Athens Messenger Description and Advertised Affiliations
The Athens Messenger serves Athens Nelsonville Glouster Logan Pomeroy Middleport Coolville Gallipolis and surrounding communities with a population around 100 000 across five counties in Southeast Ohio. It lists membership in national and regional press associations and includes the United Press as wire service among its affiliations.
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Ohio
Frther Paper Centre Newsparfer
Athens
Nelsonville
Glouster Logan Pomeroy
Middleport
Coolville
Gallipolis
Optimism Persists Across Business as Inflation Debate Grows
The piece notes higher employment and a recovery feel despite farm, labor, and currency challenges. It cites wheat price advances, lower hogs and dairy prices, and corn trading below government loaned levels. Auto and store sales rise, while business failures hit a 13 year low.
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Chicago
Congress
Everything Is Ahead Time in a Young Nation
The piece reflects on Major General Hugh Scott and the rapid pace of change in the United States. It contrasts a long soldier’s life with a nation’s brief history, noting Scott’s Westward move in 1876 and the West’s youth. It argues America remains in its prime with much ahead.
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United States
Hugh Scott
Scott
America
General Scott
Custer
Party Politics Reigns Congress Blocks Home Owners' Corporation Appointments
Congress refuses to rule out politics in selecting Home Owners' Corporation employees. The piece argues the GOP would have acted the same and calls the move a body blow to democratic government. It warns the action undermines efficient government and bolsters spoilsman influence.
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Congress
Home Owners’ Corporation
Washington
Greece's Lucky Escape Publicly Revealed In Insull Memo
The article notes Greece residents may not grasp luck amid a warning that Samuel Insull disclosed he had laid careful plans. It hints at a broader context of financial or political risk and the potential impact on Greece.
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Greece
Samuel Insull
Board Home
Silver ensemble in Congress veers as filibuster talk rises
In Washington on May 7, Paul Mallon notes a split among Democratic senators over the silver question and inflation. He reports Key Pittman losing the top baton to Thomas and Wheeler, with King as a peace maker and Huey Long pushing a cautious filibuster threat seen as a sign of weakness rather than strategy.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Key Pittman
Pittman
White House
Thomas
Wheeler
Senator King
Huey Long
Huey
Long
Mr. Roosevelt
White House tipped list of silver buyers with dummy names
The White House privately tipped Senate aides about silver speculator lists, which were full of dummy names. An underground channel from the executive mansion circulated tips to locate real names, causing one slip when Frank Vanderlip Jr. appeared on the list a day late.
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White House
Senate
Executive Mansion
Frank Vanderlip, Jr
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
A humorous essay reflects on exile from New York as Heywood Broun jokes about a six to eight week sentence and recalls Bide Dudley’s homecoming tale. The piece contrasts metropolitan fatigue with return reception, hinting at acclaim and mock banishment.
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Athens
The
New York
Braun
Dudley
Atchison, Kan
Denver
Ride
Farewell Poem and a Corsican Joke in a Newspaper Column
Jimmy Sin nott, once a columnist for the Evening Mail, pens a farewell poem before a month in Atlantic City. A single postcard reply from Broadway delivers a blunt “No.” The piece mocks syndicate managers as “little Napoleons” and portrays the writer’s distant job in vivid newspaper-house imagery.
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Jimmy Sinnott
Evening Mail
Jimmy
New York
Atlantic City
Broadway
Little Napoleon
Rhodes
Dusty
Harrisburg
Akron
Ohio
Two map buttons hint at fading papers and a poet
A narrator lists two map buttons one in North Carolina and one for a Utah paper likely defunct due to unpaid dues. He muses on joining the Newspaper Guild and avoiding conflict, prefers a blue thumb tack, and contemplates the vast readership gap where few read Braun while acknowledging the enduring cosmos.
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North Carolina
Utah
Health Diet Expositions on Test Tube Babies History
Dr Morris Fishbein reviews the long history of artificial insemination from 18th century animal breeding to early human experiments. He notes moral and legal objections, later medical use for obstructed conception, donor cell methods, and the precise timing and apparatus involved, with many failures but notable successes.
About the Children By Olive Roberts Barton
An essay reflects on pioneers crossing the western desert, their hardship, and the comparison to modern comforts. It questions modern dependence on luxuries, the need for continued pioneering spirit, and how exposure to sun and harsh travel shaped endurance.
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Western Desert
Glass Bill Aims To Create Federal Reserve Building
The Glass Bill would let the Federal Reserve Board construct a building funded by a levy on member banks, removing the Fed from Treasury control. Senator Glass has long argued the Treasury dominates the Fed and some board members share that view, preferring independence. This project is not tied to the PWA program.
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Federal Reserve Board
Treasury Department
Senator Glass
Federal Reserve
PWA
Glass
Tugwell Nomination Sparks Senate Debate and GOP Critique
Friends claim Roosevelt put Tugwell on the spot by nominating him as assistant agriculture secretary during a charged time. The position was created months ago in the agriculture department appropriation bill for Tugwell, whose anti radicalism defense may not curb a Republican field day when his nomination is debated in the Senate and approved.
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Tugwell
Roosevelt
Agriculure Department
Senate
Courage, Broun Comes Up With Grand Westward Quest
The speaker muses aloud about winning the West and beyond, naming states and cities like Albany Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Akron Youngstown Columbus and contemplating a long trip to the Bronx Zoo. He invokes Nelson Farragut and O O McIntyre as inspiration and hints at romance of travel.
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Broun
West
Middle West
Northwest
Southwest
Pennsylvania
Nelson
Farragut
O. O. McIntyre
Albany
Syracuse
Rochester
Buffalo
Akron
Youngstown
Columbus
Bronx Zoo
Glass bills tack inflation schemes to his name
The passage notes inflationary and silver schemes attached to Senator Glass bills, written over his protests. It also reports the American Legion lobby purchasing a building for 125000 dollars.
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Glass
Senate
American Legion
Plans for Greek power empire clash with historic caution
A Salt Lake City man stole a bathtub but was nabbed after failing a getaway attempt. The piece contrasts plans for a vast Insull style empire in Greece with historical Pericles and Demosthenes.
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Salt Lake City
Les
Editorial Briefs on Roosevelts Hero Image
A German shipping executive calls President Roosevelt a hero, but German praise aligns with Adolf Hitler as the standard. The piece notes former Senator Heflin of Alabama faced another failed bid while a separate comment hints at wartime sentiment and misperceptions abroad.
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Roosevelt
Adolf Hitle
Home Run on First and Last Balls Pitched
Bud Connolly of Milwaukee hits a homer on the first pitch of the home season April 27, 1983, over left field. He also homered on the last ball pitched in the eleventh inning on September 4, 1983. Tomorrow: Topping The Arma.
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Bud Connolly
Milwaukee Nine
American Association
Arma
Talk It Over In Print Editorial Sparks Public Debate
A reader from Athens argues The Messenger should publish notices when Re-employment Office calls for workers for available jobs. He cites the Muskingum River project and Rural Recovery Plan, urging fair access for Athens residents and cross indexing to prevent overlooked applicants. He defends his stance as public service, not personal grievance. Athens, May 3.
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Armory
Re-employment Bureau
Muskingum River
Ohio
Athens
Local Society Notes Features Sorority and Club Hosts
Mrs J T Merwin Phillips and Mrs L V Brown entertained Sigma Alpha lota at a Varsity Inn gathering. Mrs W E Moler hosted the Federary Club. Letters from Logan, Schrader and Elwyn Crawford arrived from New Mexico as part of a Pacific round trip.
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J. T. Merwin
Phillips
L. V. Brown
H. R. Wilson
F. W. Bob Elizabeth Garber
Sorority
Sigma Alphe Lota
Logan Young Schrader
Elwyn Crawford
New Mexico
Pacific
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