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Abe
Ohio
The
Messenger
Boterac
Athens
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Columbus
Cleveland
International peace plan eyed as postwar world grows
WASHINGTON creates draft for a new world body modeled after the League of Nations. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators backs a constitution that preserves sovereignty while giving small nations representation. Critics urge focus on defeating party politics and preventing another rise of Hitler.
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Washington
U. S
League of Nations
Executive Council
Great Britain
Russia
China
United States
Dangers of Postwar Taxation Revealed in Public Debate
A discussion argues taxes are transfers to government with little effect on purchasing power but warns heavy taxation suppresses incentives. It urges moderate taxes to fund essential services without crippling national prosperity and warns against overly ambitious postwar project spending.
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Adam Smith
Italy
Minturno
War Waste and Housing Glut After War Ends
The piece argues a global surplus of war materiel and housing will provoke a national debate. It cites a five million dollar eastern plant’s ghost town with 1200 vacant homes and Navy approved housing projects halted by the war’s end. It notes vast stores of equipment, planes, guns and the question of repatriating or leaving them overseas. Farmers could benefit from rusting harvesting gear in Africa.
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Federal Housing Agency
Navy
Sam
Africa
Degrelle seen in Brussels Nazi salute in armored car
A wartime news photo shows Belgian figure Leon Degrelle in a Nazi uniform in a Nazi armored car during a Brussels demonstration. He salutes with an outstretched arm while his young son and daughter stand beside him as onlookers reflect on the future shame of the moment.
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Occupied
Europe
Quisling
Leon Degrelle
Brussels
Degrelle
Public housing debate frames costs and policy options
Peter Edson outlines arguments for and against publicly financed housing. He notes the high projected housing needs, subsidy costs to taxpayers, and the dispute over whether Uncle Sam should subsidize rents or withdraw from housing markets.
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United States
Uncle Sam
John B. Blandford, Jr
Blandford
Rome at stake as Allies press toward Italian capital
The article reports near Rome furious fighting with doughboys within sight of the old Holy See. It notes Allied efforts to spare Rome, quotes Hull and Roosevelt, and discusses German defenses under Kesselring and the possibility of an Allied landing on the Corsican coast that could isolate Berlin’s forces.
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Romet
St. Peter’s
Holy See
Pius
Rome
Hull
Roosevelt
de Velera
Eire
Churchill
Italy
Alban
Kesselring
Berlin
Corsica
Hitler
Answers and Questions from a History Q A Card
A set of trivia items covering George Washington rank, Cy Young wins, Red Cross history and number of societies, wartime flavorings, and the meaning of maru in Japanese ship names. The closing lines honor past wars and valor of veterans.
Public Forum on Washington's Presidency and Term Limits
The letter quotes Edward Everett on Washington to compare past unwritten law for terms with today’s situation. It questions who could pilot the state if a second term is challenged and notes public fear of presidential aspirants. The writer cites Farley and FDR era politics and asks what would happen if anything befell the current leader.
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Roosevelt
Hull
Hitler
France
Britain
Germany
United States
America
Atlantic
Baldwin
Blum
Rhine
Rhineland
World Organization
the Messenger
Edward Everett
Washington
Jim Farley
Alban
F.D.R
Congress
Arnold Winkelried
Lee
Women Riveters Face Work Life in War Plant
An insider portrait from a WWII factory shows young women on assembly lines in a training school, debating quitting, asserting rights, and joking with foremen. The narrator longs to move from bucking to drilling on the X-O assembly, while colleagues balance boredom, pride, and tensions of shifts.
Radcliff Personal News Covers War Relatives and Local Life
Radcliff notes list soldiers on furlough and in transit from the South Pacific to California camps. Local families, including the Bacus and Burns clans, visit relatives, move houses, and attend to chores. Mary Lou Pierce heads to Ohio University after finishing school. other residents seek work in Columbus and Athens. An oyster opener from London is noted for opening 10 oysters per minute.
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South Pacific
Satuday
Kenneth Queen
Karen
Belpre
Dwight McLaughlin
Dwight
Duane
Margaret Ann
E. Pierce
Mary Lou
Jean
Ardath
J. L. Barnes
John Hocter
Raymond Barnes
Dwight McLauchlin
Wilkesville
Gheer’s Mill
Ernest D. Pierce
Ft. Custer
Mich
Calif
Mary Lou Pierce
Carbon Hill High School
O. U
John Elmer Bacus
Columbus
John Bacus
John Bacus, Jr
Clarence Bacus
Obetz
James Faulk
D. H. Jeffers
D. A. Radcliff
Iron Bridge
Virgil Burns
Samuel and
Mahala’ Burns
Burns
Canada
Alaska
Geo. Burns Sr
James
Martha
Lowell Burns
Job Bowen
Doris
Wm. Sizemore Jr
Alma Queen
Radcliff
Bessie McGhee
Naomi Faye
New Plymouth News Briefs
Local notes report Marion Frantz visiting Pomeroy and various trips by residents such as the Siglers of Columbus and Heinleins to Bremen Logan Creole and McArthur. Church events, reunions, skirmish souvenirs from a war era, and a Decoration Day gathering are listed along with visits by Miss Opalant of Cleveland and others.
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New Plymouth
Marion Frantz
Pomeroy
Raymond Sigler
Columbus
Roy Sigler
Earle Heinlein
Bremen
Logan
Fred Mowrey
Ethel
Mary Hixinbaugh
Wellston
Elmer Hixinbaugh
Stanley Miller
Carol Huggins
Dorothy King
Liverly
Helen Fuller
S. M. Heinlein
Mattie Heinlein
Opalant
Cleveland
Grant Wharf
Charlene
Christine Boring
Jean Smith
Christian Church
McArthur
Helen
Marguerite
Frances Ann Fuller
Bertha Fuller
Lloyd Evans
Nelsonville
Earle Frantz
John Mowery
John Karns
Creole
Church Fellowship
Clarence H. Jones
Larry
Rheinscheid
Jones
Flossie Monks
Mary
Ruth
Annie Hawk
Junior Fuller
Calvin Heinlein
England
Frank Cherry
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
C. H. Jones
Hamden
Poet’s Corner Tribute To WWI Soldiers
Messenger Readers contribute verses praising World War I servicemen and recalling their sacrifices. The poem laments the neglect of the boys who fought to defend democracy, noting gas warfare, wounds, and casualties in France and Flanders. It invokes Old Black Jack’s imagined influence over future generations.
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France
Flanders Field
Taylor Ridge Church Women Meet in Jacksonville
Taylor Ridge notes show the Ladies Aid Society of Taylor Ridge Church of Christ meeting at Mrs Bertha Heffkens home in Jacksonville for a June business and social session. The spread includes numerous visiting relatives and neighbors from Springfield Columbus Amesyville Cleveland Camp Howze Texas and other local connections with family ties and greetings through the week.
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Taylor Ridge
Ladies Aid Society
Church of Christ
Bertha Heffken
Jacksonville
Charles Headley
Springfield
John Davis
Fred Heffken
Raymond Davis
Columbus
Evan Davis
Cora Davis
Geraldine Nagle
Amesyville
P. B. Chalfant
Jeanne Stover
Cleveland
Cleo Cavey
Robert Cavey
Camp Howze
Texas
Pearl Kioh
Herbert
Robert Hanning
Florence Hildebrand
Coene
Seond
Nedy
Rodney Caster
Forest Kelly
Isons
Robert
Billy
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Red Cross
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Howell, Soskin, Inc
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Annie
Maisie
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Chillicothe
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London
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