The Athens Messenger Staff and Circulation Details
The Athens Messenger and Printing Co outlines publisher Frederick W. Bush and staff roles, notice of circulation across Athens and surrounding counties, and subscription rates for daily workday editions. It notes memberships with publishing associations and operation details for the newspaper serving multiple Southeast Ohio communities.
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Frederick W. Bush
Athens Messenger & Nting CO
Gordon K. Bush
Mgr
Charlies H. Harris
Ohio
Athens
Nelsonville
Glouster Logan
Pomeroy
Middleport
Coolville
Gallipolis
Roadside Beauty Demands Call for Better Bridges and Signs
Citizens urge improvement of highways amid growing dissatisfaction with roadside ugliness. They cite billboards and gaudy signage marring rock formations, filling stations, and urban approaches while demanding higher engineering standards and aesthetic road design.
Duty versus Politics and the duty of lawmakers
The piece notes Senator Ashurst of Arizona warned that he faced political threats over voting on a veterans' compensation bill. It argues all senators and congressmen should keep a reminder on their duty beyond re‑election and resist lobby pressure. It emphasizes recognizing the republic’s permanence over personal political safety.
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Ashurst
Arizona
Republic
Senate
Ohio Legislature Under Lippmanns Critique On Spending
The piece argues Ohio proves Lippmann’s claim that legislatures fuel overspending by acting as spenders of public funds. It cites proposed bills adding over 100 million dollars annually, driven by pension, insurance, and school programs lobbies. It contends governor control would curb excess, restoring representative government.
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Ohio
Walter Lippmann
Lippmann
Roosevelt
Congress
Assembly
Baquirer
Budget balancing seen as key to recovery and confidence
The piece argues that a balanced national budget is essential to restore confidence and unlock buying power. It warns that spending beyond income trends toward higher debt costs, reduced bond demand, and slower recovery, urging Congress to prove the nation can live within its income.
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Prosperi
Adopting Nameless Orphan Children Brings Noble Duty
Dorothy Dix notes a couple adopting a boy and a girl under five born out of wedlock. She praises the act as noble, saying adoption shields children from stigma and gives them a rightful family identity, though acknowledging cruelty of birth circumstances.
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Miss DIX
The Adoption Dilemma and Truth Telling
Dorothy Dix argues that adoption offers better living conditions and love, but warns that revealing adoption to a child must come early. She says tell the child that a foster mother chose to care for them, not detail birth circumstances, to avoid shattered trust and bitterness later.
March winds and baby care in old city notes
Olive Roberts Barton urges vigilant baby care as March arrives. She warns wind carries winter dirt, advises veiling infants outdoors, using buggy tops and lee-side naps, and monitoring ears hands and feet for warmth and protection.
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Olive Roberts Barton
Rome
Mars
Paul Pry
Rural Iowa mailman sets 63 mile route record
Thomas F. Saunders logged a 63 mile route in 2 hours 24 minutes delivering 711 pieces of mail with 192 stops and 91 parcels, verified by Peterson Iowa Post Office files. The piece also notes a comical science aside on the fig and previews tomorrow's question about the Shamrock as an Irish emblem.
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Thomas F. Saunders
Iowa
Peterson
Infection of Iris May Interfere With Your Vision
Dr Morris Fishbein explains iris infection risks and how cataracts develop from lens capsule damage. He notes senile cataracts stem from aging capsules and asserts surgery is the only effective treatment while warning against unproven remedies.
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Morris Fishbein
A Wild Day In Ireland Promoters Back St Patrick Fight
Promoters supported by the Free State planned a St Patrick’s Day prize fight between Battling Siki and Mike te Tigue. A charter for the Athens Rotary Club was presented at a Chamber of Commerce dinner with delegates from Chillicothe Lancaster and Marietta. Mrs Roe returned from a Havana trip passing through South America and the Panama Canal. Mrs Hatch traveled to Columbus to join her daughter and attend the New York Symphony Orchestra concert conducted by Walter Damrosch.
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Ireland
St. Patrick's Day
Free State
Siki
Mike ‘Te Tigue
Ourself
New
Athens Rotary Club
Chamber of Commerce
Chillicothe
Lancaster
Marietta
F. D. Forsyth
B. O. Skinner
Athens Club
Forsyth
A. B. Roe
Havana
Cuba
South America
Panama Canal
Pacific Ocean
Keys of
Florida
H. A. Hatch
Columbus
Frances Hatch
New York Symphony Orchestra
Walter Damrosch
Fife revival tabernacle rises on Court Street site
Large improvised tabernacle under construction on a Court Street lot for Fife revival meetings. Earl H. Fife introduced the new song If Your Heart Keeps Right which drew strong audience response. Visitors include Mr and Mrs B Stout of Parkersburg with Mr Frank Roach in South College Street.
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Carpenter End
Court Street
Earl H. Fife
B. Stout
Parkersburg
Frank & Roach
South College Street
Roosevelt Uses Big Stick To Stop Veterans Lobby
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt crushes the veterans lobby, led by the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, as Congress moves to slash more than 400 million from veteran benefits and federal salaries. The effort relied on mass telegrams and tight party support, with John Thomas Taylor steering the National Legislative Committee and key aides Edward Mck. Lewis and Capt. Watson Miller guiding strategy. The lobby, once dominant, faced a decisive defeat as the economy bill moved forward amid national emergency.
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Roosevelt
Rodney Dutcher
Washington
American Legion
Legion
Congress
Veterans
Anti-Saloon League
White House
Veterans of Foreign Wars
House
Veterans’ Committee
National Legislative Committee of the Legion
John Thomas Taylor
The
Treasury
Taylor
Edward Mck. Lewis
Watson Miller
National Economy League
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Legion Convention
Seventy-Second Congress
United States
Veterans’ Lobby
Veteran Civil War veterans honored in March 15 procession
A March 13 Messenger editorial laments the passing of a flag draped Civil War veteran and urges reflection on their service. The piece praises the troops for courage, endurance, and sacrifice, urging public reverence and a shared peace to all veterans as the veterans’ ranks thin.
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the Messenger
Deadline on Income Tax Set for March
Deadline on income tax has been advanced to March 16 as Treasury aids hard pressed taxpayers. Returns and first quarter payments were due by midnight tonight, with extensions allowing half and quarter payments at a six percent annual rate.
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Washington
Treasury
Tests for Self Examination in Fellowship Meeting
Prepared by Rev Gaius Glenn and sponsored for Thursday March readings from Psalm 26 1 2 4 and 1 2 4. The piece urges humility before God and seeks self knowledge to amend faults and strengthen integrity of mind through prayer and acceptance of divine rebuke.
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Gaius Glennare
Hotel in Gallipolis Undergoing Major Renovation
A dining room and other rooms in the et te hotel are being repainted this week by a corps of men. Ongoing maintenance and renovation work continue as the project nears completion with most rooms already finished in recent weeks.
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Gallipolis
Theette
Horizontal puzzle including multiple clues and partial solutions
A scanned crossword style puzzle page presents numerous numbered clues with partial answers and inconsistencies. The segment lists horizontal and vertical hints ranging from aircraft altitude to emotions, body parts, animals, and wordplay for a mixed grid puzzle.
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South Michigan Ave
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General Motors Bid
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Therm
Ripley
Garden of Tears
Long
Salaam
Inez de Castro
Don Pedro
Coimbra
Portugal
J.C Bowman
Mayville
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Zachariah Hess
Linden Kitt
Syracuse
Tast Delivery
Journal of the American Medical Association
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