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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jul 22, 1937

Page

4

Newspaper Subscription Rates and Advertising Offices

Advertising rates on application at Home or Foreign offices. Subscriptions: Carrier 15 cents weekly. By mail in Ohio one year 4.50 six months 2.50 ten weeks 1.00 four weeks 50 cents one week 15 cents. Includes listings with various association names and offices.

American Newspaper Publishers Association Ohio Audit Bureau of Circulation Ohio Newspaper Association Inland Daily Press Association John W. Cullen Company Chicago New York Detroit Cleveland

Redistributing Poverty and the New Deal Debate

This column critiques Roosevelt's push for an intensified drive to aid the Forgotten Man. It defends the profit and loss system, arguing redistribution via tax and state action harms production and warns that Hopkins and allies seek a rapid remaking of society that would deepen poverty.

Roosevelt Washington Harry Hopkins Hopkins

Prefer Coddlers or Patrols in Ohio Traffic Funding Debate

Ohio lawmakers grapple with highway patrol funding as revenue losses threaten enforcement on the roads. The public benefits from patrols curbing speeding, theft of license buyers, and crash risks. supporters urge more officers and sustained funding to maintain safety.

Columbus State Highway Patrol Ohio

Pointing the Way from Father Kessler Pulpit Talk

The Glouster parish pastor’s remarks to Boy Scouts urge parents and educators to guide youth toward citizenship. Scouting is praised for shaping character, with call to curb Communist influence and strengthen family guidance for impressionable ages.

Father Kessler Glouster Washington Church

New Deal at Crossroads as Old Guard Sways Washington

Raymond Clapper argues the New Deal era hinges on seasoned politicians like Garner Pittman Barkley and Harrison who shape fate of reforms. He suggests Roosevelt relies on experience to steer through constitutional clashes and salvage the program.

Washington Tom Corcoran Ben Cohen White House Jack Garner Key Pittman Barkley Pat Harrison Roosevelt Garners Pittmans Pat Harrisons Barkleys Congress Supreme Court Court Garner Pittman Harrison

Washington Court Orbiting Turmoil Echoes in Roosevelt Plan Talk

Washington commentary notes clashes between Carter Coal era limits and Fruehauf Trailer decisions, highlighting how lower courts feel bound by Supreme Court trends. It discusses potential court-plan shifts, resignations, and political maneuvering involving Roosevelt, Wheeler, Minton, and Bone amid Sen. Gillette reports and church Scouting ties.

Carter Coal Supreme Court Congress Fruehauf Carter Vs Carter Coal Co Fruehauf Trailer Company National Labor Relations Board United States Appellee James Vernon Company

A Home-Coming At The U B Church On Pomeroy Charge

A reader invites Congregation members to a home-coming at the white U B Church on the Pomeroy Charge in Enterprise. The notice calls for attendance August fifteenth in thirty seven with singing, prayers, food, and fellowship as old friends rejoin longtime worshippers at the country church. ALICE FRICK Pomeroy Ohio.

U. B Pomeroy Enterprise

The Rock of Unforgiveness

A poem about a rock of unforgiveness that blocks the path to higher heights and misleads travelers toward despair. It suggests lifting the stone reveals love from a glad heart and urges choosing forgiveness to avoid the wasteland.

Notable Floods of the Hocking Valley History

A historical recount of major floods hitting the Hocking Valley from 1873 to 1884. It covers the July 1873 deluge that inundated from Lancaster to the Ohio River, damaging Chauncey salt works and Garril Gould salt works at Salina, plus widespread harm to farms near Athens. It notes canal and railroad destruction, abandonment of the Athens to Nelsonville canal stretch, and subsequent floods in 1875 and 1884 that flooded gas works, levees, and rail lines, with two weeks to restore shipping.

Lancaster Ohio River Hocking Valley Salt Co Chauncey George T. Gould Salina Athens D. B. Stewart Joseph Herrold E. H. Moore John Ring Hiram Bingham Charles Henry Hocking Canal Hocking Valley Logan Nelsonville Ohio Central Marietta Cincinnati

Understanding vitamins and deficiency diseases

Dr Morris Fishbein explains how lack of essential vitamins causes specific deficiency diseases and how vitamins like A C and B act as chemical substances in the body. He notes substandard health relates to deficiencies and that full knowledge is needed to apply this for mankind's benefit. One horse power equals lifting 33 000 pounds one foot in a minute.

Morris Fishbein

Birthday party honors Martha Lou Dowler among friends

Martha Lou Dowler was honored by 12 friends at a birthday party. The items list acquaintances and visits across Ohio with mentions of Paul James Harold Junod and families in various towns. Other notes recall twenty years ago visits by Jack Quest and several relatives visiting relatives in multiple cities.

Martha Lou Dowler Jack Quest Nelsonville

Model Memorial Crated For Marietta Northwest Ride

Railroad officials received three large crates with a half size plaster model for Marietta’s memorial by the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum prepared the model near San Antonio and is to oversee quarrying and site prep at Muskingum Park, chosen as the memorial site.

Marietta Northwest Territory Celebration Commission Gutzon Borglum San Antonio Texas Bowery Muskingum Park Arthur St. Clair Northwest Territory

Rink to Defy Sun at Great Lakes Exposition

Construction has begun on a 4,000 square foot outdoor artificial ice rink for the Summer Winterland spectacle at the Great Lakes Exposition. The $200,000 production will be covered by two large canvases with a one foot air gap to shield the rink from sunlight.

Cleveland

Arsenic Taint Flows Into Glendive River

In Glendive Montana the Yellowstone River near town is polluted by several tons of arsenic spread to kill crickets. The contaminant has washed into the river and officials warn it could pose a risk if used for drinking or cooking.

Glendive Mont Yellowstone River

Derby Heirloom and a Debt Thwarted at Heart

Carol Clayton, engaged to Hartley Madison, falls for Duke Brad a bookmaker who funds her bets and owes a $76,000 debt from her father. Duke ropes Hartley into betting, Carol foils him, and at the Kentucky Derby she wins enough to clear the debt. On the return train she falls ill and Duke’s care deepens her belief in his love.

Carol Clayton Hartley Madison Duke Brad Duke Hartley Carol

Dark Room Sparks as Carol Confronts Duke and Hartley

Carol declares she is through with Hartley but Duke pushes for a plan to win her and ruin Hartley. Rosetta arrives with a tray and finds them at odds while Carol fights to break free. Duke taunts and plots to bring Hartley to Saratoga as Carol vows to act, anger fueling a risky hold on the situation.

Carol Hartley Rosetta Duke Mr. Duke Deligh Saratoga Jim c

Mrs Doyle Lets Another Patient Take Her Appointment

Mrs Doyle requests another patient receive her upcoming appointment due to a mid mystery. The column notes her generous gesture amid a puzzling situation.

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