Sunday Messenger Publication Details and Rates
The page lists the Athens Messenger and Herald Printing Co. as publisher with Gordon K. Bush and Charles H. Harris in leadership roles. It notes association memberships, national reps, and advertising terms. Subscription rates are provided: one year four dollars fifty cents, six months two dollars fifty, ten weeks one dollar, one week fifteen cents.
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Sunday Messenger
Frederick W. Bush
Athens Messenger & Herald Printing CO
Gordon K. Bush
Charles H. Harris
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Ohio
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Ohio Newspaper Association
Inland Daily Press Association
United Press
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Cleveland
Athens
Gallia
Hocking
Meigs
Moftgan
Vinton
Washington
Senate urged to rewrite revenue bill for real tax relief
Cleveland Plain Dealer argues the Senate finance committee must draft a new tax bill to remove the current act's harsh features. It condemns the undistributed earnings tax for hindering industry, saving, and pay rolls, calling for leadership to restore business confidence and accelerate recovery.
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House
Senate Finance Committee
House Committee On
Ways and
Committee On Ways and Means
Senate
House Committee
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Deserving of support for Nelsonville Girl Scout summer camp
Community leaders push a fund to build a hill country summer camp near Nelsonville for Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. They cite Ath ens results, emphasize health and safety standards, and note volunteers can cover much work, with community backing yielding dividends in citizenship. Detroit council proposes U S plow under old automobiles, a scrapping plan.
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Nelsonville
Athens
Detroit
U. S
Anti Lynch Filibuster Ends Prompting Silence From Senators
After the filibuster opposing lynching is concluded the senators face a quiet moment with few remarks left to offer. The development signals a shift in debate dynamics and raises questions about future legislative focus in the chamber.
Five Years In Washington A View From Clapper
Raymond Clapper assesses the New Deal era five years after 1933 noting mixed success and caution. He contrasts U.S. handling of reform with England’s practical cooperation between government and business and argues for tolerant governance and pragmatic trial and error.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Byrd appoints Combs to state comptroller post in Virginia
The Virginia reorganizing plan elevates E. R. Combs as state comptroller with power to curb improper fund use. The move shifts fee jobs to salaried posts and creates a commission to set county salaries, reinforcing the Byrd machine and boosting gubernatorial authority.
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Virginia
Byrd
State Department of Finance
Luther H. Gulick
E. R. Combs
Senate
Harry F. Byrd
Ditchdigger Breaks Into Grand Opera Career
A WPA ditchdigger pivots to grand opera after critics. He learns he has traded digging dirt for new dirty digs, signaling an unlikely artistic shift and public reception.
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Ditchdigger
Metallurgists Urge Metal Coin Reform For Longevity
Metallurgists press the government to adopt coins made from powder metal to extend durability. They argue the new coins will resist wear longer than traditional struck coins. In Spain, Madrid theaters report booming business amid a broader sense of expansion and activity.
Public parking petition to extend hours in Athens
The Athens letter to the Messenger urges extending Saturday night parking limits near the business district. Mrs. Hubert McDonald argues current one or two hour rules hinder customers and families from shopping after dark, noting limited close spots near Beasley Milling Co and local stores. She calls on merchants to address the issue.
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the Messenger
Athens
Beasley’s Milling Co
Athens High School
Bennett's Dairy
Hubert McDonald
R. D
Health Hints on Air Conditioning Temperatures
Dr Morris Fishbein discusses air conditioning in large buildings versus homes. He advises keeping indoor temps at 75 to 80 degrees with 40 to 55 percent humidity, notes over cooling as a common complaint, and cites AMA views that home cooling is a luxury while office cooling aids comfort and disease control.
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Morris Fishbein
American Medical Association
We the Women and Social Circles in Marriage Ego
An analysis of wives and husbands navigating social gatherings. The piece argues women manage their husbands ego in crowds and that sympathetic husbands ease their wives dull evenings. It cites Ina Claire in Once Is Enough and notes wives often protect husbands from boredom.
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Alice
John
New York
Ina Claire
I’ll Remember February Snow by Laura B Foster
A reader submits a reflective verse about February snow and memory. The piece contrasts winter calm with sweltering summer, sharing how memory fades as seasons shift, ending with the author’s name Laura B Foster and address.
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Laura B. Foster
Cooling tips for homes and Montana higher learning
The excerpt advises using ordinary desk fans for daytime comfort and unit room coolers for cooling one or two rooms in homes to save costs. It also notes Montana has nine higher learning institutions, roughly one per 60 000 residents.
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State of
Montana
Side Glances by George Clark
A short humor item notes a character snubbing an overfamiliar introduction from a friend named Jack son and his entourage of young messengers. The outline suggests a light civic or social quip typical of the columnist’s persona.
Polly Chelsey's War Time Hope In London And Village Gossip
Polly Chelsey endures village gossip and wartime separation as she awaits news from Jerry Whitfield. Amanda Pell probes Polly's marriage while the baby nears arrival. Polly clings to quiet strength, Dick cheeps, and Trepid builds a cradle, while fear and longing mingle in a country town amid war.
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Polly Chelsey
London
Jerry Whitfield
Cabell Banks
Amanda Pell
Chelsey
Polly
Mrs. Pell
Oliver Dart
Mrs. Braggs
Allen
Lyme
Richard Jeremiah
Jerry
Boston
Pell
New England
Trepid
West Indies
Athens County Fair Grounds to Be Recreation Center
Athens County Fair Board voted to convert the fair grounds into a recreation center and park for residents of Athens County. Park commission members Frank Murphey and Joe Martin served, while social events included a birthday dinner and a Current Events Club anniversary with new member Mrs. Gamertsfelder joining.
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Athens County Fair Board
Athens
Frank R. Murphey
Joe D. Martin
Current Events Club
O. F. Rowland
W. H. Warthe Man
W. S. Gamertsfelder
Navy relatives visit amid wartime separations at country homes
Twenty years ago Joe Hemminger of the Pay Department on the USS Frederick visited his brother in law Guy Graham and sister near Athens. Mrs C W Gross stayed in Nelsonville with her brother US Inspector Joe Francis of Cleveland. Francis Frebault from Camp Sheridan arrived in Montgomery on leave after six months at Hot Springs Internment Camp.
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Joe Hemminger
USS
Frederick
Guy Graham
Athens
C. W. Gross
Nelsonville
Joe Francis
Cleveland
Hot Springs
S. C
Francis Frebault
Camp Sheridan
Montgomery, Ala
Miss Ann Miller Spotted by Talent Scout in San Francisco
Dancer Miss Ann Miller, 18, who spent a year in Hollywood seeking film work, was discovered again in San Francisco by a talent scout who sent her back to Hollywood to sign a film contract.
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San Francisco
Ann Miller
Hollywood
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Messenger
George Clark
Jackson
Rachel
Richard Jeremiah Whitfield
Susan Williams
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Wilbur Risley
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Mr. Risley
A. F. Reeves
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Pomeroy
Isaac Radford
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