The Newspaper of Athens Nelsonville Glouster and Surrounding Areas
Subscription rates listed for Ohio carriers and mail service. Locally published paper serves Athens area with framed notices and office locations in Chicago and New York.
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Jovers
Ohio
Athens-Nelsonville
Glouster
Logan-Pomeroy
Middleport
Coulville
John W. Cuilenne
Bouthones Ave
Chicago
Fifth Ave
New York
General Motors
Detroit
The Colonel Enderlin Passes From Stage in Chillicothe
Col Richard Enderlin, famed for his coal holdings in Carbondale and a leader in Southern Ohio industry, died at his Chillicothe home. A WWII era hero, he built the Enderlin Forest memorial at his mines and was revered as a civic and industrial force in Athens County for decades.
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Richard Enderlin
Chillicothe
Germany
Colonel Enderlin
Scioto Valley
Enderlin
Gettysburg
Ohio
Athens County
Vinton County
Carbondale
Great Enderlin Forest
Weather Hard on Roads in Southeastern Ohio
The last two weeks of weather have damaged the new roads in Southeastern Ohio counties. Freezing and thawing harm the gravel and lime layers used in recent constructions.
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Ohio
Road surfacing in Southeastern Ohio must cope with climate
The climate in Southeastern Ohio challenges road builders of secondary routes lacking solid foundations. Expensive modern roads are not feasible for these routes, so grade and coat with durable surfacing. Foundation is less critical year to year, but freezing and thawing reveal weak spots. piling on surfacing material may gradually build a resilient base. A stone foundation at first would have saved trouble but is costly and must be protected too.
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Ohio
F. W
Lesson in democracy as Chicago nears dangerous brink
A Chicago editorial warns that fiscal collapse and rising crime expose risks of weak electorate. It warns of potential drift toward a business run city if voters ignore oversight, drawing a parallel to Mussolini era Italy while urging voters to stay vigilant.
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Chicago
America
Europe
Italy
Mussolini
Notable boxers and a former champ stray into business ventures
New York reports that Joe Walcott, famed welterweight, is rising in attention, while Jack Johnson, once dominant in the prize ring, runs a jazz and Chinese chop suey emporium in the mid Forties, reflecting a hard boiled Broadway milieu.
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New York
Joe Walcott
Jack Johnson
The life of Jack Johnson the boxer and cellist
A reminiscence traces Jack Johnson’s life beyond boxing from his Harlem years to returning to music. It notes his cello playing privatey, his fortune spent, and his later creation of a group of Marlemites with him conducting.
Barbados Demon Dimmed by Time in Ring Past
A veteran boxing reminiscence recalls Joe Walcott once hailed as a crusader of yes you’ll see him at Madison Square Garden where the soft voiced former great fought through decades ago. Now nearing 60, time has dulled the once feared punch and the era of Fitzsimmons Jeffries Sharkey McCoy Choynski seems distant. The writer notes Walcott’s good nature and minimal first hand memory of the events.
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Yesteryear
Joe Walcott
Madison Square Gardens
Bob Fitzsimmons
Jeffries
Sharkey
McCoy
Choynski
Barbados
West Indies
He Talks of Langford and a 15-Round Draw
The piece recalls a welterweight recalling his clash with Sam Langford, a feared heavyweight. He mentions a 15 round draw and facing Creedon, an Irish fighter at 185 pounds, noting his own lighter frame and his wife’s warning.
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Sam Langford
Joe
Creedon
From Brash Fistic Era to Brass Polisher. Billy Smith remembers
An elderly man recalls Billy Smith the welterweight, Tommy Ryan, and other old timers. He speaks of a life in boxing before settling into work as a brass polisher, leaving behind his days as a Mikwasher, elevator man, and teacher of boxing.
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Billy Smith
Weiter
Tommy Ryan
Military talk on ships and blueprints in war
The passage notes that Washington Conference efforts destroyed new battleships and some incomplete ships while British forces ruined blueprints. It suggests destroying finished battleships would be a different matter due to their massive cost.
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Washington
Lincoln Birthday Closures Marked Day in Markets
Banks and the stock exchange closed in honor of Lincoln's birth day. Mild editorials appeared and the Gettysburg speech was read in parts. The tone notes the dead are very dead and mentions a figure of one hundred and twenty willion.
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Lincoln
Stock Exchange
Willion
Bricks Used by French Flyers to Down German Planes
In early World War II days French aviators carried bricks as part of their equipment and threw them into the propellers of German planes causing them to crash.
Health and Diet Advice From Dr Frank McCoy
Dr Frank McCoys weekly menus cover February 16 schedule with meals ranging from poached egg Melba toast figs to roast chicken mutton and sea bass. The Q and A discuss camphor alcohol for reducing fat and persistent hunger plus bedbug removal guidance from a professional fumigation service.
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Frank McCoy
Daily Menus Feature Traditional Noontime Meals
The record lists breakfast items including cordred eggs Melba toast and stewed raisins. Lunch features baked squash string beans shredded lettuce. Dinner comprises vegetable soup Salisbury steak cooked celery baked carrots sliced tomatoes and Jello or Jell-well.
Daily Menu Summary From a Historic Menu Card
Breakfast includes cottage cheese and pineapple with Melha toast. Lunch offers vegetable souffle raw celery. Dinner features roast pork turnips green peas chopped cabbage salad and apple whip. Breakfast returns with French omelet toast cereal biscuit and pear sauce. Lunch shows baked potato and a five minute item.
Americans praise three great leaders in quiet memory
Americans value Washington Franklin and Lincoln as the three greatest men though for most they remain distant figures rather than vivid presences in daily life.
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Washington
Franklin
Lincoln
The Four Winds of the Whirlwinds and the Great Elev en Cult
A mild man in an Los Angeles lawsuit relates a vast religious sect scheme involving 50 000 pages dictated by angels to a priestess group. The case centers on money collected for the cult and its controversial origins.
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Los Angeles
Unclear excerpt notes random acts of faith and wealth
The fragment criticizes gullibility as both men and women donate large sums for nonsensical claims, suggesting widespread human folly. It mentions celestial beings guiding priestesses and angels issuing dictations in various places.
Dissatisfaction Grows After Massachusetts Congressional Victory
Republicans unnamed in the piece are said to be agitated by a Democrat winning a Congress seat in Calvin Coolidge's district. The article frames the reaction as a critique of Republican Party governance and hints at voter discontent among Americans in Massachusetts.
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Calvin Coolidge
Massachusetts
Washington
President Hoover
Mr. Hoover
White House
Secret Service
William Howard Taft
Daily Study in Correct English Word Choice
A compact note on proper usage and pronunciation. It defines common missteps such as mistaking prizes for plural subjects and mispronouncing reneg. The day highlights leisurely as not hurried and urges daily vocabulary growth with a single chosen word.
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Todday
Leisuriely
Massachusetts Urges Government Focus on Constructive Aims
A commentator from Massachusetts argues the government should shift attention away from whisky toward more productive objectives, advocating practical policy priorities over drink-related concerns.
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Sachusetts
Edison predicts prohibition and automatic laborer boon
Thomas A. Edison asserts prohibition is achievable and inevitable. He envisions fully automatic machinery supplying the laborer with a home and luxuries while urging abstinence from drinking.
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Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Submarine Debate Aims to Ease British Starvation Tactics
The text notes Uncle Sam’s attempt to abolish submarines via London delegates but asserts submarines will remain, praising France and Japan for aiding the cause and indicating Britain seeks submarine abolition to end their food blockade. The piece claims U.S. would cooperate with Britain to thwart starvation tactics.
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Sam
London
France
Japan
Need for Submarines to Safeguard U S Coasts and Canal
The speaker argues for submarines to protect American harbors coasts island possessions and the Panama Canal. The safety of the United States, not Britain, should guide policy for those on the American Government's payroll.
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Panama Canal
Great Britain
Plan for Larger Airplanes by Ford and Rail Line
General Atterbury's Pennsylvania Railroad and Mr Storey of Santa Fe discuss using bigger airplanes to carry 35 passengers each. W B Mayo Ford chief engineer is planning for bigger planes Ford would make. Likely built at Long Beach California near Los Angeles.
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General Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mr. Storey
Santa Fe
W. B. Mayo
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Long Beach
California
Pacific
Los Angeles
Father seeks update on missing son Raymond Brown
In a published note, Raymond C. Brown asks for no coercion if he stays away, clarifies a lone message to his father stating he is OK, and explains possible travel from Parkersburg via bus toward New York. He pleads for readers to confirm his safety and write back, thanking The Messenger staff for helping locate him.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Guysville
New York Or
Vie
Athens considers $30,000 school bond issue
The Board of Education voted to ask Athens voters for a $30,000 bond to finance a new school building. Ohio University coeds basketball teams begin a champion series tonight at 7 in the gym. Ten years ago Captain Mlaharty and detail arrived from Camp Taylor Ky to secure enlistments.
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Board of Education
Athens
Ohio University
Mlaharty
Hine
Camp Taylor
First annual banquet of Ohio University alumni in Jackson
The Ohio University Alumni Association of Southern Ohio held its first annual banquet Friday evening at the Hotel Cambrian in Jackson.
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Ohio University Alumni Association of Southern Ohio
Cambrian
Jackson
Miss Sylvia Reed Visits Nelsonville Return
Miss Sylvia Reed, who had been visiting Miss Hazel Lee for several days, returned to her Nelsonville home this evening.
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Sylvia Reed
Hazel Lee
Nelsonville
Ohio University to Observe First Founders Day
Ohio University plans its First Founders Day on February 18 with President Edward Parsons of Marietta among the principal speakers. The event draws much interest from students faculty and local residents.
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Ohio University
Edward §. Parsons
Marietta
Wrestler Joe Willis to duel Thor Olson on Feb 24
Joe Willis, the challenger from the Carlson Olson match in January, will face Thor Olson again on February 24 here after Olson accepted the challenge and arranged the bout.
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Joe Willis
Thor Olson
Olson
Answers to Questions From the Information Bureau
The Athens Messenger prints a Q and A section with questions on radio power claims, Indian place names, best 1929 films, Jewish farmers, pension rolls, battleship naming, pasteurization, and the Congo River. Notable facts include 50,000 watt stations and 200,000 watt GE shortwave, Quantico meaning dancing, listed top films by 327 critics, and 472,917 veterans on pension rolls as of Dec 31, 1929.
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United States
Federal Radio Commission
WGY
WEAF
KDKA
General Electric Company
Quantico
Occoquan
The
Film Daily
Disraeli
Broadway
Old
Arizona
Mrs. Cheyney
Jewish Agricultural Society
Agricultural Society
Aow
Bureau of Pensions
Hughes Recalled as Stiff Necked Politician and One-Drink Man
Rodent Dutcher recounts historical anecdotes about Charles Evans Hughes from 1906 and later, noting his reputation as stiff necked yet a one drink man. The piece contrasts Hoover photo policy with Taft and Coolidge era practices and mentions Wisconsin Rep John C Schafer, nicknamed The Wild Bull of Wisconsin, amid wets advocacy and prophesied political clashes.
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Rodney Dutcher
Washington
Charles Evans Hughes
New York
Hughes
Harding
Coolidge
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