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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1936
Page
4
The writer condemns the Roosevelt administration’s tax plan as punitive to business and warns that 1937 will bring wage limits. They argue most business is done by small and mid sized corporations and claim the New Deal profits from “squanderings” will burden the public debt. The piece urges voting out the New Deal in November to check bureaucratic excess.
A. O. Sloane of Athens urged government to fix a railing at the Athens Post Office steps. The government responded by installing a guard railing. The piece urges citizens to report nuisances to proper authorities to curb daily irritants and recalls everyone is part of government.
Thoughtful Direction Camp Meigs in Pomeroy has mobilized officers and instructors to engage landowners, students, and officials in soil and water preservation efforts. The event highlights tree planting and farmland stewardship, urging long term care amid regional land abandonment.
Sol Bloom debunks the Revere ride and the Shot Heard Round the World while suggesting the Boston tea party may have been a bridge gathering rather than a decisive protest.
Washington criticizes Currency Comptroller O Connor for a new promotional scheme to dispose of closed bank assets. The method uses promotional touts and sound-track style advertising to drum up sales. At Gulfport St Petersburg and Miami the sales reportedly raise large sums.
Mr. O'Connor launches a 1800 mile track and radio push to advertise the Gulfport bank’s assets. The effort includes auto stickers signs six feet high and thousands of form letters while opponents mock the banking concept as fire-sale minded and impractical.
The department spread 33 sheets showing distinct benefits of the Canada Treaty, each sheet focused on a specific product like Cotton Goods Glass Petroleum Aircraft Machinery. Newsmen were told similar data for other states would be provided on request, signaling a shift to decentralized publicity by state and other agencies.
The move to make Hermann Goering economic dictator is viewed as a win for Hjalmar Schacht who opposed Jewish persecutions and Rhine land occupation on credit grounds. Schacht stays influential as Goering signs decrees while drawing them up, though clashes with radicals are anticipated and officials doubt the plan will work.
Among the 218 names on the Frazier-Lemke petition are three dead men the late Representative Truax Buckee and Lloyd one retiring from Congress Mrs Greenway three not returning because they are candidates for the Senate Representatives Monaghan Lee and Utterback Representatives Hoeppel convicted of selling a West Point appointment and Zionceck campaigning toward retirement
A reader has decided to spend the first half of his vacation watching the film Anthony Adverse after finishing the book. He intends to start with the movie this vacation period.
The remark contends that if more radical anti radical organizations prevailed, the United States would lose the red in its flag, leaving only white and blue. It frames the issue as a warning about the influence of extremist factions on national symbols.
In Kansas City, unknown thieves stole a stairway from an apartment building prompting police to investigate and take steps to secure the scene. Authorities seek information to identify suspects and recover the stolen structure.
A quip suggests elevating outlaw Alvin Karpis to Public Enemy No 1 emeritus to deter ambitious gangsters and provoke discussion on crime policy and notoriety.
A Missouri professor predicts production of gas from cornstalks, noting potential energy uses despite public skepticism about feeding people cornstalks. The remark contrasts with a light jab about who would eat cornstalks.
John Ponn of Gloucester denounces a North Carolina political paper as vile and propagandistic. He condemns its anonymous editorials, crude slang, and alleged aim to sway “poor white trash” voters while criticizing its ads for adult content and quack cures.
When the first Meigs County commissioners met in 1819 bonds were approved for sheriff Benjamin Stout. Philip Jones became county treasurer, Robert Barton clerk, and ferry licenses set for Ohio River crossings at Letart and Graham Station, plus Leading Creek. Ferry rates, including pedestrian and wagon charges, reflect pre steam power times as ferrymen used muscle to operate boats.
The body of William Moore age 55 a Black man from Newcomerstown was recovered from the Tuscarawas River. Coshocton and Tuscarawas County officials opened an inquiry into his disappearance reported five weeks prior.
R. R. Johnson announces the K. T. Crossen Post will enroll all World War soldiers. Prof. O F E McClure reports on the national Izaak Walton League convention in Chicago at a local chapter meeting. Six Athens High School students and others gave peace declamations at the First M. H. Church. Three Junior Scouts navigated Margaret's Creek by motor boat up to Fisher Station, a first in the Hocking River waters.
Mrs E J Jones and her son and daughter in law Prof and Mrs E J Jones Jr arrived home after a vacation in Cambridge Mass. Alberta Carr and Bertha Stickney hosted a dinner at Hotel Berry for Miss Mary Fletcher fiancée of Mr Charles Jones Rock Castle Ala. Joseph C Dickson of Higginsville Mo arrives to take pastorate at the First Christian Church.
Linda Bourne, 20, rises from penniless after her father’s death to Hollywood fame writing and adapting scripts. She exchanges letters with Pete Gardiner while becoming a celebrity among celebrities, meets director Basil Thorne, and confronts loneliness amid success as Honey Harmon’s circle watches.
A historical table outlines child growth from birth to six years, detailing weight and height targets for boys and girls, teeth development, muscle growth, and speech milestones. It notes variations by age and emphasizes rapid growth in muscles and language acquisition as children approach school age.
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