The Athens Messenger and Herald Printing Co History
The Athens Messenger is a long established weekday newspaper with a Sunday edition. It is published by the Athens Messenger & Herald Printing Co with Gordon K. Bush as Publisher and Gen Maj Charlies H. Harris as Managing Editor. It lists professional affiliations and circulation details and provides subscription rates for multiple Ohio counties.
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Frederick W. Bush
Athens Messenger & Herald Printing CO
Gordon K. Bush
Charlies H. Harris
Tomorrow The Coal Operator and Coal Miner
The editorial compares a peacocking businessman's gloom to national recession woes. It notes inventories below par, raw material prices low, rising debt, and wage and hour legislation. It argues business leaders wait five years for hopeful action while government backing seems absent.
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America
No Time for Leisure If You Work Too Hard
An eastern woman home economics teacher argues that adults should prepare for retirement by enjoying leisure in later years. She suggests busy men burn out and die young, while those with support live longer and happier. The piece cautions against overwork and urges better self care for long life and family time.
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Joe
Terry
Public Opinion Split Over Wagner Act’s Future
A national poll by the American Institute of Public Opinion shows nearly twice as many favor changing the Wagner Act as oppose it. Regions with recent industrial troubles voted most against the law while the president’s cross country trip seeks votes from industrial states. The act's supporters and critics say it harms both business and labor, with public sentiment turning against federal intervention as idleness and mismanagement rise.
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American Institute of Public Opinion
Washington
Labor
Wagner
Haeng
President Roosevelts Recovery Program Address
Senator Wagner outlines the 1933-38 arc of the New Deal, praising FDR’s recovery program. He argues relief must continue with public works, warns against shifting burden to states, and promotes credit and slum clearance as engines of growth. He urges balanced public expenditure and unity across the nation.
Community Fourth of July Picnic Organizers Named
City Federation announces picnic leaders Mrs. O. C. Bird and six others. Dorothy Ann McVay returns to Cleveland after visiting her parents. Dr. T. R. Biddle named to a committee to notify Herbert Hoover of his Republican nomination at Palo Alto home.
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City Federation
O. C. Bird
R. W. Finsterwald
C. D. Giauque
S. M. Haffey
S. H. Bing
Frank R. Murphey
Dorothy Ann McVay
Cleveland
Supt
H. R. McVay
T. R. Biddle
Herbert Hoover
Palo Alto
Calif
Eighth Grade Graduation at Training School Highlights
Eighth grade graduation exercises featured performances by Jennie Graham and Pauline Schimpf on piano, Doris Henry and Janice Battin on violin, a reading by Foster Crumley, piano solos by Eleanor Bole, piano duets by Alice Phillips and Helen Peoples, a pantomime by Angella Woods, and a tableau by Ruth Mce Cormick Estella Russell and Elizabeth Woodworth. Headlines noted Allied forces advancing together and Arthur Sayre’s commission as ensign in the U S Navy. Recent Athens recruiting station enlistees include William Reeves Zaleski Homer Dixon Murray City Cameron Gillette Edwin Foraker Ath ens Jake Robinett Mineral Lloyd Wemmer Trimble Jesse Bean Guysville Donald Higgins Nelsonville.
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Jennie Graham
Pauline Schimpf
Helen Peoples
Labor
Doris Henry
Janice Battin
Foster Crumley
Eleanor Bole
Alice Phillips
Angella Woods
Ruth MceCormick
Estella Russell
Elizabeth Woodworth
Athens
William Reeves
Zaleski
Homer Dixon
Murray City
Cameron C. Gillette
Edwin B. Foraker
Jake Robinett
Mineral
Lloyd E. Wemmer
Trimble
Jesse W. Bean
Guysville
Donald G. Higgins
Nelsonville
Memorial Verse and Local News From Athens Ohio and El Centro
Poet readers submit verses with name and address as Messenger Readers column. A memorial tone describes Union Church on a hill near a cemetery and memories of parishioners. The death note reports Chinese rancher Yee Sule Ming, 54, of El Centro died after handling a rattlesnake sent to relatives in China.
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Messenger
Diesel Centro
Cal
Choate plants 50 acres of pines on Michigan farm
Fred C. Choate plans to educate youth of 2000 A D about pine forests by establishing a 50 acre stand on his 120 acre Greenville area farm near Greenville Michigan.
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Greenville
Mich
A. D
Michigan
Fred C. Choate
Public Forum letter submission guidance
The column invites signed contributions on current events and notes signatures will appear with each letter. It urges brevity to fit multiple letters in a single day.
Not Enough Christians Editor Letter Critiques Modern Churches
In a Messenger Forum letter H T Dewes from New Marshfield June 12 questions today’s churches. He denounces hypocrites in religious life, condemns modern church practices and mocks racketeering within faith groups. He contrasts Christ’s founding with 900 isms and asks what Christ’s church truly is.
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the Messenger
Ohio
Christ
Methodist
John
Charles Wesley
Lutheran Church
Martin Luther
Salvation Army
William Booth
Miles
Jesus Christ
End Revival At Bashan Ends With 26 Added
Rev Bush closed a successful meeting Sunday evening with 26 additions to the Bashan church. Several local residents and visitors attended social visits through the week, including Minnie Orr staying with Abbie Rose and multiple family gatherings around Syracuse and Bremen.
Joe Murray's Hard Road to Port Lansing
Joe Murray and his wife Terry drift apart as a shipyard boom ends. He seeks work in Port Lansing while she enrolls in night classes and hopes to join him. When layoffs hit, both face uncertain futures and distance grows, ending with a bleak fading hope as the chapter closes.
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Joe
Terry
Joe Murray
Port Lansing
Perspiration and Salt Loss in Heat Adaptation
The article explains how insensible and active perspiration regulate body heat, the salt loss in sweat, and the need for small salt replenishment for workers in extreme heat. It notes variations by season and individual adaptation, stressing fatigue risk and slower recovery with heat exposure.
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Morris Fishbein
United States
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Schwellenbach
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California
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Arthur Sayre
Judge
E. D. Sayre
United States Navy
Poet's Corner
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Earth
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Clara Louise Withers
R. D
the Public Forum
H. T. Dewees
New Marshfield
Bashan
George Clark
Cope
Germany
Einstein
Thomas Mann
Freud
International Exchange Bureau
Poland
Czechoslovakia
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William Corcoran
NEA Service, Inc
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