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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1933
Page
4
The Athens Messenger notes its establishment in 1805 with Frederick W. Bush as publisher and a weekday afternoon print schedule, plus Sunday morning edition. It lists offices, editors, affiliations with press associations, and subscription rates for various durations.
A reminiscence recalls a mountain town basketball brawl where spectators flooded the floor and fought players. It links to a era when sports drew volatile crowds at baseball and football games, suggesting a cycle of intense local rivalries once common and rarely seen today. The piece frames the incident as a chapter from the Good Old Days.
Senator Pittman advocates a constitutional amendment limiting presidents to a single six year term after lame duck reform. He argues a first term becomes a campaign prep period hampering permanent policy, and a longer non reelection term could reduce partisan pressure and ease executive strain.
A celebrated embryo chick heart tissue has remained alive since 1912 under Dr. Alexis Carrell at the Rockefeller Institute. The living culture in a glass tube has endured far beyond a chicken’s life, prompting thoughts on life, mortality, and future scientific possibility while inspiring eerie speculation.
A 4 year old boy and a 4 year old girl vanish in Brooklyn's ity park for an afternoon. They are found safe with the boy claiming to have slain a man with a black beard, a leopard, a lion and a wildcat using a stray fence picket behind a tree. The piece argues children blend dream and reality and praises imaginative play rather than punishing tall tales.
Dorothy Dix cites statistics claiming college degrees lower marriage chances for women and notes higher education does not remove the risk of turning into an old maid. She suggests educated women remain as lively and intelligent as peers, prompting questions about education as a matrimonial handicap.
Dorothy Dix argues that education drives women to seek superior husbands and men to avoid intellectual equals. She claims educated women choose partners who match or exceed them, while men prefer less educated wives and fear strong intellects. She concludes smarter women will eventually win the pick of husbands.
A parental essay argues for floor play over restrictive cribs and coops. It stresses airing and cleaning carpets, safe large toys, and space for exploration as a child grows, warning against suffocating a baby with gadgets and small possessions.
A historical word puzzle featuring Lincoln themed clues across and down. Solving reveals terms on professions, geography, and notable phrases tied to Abraham Lincoln and his era.
On October 18, 1990 at Ravenna Jockey Club Joe Sylvester rode eight mounts. He won seven and placed third with one. The eight horses included Golden Brown Basha Princess Elsie Steven B Bootee Sweepstakes Clapper and Coquina with various payouts. A $2 parlay would have paid $452 547.25. Tomorrow: The Blind Boy Prodigy.
Dr Morris Fishbein discusses how neglect worsens outcomes in coronary thrombosis. Immediate bed rest and careful, gradual activity are urged, with emphasis on public education for middle aged and older people to seek prompt medical help for chest pain and suspected indigestion or pleuritic pain.
A group of 25 business men completed final steps for forming a Rotary Club in Athens. B O Skinner of Marietta Rotary Club attended to assist. Ena M Nelson hosted at 21 Elmwood Place with six bridge tables honoring Capt Don Nelson and his wife from Vermont.
Miss Mary Scanlon hosted by her sister Mrs. Robert Wood in Columbus. B M Covert and Charles Bradfield Jr. visited for business. Annual Army inspection of Company L Seventh Regiment at the Armory praised for well drilled units led by Captain Johnson and Lieutenant Frebault. The Aquitania theater seats 250, and Luther wrote 37 hymns with Ein feste Burg deemed his masterpiece. Autograph seekers chase Mussolini Lindbergh Garbo and the Pope. Copies of the Constitution and Declaration placed in the Washington Monument cornerstone. The New Zealand Kiwi bird cannot fly and has coarse hairlike feathers.
Washington dispatch analyzes civil service implications of post election patronage shifts. It notes four to five figure jobs at the Commerce Department and Reconstruction Finance Corp. may face change, with Democrats eyeing non civil service positions and possible expansion of patronage despite Roosevelt’s stated civil service fidelity.
The Messenger letter writers argue that Technocracy risks excessive organization that tramples individual welfare. They contrast Denmark’s literacy and equality with Russia and Italy’s technocratic leanings and criticize Stalin and Mussolini. A writer from Albany notes skepticism and calls for humane, service oriented governance.
Fragments describe an early Ohio Baptist church at Columbia near Massillon and Chauncey grave marker for Nehemiah Davy, claimed founder who died aged 68. Notes question Davy’s origin, birth in 18th century Revolutionary context, and who planted Ohio’s first Baptist church.
The Senate banking panel began hearings on a proposed expansion of the M4 distribution act for unemployment relief. Congress member Wagner, a Democrat, advocates accelerating distribution to support enterprises affected by unemployment and seeks revised corporate rules to permit broader relief funding.
In 1931 Great Britain recorded 6691 traffic fatalities and 202110 injuries from road accidents. The figures reflect a high level of motor use and road danger during that year.
Rats overran a Tanganyika town destroying the cotton harvest and forcing residents to flee. The scene followed a massive invasion, with eight in ten US homes reported to have a pet, and notes on tariffs from Arabic origin. Electric lights are said to mitigate damp salt air effects on seaside pianos placed with lights.
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