The Athens Messenger masthead and rates page
The page lists publisher Frederick W Bush Gordon K Bush and Charles H Harris, with staff affiliations and AP membership. It details subscription rates for in and outside Ohio, service men overseas, and notes second class mail status and information about obituaries and cards of thanks.
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The
Athens Messenger
Ibis
Frederick W. Bush
Messenger 48Hing CO
Gordon K. Bush
Charles H. Harris
Ohio
Messenger
Coal output hits 1943 record despite shortages
Politicians claim 1943 coal production reached 589 million tons, 9 million higher than 1942, yet officials say consumption outpaced production by about 21 million tons. Critics argue stockpiles and private management saved the nation, urging fewer bureaucratic restraints to unleash full capacity.
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Washington
Approaching Reality: Time Magazine on Production and Policy
Time magazine argues that by year end the U S will have large new productive capacity to curb inflation. It stresses private enterprise needs a smooth taxpaying system from soil to consumer and warns against regulations that choke production and distribution. Producing for peace may be harder than wartime efforts.
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Time Magazine
U. S
Beef From the Cattlemen Defend Meat Distribution
The Livestock Producers' Association, a 350 000 member group, defends cattle growers amid beef shortages. They blame OPA pricing policy for higher wholesale ceilings and predict 30 percent fewer cattle to feeders this year, with long-term impact of stringy beef and a possible meat famine through fall.
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Livestock Producers’ Association
OPA
British press and the U. S presidential campaign debate
A National Dispatch analysis argues Britain should refrain from public meddling in the U.S. presidential race. It surveys potential effects on Roosevelt support, postwar policy, and cross-Atlantic influence, urging American voters to decide without foreign pressure.
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Washington
United States
America
Roosevelt
Churchill
House of Commons
Globe
Stalin
Chiang Kai-Shek
Captain and band member sailors on a Pacific carrier
Clapper visits the forward gun crew aboard a U S Navy aircraft carrier. He talks with two young sailors, one with a Massachusetts wife and two children, another from New Jersey with a Tennessee wife and baby. Both served with the ship's band and trained at Juilliard while awaiting battle stations.
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Pacific
Massachusetts
Navy
New Jersey
Tennessee
Juilliard School
New York
Navy carrier crew praises skipper and luck at sea
Sailors aboard the carrier credit the skipper with guiding them through six near misses and battles near Rabaul and Tokyo. The captain credits God and luck, while the crew hails the ship and crew as exceptional in wartime duty.
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Tokio
Rabaul
Sanity and the need for wiser world leadership
A poem by J. C. Hallam from Syracuse Ohio laments ruin from misused resources and calls for sanity to guide global affairs. It argues rulers must be replaced by a saner leadership and urges humankind to depend on one another to prevent further destruction.
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J. C. Hallam
Invasion Forecast From Von Runstedt Warning
War Today reports Field Marshal Karl von Runstedt signaling belief in an Allied invasion and defences including mining floods and anti-tank barriers. It highlights a vast underground French resistance and former French army officers poised to seize key points for the invasion day.
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Karl von Runstedt
Europe
Maginot Line
von Runstedt
Owever
Hitler
Atlantic Wall
France
Algiers
Answers and Answers Paper on wartime packaging and early aviation
The text lists varied questions about wartime packing needs including explosives and medical kits, mentions babassu tree oil as a substitute for olive and coconut oils, notes the United States pioneered aircraft carrier concepts with Eugene Ely’s 1910 shipboard takeoff and the 1911 landing on the Pennsylvania, and cites the U S Bureau of Standards being established March 3, 1901.
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United States
Eugene Ely
Pennsylvania
Mason City Personal Mention in West Virginia
Mason City notes show residents visiting relatives and fellow service members home on furlough. Names include Cliff Cook Edna Williams Kenneth Cook Stella Summerville Gail Tullah and Robert Batterson. Local church Sunshine Class gatherings and social visits with families in Parkersburg Charleston Point Pleasant and Gallipolis are recorded.
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Mason City
W. Va
Cliff Cook
Edna Williams
Parkersburg
Kenneth Cook
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Clara Burris
New Haven
de Eilas
Walter Bary
Charleston
Fanny Philips
Minersville
Nan McIintoish
Chandler
Arthur Diehl
Springdale
Elizabeth Diehl
Stella Summerville
Akron
J. S. Yeager
Martha Ann Fischel
Columbus
Elda Fischel
Paul Ruttencutter
U. S. Coast Guard
Sunshine
Methodist Church
Roberts
Donnie McFarland
Freeman Roush
Doug Roush
Gerald Arnold
Wilbur Stewart
Russell Fields
Johnnie Fry
James Buchanan
John Aumiller
Pete Grinsted
Eber Roush
Phillip Hennasy
Point Pleasant
Rosa Wilson
Bellingham
Bliss Wilson
Robert Batterson
U. S. Navy
Hutchinson
Kansas
Alice Batterson
Gallipolis
Jenny Martin
Mr Johnson
Rutland
Harold Schwarz
Eurana Thomas
Long Bottom
Louise Lewis
Henry ‘Winters
Suburban Reunion Sparks Romance and Fire Intrigue
Kitty Bishop visits her brother Ben Graham and wife Peg after a divorce and meets Mac MacGregor and Randall Seaton. A Sunday fire stirs town life, as Mag Seaton's schemes surface and Randall and Kitty grow closer while Peg watches with concern.
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Kitty Bishop
Ben Graham
Peg
Collins Bishop
Kitty
The
Grahams
Mac MacGregor
Randall Seaton
Mac Seaton
Mac
Maggie
Mag
Ben
Johnny
Randall
Peg Graham
Everbody
Tompkins
Mag Seaton
Rye
Lea
Eagle Scout MacGregor
Doremus
Point Rock News Notes Highlights From Friendship Garden Club
The Friendship Garden Club met with hosts Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Foster. Program covered Birds of the Bible with Jarret Bobo on pruning and Ginevra Foster on flats and seed boxes. Fifteen members attended with guests from Vinton Township Garden Club. Next meeting set for March at Mrs. Netta Gregory’s. Pot luck served. Local dog raid leads to a fatal dogfight. Meigs County Dog Warden involved. Various local visits and funerals noted. Rhubarb trains from Yorkshire to Low England mentioned as a seasonal detail.
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Point Rock
Friendship Garden Club
Alfred Foster
Birds of the Bible
Jarret Bobo
Ginevra Foster
Valentine
Walter Beckley
Vinton Township
Meigs County
Ora Nelson
Downie
John Radekin
Wanetta Radekin
Avanel
Athens
Lauren Hoffman
W. M. Morris
D. W. Morris
Clyde and
Clayton
Garnet Leo Morris
Aurora
Ind
Georgetown
D. Webb
Fernie Alexander
Columbus
Freda Kennedy
G. Harold Holcomb
East Canton
Pearl Bratton
Glen Farley
J. M. Bishop
Bratton
Earl
G. A. Radekin
Albany
W. P. Collins
Kenneth Collins
Kenneth, Jr
Bobbie
Charles McClain
Columbia Grange
Bartlett Social News Highlights From Bartlett Area
Social items from Bartlett show Mr. and Mrs. Frank Elliot hosting a Valentine dinner with guests including Mr. and Mrs. Lees Glass and others. A bridge contest awarded prizes to Mrs. Oliver Ormiston and Neil Williams, with consolation prizes to Mrs. Neil Williams and Oliver Ormiston.
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Neil Williams
Oliver Ormiston
Harold Goddard
Bartlett
Harold Gage
Dion Mona Birth
Mystery of Loss of Smelt Unexplained
A mysterious disaster destroyed millions of Great Lakes smelt a year ago and may prevent any catch this spring. The fisheries office reports the cause and extent are unclear and whether some fish will escape destruction and restore the industry remains a mystery.
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Washington
Great Lakes
Lake Michigan
Coordinator of Fisheries
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American Newspaper Publishers Association
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Ohio Newsoper Association
Associated Press
David Lawrence
National Dispatch
Syracuse,Ohio
Hitler Falls
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Brazil
U. S. Bureau of Standards
Congress
By Galbraith
Point Rock News
Yorkshire
England
William Graham
Newark
Newark Hospital
Albert Graham
Patten Mills
Dana Williams
Robert Graham
Mae Williams
Charles Sullivan
Marietta
Graham
Betty Williams
Bartlett High School
A. D. Ullman
Lincoln
Memorial Hospital
Abraham Robert
Patty Goddard
Frank Goddard
Chase C. King
Banner
Oklahoma
el Reno
Mr. King
Lizzie Goddard
Women's Society of Christian Service
Verle Rowland
Jr Rowland
A. B. Rowland
Harry Webster
George Webster
Carl Secoy
Herman Cummings
Rawson Gage
Florida
Ralph Gage
Seabees
Dult Tullis
Wilbur Morris
Pittsburgh
Barbara Tullis
Ramona Smith
Glenn Smith
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