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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1939
Page
4
The faded text references a funeral service for several individuals including Clark and Louise Athen land with a cordoned schedule. It mentions Uni Star NE and Chur. Clark a NE sea and Sand Per figures, with a service time around 7:3¢, indicating local ceremony notes.
Ohio creates a state Bureau of Aeronautics with a 13000 dollar annual budget. Governor Bricker approves the plan and Senator H T Phillips of Athens helps pass it in the Senate Finance Committee. The article praises appointing a capable director and adds advisers to boost aviation development and safety statewide.
A provocative idea suggests seizing Khan’s remains from a silver casket in Suiyuan and placing them in China to win Mongol loyalty. The columnist imagines expanding the fantasy to Europe, enshrining Khan’s bones on a Swiss Alp to spark a new armament race and a return to his 13th century conquests.
The state of Arkansas, owner of one sixteenth of the state’s land, is cited by the American Society of Planning Officials as having adopted notable land policies.
A dispatch outlines Governor McNutt's potential presidential bid linked to Roosevelt administration goals. It notes McNutt’s past support for Roosevelts recovery measures, his alignment with liberal reform, and the idea the Democratic Party must endorse the administrations platform to appeal nationally.
Washington sees a labor problem beyond the Wagner act as Frances Perkins argues for mediation over force. She favors collective bargaining, clear contracts, and government as conciliator, not enforcer, to help capital and labor settle disputes.
The state, ranking among the top six with heightened land problems, names a land commissioner to classify 2 million acres—mostly tax-reverted—for possible private reallocation. Some tracts may return to private hands in family-sized parcels, via sale or grant, with safeguards against indiscriminate $1 an acre sales. Proceeds fund administration and land maintenance. goal is to avoid //idle land.
A mixed set of Q A entries covers U S Congress proceedings records dating to 1789, state cigarette taxes, USDA regional labs, Jefferson cent piece errors, Stanley Steamer, Carville leprosarium care, Gunga Din actor race, pineapple naming origins, Galileo pendulum discovery, and a 1898 Trans Miss Exposition postage stamp issued June 10 to December 31 1898.
Dr Morris Fishbein discusses a disease misidentified as infantile paralysis, noting a virus found in mice across multiple homes. The condition shows fever and lymphocyte changes with nerve involvement limited, allowing recovery in days to weeks. Also mentions isolation by NIH in 1934 and occurrence in mice, donkeys, and guinea pigs worldwide.
The Messenger's Service Bureau announces it cannot provide legal or medical advice and will not undertake extended research. Readers are advised to address all questions to Messenger's Service Bureau at 1913 13th St Washington DC.
L. C. Nye reports on sheet metal roof work in The American Artisan May issue. Ohio University stadium nears completion with performers from First Christian Church including Gerald Chism and Doris Giesecke. Oliver L. Wood becomes Athens Junior High principal. Austria’s war power forecast in headlines. Dalton Dancing Academy offers a beginner class Mondays at 6 pm. Redpath Chautauqua program planned by a faculty committee. Athens State Hospital employees stage Flower Garden Revue with several participants. Lieut. Fritz Kenney leads troop train through Athens to Camp Sherman.
Mary Franklin collides with Duke Martin over Clem Shirley's fate and warns him to stay away. A quiet lunch at Peter's follows as tension rises between newsroom ethics and romance. The Janice French funeral frames a murky social web around the Frenches and their circle.
Agonized pleas from a grieving father at the funeral as he asked who was responsible for his daughter's death. The moment underscores a tragedy prompting calls for accountability and further inquiry.
Columbia alumni plan a June 3 banquet at the school house with a plate lunch and dancing afterward. The event includes music by Wiley orchestra and Max Edmundson leading square dancing. Attendees travel from nearby towns for campus events and memorial observances.
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