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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1932
Page
4
Obscured page text lists publishing associations and wire services with partial meeting addresses. It mentions circulation, obituary notices, and card of thanks services. Rates appear as mailing costs and subscription prices for Ohio papers.
The speaker argues older generations learned tax prudence while younger generations expect easy credit. Many Ohio residents refuse to pay taxes hoping state action will relieve debts. Taxes are local, born of private funds, and must be paid to fund government protections. Look it up and act.
The Ohio southeast district, rich in natural resources, is urged to observe Arbor Day with enthusiasm. The piece emphasizes small yearly tree planting by individuals, notes the value of woodlots like the favored Jackville District tract near Athens, and argues forests provide long term beauty and dividends for future generations.
In a reflection on public taste the writer notes how people seek humor to soften life’s heavy realities. A clever publicist can mask serious matters with wit and sugar coat the message, inviting readers to ponder while they smile.
In a bustling New York society rumor column Howard Hughes may marry Elizabeth Marbury amid age gaps and salon renown while Elizabeth Marston hosts a debutante voyage. Billie Dove’s career flourishes as Hughes courts Europe. Walter Chrysler Jr expands in publishing and film art. Edna St. Vincent Millay reemerges in Greenwich Village circles as Gloria Swanson’s expected April birth is hinted.
A public inquiry column from The Athens Messenger offers free answers to varied questions. Topics include mail volumes, the origin of passing the buck, football quarter totals, and Mexican repatriation figures, citing the Post Office Department and government data for February 22 mail, poker slang origins, and daily migration trends.
The speaker links tobacco to calm and peace while noting its small benefits. He jokes that golf extends life and eases care, admits enjoying the game, and says a drink briefly sharpens his thinking. He also admits craving light stimulation to brighten his mood.
Yesterday's cartoon explained that an eagle needs sixty feet to take off, with motion from stillness to lift off. It notes a forty five by forty five foot square depictions as a contained space to hold a captive eagle. Tomorrow features The Prodigal Silver Coin.
A public forum letter from H. L. McDonald in The Plains, dated March 28, argues operators use wage policy to enslave miners. He compares mining bosses to Pharaohs, claims four years of misery, hunger, and abuse, and urges workers to withhold re-entry until union recognition is achieved.
A Nelsonville miner writes to The Messenger criticizing the relief system for miners. He alleges a relief committee favors a few, leaving many without aid, fears speaking up, and notes no relief received in his city. He supports union action and urges timely mine restart.
A longtime mining worker in the Hocking and Sunday Creek valleys writes in The Messenger public forum, detailing observations from about twenty years in the district and a study of the current mining situation.
Stamp collectors nationwide and abroad are ordering first day covers from Nebraska City for Arbor Day stamps on sale April 22. The red 2 cent stamp shows children planting trees forming an arbor. The booklet promotes stamp collecting and can be ordered with a coupon for six cents single or twelve cents for both Everybody's Stamp Book and Everybody's Coin Book.
Washington march 30 The dry wet debate dominates party platforms as Roosevelt leads the wet faction in the south and west while Garner gains northern dry backing McAdoo shores up the Garner slate in California Hoover is likened to Lincoln and Washington by Fess who invokes Grant era administration on the GOP scene
The Chicago Herald notes Frank Nitti, known as Capone’s chief lieutenant, released after fifteen months in Leavenworth, marked for death. Treasury Secretary Leslie Vy. Shaw, under Roosevelt, dies aged 85. Osage Chief Bacon Rind, 72, dies cancer. oil wealth made his people rich. The piece muses on white policy and Osage lands.
A health article argues tooth cleanliness is not enough for dental health. It links infections in crowned teeth to systemic danger, urges annual mouth exams, and promotes mouth care, alkaline washes, and a diet rich in minerals and vitamins including sunlight exposure and cod liver oil.
A reader asks what causes teeth grinding in sleep and is told intestinal worms are a common cause with doctor prescribed treatment. Another asks if caster oil or paste can grow eyelashes and is advised it does not injure eyesight.
Athens residents urged to join city and federation in cleanup efforts to keep the town tidy. W W Coe expands shoe business into the W M Cray Company room at Court and State Streets. Ohio University Alumni Day speaker Carl Dunkle Sheppard of Akron, who once served as secretary to Charles Evans Hughes, will speak June 10. The Children’s Home trustees resume meetings after a scarlet fever quarantine.
Kathleen Norris argues modern youths favor radio and cinema over study and urges embracing educational films and media. She cites malaria history, Rome, and George Arliss to show how visual tools could revive geography, history, language, and spelling in schools.
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