The Messenger Publication Cost Schedule
The Athens Messenger announces subscription rates for local and Ohio residents, including 1 year for 13.00 and 6 months for 6.50. Overseas rates apply and require acceptance by The Messenger. offices listed in Chicago New York Columbus Cleveland or at domestic and foreign offices.
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Ohio
Lowe
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Messenger
Athens
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Columbus
Cleveland
Greetings 1944 A New Year pledge to support war effort
The message urges turning over a new leaf in 1944 to aid victory in Europe and the Pacific. It notes rising war production, potential civilian benefits from surpluses, and past rationing improvements, while recognizing heavy casualties ahead and the duty to safeguard veterans' rights and support those in uniform.
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Hitler
Pacific
Europe
Red Cross Home Nursing Seeks One Million Volunteers This Year
The American Red Cross urges up to a million housewives to enroll in home nursing classes totaling 24 hours this year. The program trains how to take vital signs and assess illness to aid families when doctors or nurses are scarce amid influenza and war demands. No fees, flexible groups, and a certificate on completion. Surgical dressings classes also need volunteers to support war efforts.
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American Red Cross
Red Cross
Labor Vote Solid for Roosevelt in 1944 Campaign
The piece argues labor groups will back President Roosevelt in the 1944 bid despite tensions with the War Labor Board and Economic Stabilizer. It notes unions plan to spend heavily, calls their efforts educational, and questions whether war pressures and overseas ballots will sway the outcome.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Support of Labor
War Labor Board
White House
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Congress
Imbor
Department of Justice
Clapper Heads Overseas With War Correspondent Credentials
In 1942 a veteran war correspondent recalls renewed travel to war theaters from San Francisco. He recounts securing renewed War Department credentials No. 90 dated Feb 28 1942 and explains the vital role of passports and non combatant papers in wartime travel with the Navy assignment looming.
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San Francisco
War Department
Pearl Harbor
State Department
England
Chungking
Lapland
Sweden
Iceland
Amazon
Pyramids
Jerusalem
India
Patton
Seventh Army
Sicily
MacArthur
Rome
Navy
Doenitz Resigns as German Navy Chief Amid Leadership Rift
War analyst William Frye reports Admiral Karl Doenitz has resigned as naval commander, signaling strain between Hitler and his generals. The piece notes shifts among senior officers Rundstedt Mannstein and Blaskowitz returning to power, and a strategy to negotiate peace while preserving the officer corps.
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William Frye
Associated Press
Karl Doenitz
Adolfler
Scharnhurst
Hitler
Russia
Junkers
Germany
Eisenhower
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Caucasus
Low Countries
Fritz Erich von Mannstein
Johannes Blaskowitz
France
Fuehrer
Doenitz
Scharnhorst
Erich Raeder
Letter From Son’s Superior Officer Praises Pie Docie
Mr and Mrs Alex Docie receive a letter from their son Pie Docie a captain in the army. He expresses regret at not being home for Christmas but says he is well and happy under the circumstances and doing a fine job in a great army. Mrs Docie is bedridden with influenza. Her daughter Mrs George Miranda recently spent four days with them.
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Glouster
Alex Docie
Pie
Docie
George Miranda
Damages at Carpenter Church End Christmas Program
A Christmas program at the Damages Carpenter Church ended abruptly due to fire on Sunday. The bucket brigade fought the blaze but the building suffered considerable damage. Local residents and visiting relatives are noted in surrounding Christmas gatherings and travel updates.
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Carpenter
Miss i
Struthers
Marvin Chase
W. L Swett
Columbus
Gerald Collins
New York
England
North Africa
Italy
Dale Dye
Fairport Harbor
Dale Jr
Sicily
Ronald Whittington
Patterson Field
Dayton
Barkdale Field
Louisiana
Denver Whittington
Ft. Knox
Walter Swett
Pennsylvania
Earl Starkey
Donald Jones
Norwalk
Roy Wiseman
Joy Earlene
Springfield
Eugene Holliday
Danny
Mary FE. Starkey
Eldon Starkey
Walter Hampton
Athens
Jesse Sisson
C. E. Ellis
James M. Boggess
Rutland
A. R. Caster
Chester Spencer
F. E. Wood
Ed Marshall
Norma
Joy Kay
Thurston
Orville Whittington
Andrew Hoyd
Guy C. Gorby
Earl Scott
John L. Rawlings
Charles McCall
Lancaster
Nurses Added to Athens County Health Staff
Four nurses joined the Athens County Board of Health under Miss Helen Murray and Miss Viola Fell, with Esta Rankin Rose Clark Margaret McHarg and Mrs Tessie Cavanaugh on the new permanent team beside Anne Morgan and Clara Cavanaugh. President Roosevelt eyed expanding New Deal plans and Civil Works funding into 1934. Twenty years ago comments note U S Air Armada ideas, Dixmude loss, and local civic leaders. Urban warming from city smoke is explained.
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Athens County Board of Health
Helen Murray
Viola Fell
Esta Rankin
Rose Clark
Margaret McHarg
Tessie Cavanaugh
Anne Morgan
Clara Cavanaugh
Gideon Planish and the Adelbert Socialist League
Gideon Planish a freshman at Adelbert College in 2010 forms a secret Socialist club with Heather Mewltt after being refused on the debating team. The group dissolves after a Times plant bombing and a failed public debate as Gid fends off deanly repercussions.
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Gideon Planish
Adelbert College
Heteh Mewltt
Gid
Socialist League
College Debating Society
University of Winnemac
Los Angeles Times
Adelbert Socialist League
League
Hatch
God
House of Morgan
Comet Order
Socialist Club
Walt Whitman League
Whitman
Francis Tyne
College den Se Society
Times
Debating Society
Erasmus College
Gideon Pilanish
Old Pug
Ohio
New York State
Erasmus
Adelbert
College Chapel
New Kamchatka
Answers and Questions From a Wartime Quiz
A wartime Q and A page lists the Purple Gang lasting from 1919 and peaking in Prohibition, a Persian Gulf pipeline plan to fuel China in air war against Japan, U S casualties in Italy totaling 8556 with 1295 deaths from Salerno to Nov 11, and Gen Nikolai Vatutin commanding the First Ukrainian Army in southern Russia, plus glycerine yield from waste fat enough for four 37 mm anti aircraft shells.
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U. S
Italy
Salerno
Nikolai F. Vatutin
First
Russia
Taylor Ridge Christmas Service Held
Taylor Ridge annual Christmas services at the Church of Christ featured the Junior and Primary classes. The program opened with the choir singing and readings including The Christmas King by Glenna Hanning and scripture by Virginia Canter. Santa Claus distributed treats to children.
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Taylor Ridge
Church of Christ
Pelea
Glenna Hanning
Virginia Canter
Alice Herbst
Barbara Canter
Cora Kempton
Jeanne Heffken
June Heffkes
Gilbert Courtney
Cora Davis
Santa Claus
Gerald Bryan
Lancaster
Fred Walter
Carl Welling
Barberton
E. V. Chalfant
Paul Barrett
Paul, Jr
Brain Chafant
Columbus
Perry Chalfant
Della
Dave Swartz
Henry Martin
Francis Porter
Dayton
Willian D Swartz
Jacksonville
Webb Cunningham
Chancey
Fred Olbers
Emmett Olbers
Gladys Kempton
End
Leonat Leach
Ann
Man Kempton
Dorothy Kempton
Athes
Juanita Kempton
Fred Heffken
Joseph Dal
Joe de ®Ton
Camp Polk
Herbert Kempton
Chillicotts
Jos Davis
Elmer Davis
Conaway
Raymond Davis
Evan Davis
William Dal
Heffken
Mike Spurgess
Detroit
Alex Spur Bonadine Dalton
Jeanne
Christmas
Army Demands More Chicken for Service Meal Plans
Washington orders cold storage stocks of chickens set aside for armed services, military hospitals and other government accounts after the Army complained it could not meet its meal requirements. The action excludes current poultry marketing and shipments beginning today.
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Washington
War Food
War Shipping Administration
Army
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