The Athens Stressenger and The Messenger Publishing Co
Page four lists subscription rates by mail and carrier and notes postal classifications. It cites national reps in Chicago New York Columbus and Cleveland and mentions obituary notices pricing. The item reflects a historical newspaper page with advertising and association memberships.
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Athens
the Messenger Publishing Co
Mali
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Columbus
Cleveland
Business Leaders Warn on Postwar Economy and Freedom
The American Business Congress through its Post-War Economic Planning Committee argues business must lead in postwar recovery or risk drifting toward state socialism. It outlines 20 million potential workers needing jobs, calls for government-business cooperation, and cautions that excess taxation and low wartime profits could erode working capital, urging business to assume responsibility to preserve free enterprise.
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American Business Congress
Too Many Cooks in Roosevelt Era Analysis
The piece argues Roosevelt should install a war chief and curb conflicting advice to win four more years, cites rising prices and wages, inflation, and farm bloc voices. It claims public distrust of anti inflation headlines, plant shutdowns, and shortages in war materials. It asserts food subsidies threaten inflation and notes spring weather worsened food production. It contrasts wartime management with Woodrow Wilson’s approach.
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Roosevelt
White House
General War Board
Federal
Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Retail distribution under war rationing tallies up
The piece notes that wartime shortages reveal the vital role of the retail distribution system. It argues mass and chain store networks keep citizens supplied with essentials, and that rationing relies on retailers to prevent production lines from clogging.
Churchill Roosevelt talk aims at war emphasis choices
Washington dispatch assesses whether to pursue a long siege in Europe with lower casualties or a rapid combined assault in Europe and the Pacific. It argues American air and ship production, strategic bases, and reopening Burma will shape the plan, while civilian morale and allied shipping affect the scope of operations.
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Washington
Churchill
Roosevelt
Joint Chiefs of Staffs
America
Europe
Far East
Japan
Pacific
Hitler
Solomons
New Guinea
China
South Pacific
Philippines
Bay of Bengal
Burma Road
Burma
Mediterranean
India
Britain
British Isles
MacArthur
Tunisia
United Nations
Sweden Sees Nazi Brutality Driving Allied Support
STOCKHOLM reports from Clapper describe Swedish views on Nazi Germany. Norwegians fleeing occupancy reveal German brutality, shifting Sweden toward the Allied cause while preserving nominal neutrality. Danes show electoral democracy under occupation, Poland faces harsher Nazi rule with underground resistance.
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Stockholm
Germany
Nazi Germany
Norway
Local Civic and School News Highlights
Battery E 134th Field Artillery Ohio National Guard prepares for quarterly battalion inspection under Sgt William Log and Lieut Ben Brown. New officers at West School PTA Nelsonville include Mrs How ard Raine and Miss Ruth Cook. Masquers drama initiates Lois McCoy and others. Gilbert Shannon leads. Rotary Club discusses What Rotary Can Do for Athens with Mayor Gill and others. Eighth grade graduates named from Alexander and Lee Townships list includes Wayne Brickles and Ellen Woodyard among many. Athens Lodge BPOE initiates include George Rasp and L E Holmes plus several others.
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134Th Field Artillery
Ohio National Guard
William Log
Ben Brown
Paul Hall
Frank Watkins
Alexander and Lee Townships
Wayne Brickles
Dana Saunters
Ellen Woodyard
Helen Davis
Margaret Hudwell
Arnold Hudnell
Edith Sams
Victor Pugh
Harley Collins
Margaret Jones
Anna Brooks
Henry Tribe
Bessie Beatty
Annie Robinson
Emerson Wood
Ola Curtis
Stovall Allen
Fierman Cordray
Marian Cain
Grace Warren
Marie Brannon
Lulu Pratt
Paul Brannon
Robert Paul Pierce
Florence Bell Martin
Orville Woodyard
Erma Saylor
Harry Swartz
Harley Ross
Walter Jones
John Coe
John Robbins
Chester Enlow
Mildred Ransbottom
George Bolin
Kathryn Jourdan
Chester Throckmorton
Evelyn West
Trivia Qs and As From a Historical Quiz
A series of trivia Qs covers state nicknames Wake Island discovery and possession dates Panama Canal ownership and payments Mussolini Ethiopia battle Adowa West Point age plumbago as a mineral and pencil lead Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin as the first American novel to sell one million copies.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
New Plymouth Social Notes
New Plymouth social items list visits and gatherings around Mother's Day and Easter. Families from Columbus Lan caster Zanesville Athens and Lancaster are mentioned along with locals Mr and Mrs Roscoe Mowery J C Cremean Dwight Harris Willis Brown Herschel Brown and others and events including W C T U meeting and a youth rally.
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New Plymouth
Roscoe Mowery
Ewing
J. C. Cremean
Dwight Harris
Kelen
Columbus
Willis Brown
Larry
Herschel Brown
Dan
Kathleen
Wreatha Brown
Patricia Ellis
Lancaster
Frank Ellis
Co. V. Heinlein
S. M. Heinlein
Charles Harlan
Zanesville
William Hopkins
Raymon Konbright
Adelphi
W.C.T.U
Misses Hawk
Maude Stevenson
Marie Conard
Linnie Arnold
Florence Huff
McArthur
Akron
George Smith
Jean
Dean McDaniel
Farle White
Ellis
Maralyn Naugle
Ohio University
Earle Heinlein
J. M. Stewart
John
Oregon
Stanley Miller
Guy Loomis
Logan
Athens
Mary Harris
Southard
Hocking County
Vinton County
A.C. ‘Treadley Heinlein
Ellington Field
Texas
Grace Delora
Stella Cooper
I. R. Haas
Raymond Fuller
Helen Fuller
Lavern Fuller
Charles Fuller
Cecil Weede
Boney Weede
Dorcas Social and Personal Family Visits Revealed
Dorcas social notes list visits across families in Ironton and Zanesville. Alice Beegle and two children spent Mother’s Day with her parents Lindsey and Mrs Lambert. Several relatives including Nellie Johnson Addie Wilson Laura Sayre and others shared weekend gatherings and Sunday visits.
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Dorcas
Alice Beegle
Lindsey Lambert
Ironton
Nellie Johnson
Addie Wilson
Laura Sayre
Bobby
Roger Beegle
Emory Powell
Lizzie Bostick
Laura
Waid Johnson
Waid Sayre
Henry Beaver
Chester
Ed Beaver
Sadie Wolfe
George Beegle
William Blake
Grant Gosset
Nease Settlement
Addie Powell
Mattie Beegle
Ed Beegle
Zanesville
Charles Beegle
Faye Fisher
Grace June Beegle
Robert McKelvey
Apple Grove
Island Assignment Tests WAAC Bond in Pacific Drama
Beth Carter arrives with WAAC and Major Brit Jackson on a camouflaged Pacific island to guard operations and uncover leaks. Their talk on status, rules, and respect hints at romance while officers question a WAAC staff role. A private encounter interrupts as a third party approaches.
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Beth Carter
WAAC
Brit Jackson
Pacific
Coast Artillery Barrage Balloon Battalion
Beth
West Columbia Social Notes
West Columbia brief social column notes guests and visits. Entries include Mrs. F B Lieving of Point Pleasant visiting friends, multiple family and friend gatherings among Stewart Foreman and Riley families, hospital news, travel to Charleston and Texas, Army returns, and weekend visits across Point Pleasant, Kaylong Route, and Middleport.
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West Columbia
F. B. Lieving
Point Pleasant
Nannie Johnson
Vica Foreman
Ed Casto
Joe Reed
Columbus
Lawrence Stewart
J. W. Stewart
Bob Gibbs
A. B
Mary Lou Russell
Lucy Riley
Mildred Miller
Lester Foreman
Lawrence Steward
Kaylong
Andrew van Matre
Howard van Matre
Ted Riley
Hartford
Tip Powell
Texas
Pat Riley
Ross Kapp
Marie Frances
Charleston
Harry Hoffman
Corning
Bud Steward
Mason
Fannie Frances
Will Shell
Jimmy
Sally Miller
Howard Johnson
Grant Shell
Point Rock Social Notes and Visitors List
Point Rock social notes recount visits by Bert Babie and family from Sandusky to his parents, and Gerald Collins from the Navy visiting family. Mr Carsey and Mr Douglass shear sheep for Curtis Young. Various other local visits mention Morris family, Turner at Albany, Lowther furlough, and a wedding shower. Nearby notes touch on a 2000 year old earth mystery and a research hint about cans.
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Point Rock
Bert Babie
Sandusky
W. D. Babie
W. M. Morris
G. L. Morris
Aurora
Ind
J. A. Turner
Albany
Turner
T. E. McLaughlin
Middleport
R. D
Lena Knapp
Even Morris
George Jackson Lowther
L. V. Lowther
R. A. Blessing
Charleston
Curtis Young
Mr. Young
Robert Fisher
Helen Holcomb
W. R. Holcomb
Holcomb
Mr. Turner
Lester Spires
Rocky Hill
W. D. Bable
Elsie Morton
Lawrence Morton
Frank Westfall
Springfield
Death Claims Radcliff Resident James Milton Cottrill at 85
James Milton Cottrill 85 died after a long illness. He was married to Suzana Bowen in 1892 and had nine children. Surviving are his wife, one son Harry R. of Wales Mills, six daughters, ten grandchildren, one great grandchild, a sister, a half brother and half sister. Funeral service was held at Boring Chapel with interment Bowen Cemetery. Local notes follow about visits, travel, and military and naval service among area residents.
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Caroline Mount
Logan
Imogene Crist
Irene Humphreys
Norma Henning
Frances Barnes
Dorothy Wells
Columbus
Eva Bowen
Harrisonville
William Cottrill
Wales Mills
Ida Harmon
Los Angeles
Calif
Boring Chapel
P. O. Householder
Bowen Cemetery
Violet Baird
Springfield
Otho Gregory
George Dean Boring
J. W. Wells, Jr
James Pendleton
Walter Beckley
John Hocter
J. L. Barnes
Jack
Betty Trotter
Thievener
Gard McLaughlin
Joseph Camp
Meda Riffle
Jackie
Andrew Wiseman
John Bacus
Fort Hayes
Elmer Lowe
James Biffle
Army
Glendon Calvin
Shereman Napper
Navy
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American Newspaper Publishers Association
Ohio Select List
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Ohio Newspaper Association
Associated Press
Busines
David Lawrence
National Dispatch
Clapper
Denmark
Sweden
Poland
BBC
Gestapo
Berlin
West School
P.T.A. Nelsonville
Howard Raine
Ruth Cook
Avol Sweeney
C. E. Johnson
Malvern Wilson
Masquers
A.H.S. Drama Organization
Lois McCoy
Wiletta Smith
Roderick Eddy
Jack Meister
Dick Whipple
Marjorie Beasley
Aileen Phillips
Maxine Westfall
Lewis Speicer
Paul Jones
Maynard Aldridge
Pauline Masterton
Gilbert Shannon
Rotary Club
Rotary
Mayor Gill
C. H. Harris
A. B. Roe
John Woolley
F. D. Forsyth
Daniel McGurk
Athens Lodge
B.P.O.E
George Rasp
L. E. Holmes
L. J. Noon
Monroe J. Carr
Frank T. Gibbs
D. L. Marsh
R. L. Campbell
C. F. Greisheimer
J. W. Cecil
B. F. Rhodes
Sheldon Verity
Charles Hunter
Wake Island
U. S
United States
Panama Canal
Panama
Italy
Ethiopia
Benito Mussolini
Adova
West Point
Military Academy
By Galbraith
Sonny
NAAC
BY Lorette Cooper
Chapter
G. I
Jackson
Carter
the Major Laughed
Army of the
NEA Service. Inc
Brit
Brit Darling
West Columbia Social Notes
Harry Boothe
Robert Hoffman
Maud Hoffman
Point Rock Social Notes
Radcliff
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