattan correspondent reviews year in books films and plays. Street Scene Public Enemy Little Caesar Chaplin City Lights The Good Earth The Road Back Mourning Becomes Electra and The Band Wagon among top cultural items.
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Manhattan
New York
Jackie’ Cooper
Jimmy Cagney
Edward G. Robinson
Tallulah Bankhead
Hollywood
Sylvia Sydney
Paramount
Lil Degovar
Germany
Chaplin
Arrowsmith
Douglas Fairbanks
San Pedro
Wiliam Faulkner
Eric Remarque
John Henry
Roark Bradford
Bruce Catton
Lincoln Steffens
Duguid
Hell
Stuart Chase
Bmexico
Eugene O'Neill
Henry
Jerome Itern
George White
Cynaru
House of Connelly
Vienna
What is the French postal service history
The Q A notes that France had a State Post in 144 though its early history is obscure. Napoleon in 184 replaced a committee with a director general and the system remained largely unchanged. Recent practice linked the Post Office to various ministries. The piece also mentions burning coal mines in Pennsylvania.
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Napoleon
Treasury
Pubic Works
Commerce
Truth n Poetry and Santa Claus Name Debate
A short column blends Tom Moore style moral musings with a public note on Santa Claus town naming. It contrasts poets dream of simple cottages with rich estates and ends with a biblical thought from Joshua 12 14 about seeking guidance. The Santa Clara public Opinion panel favors keeping the familiar town name.
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Santa Claus
Taxing debate urges caution on bonds and steam of progress
In a Messenger public forum reader ATHENS TAXPAYER argues against unchecked borrowing and bond issuance, urging state control to curb tax burdens. He cites North Carolina and Milwaukee as examples of centralized budgeting, warns of overproduction and displacement of workers by machines, and calls for prudent, steady fiscal policy in Athens.
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Messenger
North Carolina
Milwaukee
Athens
The Athens Messenger Map of Europe Offer
The paper advertises a full color Map of Europe from the Washington Information Bureau showing postwar boundary changes with Asia and Europe redefined. Perm is moved to Asia and a land area about the size of Italy or Poland shifted continents. The map costs ten cents, with a coupon to Frederic J. Haskin in Washington DC.
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Perm
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Ural Mountains
Italy
Poland
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Information Bureau
Cépres
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic’ J., Haskin
Washington, D.C
Tax Fairness and Evasion Debate From Nelsonville Citizen
The Nelsonville Citizen argues taxes must be shared, condemning tax dodging and highlighting past evasion in property and car taxes. It urges a fair system based on ability to pay, noting universal benefit from government services and predicting changes in Ohio taxation.
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Messenger
Ohio
Wall Street
Uncle Sam
Nelsonville Citize
Inventive Ingenuity and Industry Troubles
A fragment discusses ingenuity and industry troubles, noting a news item about a bright man who has invented something and prompting questions about what has affected various industries and the meanings of these developments.
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Messenger
Elixir of Youth and the Cortin Theory Explored
A fragment from a page discusses Cortin as a rare substance from adrenal glands offering rest, strength, memory, and stress resistance. It contrasts emerging ideas with historic hypotheses, noting theories survive by demonstrable experiments and mentions heat sterilization destroying germs.
Winters wheat and Ohio population trends from a century ago
A 1920s comparison shows winter wheat at 87.9, with a ten year average, while Ohio population rose 20.8 percent across a decade and then fell 12.5 percent in another period. Notes on demographics include a white birth rate, and a memorial for Roy E. Martin. The piece also recalls post events, mining policy debates, a record non stop flight, and a Columbus era piano performance. It recounts Squire Henry Logan’s civic shifts, a historic apple wagon, and Ohio University agricultural tests on city mail routes.
What happened to physiology in schools
The writer laments the loss of physiology and hygiene in curricula. Reflecting on childhood science lessons, they recall learning bones, organs, respiration, nerves, and brain structure. They warn that current education omits essential bodily knowledge, arguing for maintaining basic science to understanding human machinery and health.
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Albany
Buffalo
Pennsylvania politics and McFadden under fire
A Washington style column critiques Louis McFadden and Pennsylvania figures as the 1930s political row deepens. Hoover loyalists, Senator Hiram Joynson, and Rep Reed clash over patronage while Pinchot and others pivot amid debates on gold and foreign policy.
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Messienger
Speck
Sgtom
Pennsylvania
Mellons
Jim Davises
Pinchots
Louis T. McFadden
Dhairyman
House Banking and Currency Committee
Wents
Mel Padden
Hoover
Hiram Joynson
McFadden
Hiram
Louis
White House
Dave Reed
Jim Davis
Post Office Department
Paper Boy of Batel Aims for Presidency
The piece profiles William Runsel McDonald, a Batel paper carrier born in 1923, backed by his family in a local monopole. His two mile route runs from the company store to Carla Livan’s home near Buchtel station. He enjoys football, likes Charlie Farrell films, and favors chicken meals when available.
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William Runsel McDoni
Momopell
Robert
Virginia
William
United States
Charles Déing
Batel
Carla Livan
Buchtel
Hea
Willem
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Frank Camden
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