Post Office Notices and Subscription Rates Listed
Brief items note second class matter status at Athens Post Office. Subscription options priced by region include one year four dollars fifty cents six months two dollars fifty and ten weeks one dollar six cents. Extra postage rates apply to other zones.
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Ations Representatives
Tece
Chicago
Athens
Gallia
Hocking
Ae 7Organ
Vinton
Wash
Ifc
Dies Committee report earns praise for steady civic stance
Raymond Clapper hails the Dies Committee report as calm, factual, and necessary. He argues it avoids scare rhetoric, defends democracy, and urges continued scrutiny of subversive activity while distinguishing real Communists and Fascists from political smears.
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Washington
Dies Committee
Congress
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Murphy
America
Ernest Weir
Fashions Out of Test Tubes Fashion Show Shines Industry Promise
A New York City event titled Fashions Out of Test Tubes showcased products from industrial research over the past five years. The display featured apparel and accessories made from glass, coal, tar, salt, oil camphor, soybeans, milk, and more, highlighting new uses for farmers surplus products and potential job growth for Americans. The piece argues industry farmer cooperation could secure future progress with support for industrial research.
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New York City
America
Winter’s Cruel Toll on Ohio Wildlife and Hunters
The article laments heavy wildlife losses in Ohio from starvation and cold over the last fortnight, noting few shelters for game and limited help from protectors, sports clubs, and farm youths. It argues winter devastates small wild life, blaming hunters and winter conditions alike.
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Ohio
Detroit’s first municipal police radio shown in 1928
The article notes Detroit installed the first city operated police radio in 1928 enabling short wave instructions to reach patrol cars. It states 900 American cities and 28 states use short wave for law enforcement linking officers quickly after crimes are reported. It argues criminals face tougher odds as science aids crime detection.
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Detroit
Stalin bears fault for Finland invasion and missteps
A wartime column blames Stalin for the Finnish front blunders and leadership shakeups. It notes Gen K A Meretskoff’s disgrace and Gen Grigory M Stern’s reassignment with Siberian reinforcements. The piece accuses Stalin of strategic errors while mocking a Communist paper for firing a movie critic over Gone With the Wind.
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Red Army
Stalin
Kremlin
K. A. Meretskoff
Grigory M. Stern
Finland
Scarlett
Bruce Catton Surveys Washington Scene
Bruce Catton weighs the alien question, printing, and passport rules while noting possible congressional action and Hull’s bid for influence. The piece flags immigration policy, passports, and trade treaties as key issues shaping the 1940 political landscape and political futures.
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Bruce Catton
Washington
Q and A: Reader information column from The Messenger
Questions cover gear ratios in autos to Kipling’s Tommy Atkins and energetic legal notices. Answers explain engine revolutions per wheel, women's occupations, British army nomenclature, parliamentary motions, southern cross, Alaska vs Texas, loch pronunciation, Yap money, Italian coffee duties, and 1938 motor fuel value.
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Women's Bureau
U. S. Dept. of Labor
Tommy Atkins
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Atkins
John Doe
Alaska
Texas
Yap
Italy
Athens County Issues 299 Marriage Licenses in Week
A roundup notes 299 licenses to wed issued by the Athens County Probate Court. Other items include Miss Margaret Snow resuming teaching duties in Columbus after visiting her parents, Orla Wolfe announcing the 1930 road program, and Athens High School teachers pressing for higher salaries. Ohio University basketball players listed for the Capital University game include Stockdale Newman Van Sickle Williams Earich.
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Athens County Probate Court
Margaret Snow
Columbus
Mrs
C. D. Snow
Ohio University
Capital University
Stockdale
Newman
van Sickle
Williams
Earich
Health Hints on Sulfanilamide and Sulfapyridine Use
The article reviews sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine as major medical advances proving effective against streptococcal infections influenza meningitis smallpox trachoma and secondary ear infections. It notes significant pneumonia death reductions and potential endocarditis use while warning of kidney stones anemia white blood cell suppression and bleeding risks with extended use in 1939.
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Boston
Chicago
Canada
Social Notes of Bashan Social Notes of Bashan
Mr and Mrs A H Bailey and Mrs Minnie Orr left Monday for Florida. Mr and Mrs Oscar Baker visited Mr and Mrs John Taylor. Youngest child of Mr and Mrs Floyd Cochran ill with whooping cough. Mr and Mrs Leo Eddy visited Grover and wife. Local farmers hauling water for livestock. Eliza Larkins of Long Bottom visited Dayton Hayman. C L Orrs spent Thursday with Roland Torrence and visited Lester McNamee. Raymond Ervin and family and S A Rairden spent New Year with Harlow Ervin. Miles Cross and Shirley Stobart visited H V Tucker. Maxine Bailey visited Oliver Bailey. J A Torrence visited Linnie Swan at Long Bottom.
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Dayton Hayman
C. L. Orr
Roland Torrence
Lester McNamee
Raymond Ervin
S. A. Rairden
Harlow Ervin
Miles Cross
Pearls Found In Oyster By Windsor Treasurer
Windsor Connecticut. George W. Bill treasurer of the Windsor Trust Co. found 47 pearls in a single oyster while dining at a friend's home. Most pearls pinhead size. three reached a quarter inch diameter.
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Windsor, Conn
George W. Bill
The
Windsor Trust Co
Beechwood Love Song From Northern Hunters
A reader poem tells of hunters traveling after furs in the North and meeting the chieftain’s daughter in beechwood attire. The tale laments losses, vows protection, and recalls a timeless Indian love pledge as autumn leaves linger and the moon shines on their fate. BESSIE M. GORSLENE!
Marriage Proposal in Wartime London Romance
Mary Carroll, an American fashion expert in wartime London, faces poverty and a life crisis after a failed job search. Dr Lenox offers a marriage of convenience to secure financial support, while Mary secretly loves Vincent Gregg. She seeks him in central London but discovers him with Carla Marchetta, a London socialite, at his lodgings, ending with a dramatic reunion complicating her choices.
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Mary Carroll
London
Vincent Gregg
Mary
Carla Marchetta
Frederices
Gilbert Lenox
Lenox
Dr. Lenox
Anna
France
Vin
Vincent
Oxford Street
Charing Cross Road
Trafalgar Square
National Gallery
Anna Winters
Moravia
Carla
Vincent Darling
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Uyer
Burt
Raymond Clapper
United States
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Pennsylvania
Senatorial Commission
U. S
State Department
Hull
Roosevelt
Garner
the Messenger
183Th Street
Washington, D. C
Messenger Bureau
Fred Guthrie
E. A. Guthrie
Orla Wolfe
Hocking County
Presbyterian Church
Geoffrey F. Morgan
Colonial
Siberia
Maria Grover
Athens High School
Board of Education
DR. Morris Fishbein
Bashan
By Galbraith
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Poet's Corner
Messenger
Bessie M. Gorslene
BY Ruth Ayers
NEA Service, Inc
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