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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1931
Page
4
The Athens Messenger and Herald lists its publication schedule, management, and office details. It identifies coverage for Athens and surrounding counties in Ohio, membership in newspaper associations, and subscription rates including weekly and yearly terms.
Merle Thorpe cites Nation’s Business and Walter Lippmann on demand for supermen and leadership. The piece argues business leadership is blamed yet necessary, praising Hoover’s mobilization of relief through Walter Gifford and aides Owen D. Young and Harry A. Wheeler.
The piece notes how crowds descend on Milan Ohio to view Thomas Edison's birthplace, tearing bark from trees and collecting trinkets. It argues such mementos satisfy a hunger to touch greatness, offering a fragile reassurance that humanity can produce remarkable figures.
New York editors describe Tin Pan Alley being rummaged for novel songs to feed radio demand. Researchers dig through old files and manuscripts as Mills Brothers acquire Waterson era catalogues. Historic tunes like Shine On Harvest Moon resurface, with names such as Nora Bayes and Irving Berlin prominent.
The Athens Messenger Information Bureau offers free help on estate rights for a second wife with dower status and explains Kipling’s white man’s burden as a poem about racial responsibility. It notes a dance marathon in Chicago began August 30 1930 and ended April 7 1931 lasting 5295 hours, a claimed world record.
A verse critique questions science and Einstein about its goals. It laments that scientists count planets and map the stars while neglecting human comfort, wealth fairness, health, crime, and misery. The speaker hoped science would ease burdens but sees only detached facts and ongoing hardship.
Railroads push back against trucking by using container cars for less-than-carload freight and plans by five eastern roads to carry loaded trucks on flat cars. A truckload would travel warehouse to consignee with most of the trip by rail, promising more economical transport and brighter prospects for railways and consumers.
A brief devotional fragment presents a verse from John 4 14 about living water that becomes a perpetual spring within, promising eternal life to believers.
The report recalls events from ten years ago in Athens including indoor work at the Brooks Building and coal mine idleness due to a Federal check off order. Union protests arose as workers walked out while World War veterans attended the Kansas convention. Auto repair joined Plains High School curriculum and a new cement floor was installed. The Athens Automobile Club urged support for a roads plank and a Lincoln memorial road project. An ear of corn from L A Pierce near Guysville measured ten and a half inches in circumference with 24 rows and 55 grains per row, weighing two pounds. Billy Hawkins, a former Ohio University baseball star with Standard Oil, visited Athens.
Several street corners across Athens were cut away to allow the new motor fire truck to turn more easily without reducing speed, reflecting city safety upgrades and quicker response times.
Charlies R. Hutchinson, treasurer of Ringling Brothers & Barnum Bailey Combined Shows, has spent 35 years traveling under the big top but has never seen the entire circus. The piece notes his constant duties keep him near the tent and at Winter headquarters in Sarasota Florida.
A Glouster reader criticizes candidates listed for the next Tuesday election in Trimble Township. The letter questions literacy, sobriety, and oath compliance of officials and urges voters in the Hocking and Sunday Creek Valleys to choose "good, sober, intelligent men" who honor their oaths.
Frederic J. Haskin notes that federal and state funded vocational schools enroll over 896,000 students as the depression spurs demand for skilled labor. The system supports unit trade schools, work study plans, and combined work and study formats to produce more capable workers for agriculture and industry.
The Athens Messenger showcases a new World Map praised for answering hundreds of questions. Teachers, businesspeople, secretaries, and students are urged to order with a ten cent coupon, supplementing outdated geographies and atlases.
The Information Bureau announces a new world map available to readers for ten cents in coin or stamps. Frederic J. Haskin directs the distribution from Washington D. C. and urges prompt response.
Bird dogs were exercised and shot guns gotten in condition for the opening of the bird and rabbit season Nov. 15. Quail and rabbits were not so plentiful as the previous year.
Rodney Dutcher surveys the Federal District of Columbia Supreme Court as it handles cases against cabinet members andFederal officials including the Senate challenge to George Otis Smith and the Cannon indictment. The piece notes judges and the court’s reach over government suits and local felonies and civil actions.
The article urges parents to teach thrift by giving children earned money and a weekly allowance. It stresses work equals money, limits on spending, and saving through small banks and deliberate budgeting. It offers practical steps like paying for tasks, counting expenses, and balancing needs with a banked reserve.
Washington D C column lampoons figurehead husbands of prominent women. The author hints at a future harsh piece as he sketches spouses who share life with ambitious wives yet lead separate, limited roles in the District. He jokes about the rare bond of coupledom and the comedy of a husband’s subdued career.
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