The Athens Messenger Publication Details and Rates
The Athens Messenger established 1825 outlines publisher Frederick W. Bush and Gordon K. Bush with Sharnes H. Barris as managing editor. It serves Athens and surrounding counties, reports circulation around 100000, and lists subscription rates including weekly carrier 15 cents and yearly mail 4.60.
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Frederick W. Bush
Athens Messenger & NG CO
Gordon K. Bush
Sod Oak
Sharnes H. Barris
Ohio
Geogre Ie
Entereo
Athens Post Office
Matip
Senate to Probe Racketeering in Major Cities
The Senate approved a broad investigation into racketeering in America’s largest cities. A detailed, tabulated knowledge base is needed to craft effective corrective measures and new legislation. Investigators this summer and fall are trusted to uncover facts and shape a crippling national response.
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Senate
America
Independence Day Toll Warns Against Careful Living
A July Fourth holiday forewarns about many accidental deaths from fireworks drowning and car accidents. The piece notes individuals feel immune, yet fate can strike any reader, urging caution though unlikely to change the toll.
Benefits of benefits ice cream social season noted
The piece notes a pattern of frosty June weather followed by hot spell and marks the ice cream social as a fundraising staple. Groups seek funds for worthy causes, while volunteers cook and patrons enjoy desserts, benefiting ministers and youth farm clubs alike.
Revision Talk Grows on Federal Tax Reforms in Congress
Discussion in Congress centers on wholesale revision of federal tax laws to equalize the burden among millions of taxpayers. Calls rise for a general sales tax to replace nuisance taxes and reduce income taxes, amid pressure after a drawn out budget balancing effort and lingering public works financing debates.
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House of Morgan
Congress
Treasury
Red Tape Delays New Deal Public Works in Ohio
The Roosevelt administration expects a positive response from New Deal measures but warns sweeping changes will take time. In Ohio and other states the public works program and NRA reemployment won’t cut poor relief for months. About two million in Ohio are unemployed, over a tenth on relief, with aid rising daily. Public works can curb relief only after extensive legal hurdles are cleared, likely eight to ten months before effects appear.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Ohio
Better Salesmanship for Small Town Commerce
The article argues that salesmanship matters as much in small towns as in cities and that improved study of sales science would boost local business. It asserts sales success depends on practical, not idealistic, approaches and that many failures come from poor selling methods.
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Tomer
Dear Miss Dix on a Wayward Son at College Age
Dorothy Dix counsels a widow mother about a 17 year old son resisting schooling. She urges patience through adolescence, warns against harsh punishment, and suggests delaying college funding while the boy gains work experience.
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Miss DIX
Honeymoon Return News and Local Reports
Mrs. P. C. Nichols and Florence Carr returned from a honeymoon trip by automobile. Twenty-five Athens area dentists attended the Redwinkel Dentist Society quarterly meeting with Dr. G. H. Williamson speaking. Herbert R. McVay was elected Marion county superintendent of schools. Miss Mary People, delegate from Ohio Alpha Chapter of Pi Beta Phi, left for Estes Park on behalf of the binennial convention.
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Mrs. P. C. Nichols
Florence Carr
Athens
The
Redwinkel Dentist Society
G. H. Williamson
Herbert R. McVay
Marion
Mary People
Ohio
Pi Beta Phi
Estes Park
Prices Rise for Domestic Coal and Local Developments
Domestic coal prices move up with Hocking lump at a 5 cent July advance and 10 cent August, Pocahontas increasing 25 cents per ton from July 1. Notable local items include Herrold Bridge nearing completion under Engineer Creamer, Ben Greet Players to appear in Athens, and social and educational notes from Athens Ohio.
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Pocahontas
Herrold Bridge
West Union Street
Creamer
Greatest Showman Horizontal Puzzle Clues and Names
A fragmented puzzle item lists clues and word fragments including references to modern music box, English soldiers in India, burlap fiber, funerary frame, auction, and hypnotism. It mentions a man in a picture linked to fame and a property subject to a loan claim, plus scattered numbers and terms across 30 entries.
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Tpl
Ind
Boshan
The Tigress of Tiger Bay Cartoon Explained
Yesterday's cartoon explains a Black woman with a weakness for alcohol and a pattern of disorderly conduct resulting in 1,800 arrests over ten years. Tomorrow teases a shift to a flying an airplane underground.
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Tiger Bay
Premature Babies May Lag But Often Catch Up Later
Dr Morris Fishbein summarizes research on premature birth showing that while some infants born at six to eight months may develop more slowly, most eight month births without injuries reach normal mental milestones. Early delays exist in walking and talking, but many catch up as they grow, with notable figures like Darwin and Napoleon cited as examples.
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Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Association
Hygeia
Arnold Gesell
Charles Darwin
Renan
Napoleon
Isaac Newton
Voltaire
Neglected Age Needs Special Attention In Nutrition
Olive Roberts Barton argues the two to six year old child, not the baby or schoolchild, requires focused health care and nutrition. She warns foods must be nutritious and varied, with regular meals and milk, plus cooked vegetables and proteins, to prevent later disease. The piece stresses early nourishment shapes future health and warns against overfeeding junk or pastry.
Johnson given help to quiet fear he will have too much power
Roosevelt assigns five cabinet members, the budget director and General Johnson to a new Industrial Recovery Board to cooperate with Johnson, as critics fear the vast one man power over industry. Labor and capital alike worry about price rises and the board’s reach while calls for a congressional advisory panel surface but are rejected.
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Johnson
Washington D. C
Roosevelt
Industrial Recovery Board
Hugh 8. Johnson
New Recovery Administration
Donald R. Richberg
Chicago
Congress
White House
Power Trust
Items of Interest from the Era
Summary of numeric claims and curiosities: Americans eat 21 percent of meals outside home. Lion life average forty years. U.S. felt hat production uses over 50 million rabbit skins yearly. A five mile Colorado road gains ore dump rock yielding $20,000 in gold. Britain and Ireland house 300,000 Jews. Germany 643,000. Rice planting by airplane becomes established in the United States. A Sequoia yielded 3000 posts 650000 shingles and 100 cords of firewood with upper parts unused.
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Colorado
Steel Output Reaches 50 Percent Capacity
New York June 22. Steel production has hit 50 percent of capacity the highest since April 1931. Mills struggle to meet demand as ingot output climbs 3 percent from the prior week. Some mills begin to fall behind on deliveries and unsure profits arise for many companies.
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New York
Iron Age
Senate OKs Panel to Revise Ohio School Building Code
The Ohio Senate approved a resolution by Sen. Harold Mosier to form a committee named by Governor White to revise the school building code. Mosier says revisions could save 20 to 25 percent, noting Ohio has spent about 300 million dollars on school buildings since 1911.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
Harold Mosier
Cleveland
White
Ohio
Senator Mosier
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