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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1932
Page
4
The Athens Messenger Association announces subscription prices for mail delivery across Ohio. Rates include one year for $8.50, six months $2.60, ten weeks 60 cents, four weeks 40 cents, and one week 15 cents. Several press associations and national representatives are listed as affiliates and partners.
A contemplation on recurring childhood illnesses and the stark contrast with modern parental fears. The piece recalls seven sick children, the quiet sorrow of buried infants in pioneer graves, and how today society regards child mortality and health, noting calmer reporting and deeper parental memory.
Engineers seek a noise measuring yardstick while scientists warn that daily din harms health and may spark moves to curb it. The piece notes growing weather data, unusually mild winters, and a drought year followed by a rainy span that supported strong crops and thriving orchards. It ends by blaming sun spots for weather patterns.
Gilbert Swan reports on the fever around Abie’s Irish Rose parodies and new shows on Broadway. Billy Bryant’s smarthumor and stage stunts, Al Smith socializing on stage, and radio critics clash with theater, while Philip Strong and Sid Whipple are tied to future State Fair rise and rare book curiosities in a bustling New York theater scene.
The fragment describes postage topics and art history notes, mentioning Frederic Haskin and the Carnegie Art Institute. It references triangular stamps with the emblematic Hope seal and a list of various places and figures, but the readable portions are fragmentary and unclear.
The narrator reflects on a shifting mood as a harsh snap of cold weather nears. Belief in signs of spring fades while images of snow and waning warmth mix with memories of a robin and blustery winds. The poem contrasts bleak midwinter with the promise of spring, urging a timely return home.
The piece reflects abundant fruit and garden yields in Southeastern Ohio with cellar stockpiles, gratitude for milder times, and amateur forecasts suggesting real winter weather remains weeks away. It notes fewer blizzards locally while eastern states report snow and ice in mountain districts and on Route 50.
A brief devotional line quotes Evebies 7 14 about violence and wickedness rising as a rod, noting that none shall remain of the multitude or of their kind with no lingering wailing.
Our readable lines show Turner, a horse trainer and driver from Wilmington, Ohio, who handles a race car and a speed thoroughbred owned by Mr. Jew Wallace. He reportedly drives vans, dresses himself, and participates in various tasks including monetary handoffs.
Readers discuss tariffs, subsidies and global competition reflecting on national industry, isolation risks, and the need for informed tariff study beyond party lines. The letter cites overproduction, overseas investment, and shifting jobs as consequences of high tariffs, urging prudence and broader economic understanding.
The Athens Messenger offers a new booklet for the George Washington bicentennial. It explores how Washington would view modern life and outlines the nine month celebration across the United States and in many foreign countries. A mailed copy costs ten cents using the coupon.
Lonclose offers ten cents in coin or stamps for a copy of the booklet on the George Washington Bi Centennial. Name state.
The Messenger urges thrift after years of leisure spending and market losses. It warns government costs rise with consumption, urges cutting luxuries, tightening belts, and focusing on work, family, and future security rather than rosy hopes of easy riches.
The account presents Roosevelt's cautious view on Japanese ambition in Manchuria and the potential for conflict. It notes Japan's use of planes and submarines, imagined fleets, Allied responses, and contradictory signals. The piece describes Shanghai bombings, city devastation, and sensational theater of war including mock displays and alleged honor shaming by a Japanese admiral.
Ohio topped the nation with 1 022 miles of state road built in 1921, surpassing Pennsylvania. A prisoner trial for counterfeiting government labels and liquor stamps began in Dayton after agents seized the plant. Kiwanis aimed to mark 1922 in Athens with a first meeting at the A U Cafeteria and push for a city garbage disposal plant.
A reader recalls observing pelicans fishing on a windy sand bar and porpoises near the Matanzas River. He shares a tale of a large porpoise diving, resurfacing miles away, and notes crowds around a drowning shark drama. The piece muses on nature, education, and the value of facing the world with curiosity.
A chaotic 1920s style column discusses William Jennings Bryan, Herbert Hoover era policy, silver to gold coinage ratios, and proposed demobilization of Europe debts. It covers Mellon in England, Japan France loans, and a plan to remonetize silver at 16 to 1, arguing it would boost purchasing power and farm prices while warning on gold standard risks.
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