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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1935
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR notes show Athens Messenger publication details with publisher Frederick W Bush and Gordon K Bush, editors Charles B Harris and others. The text references daily editions, advertisement policies, and postal classification, but many lines are garbled.
An English visitor’s recent four week tour of the United States sparks wonder at America’s contradictions. The piece notes science versus showmanship, wealth versus debt, moviemaking and philanthropy alongside social tensions, lynching history, and aid to disaster victims. It concludes that Americans are a paradoxical people of infinite possibilities striving to improve.
The article urges concern over Ohio school health follow-up, noting fewer than 15 percent of defects found in children are remedied. It calls on parents, teachers, physicians, nurses, and public health officials to improve follow-up care and ensure timely treatment for growing children.
Ohio should develop a serious tourist industry by educating residents to Ohio’s historical sites and beauty. Competing states invest heavily in tourism and Ohio must promote road beautification and use film and visualization to attract travelers and tourist dollars.
In Washington the White House and the American Federation of Labor hint at a labor leadership shakeup. Donald Richberg may fade while Secretary Perkins rises as Roosevelt’s labor intermediary. A reorganization of AFL is anticipated to meet New Deal needs with centralized Washington staff.
The piece sketches George Peek as a lone figure in a looming reorganization of U S foreign trade agencies under Peek to pull the bureau from the state department and place it under him. It hints at a Russia trade mission and a secret alliance between Germany and Japan amid postwar diplomacy.
The article notes Mr. Roosevelt’s letter to President Green of the American Federation of Labor was not a sign of closeness. It states Roosevelt’s auto code action bumped Green, with Perkins claiming she learned of renewal at a White House reception. It also mentions Doctor Hoover replacing Doctor Howe and praises Hoover as an authority on Russian economics.
A fragment notes efforts to please a group while admitting limited knowledge about Ohio. The snippet suggests strategic outreach without detailing parties, methods, or outcomes.
The best authorities say unemployment insurance would not raise purchasing power though it may stabilize unemployment and ease low mood. Critics warn that excluding the hard core unemployed reduces the problem to a minor issue and that ongoing insurance could permanentize unemployment, with insured workers favored and others, including farmers, bearing the burden.
Ten years ago the City Federation of Women's Club planned its fourth shrubbery sale. Hedges questioned snow plow needs while Sprague and Lulu Wilkes organized a display. Floyd Collins rescue efforts continued in Sand Cave Kentucky as air shaft work progressed.
Olive Roberts Barton discusses spoiled children and how overindulgence creates lifelong unhappiness. She urges setting firm limits, teaching discipline through brief separations, and building independence with calm, consistent routine while avoiding harshness and needless gifts. Bangkok is a large center of air travel in the Far East with routes from Singapore and Indo China.
A historical verse reflecting a hero born in hardship who clears land and leads a nation through war, earning trust and fame before a traitor’s bullet ends his life. The poem honors a martyr whose memory endures in posterity and in a shared national resolve.
The first Wilkesville men to enlist were Hazen Soule Rufus Strong and Waldo Murray in the 18th Ohio Infantry. Many residents died in battles such as Stone River Memphis Shenandoah Vicksburg Chickasaw Bluffs Antietam and City Point. In total 118 men enlisted from Wilkesville with 99 returning. Fifty years ago several veterans still lived in Wilkesville though not residents during the war.
A collage of quotes from Walter Damrosch Branch Rickey Mrs William Dick Sporborg Count Alexis de Sakh noffsky Pearl Buck and others on opera baseball war safety and car maintenance. The notes touch on tradition pride of craft and practical advice for motorists and authors.
Yesterday's cartoon recounts Marian Lindley who swallowed a needle as a child and carried it for 36 years before its removal in 1935, with the doctor noting the needle caused no pain while embedded. It also profiles J C Harper, a 76 year old endurance racer from Enderlin North Dakota who has logged over 18000 miles and set age related marks in 1932.
Gale Henderson 23 works in a silk mill with her invalid father and brother. Steve Meyers, a mill worker, asks Gale to marry him. Gale plans to answer later. Brian Westmore, home from Paris, rescues Gale after a skating accident and drives her home through a worsening storm. Gale’s rival, Vicky Thatcher, schemes to win Brian. Gale’s return vanishes into the night as tensions rise between Gale Steve and Brian in a town marked by the mill and family strain.
A clipped dialogue sequence from 1935 shows Steve and a woman in a tense exchange about plans and feelings. The fragmentary lines suggest confusion, hesitation, and a sense of conflict about future actions and fidelity.
Dr Morris Fishbein notes typhus spreads by body lice and thrives when crowds live in insanitary conditions. He traces outbreaks from Serbia in 1914 to Allied wartime controls that halted civilian spread, contrasts Russia and Soviet-era eras, and stresses ongoing battles against dirt and lice to prevent epidemics.
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