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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1930
Page
4
Subscription rates are listed by carrier and mail in Ohio. The United Press Association reports weekly and yearly prices for several terms, with four week and ten week options and varying regional charges.
A author argues spring tonics fail to cure spring fever a mood that grips people as winter ends. He says the remedy is not physical but to endure the season’s psychic pull and continue work while time restores clarity.
A survey by Dr. Stuart M. Stokes and Elmer D. West at Ohio University shows that among students both men and women rate dates as the loudest topic in casual chats, with coeds naming dates as the top conversational preference.
A survey of 239 women and 259 men across nine sorority houses, six dormitories, ten fraternities and a rooming house recorded 1,253 and 877 topics respectively. Women favored personalities and culture while men emphasized religion, studies, fraternities, sports and campus politics. Thirty six auditors documented conversations from March 1929 to February 1930.
The piece urges motorists in the district to explore the George Washington Highway from Clarksburg to Winchester. It extols Route 50 for its easy grades, scenic mountain views, and skillful engineering across the Alleghanies, noting temporary rough spots between Belpre and Guysville as part of a major 1931 road and bridge project.
The piece argues viewers shape Hollywood output by choosing showings. It cites Will Hays clip-sheet of editors and ministers noting that clean films fail to draw while overtly suggestive pictures pack theaters. It urges audiences to demand wholesome cinema or face continued low standards.
May 2 report describes a unique mid Broadway school for stage children where pupils may delay arrival for late theater commitments and must keep a correspondence course while on tour. About 350 students with 70 regularly engaged. salaries range 60 to 150 dollars weekly.
The passage explains the British trillion as a million cubed, while the American system uses a million times a thousand times a thousand. It contrasts how each system defines a trillion with simple arithmetic.
Naval delegates return home. Submarines not outlawed though talks favored humanizing them. Mussolini backs peace and national safety. Italy plans 22 submarines to bolster prestige and security, while pursuing more powerful cruisers.
Diet guidance from Dr Frank McCoy author of The Newest Way to Health includes a weekly menu with breakfast options lunches and dinners, plus questions on fistula eczema and orange juice intake. It blends foods and daily plans with brief medical Q A notes.
Wall Street showed some gains while bears rushed to cover but analysts warn of further declines. Investors are urged to buy solid securities with good returns and to avoid gambling on risky bets.
Congress member Wainwright of Rye New Jersey will not run again. Anti dry advocates say his exit signals a shift in wet dry politics. A Nevada property purchase by a Mrs East, wife of a wealthy heir, prompts rumors of a $1 000 000 annual allowance from Cyrus H K Curtis paper to fund a New York Town House.
A compact note defining usage common misuses and pronunciation. It highlights preferred forms, examples, and a daily practice to expand vocabulary by mastering one word, inspire, with a sentence showing its effect on motivation.
Washington dispatch notes both major parties plan to avoid bold moves on prohibition through 1930s. Roosevelt's stance remains cautious to appease the dry wing while Hoover avoids firm positions, fueling talk he may shift post election. The piece weighs potential straddling as nominees shape up.
A mixed set of crossword like clues listed in horizontal and vertical sections with definitions and partial answers. The page presents overlapping items including terms for animals, actions, measurements, and objects, reflecting a classic puzzle layout.
A compiled Q and A list covers topics from phonograph records of speeches at a naval conference to life questions about growth, Hessian soldiers, kimono pronunciation, Moon Mountains, and industrial revolutions. Included are figures on wine production in Italy and France, subway headways, and duties of harbor masters.
Alfred M. Cohen of Cincinnati was reelected president of the International Order of Bnai Brrith at the order s quinquennial convention in Cincinnati concluding its session.
May Lener Howell longtime city engineer took office as city manager replacing E W Fassett who was removed by the City Council in Ashtabula. Howell served ten years as city engineer before assuming the new post in 1926.
Gary Tennant thirty, a fugitive who escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary last November, was detained in Toledo today. The capture ends a long hunt as authorities confirm his arrest and pending extradition proceedings.
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