Advertising rates and subscription terms scroll
The notice lists advertising rate cards and subscription prices including carrier and mail rates. It cites associations and offices in New York and Chicago and mentions general advertising inquiries at home or foreign offices. The fragment outlines weekly and yearly rates with varying durations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W Quillen
Michigan
Chicago
Fifth Ave
New York
General Motors Bldg
Eer Earge
Omen and Big Business Show Women as Major Players
Financial experts note women control significant portions of major companies. Women own majority shares in AT&T and Westinghouse, plus substantial stakes in Pullman, National Biscuit, General Electric, American Sugar, Pennsylvania Railroad, Norfolk and Western, and Southern Pacific. By year end 1929 women outran men in stock ownership at AT&T and Standard Oil of New Jersey, and women like Alice Foote MacDougall and Mrs George R Van Namee lead large lease deals, marking rising female influence in corporate affairs.
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American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Westinghouse Electric
Pullman
National Biscuit
General Electric
American Sugar
Pennsylvania Railroad
Norfolk & Western
Southern Pacific
American Tobacco
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Alice Foote MacDougall
George R. van Namee
Public Service Commissioner
New York City
House of Flowers
Fifth Avenue
MacDougall
Irreducible minimum consumption to boost retail trade
Ohn Guernsey, a veteran retailer, discusses the upcoming Department of Commerce Retail Census and the unseen force driving a sustained rise in retail trade. He argues that consumer habit and high living standards create an irreducible minimum consumption, offsetting downturns in income and sustaining demand across manufacturing and labor sectors.
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Mass Distribution
OHN
Guernsey
Pacific Coast
Department of Commerce
Wall Street
Commendable Action Proposed for Athens Old Cemetery Care
Athens city officials led by Mayor Robert Wood plan to establish supervision and proper record keeping for burials at the West State Street Cemetery. The historic site, one of the oldest west of the mountains, holds unmarked graves and lacks plots, prompting calls to preserve and clearly mark who rests there for future generations.
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Athens
Ohio University
Biskra Algeria Lures Tourists with Garden of Allah Fantasy
In Biskra Algeria travelers flock in winter seeking the Garden of Allah atmosphere. Gilbert Swan notes tourists are sold a staged Orientalism with Arab guides offering Oulad Nail dancers and hasheesh tales while villas like Landon showcase landscape luxury near the desert edge.
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Biskra
Algeria
Garden of Allah
Hichens
North
Africa
North Africa
Villa
Landon
Count Landon
Information Bureau offers free help. queries2cents request
The Athens Messenger Information Bureau in Washington, directed by Frederic J. Haskig, offers free services for information with a two cent reply request. An official Geological Survey estimate from January 31, 1930 cites 18,807,778 horsepower of waterpower in the U S and a potential 35,000,000,000 horsepower.
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Washington
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskig
Washington, D. C
Geological Survey
United States
Antaeus
Hercules
Alvois Havrillia
New York
Vatican
M. M
A Sigh For Better Days In The Talkies Nostalgia
The piece mourns old movie titles and plots that stirred gentle emotion. It recalls tearful heroines and heartbroken heroes, praising film titles that moved viewers more than spoken words and laments the loss of those luminous captions.
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Flick
A Thought for Today From Job Verse
A devotional note cites Job 40 4 urging humility as one lays a hand over the mouth in acknowledgment of human limits and the divine scrutiny.
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Job
Explanation of yesterday's cartoon on national debt to a Dutch lender
A 1830 charter notes Washington District borrowed 1.5 million dollars under Congress May 24 1828 to fund Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Daniel Crommelin & Son of Amsterdam held a mortgage on district real estate as security revealing early US financial ratings. Tomorrow feature promises a cartoon about a long smoked bobbed haired flapper.
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National Capitol
Congress
District of
Washington
Daniel Crommelin & Son
Amsterdam
Holland
District of Columbia
United States
Changes in the News Paper Business
Frederic J. Haskin notes the shift toward large-scale media firms in the United States. He cites rising newspaper and magazine revenues, with total ad and subscription income climbing from 1914 through postwar years, emphasizing the move from editorial control to business management and broader national reach.
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United States
Athens Messenger Publishes Modern Manners Etiquette Booklet
The Athens Messenger promotes a booklet titled Modern Manners offering guidance on social etiquette. Readers are urged to send for a copy by using the coupon provided, promising solutions to common manners questions and helps to avoid social missteps.
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Athens
Schwab reveals Bethlehem Steel bonuses and profits
Charles M Schwab writes stockholders about an eight hundred thousand dollar annual bonus for his associate Grace and about two hundred thousand dollars per officer yearly. He argues the bonus is necessary to secure worker effort. The piece also notes Democratic debates on prohibition and predicts Roosevelt as nominee and Hoover renominated.
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Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Company
Mr. Grace
Bethlehem Steel
Adolph 8
Ochs
New York Times
Los Angeles
Clark Howell
Georgia
Howell
Cernor Roosevelt
New York
Hoover
Athens group forms for new country club and golf course
A temporary organization gathers locally to establish a country club and golf course in Athens. The effort targets a community amenity while bemused residents note related local agricultural and civic activities in the area.
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Athens
Muscle Shoals fight ends in standoff over power plan
Senator Norris battles the Power Trust in a long-running dispute over Muscle Shoals. President Hoover vetoed Norris legislation, keeping the government still owner but unable to produce or distribute electricity. The issue looms as a potential 1932 campaign flashpoint, with a Senate override vote uncertain and House prospects mixed.
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Rodney Dutcher
Washington
Norris
Nebraska
Power Trust
Hoover
Congress
Tennessee River
Muscle Shoals
Coolidge
Roosevelt
New York
Friends of the Norrich
Senate
House
Bilt
Tennessee
Alabama
Alabama Power Company
Cove Creek
Areu
The burden of duty on a boy turned man
A father's death at age thirteen drives Nevin from a carefree youth to a overburdened child-man. He bears endless family duties, with a grieving mother and sisters relying on him, while his health and joy fade. The piece questions whether hardship should forge character or overwhelm a child.
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Germain
Nevin
Prohibition Debate Echoes in Time Bent by Crime
From a Pullman car window in Arizona the author muses on prohibition laws and enforcement. The piece argues that prohibition will persist despite crime, noting bootlegging profits and payments to officials while predicting little immediate change.
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Arizona
Prayer meditation on prosperity and covetousness
Prepared by Reverend Clarence H Wilson for the Commission on Evangelism of the FLOEM Council of the Churches of Christ in America. The meditation warns that prosperity lures attention from main issues and leads to foolish covetousness, urging a chastened mind and reliance on higher aims. Amen.
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Clarence H Wilson
Commission ON Evangelism
THE
Floem Council OF the Churches OF Christ IN America
Jacques
Jesus
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