The Athens Messenger masthead and contact notes
Publisher and editor details for The Athens Messenger and Herald Printing Co appear with staff names Gordon K Bush and Charles B Harris. It lists association memberships, circulation networks, and advertising policy. Subscription rates are shown: 1 year $4.50, 6 months $2.50, 10 weeks $1.00, 4 weeks 50 cents.
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Prederick W. Bush
Athens Messenger & Herald Printing CO
Gordon K. Bush
Charles BH. Harris
Mat
Ohio
Cost of auto accidents hits major toll on the nation
Last year traffic crashes cost motorists eight tenths of a cent per mile and totaled over a billion and a half dollars for property damage wage losses and medical bills. With billions of miles driven the cost per mile neared one cent and the aggregate expense reached about $13 per person. Yet the right to drive remains unquestioned as unfit and reckless driving costs climb.
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America
PREFER THEM FEMININE
The piece recalls Amelia Bloomer a century ago proclaiming women’s right to wear more comfortable attire. It contrasts her daring dress with modern shorts and long bobs, arguing that today’s men prefer women who embrace femininity and reveal less rather than more.
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Amelia Bloomer
Amelia
Bloomer
Splendid Season Forecast for Southeastern Ohio Crops
The article notes a wet spring and early summer heat boosting growth in Southeastern Ohio. It predicts overproduction of essentials and rising meat prices due to livestock shortages, with households able to store food and farmers benefiting. City dwellers may feel less impact while rural residents gain financial relief from stronger harvests.
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Ohio
Hypnotized by the typewriter and the letter writer boss
A writer notes the American business man’s fondness for letters and the efficient operation of the typewriter. He argues that propaganda mimeographed by stenographers clutters wastebaskets and that skilled typists could express ideas more briefly and speedily, potentially leaving bosses without their own names on doors.
Washington Interior Building cafeteria china sparks furor
The new Interior Building in Washington houses 26 100 pieces of china in its cafeteria raising fears of a Yellow Peril furor. In Australia land crabs steal lost golf balls while in the United States the loser often is the crab. Dueling disqualifies candidates in seven states but winners face sword points after elections.
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Washington
Australia
Farm bill clues stir House Agriculture panel
In Washington the House farm bloc grills Agriculture Secretary Wallace over the omnibus farm bill. A leaked view suggests a split of benefit payments with corn farmers getting about half and others including wheat cotton tobacco and peanuts sharing the rest.
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Washington
House
Agriculture
Wallace
House Agriculture Committee
Young Democrat Turns Socialist Amid Patronage Talk
A midwest congressman recalls a Knoxville Tennessee attorney once backed for a government project who recently declared he had become a Socialist. He said all his associates are Socialists and would not seek patronage. The lawmaker joked about getting endorsement from Norman Thomas to obtain jobs, but the man stayed true to socialism.
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House
Knoxville
Tenn
Norman Thomas
Abolish the Assistant Secretary of War Says Hugh Johnson
Hugh Johnson argues that the office should be abolished as a relic of World War I. He notes the independent authority over industrial mobilization and procurement complicates Civil War style reform. Johnson traces the office’s origins to wartime splits and argues for a centralized, coordinated War Department.
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Washington, D. C
Administration
Congress
Army
War Department
Pellmell
Navy
Edward Stettinius
Stettinius
General Crowder
New War Industries Board
France
War Industries Board
Department of Government
Thunderstorm Poem By Eleanor Sewell
Poet's Corner readers contribute verses with name and address. Thunderstorm describes jagged green-gold light ripping the sky, loud thunder rolling, rain soaking the ground, and flowers bowing as the storm passes, signed Eleanor Sewell.
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Messenger
Arthritis Patient Care Emphasizes Rest Diet and Therapy
Guidance recommends rest to fight fatigue and infections, fresh air and sun, a vitamin rich diet, massage and hygiene. It notes avoiding alcohol and overeating carbs, dispels myths about strawberries or citrus causing arthritis, and discusses vaccines and non specific protein shock, heat therapy, and possible spa-based treatment away from home.
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United States
District Tales of Long Ago
MALCOLM HARTLEY relates Pomeroy history from 1819 to 1880 noting Horace Horton as mayor from 1841 to 1842 with S. S. Payne preced ing him possibly as first mayor. town growth began 1833 with Horton mills and incorporation as a village in 1841 and later as a city in 1868. population peaked in 1870 at 5824, then 5560 in 1880.
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Malcolm Hartley
Anna Mott
Columbus
Horace Horton
Pomeroy
Meigs County
S. S. Payne
Horton
Payne
Dunham
Hortons
Miss Anna Pearl McVay Visits Family in City
Miss Anna Pearl McVay dean of Wadleigh High School New York City arrived to be guest of her brother Superintendent H R McVay 158 N Congress St. Prof and Mrs Emmet Rowles and children left Minneapolis Minn Mrs Paul M Gillilan Mary Evans and daughter Ann Schenectady N Y arrived to spend part of the summer with Mrs Gillilan's father Mr Griffith H Evans 18 Maplewood Drive Dr and Mrs C F Love Grace Walker Akron were the guests of Dr Love's parents Friend Love 91 W State St.
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Anna Pearl McVay
Wadleigh High School
New York City
H. R. McVay
N. Congress St
Paul M. Gillilan
Mary Evans
Ann
Schenectady
N. Y
C. F. Love
Grace Walker
Akron
Dr. Love
Mrs
Friend Love
W. State St
Social notes highlight birthdays visits and teas
Twenty years ago Mrs. M. B. Banks visited Fort Benjamin Harrison with her husband. The Red Cross sewing squad met as scheduled. Mrs. Mary C. Crippen and Mr. Edward C. Schloss were honored at a double birthday party. Mrs. Schloss hosted a dinner for eight. Elizabeth Edmundson celebrated her seventh birthday with guests and a tea at Mrs. Worstell’s home honoring Mrs. Albert J. Jones of California and Mrs. Roger J. Jones. Additional guests included Mrs. Hardesty and Mrs. Skinner visiting from Charleston and Marietta.
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Mary C. Crippen
Edward C. Schloss
Schloss
Elizabeth Edmundson
J. Clyde Edmundson
Gertrude Addicott
Elaine Roe
Charline Martin
Frances Pickering
Frances Starr Turner
Grace Wood
Anna Mae Fenzel
Mary Ellen Wood
Dana Riley
Eva Harbaugh
Josephine Kircher
Mary Kircher
Virginia Larimer
Margaret Gorham
Josephine Jones
L. G. Worstell
M. E. Twiss
Rheumatic patients seek warmer dry climates for relief
The text notes treatment time matters, water type at the resort is not crucial, and many mineral waters are mildly laxative due to salts. It suggests rheumatic patients tend to improve at health resorts with fairly warm dry climates.
Yesterday’s Promise Ends With Police Takeaway
Patricia Warren, secretary to actor-playwright Don Monteray, faces a dramatic turn when Don proposes and she defers her answer a day. Returning to her hotel she is seized by detectives and chased as a blond diamond suspect at police headquarters.
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Patricia Warren
Don Monteray
Trissy Warren
Pats
New York
Patricia
Rosamond Akers
Don
I’ll Get Her Across The Canadian Line By Morning
Pats confesses to Don she is his wife amid police intrigue. A district attorney questions her and a detective questions Don. Pats fears exposure as she fears the truth will unravel her disguises and danger intensifies.
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Pats
Monteray
Johnson
Don
Detective Johnson
Pat
Patricia
Avalon Hotel
Quotes and remarks on democracy and religion in history
A collection of quotes from Ken Murray on comedy politics and a series of high profile statements about religion church authority and national life. Notable lines include remarks by Joseph C McReynolds and Rev R A Jardine with Roosevelt on religious freedom and education.
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Roosevelt
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