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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1936
Page
4
The Athens Messenger announces its publishers editors and associations and lists subscription rates for in Ohio mail and local delivery. Includes membership in press associations and contact notes for advertising and obituaries.
A St Louis meeting critiques political control over education and warns against restricting minds. The piece argues school boards misuse power, favors teachers’ judgment, and notes broader public sector influence while cautioning that elected officials inevitably supervise public schools.
The piece compares municipal growth to a private home adding rooms over time and argues for patient, long term planning. It notes aging streets water lines and sewers near frost lines and the high cost of modernizing while taxes lag, urging gradual investment over years to save taxes and improve services.
Public backing of a two cent per mile railroad fare could help the ailing industry. Rail officials seek to revive travel with faster trains air conditioning cheaper dining and added features to attract passengers while competition from highways grows. The plan aims to shift freight and passenger movement toward rail and ease highway congestion.
Washington observers note congressional leaders plan safe guards and exemptions for Roosevelt's corporate reform taxes. Exemption rumors and mutual consent hint at behind the scenes deals, while the public wait for the law's actual effects beyond the tax proposal.
The piece argues Roosevelt’s proposed system would require all corporations to distribute earnings to stockholders, closing the undivided profits loophole. It frames the move as a continuation of anti big business policy aiming to relocate corporate control from Wall Street to Main Street, decentralizing power and curbing expansion.
A commentator argues that Roosevelt's plan to tax 620 million dollars annually on corporate earnings would reduce the real value of stocks. The piece contends that distributing earnings does not increase net worth and that higher taxes weaken corporate finances.
A reflective note suggests the silencer inventor would regret remaining undone work in the coming months. The brief hints at continuing challenges and unfulfilled aims tied to the invention and its impact beyond the creator’s life.
The column jokes about love inspired by produce and mocks Nazi censorship of Modern Times, imagining Hitler failing to imitate Chaplin and commenting on changing transportation tastes and costs.
A public forum column urges careful management of hillside pastures. It details benefits of lime and fertilizer for soil structure, water absorption, and richer grasses, and recommends returning overly steep cleared lands to timber. County agents and Camp Meigs staff offer advisory consultation.
A collection of witty lines from A. S. Duffy Senator Wisconsin Hall Whitten Christine Wiggins and Rabbi Solomon Goldman. Topics include retirement poverty pacifiers childre n safety and a provocative remark on Europe.
Early Ohio settlers faced long treks for corn meal and flour until mills and bridges emerged. Elijah Hatch built Rome Township first bridge in 1802. Beebe and Guysville bridges followed, with county help before the Civil War. Mills began with the Barrows brothers in 1802 near Federal Creek, later on the Hocking River and Guysville. The Stewart mill at Guysville burned and was rebuilt with a woolen factory. Flood of 1867 washed away a nearby mill.
Ten years ago Athens County boys entered the state wide contest by the Ohio-Pennsylvania Bank of Cleveland. Among the contestants are C N Jones Clarence Green John Coe George Rabin and others. Reverend Charley preached The Detective Who Never Fails at the Christian Church. Professor Whitehouse and Miss Sybil Whitehouse visited from Troy New York at Lawrence Apartments.
In a Christain Church music and reading program the Lillie Class members list includes Rachel Powell Bernice Roach Laura Kern Gladys Jones Margaret Harper Marion Walden Lucile Duffee Grace Saunders Grace Walker Jessie Mills Mildred Riley Doris Nye Angie Lands Winifred Stephenson Ina Beverage Helen Ludwick Earlina Davies Erma Fulwider Link Payton Glouster. William Payton of Little Hocking aged 125 was said to be the oldest man in the United States if not the world according to Creel family records in Parkersburg tracing his birth to September 3 1791. Ancestor of the Creel family owned Payton during slavery days.
Jane Weston starts a three week ocean cruise to collect salary owed by a suspended magazine. Onboard she meets Dirk Strom as danger rises with a diamond theft and a murder. Snowshoes investigates while passengers face a hurricane and a missing companion as tensions mount.
Dorothy Kuntz of Pomeroy Ohio recalls summer days chasing shade and mosquito bites as she laments snowbound winter. She urges a return of warmth and rain, ending with a vow not to complain again.
Poem by Delbert Romine of Rutland Ohio praising a surgeon. It describes the tireless rounds through sick rooms in pure white, soothing pains and keeping death at bay. The speaker asks a prayer to bless the surgeons in the wards.
Diet guidance for arthritis discusses calorie control and low carbs, water intake, and the notion that diet alone does not cure arthritis. It notes the need for iron rich foods, cautions against fad diets, and explains that blood health matters in chronic arthritis. A sample 2000 calorie day is offered. The health question asks what causes head noises and whether decayed teeth could relate. The answer cites circulation and blood vessel conditions, and recommends treating decayed teeth.
A historical diet listing daily meals intended to provide blood building substances. Breakfast includes orange juice a soft boiled egg and butter with cream. lunch features buttered bread boiled buttered beef liver celery tomato muffins milk. dinner offers roast beef lamb or chicken mashed potatoes butter sauce pear, prune jelly with cream and a final drink.
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