Athens Messenger an Esteemed Southeastern Ohio Newspaper
The Athens Messenger serves Athens Nelsonville Glouster Logan Pomeroy Middleport Coolville Gallipolis and surrounding communities. Gordon K Bush publisher and general manager oversees a paper highlighting population figures and regional coverage.
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Frederick W. Busa Padimede
Athens Messenger & Serald Printing CO
Gordon K Bush
Mer
Charles
Sarre Managme
Ditor
Ohio
Athens
Nelsonville
Glouster
Logan
Pomeroy Middleport
Coolville-Gallipolis
Obituary and Subscription Rates Listing
A fragment lists subscription options and rates for home and foreign offices with pricing for one year six months and ten weeks plus a note of obituary care and thanks. The damaged text references the Athens Post Office and an act governing subscriptions and charges.
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Athens
Ideas and enterprise shape a free economy in 1955 view
Merle Thorpe argues that innovation from cotton gin to phonograph fueled growth, but warns that state control could devalue ideas. He weighs whether government should risk freeing money for development versus private initiative under Roosevelt's budget aim to normalize public enterprise by 1955 and speed private revival.
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Whitney
Merle Thorpe
Roosevelt
Soaking the Big Corporations Public Property?
The public clamor to "soak" large corporations reflects that many stockholders equal or outnumber employees in major firms. Dividends matter as wages to workers, and restrictions aim to curb corporate power though investors buy stock widely. Public and consumer interests hinge on corporate profitability and accountability.
Embargo Bill Seen As Step Toward Peace
A Senate passage of a bill granting the President power to embargo arms to warring nations could alter world history by preventing munitions from reaching opponents. The piece argues the law might have kept the United States out of war, showing how commercial involvement can lead to military entanglements and peace depends on restraint.
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Senate
United States
Balkans Watch Signals Shifting European Ties
Brief note urges attention to Balkan affairs as Europe’s balance shifts amid regional tensions and evolving alliances. The reference to a shadowy Naw Swatiska hints at covert influences impacting local and broader security dynamics.
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Europe
Balkans
Real reasons behind Washburn Child Europe trip revealed
Washington dispatch notes Richard Washburn Child travels as Roosevelt & Company salesman, handling tariff bargaining while Norman Davis covers disarmament. Officials doubt either will cover expenses. Mixed announcements sparked by confusion over Child’s status. Child’s pay as ambassador looms. Separate items recount Leon Henderson’s Swarthmore tale and House leadership frictions over the Communications Bill, with Rainey’s authority challenged and party discipline wavering.
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Washington
Richard Washburn Child
Europe
Roosevelt & Company
Yankee Traders
Norman Davis
Mr. Child
Mr. Davis
White House
Hull
Child
Mr. Hull
Mr. Roosevelt
State Department
Mr. Phillips
Leon Henderson
NRA Planning Agi Research Division
Swarthmore
Henderson
Rainey
Longworth
Garner
Rayburn
Interstate Commerce Committee
Committee On “Merchant Marine, Radio and Fisheries
Permanent Miami correspondent seeks assignment and funds
A letter from Miami on March 8 asks the managing editor for a permanent correspondent, offering sport items, gossip, social notes, and fishing reports. The writer cites financial strain and questions whether railroads or PullmanCompany deducts charges from passengers bound for New York, requesting timely payment to return if Garlic loses.
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Miami
New York
Pullman Company
Railroads
Garlic
Supreme Court decision tests New Deal balance
The writer argues the 5 to 4 Supreme Court vote highlights a crucial clash between human rights and property rights amid debates on conservatism versus liberalism. The piece contrasts the New York milk case with other high court decisions and questions the court’s future trajectory.
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New Jersey
Supreme Court
Minnesota
Court of Final Judgment
Life tenure for Supreme Court risks outdated rulings
The speech argues lifetime service for justices ends in entrenched conservatism. It criticizes aging judges as out of touch with current events and urges more flexible terms so the court can adapt to new emergencies and changing public will.
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Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Supreme Court
Eye injury first aid and avoiding harm
Guidance on safely removing a cinder or dust from the eye and when to seek professional help. Do not rub or use hard objects. If there is redness near the colored portion or suspected rupture, seek immediate eye specialist care.
About Your Children By Olive Roberts Barton
The article argues for recognizing preschool development and the role of kindergarten and the home in shaping a child’s judgment and discipline. It notes many children miss kindergarten, critiques past schooling as treating children as machines after age six, and urges parents and teachers to share guidance to curb later neurasthenia and social issues.
Athens Community Cluttered by Clubs and Conflicting Interests
The Athens forum laments a crowded roster of local groups that factions members pursue at the expense of home life and broader communal progress. Editors note the university payroll as a stabilizing factor, but urge coordinated action over competing loyalties to improve the town.
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Athens
Balkan pact forms to curb war risk amid European tensions
A Balkan confederation including Turkey and Greece seeks to curb a new European war as fear grows over Allied postwar settlements. Signatories warn of German aggression and Austria under Nazi influence, while Hungary's Fascists push toward the Balkans. France aligns with regional interests amid mutual fears.
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Balkan
Europe
Turkey
Greece
Versailles
Germany
Hitler
Austria
Hungary
Balkans
France
End of Lame Duck Judges Proposed by Civic Commentators
A writer urges rejecting lame duck rule for judges as well as Congress, arguing the public should not defer to aging court leadership. The piece recalls Supreme Court tenure and cites former Justice Hughes as a rare exception while advocating decisiveness in court appointments and decisions.
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Tut
Supreme Bench
Charles E. Hughes
Ark
Education and media balance in wartime discourse
A condensed critique cites George H. Dern on media sensationalism and student insight by Prof. John Dewey. It argues education must raise awareness of life-changing forces, while noting the current credit situation as a major barrier to recovery per the Sayoud Adviey.
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George H. Dern
John Dewey
Unbelievable Pencil Wound Through Man’s Body Recalled
Yesterday’s cartoon explains how A Marks of Washington D C was stabbed by a lead pencil point kept in his opponent’s pocket during a friendly wrestling bout. The wound healed before the embedded point was found but a calf irritation later revealed the pencil had passed through his body.
Farmer urged protection of quail in severe winters
In a letter from Guysville Ohio dated March 6 1934 the writer urges state care for quail and other wildlife arguing hunters farmers and sportsmen should cooperate. He notes winter shelter is essential and quail suffer from cold hunger and predation while moderate hunting does not greatly reduce numbers.
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Ohio
Guysville
Nearing completion of Messenger Building and state aid delays
County Superintendent M McVay reports Messenger Building progress with state aid for teacher salaries delayed. Teachers borrow to meet needs as events unfold. Mohicans entertain with a benort of Geoffrey Morgen, former Echols head, with Sunday School.
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Pians
Messenger
Spry
M. McVay
Mohicans
Geoffrey Morgen
Echols
Athens
Mohican
Town considers plans to rid city of flies at Commerce Rooms
Twenty years after a meeting at the Commerce Rooms Mayor Ker and Probate Judge Phillppe outlined aims to rid the city of flies. Mrs. Dow Poston was overseer as friends gathered in Portsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Cotton moved to a new North Concret residence. A crowd noted many moustaches and Charles Martin of Athens Lumber spent the weekend with Er oy.
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F. W. Bush
City of Fites
Her of Commerce Rooms
Ker
Phillppe
Emmett Cotton
North Concret
Ti By C H Harman and the Biennerhasset Island Legend
An OCR fragment recounts a tale of an island near Little Hocking once owned by George Washington and later connected to Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson era figures. It mentions Biennerhasset house, a fire, and a wealth decline after trials, with references to English tapestries and French wines.
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C. H. A. Harman
Kealthy
Isand
Little Hocking
Upce
Bision
Ineslegheny Mountains
George Washington
Biennerhasset
Biennerbassets
Aare Burt
United Sist
Alexander Hamilton
Jefferson
Burr
Ohio
Bit Set
Giensertas
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