The Athens Messenger masthead and publishing details
The notice lists publication lineage from 1820 to 1929 with W Bush as publisher and Charles H Harris as managing editor. It notes daily weekday editions except Saturday, associations, and 1918 act entry for postal matters. Subscription rates show various regional prices and mail terms.
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W. Bush
Athens Ssenger & Herald Nting
O. Gordon K. Bush
Gen. Mer
Charles H. Harris
Enter
Tina
Newspaper Publishers Association, Ohio Adit
Ohio Newspaper Association
Inland Daily Press Association
Education shifts from old schooling to targeted training
The piece argues that traditional schooling is fading as vocational needs rise. Employers shape qualification standards, illiteracy persists in the country and Southeastern Ohio, and future decades should tighten education to reduce national confusion and better prepare workers.
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United States
Ohio
Nobel Peace Prize Still Without a Champion
The 1939 peace prize remains withheld by the Nobel committee. Sven Hedin proposes using about $90,000 from 1939 and 1940 prizes to aid Finns in their war with Russia, a move critics call satire on world leaders' peace efforts. Pope Pius XII is singled out as a consistent advocate for peace amid sparse leadership.
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Sven Hedin
Russia
Pope Pius XII
Roosevelt
Pope Pius
the Messenger
James A. Farley
Democratic National Committee
Columbus Dispatch
New York Herald Tribune
Congress
N.lr.a
Farley
United States
Republic
Supreme Court
N.I.R.A
A. H. Dixon Westerville, O
10 000 Buyers See Hope in Chicago Merchandising Mart
The piece notes 10,000 furniture buyers gathering in Chicago for the annual merchandising mart. It argues confidence plus revived business activity could spur home construction and employ more workers, suggesting the economy has not yet peaked and joblessness may ease as production strengthens.
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Chicago
Paris Fashion Shifts From War Motifs To Lace and Satin
Paris designers abandon military uniforms for spring and summer gowns featuring lace embroidery and satin. The new crop emphasizes feminine elegance over military style as real uniforms flood European streets, suggesting fashion centers return to ladylike silhouettes while war news lingers.
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Parisian
Paris
Europe
Russians Need a Bath Says Silent War Cartoon
The piece jokes that Russians require a massive bath with water and soap to end the conflict and notes prisoners being cleaned by Finnish captors. It suggests fresh linen, clean clothes, and burning old garments as a cure for their troubles.
Air travel reshapes American life as planes rival rails
Amarillo column surveys how safer airlines influence business travel and small towns. It applauds airline safety, speed, and comfort, notes the automobile’s hollowing effect on small cities, and predicts widespread shift to air travel as distance collapses and rail travel lags.
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Amarillo
Tex
United States
Automobile Hall
America
Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas City
Air Lines
Pullman
Bruce Catton Surveys Washington Scene
Bruce Catton reports on the Civil Aeronautics Authority decision shaping transatlantic service with American Export Airlines seeking Rome rights versus Pan-American Airlines expansion and new European planes. Hearings closed, next step CAA. The piece also notes House opposition to the National Resources Planning Board funding and a pension case for Mrs. Ella Crider tied to the 56th Illinois Mechanic Fusiliers.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Authority
America
American Export Airlines
Rome
CAA
Pan-American Airlines
American Export
Europe
Pan-American
National Resources Planning Board
NRPB
FDR
Robert Corbett
Ella Crider
Pittsburgh
Questions and Answers from The Messenger Bureau
The page presents a Q and A column from The Messenger Bureau offering concise responses. It covers Social Security minimum benefit, grammar on grits, pig tails, commemorative half dollars, a 1939 speed record aircraft, and Lombardy poplar value, with brief factual answers and sources.
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Messerschmidt
Nutritious diet for expectant mothers urged
A nutritionist emphasizes that the unborn child’s growth relies on the mother’s diet. A daily plan includes milk, fruits, vegetables, eggs, lean meat or liver, fish occasionally, whole grains, butter, cod liver oil, and six to eight glasses of water. The letter from A H Dixon of Westerville, Ohio, discusses political concerns and calls for awareness of national emergency powers.
English Families Nail Horseshoes Over Doors
In EAST SUFFOLK England families display horseshoes over doors as wartime luck charms. Demand rises as mothers sweethearts and wives seek protection. blacksmiths report supply shortfalls with hundreds of houses bearing a nailed shield for luck.
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East Suffolk
Eng
Suffolk
Uck
The Captain's Daughter in a Canal Boat Feud
Dan Donovan clashes with Tommy Ryan over Marie La Porte as bargemen and truckers fight over stolen phosphate cargo. Bat La Porte confronts the rival gang. Marie abducts into the Molly as Dan pleads for her safety. The scene ends with Dan and Marie entering Bat's barge as Tommy vows trouble.
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Marie LA Porte
Dan Donovan
Marie
Tommy Ryan
Lynda Martin
Dan
Baptiste LA Porte
Larue’s
Bat la Porte
Jerry McGuire
Bat
Tommy
South Street
Oath Street
Pier 6
Pop
Poet’s Corner Verses from Messenger Readers
Poet’s Corner invites readers to submit verses bearing name and address. The fragment describes winter scenes with vivid images of icy patterns on windows, silver trees and crystalline flowers, ending with a signature line and a note about a fight in Columbus.
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Messenger
King Winter
Laura B
Foster
Columbus
Mineral Social And Personal Close Up
Mineral society notes report on lunch program leaders Sylvia Addis and Frances Reeves attending an Athens meeting on employment. Local residents Orland Ely and companions toured Barberton, while Ray Bailes of Albany and John Lynch aided Bailes farm work. Delayed obituaries note Mrs. Wallace Pratt and Mary E. Graft deaths, with Mrs. Bolen’s illness anticipated. Revival at M E Church continues amid cold. Grace Lowry ill. Inez McWhorter from Lima visiting Mineral friends and relatives.
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Sylvia Addis
Frances Reeves
Department of Employment
Athens
Orland Ely
Barberton
Miss Clark
Ohio University
George Clark
Ray Bailes
Albany
Mineral
John Lynch
Bolen
Harvey Chesser
Vinton County
Bethel Church
Richard Wilson
New Marshfield
Miss Withers
M. E
Grace Lowry
Inez McWhorter
Lima
C. M. Buckley
William Sickels
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