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Jene
Thens
Gallia
Hocking
Meigs
Morgan, Vinton
Wash
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Cleveland
Vilson River Carriers Seek Major Route Begin Scout Tour
The Vilson river project begins a scouting tour to map routes from La Mac to the coast. Officials report a 1 week march to gather support and inspect river conditions along the proposed path.
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Vilson
District school gardens aid future meal costs in WPA kitchens
In Southeastern Ohio and Athens County, school gardens run with WPA kitchens provide fresh vegetables and one daily meal for hundreds of children. A nationwide canning and storage push aims to feed school and playground kitchens as New Deal policies continue to shape relief efforts into next winter.
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WPA
Athens County
Ohio
Washington
Future readiness urged as farmers brace for postwar markets
A provincial editor urges Nelsonville farmers to diversify and modernize amid rising dairy and poultry prices. He warns against over-expansion, stresses education across counties like Gallia and Meigs, and calls for government heed to avoid a postwar market crash while noting the need for quality, efficient farms and continued livestock sales.
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Nelsonville
England
United States
Wall Street
Ohio
Gallia
Meigs
Ingenuity Drives Homemade Army Sight Aids
Two civilian soldiers, a young artillery captain and a Tennessee lieutenant, improvised a gun sight from pipe sections and mirrors due to a parts shortage. Testers praise its effectiveness, noting it surpasses standard equipment and costs only five to six dollars versus six hundred.
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Tennessee
Clapper Critiques House Tax Bill As Trimmed Yet Flawed
Raymond Clapper evaluates the new House Ways and Means Committee tax plan as a political trimming with higher rates hitting corporations and upper brackets. He notes a single filer with $10,000 income would pay near $1,500, while a $1,000 earner would owe only $15 under the proposed structure.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Tax Fairness and Inflation Risks in Proposed War‑Time Finance
The piece argues excise tax inequities from yachts to phonographs, warns Congress may cut taxes as debates unfold, and urges heavy taxation and defense spending to curb inflation. It notes rising debt, stronger earnings, shrinking supply, and inflation risk unless controls hold. It promotes tax anticipation notes to ease future tax payments.
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Ford
Congress
Defense
SMA Funds May Shield Food Stamp Plan From Cuts
Peter Edson notes Congress trims $13 million from the Surplus Marketing Administration budget for the coming year. He outlines how $222 million direct appropriations and related funds support the food stamp program, free food distribution, school lunches, and low cost milk while keeping expansion possible if policy shifts occur.
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Washington
Congressional Action
Surplus Marketing Administration
SMA
United States
Congress
Paul V. McNutt
Federal Security Administration
Milo Perkins
Long Bottom Social Notes
Long Bottom residents join Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Chambers for their 58th anniversary though rain kept lawn tables unused. Local society activities include quilting by the Methodist Church group with seven members and one visitor. Community updates note visits, travels, moves, and relatives across nearby towns and states.
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Long Bottom
W. D. Chambers
Woman's Society For Christian Service of the Methodist Church
A. C. Stout
Charlotte Coleman
Cora Swan
Eldon Smith
Detroit
Nolia Smith
Arthur Anderson
Belleville
Mattie Sherman
Smith’s Ferry
Roy
Cleveland
Major Powell
Saul Bigley
Powell
Grace Lowden
Youngstown
Georgia Dallas Jr
Salisbury
George Dallas
E. L. Miller
Methodist Church
J. C. Swan
H. C. Swan
C. S. Swan
Grantsville
W. Va
Arnott
Virgil Roush
Pittsburgh
Joe Bissell
Ravenna
C. M. Knight
Canton
Joan Clark
Harrisonville
Spelling Bee Meeting At Carpenter Grounds
The Spelling Bee Circuit Schools reunion gathered at State Farm Park Carpenter on Sunday July 6 with a noon picnic and program featuring the Pearl Chapel Quartet readings skits and music. Officers elected include C C Woodyard president G C Gorby vice president W H Hampton secretary and Cassie Caster Keziah Dye and P V Doe on the program committee.
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Carpenter
Bowers
Sharps
Reeves
Sugar Grove
Welsh
Pegtown
State Farm Park
Pearl Chapel
Cassie Caster
Alma Hudson
Nora Atkinson
Athens
Carpenter Quartet
Johnny Starkey
Mary Suzanne Dye
Flora Mae Douglas
Marilyn Kingan
C. C. Woodyard
G. C. Gorby
W. H. Hampton
Keziah Dye
P. V. Doe
Charles E. Kingan
Butler
Penn
Newt Woodyard
Myrtle Grady
Cincinnati
Ray Jordan
Virginia
Chillicothe
Arthur Woodyard
Columbus
E. E. Hull
Mount Vernon
Laurence Woodyard
Westerville
Great Bend Grange
Columbia Grange
E. A. McCall
Homer Welsh
Arthur Stewart
Bertha Welsh
Detroit
Canada
Akron
Youngstown
Stewart
Marion Douglas
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Thomas Brown
A. D. Morrison
Lucy Jo Dye
Celia Dye
John Dye
Bernice McCall
Lancaster
J. L. Rawlings
Charles McCall
Roy Wiseman
H. E. Starkey
Claire Steward
Dayton
Nan Caster
Chicago
Elda
Oma Starkey
H. T. Trainer
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Cecil Blackwood
Clarence Chapman
Wallace Holliday
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Holiday
Alvin Dye
Louis Smith
Freda Rawlings
Madge Jackson
Fort Gay
W. Va
Ann Discovers Her Father at Farmington Country Club
Ann meets John Marshall at breakfast revealing she is his daughter Jean Ann Marshall placed by a note from her mother. He confirms the link after contacting a New York orphanage. Ann plans to marry Ken Richards while Sally becomes part of a growing family network as secrets about her past surface.
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Farmington Country Club
Ann
Ken
Richmond
Jean
Sally
Jean Ann Marshall
Marshalls
New York
John Marshall
Jenny
Ken Richards
Farmington
Miranda
Ann Marshall
Ann Darling
Mr. Marshall
Mother
Marshall
John Mage
New Marshfield Junior W S C S Plans Meeting
The newly organized junior W S C S will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of President Miss Virginia Kennard. A garden club picnic brought together twenty six members and guests at the home of Mrs Luther Carr.
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New Marshfield
W.S.C.S
Virginia Kennard
Garden Club
Luther Carr
Charles Conkey
Barberton
A. B. Conkey
Everett Stewart
Hoon
Marylin
Betty Gibson
Kennedy
McLeod
Vickers
Stright
Albany
Lillie Hunter
Columbus Hospital
Dan Stright
Davey
Charleston
W. Va
Bernece McLeod
Margaret McKibben Roebuck
Marie Young
Hattiesburg
Miss
Young
Guy Dinsmore
Lenore
Ruth Dinsmore
Harold Flanders
Huron
June Dinsmore
Charles Powell
Astoria
Long Island
Powell
Helen Stright
Janet Russell
Columbus
Pauline Withers
Richard Burkett
Guy Burkett
Gene Ridenour
Fredericktown
Kenneth Russell
H. W. Whitlatch
John M. Barron
Findlay
Barron
Joseph Barron
Andrew Fenski
Steubenville
Nora Ewing
Francis Nichols
Burkett
Joe Gully
Carbondale
James Steed
Dayton
Martha J. Baughman
Wm. Elliott
Freddie Elliott
Paul Elliott
Cleveland
Faye McNeal
Helen Gully
Nora Frank
Dorothy
Margene
Athens
Dora Hoak
John Graham
Dora Conkey
Wendall Bridge
Springfield
F. L. Bridge
Mae Woodyard
Mary Shaulig
Bridge Supper Honors Miss Christine Dailey at Country Club
Mrs William Smiley hosted a bridge supper at the Country Club honoring Miss Christine Dailey of Los Angeles California. The report notes a gala Fourth of July with 5000 attendees at the Athens County Fairgrounds sponsored by the K T Crossen Post American Legion. Additional dinners and outings involve Marjorie Poston and Ellen Biddie with various Columbus and Lake Erie connections.
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William Smiley
Country Club
Christine Dailey
Los Angeles
Calif
Athens County Fairgrounds
K. T. Crossen Post
American Legion
Marjorie Poston
Athens Visitors and Local Figures Gather in Brief
Twenty years ago John B. Swanson left for Chicago to spend ten days in furniture markets. Congressman I M Foster and Ruth of Washington DC visited Athens with Ruth staying to visit relatives the Misses Peoples while I M Foster returned to Washington. Francis A Lavelle led the K T Crossen American Legion in the city. Kiwanis Club of Athens took fifty Athens County Children’s Home youths on an automobile ride.
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John B. Swanson
Chicago
I. M. Foster
Ruth
Washington, D. C
Athens
Uth Foster
Mary
Helen Peoples
Foster
Washington
Francis A. Lavelle
K. T. Crossen American Legion
Kiwanis Club of
Athens County
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