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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1949
Page
4
The notice lists subscription and delivery rates for daily and Sunday editions, including carrier, mail, and regional variations. It notes locations in Ohio and West Virginia with monthly, quarterly, and annual prices and mentions mail rates where carrier service is unavailable.
The article surveys reactions to President Truman's legislative agenda and budget, noting support and opposition. It emphasizes a shift toward broader government involvement in health, old age security, housing, and public industries, with Acheson as potential Secretary of State and Marshall guiding policy. It contrasts domestic expansion with foreign policy stance and ponders effects on morals and republican government.
Eleanor Broughton, a young English visitor, spent six months in a semi rural American community. She found life richer and more wholesome than in her homeland and plans to remember the friendships and impressions formed during her stay. She notes contrasts between American life and austerity back home.
The piece argues for noonday meals in districts lacking home access, noting rural children traveled long miles and relied on substantial breakfasts. It urges district patrons to fund meals, aided by public health nurses, to provide nourishment and balance, despite financial and logistical obstacles.
The Joint Committee on Civil Rights comprising 21 national organizations threatens to overturn the Senate Democratic majority in 1950 unless it ends filibusters. The piece notes past failures of Roosevelt and labor’s 1940s purge efforts, arguing broad public support is essential for any purge or punishment through elections.
A London truck driver's wife is expected to deliver four babies in April, the third quadruplet birth in Britain within 11 months. The response to Sir Stafford Cripps' pleas for increased production is finally gaining momentum as a national effort.
The Nation Today notes Eastern Europe steps against churches reflect Marxist aims to suppress organized religion. It cites Mindszenty in Hungary, Protestant leaders in Bulgaria, and Catholic bishops in Poland amid broader Soviet atheist campaigns and limited religious freedoms.
General Carl Tovey Spaatz selected to assume leadership of the Military Order of the Carabao, an army and navy officers group, with a formal installation set for February 26.
Quiz hall by Wilton Fe Hall with questions for men and women and teen-agers. Correct answer values and a list of possible responses including topics on photography designations and abdominal operations.
Washington column critiques GOP lack of a coherent platform. Despite speeches by Dewey Taft Lodge Peterson Scott and others the party offers only negative stances and general exhortations, not a clear constructive program. The piece contrasts Democratic control and program with Republican rhetoric.
Mose Johnson an escapee from Lakin State Hospital Lakin West Virginia was apprehended by Deputy Woodrow Saunders and returned to the institution authorities said.
A detailed broadcast grid lists stations NBC WLW Cincinnati ABC WCOL Columbus WSAZ Huntington CBS WBNS Columbus WCHS Charleston WPAR Parkersburg MBS WHKC Columbus WMOA Marietta with daily time slots from 6:00 to beyond 4:30, featuring news, sports, drama, music, talks, kiddies hours, and variety programs. It includes programs like Supper Club, Lone Ranger, Cavalcade of America, Inner Sanctum, and Bob Crosby Club, noting repeats and cross-network shows.
John Henry Conover and Lin in a Western town investigate a murder of Homer Anglin. Lieutenant Lay questions suspects, finds Anglin’s wallet and notes, and hints at a deeper grudge theme. The scene ends with an alleyway exit and a cliffhanger.
The article explains that not all convulsions come from epilepsy but epilepsy is a common cause of fits. It describes two epilepsy types petit mal and grand mal, aura before attacks, epileptic cry at onset, features of a seizure, unconsciousness during the attack, and possible nocturnal seizures. It notes electroencephalography as a key diagnostic aid.
No. Spondylitis means back pain with several recognized varieties. Arteriosclerosis is the hardening of arteries and these conditions are not connected, except by chance.
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