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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1932
Page
4
A young housekeeper seeks the secret of smooth hosting and outlines two core rules. Prepare in advance non perishable foods, select items with good keeping quality, and plan serving to keep calm. Maintain an orderly kitchen and stack dishes efficiently to simplify each course.
The Alexander Hamilton Institute reports early signs of a brighter industrial outlook. It notes manufactured goods prices are falling faster than raw materials, narrowing the gap and potentially restoring purchasing power and boosting business activity soon.
New Jersey faces a quirky payroll puzzle as Quartermaster General E. Edward Murray earns only $1 a year after a $6000 salary was replaced. State law requires semi monthly checks, prompting auditors to figure how to divide a dollar into 24 equal parts without underpaying or overpaying the official.
Public safety piece urges parents to supervise children near water and avoid swim sites without lifeguards or with strong currents. Highlights dangers at beaches pools and rural spots and calls for teaching children to swim and careful supervision to reduce drownings this summer.
District drivers complain detours remain unsafe and poorly managed through winter. They urge contractors to provide smooth, well marked detours with flagmen where needed and to clear dirt and mud that worsen dangers for fast traffic and long trips to Columbus via Nelsonville and Logan.
The piece defends democracy against claims of total failure. It argues government cannot be removed from society and that democracy rests on preserving human rights while admitting past excesses. It cautions debt and taxation burden the consumer and calls for a balance of limited government with strong personal responsibility.
A Bible verse opens a reflection on healing and peace. The piece contrasts an old saying about women with modern credit use. It mentions a contract bridge player suing for divorce after spanking his wife for not returning a lead, noting his aim to normalize spanking in married life.
CHICAGO July 1 Every world series has its goal remembers Fred Merkle and every football season a booby prize hero. The Democratic convention's main oratorical artillery was Senator Clarence Dill whose second speech drew a mighty chorus of boos eclipsing Garfields at the GOP convention. Dill fumbled for explanation and was an undeniable goat as Walsh won the nomination. Clarence Darrow recalls Mugwumps and Horace Greeley.
Ohio University enrolled 32 religious groups this term led by Methodists with 845 students or 48 percent of the total. Christian Church and Presbyterian Church follow. Mrs. W. L. Kessinger of Kansas City is en route to New York to sail for Porto Rico where her husband serves as island auditor. Kiwanis Club bought 100 dollars worth of equipment for the Athens Playground. Elks Funfest set for July 4 after a joint meeting with women’s groups and the American Legion. A heat wave is forecast with a 92 degree high expected Friday. The K T Crossen Post No 21 American Legion will discuss a women’s auxiliary at the Athens Chamber of Commerce rooms Friday.
Mrs William Howard Taft rode from Washington to Baltimore to observe two sessions of the Democratic National Convention occupying Norman E Mack’s box. About 90 summer school students visited the Experiment Station at Carpenter for agricultural information. Township trustees met in the Courthouse law library. Athens miners’ rail service to Sugar Creek resumed. Equal Suffrage Club plans countywide campaign. W R Phillips family moved to Amesville farm for summer.
The speaker recalls torch-light parades from youth when politics were shaped by drums and flambeaux. No speeches or parties discussed, only cheering crowds and night parades guiding impressionable hearts. Time dulls the fond memory, but the imagery endures.
Athens Ohio June 20 1932. His wife Dolly aged 23 was putting their four-year-old daughter Bonnie to bed when the killing was done. Mrs Corinne Ward from Parma Idaho sends a pamphlet titled Prohibition Facts Questions and Answers claiming Prohibition reduced crime and prosperity and eliminated illicit drink production. The pamphlet contrasts with party platforms.
A Jacksonville Ohio letter from a miner’s wife describes hunger and poverty after a strike, blaming loss of the union for high bills, poor clothes, and dangerous working conditions. She argues for unity at home and in labor, calling for Christian help and a return to collective bargaining.
In Chicago a reader argues that the Democratic platform misdiagnoses national troubles as Republican postwar errors and asserts the real fault lies with humanity's founding of the war itself.
The writer opines Governor Roosevelt of New York will be the Democratic nominee. The piece mocks a Stop Roosevelt campaign as a playful Stop Locomotive analogy, noting broad sympathy for the bull in the anecdote.
At a national convention Bernard Baruch is seen in the restaurant speaking with solemnity to "Alice" who is clearly Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth, creating a vivid portrait of personal intrigue amid the event.
George Brooks, 39, of 162 Kenilworth Avenue Calumet City, was shot as he fled his home. The small time liquor peddler may have been poaching on another bootlegger’s territory.
Chicago faces concern over many new small banks opening rapidly. The note warns that about 250 bankers in one area may enter the field without the required training, likening them to 250 young lawyers starting up across 250 villages.
The Messenger urges careful planning on East State Street widening and highway entrances. It criticizes billboards and roadside signs, calls for attractive town fronts with trees set back, fresh paint, wider streets, and removal of dilapidated shacks to avoid future regret.
Dr Morris Fishbein notes cerebrospinal meningitis outbreaks in 1932 Egypt England Hong Kong and Russia since 1929 US cases rise then fall. He says ordinary vaccination is not advised. nasal sprays and mouth washes lack proven value. Specific curtaine serum treatment lowers deaths and prevents paralysis when diagnosis is made.
The article recalls how infant deaths rose in summers due to dirty bottles and unsafe milk, noting past ignorance about germs. It contrasts old habits with modern hygienic knowledge, sterilization, multiple bottles, and safer formulas that give today’s babies a real chance to survive.
Commentary decries price supports and slaughter economics as hog prices and market turns affect farmers. It notes Chicago packers and shippers selling hogs, while many unsold, and mocks social class labels tied to figures like Bernard Baruch Jesse Straus and Roosevelt allies.
John Lasko of Chicago withdraws his $1000 from a savings bank and, after meeting a woman named Anna, drinks a round at her flat on Bishop Street. He swallows the round and wakes with a headache to find the money gone, leaving him penniless and the police called.
Mr Jerry Martin 71 and wife Jane Gooding Martin revisited the Tedrow Bridge log house where they were wed fifty years ago on Raccoon Creek Knox Township Vinton County. They toured with Elza Wood and family of Athens and reaffirmed their marriage vows. Martin, a longtime Vinton Count Recorder and former deputy treasurer, is a MacArthur K of P member.
Athens County Probate Judge 8 M Johnson determines an inheritance tax of 245.39 on the Amanda Wells estate. The total estate value is 1474.43 with 6417.24 taxable. An inventory for the 1438 Wingett Hall estate has been filed in Probate Court.
Allen Wolfe aged 46 of Kimberly and Bertha Schoonover aged 29 of Nelsonville applied for a marriage license.
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