Newspaper Advertising and Subscription Rates Notice
The notice outlines Associated Press rights and local news use. It lists subscription rates by carrier and mail in several counties, with annual, semiannual, and other period options, plus postage and advertising rate information. It notes second class matter filing at the Athens Post Office under the 1918 act.
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Associated Press
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Cleveland
Athens
Gallia
Hocking
Meigs
Morgan
Vinton
End Ore
Trend Toward Fascism and the Call to Civic Action
The piece warns that civilization grows complex and leans toward Fascism as voluntary cooperation fades. It urges leaders to reform institutions from within, resisting easy government takeover and urging deliberate, nonviolent adjustments by industry, labor, farmers, and other classes to sustain a useful society.
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Europe
Democracy and the peril of government control
The piece argues that strict democracy fails to compete with citizens in business and relies on taxation for income. It warns that people may weaken democracy by allowing bans on freedom of enterprise, enabling government overreach and potential socialist submersion. It cautions that forgetting democracy’s origins risks a bureaucratic system eroding individual rights.
Nurses Needed to Meet Army Demand in June
The army will require about 4000 additional reserve nurses for duty in army hospitals by June as personnel levels rise. Gen Phillipson told the Red Cross that the response has been slow due to underestimation of the need, but opportunities exist in both reserve and active nursing services for qualified nurses who wish to serve.
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Army
J. Phillipson
Red Cross
Army depends on wheels as WWII mobilizes supply trucks
An analysis notes the U S Army's shift from horse to motor transport swelling from 14 000 vehicles to 286 000 by fall and 1 400 000 men, with around 400 000 drivers or mechanics needed to support the expanded force. It argues logistics drive modern warfare.
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Napoleon
War Production Reshapes U S Economy Says Clapper
Raymond Clapper warns of sweeping wartime shifts as US economy pivots to total war production. He cites aluminum shortages, rationing, job growth, price controls, and drastic shifts in consumer goods as crucial steps to defeat Germany, with government priorities and inflation concerns.
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Washington
Germany
Bernard M. Baruch
Harvard Business Review
Baruch
Roosevelt
Public Forum on relief funds and wartime hardship
Athens County relief rolls show 3,973 people in February with 984 families, averaging 36 dollars per person annually. The writer argues government aid to the unemployed could prevent conscription and stresses rival spending abroad. Signed by W. F. Bricker of Athens Route 3.
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the Messenger
Athens County
Ohio
Morgan County Court Notes from McConnelsville area docket
Sheriff sale in Gale Kuntz vs Mary Kuntz et al. sold 6.28 acres for 1505 dollars first to Carl Miller who later sold to Gale Kuntz. Non support arraignments and guilty pleas noted for Riley Murphey and W C Henderson. Divorces, guardianships, probates and wills including Hannah Kent and John S Pidgeon estates detailed with beneficiaries and trustees named.
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Mcconnellville
Carl Miller
Ivan Kuntz
McConnelsville
Barnesville Pike
Gale Kuntz
Mary Kuntz
Miller
Riley Murphey
East Windsor
Riecker
W. C
Pete) Henderson
Bristol
Asbury Mahan
Bertha Wampler
Canton
Walter Lawrence
Charles Yarnell
Browns Mills
Dale Scott
Josephine Wilson Scott
Blaine Eddleblute
Zanesville
Roxbury
Canal St
H. A. Phillips
Jean Phillips Wallace
Hannah Kent
Minnie Risen Porter
Margaret Risen
Virginia Fay Risen
Deerfield
Main Street Church of Christ
Ida Groshong
Topeka
John S. Pidgeon
Penn Township
Anna van Fossen
Mary J. Pidgeon
Howard A. Pidgeon
Maplewood
N. J
W. A. Butcher
Amesville Social Briefs Highlight Local Dinners and Birthdays
Social notes from Amesville record dinners and visits as residents host relatives and friends. Guests include the Kuhns family with John Woolley and children, Strous family from Laurelville, Vera Keirns Hixson visiting family, and Betsy Wilson birthday observances. A basketball banquet is planned for Friday night March 21 with tickets through Louise Linscott.
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Amesville
Charles Kuhns
John Woolley
Joan
Boris
Jack
O. E. Woolley
Harold Strous
Patsy
Robert
Donald
Edward Strous
Laurelville
Keith Brown
Sadie Luckett
Fannie Matteson
Sharpsburg
Wilson
Gladys Porter
Athens
Flo Porter
Kitty
Porter
Doris Jones
Phyllis
Spencer
W. Va
Don Easler
Judson Price
Joshua Sowers
Louise Linscott
Juanita Linscott
Fort Shelby
Hattiesburg
Miss
Kenneth Smith
Smith
Staff Seargent
Battery C
134Th Field Artillery
Albert Linscott
Homer Eckard
Willard Thompson
Laura Smith
Marietta
Russel Thomas and Family
Junction City
Defense housing program police power and money described
Peter Edson outlines the defense housing network under Palmer and the Office of Emergency Management. He explains funding sources under the Lanham Act and allocations from the Federal Works Administration and the United States Housing Authority, totaling more than 357 million with potential 5 million for trailer towns.
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Knudsen-Hillman O. P. M
Palmer
O. E. M.—Office of Emergency Management
White House
Defense Industry
Army Post
Navy Yard
Congress
Federal Works Agency
John M. Carmody
Department of
Defense
Public Roads Administration
The Old Town Changes Beyond Recognition
Poet Mary Karch from Lakeview Ohio writes of returning to her hometown to find the barber shop a soda shop, the grocery a tailor, a shoe shine next door, and a maple tree replaced by a gas pump. Speeding cars mark the new world, and nostalgia yields to acceptance.
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Mary Karch
Lakeview
Ohio
Beatrice Goes Job Hunting With Huntington City Friend
Beatrice meets Toby Masters a subway stranger who offers help finding work at Huntington's. They share coffee and doughnuts in a Fulton Street cafeteria as Beatrice contemplates taking a job and a place to stay, risking her last funds to escape her current life.
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Beatrice
Huntington’s
Beatrice Huntington Davenport
Milo
Mathilde
Huntington's
Miss Davenport
Silver Fox
Mile
Mile Mathilde
Huntington Notions
Fulton Street
Toby Masters
Bee Davis
Bee
Park Avenue
Toby
Artmans
Flatbush
Vera
Mineral Social and Brief Personal Notes
Mineral social notes report Jack Sickels in the U S Army stationed in Illinois visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Clyde Sickels. Pauline Gibson and Pauline attended a basketball game in Logan. A large number of friends attended the funeral of Mrs Meda Holdren. Rev Si Everson conducted services at Albany. Mrs C C Brooks marked her sister’s birthday. her brother Charles Hayborn turns 83 April 2. Mr and Mrs Solomon visited Athens and Mr and Mrs Guy Pidcock in Akron. Mrs Minnie Secoy and her daughter spent the night with Mrs Brooks and Mr and Mrs En Brooks. Mildred Brooks will be with John Holmes near Torch. Ethel Addis was absent from school.
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Kimberly
York Gra
Gra
Ruary
Center
York
Katharine Warehime
Samhere
Weaver
Robert Beckler
Athens
Blanche Riley
Easton
Carrie
Betty Rizer
University
Elmer Rizer
C Munity House
Rolland Starr
Gore
Rece
Starr
Dennie Pac
Jack Sickels
Clyde Sickels
U. S. Army
Alabi
Illinois
David Stephe
Pauline Gibson
Logan
Reply
Meda Holdrén
New Marsh
Si Everson
Albany
Guy Pidcock
Akron
Pidcock
Minnie Secoy
Brooks
En Brooks
Mildred Brooks
John Holmes
Torch
Ethel Addis
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Samuel Pepys
Bacon
Raymond Clapper
Manchester
Birmingham
William S.S. Knudsen
Federal Security Agency
the Public Forum
W. F. Bricker
Athens, R. D
Morgan County Court
Probate
Lloyd L. Knox
Grover and
Bessie Cunningham Knox
Mary Alice Cheadle
J. E. and
Lucille Douth Cheadle
Marion Township
Har! Page Lyon
T. A. and
Ellen Robinson Lyon
Martha Bell McGrath
Seymore
Letitia Chappelear Lynn
Peter Edson
Washington Scene
Charles F. Palmer
Atlanta
Defense Housing
Defense Organization
Clarence Army
By Galbraith
Beetle
Poet's Corner
Messenger
Edith Ellington
NEA
Fietti
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