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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1931
Page
4
A historical editorial urges confidence over fear in commerce and government. It argues runs on banks hollow out communities, warns against propaganda, and calls for informed action by depositors, leaders, and citizens to stabilize the economy and defend liberty.
A recounting of Eugene O Neill’s early years from his 24 year old health crisis in Provincetown to joining the acting world with his father James O Neill. It notes his travels from New Orleans to Ogden Utah and the pivotal support of editor Frederick Latimer shaping his path to writing.
The Sultanina seedless grape was first introduced in 1865 by the Bureau of Plant Industry. The Thompson seedless arose when Thompson in Yuba City, California popularized it around 1882. Other facts note the grape’s ancient Persian and Chinese history and separate Q A exchanges on counting animals and city populations.
A speaker laments lost teeth and tonsils while chronicling ongoing illness and conflicting medical opinions. He notes multiple operations, a guarded recovery, a diet of synthetic foods, and a sense that nature erred in creating humans with these ailments. He ruefully accepts the fate of permanent losses.
Navy directs Goodyear-Zeppelin to proceed with a sister airship to the Akron. Estimated price about 2.45 million dollars versus Akron at about 5 million. Savings stem from ready facilities, improved design and skilled workers. If fleets are needed later, costs could drop further.
A short devotional line presents a biblical reflection from Lamentations 4 64 urging recompense according to the deeds of hands. It frames a meditative prompt for daily conduct and moral accounting.
Photos of the Ohio University inaugural were displayed at the Majestic Theater along with moving pictures of the Cincinnati University game. Notables include J. D. Brown returning from Cincinnati with daughter Mrs. T. J. Davis. Frank Kurtz of Chicago, Athens native, visited. James Roach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Roach, had a sixth birthday party on Richland Avenue.
A cartoon shows a locomotive crane lifting a locomotive by a single sheet of paper, the engine dangling from the boom as a fragile claim. Tomorrow promises a feature on a bridge claimed to be over 300 years old.
A Washington Letter reports new cooperative funeral societies cutting costs by 40 to 50 percent versus traditional undertakers. In Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota miners and farmers lead membership in these self governed groups with 5 dollar admissions and family coverage up to age 30, aiming for eventual own funeral firms and cemeteries.
The Athens Messenger releases PARLIAMENTARY LAW a concise guide detailing rules of order for deliberative bodies. It covers temporary and permanent organization, a model constitution and bylaws, officer duties, motion precedence, and a glossary. Copies mail postpaid for six cents with a coupon.
Information Bureau notice from Frederic J. Haskin requests a copy of the Parliament ary Law booklet. He encloses six cents for postage and provides name address city state for delivery.
A page 1 continuation warns young women against skeletal looks and fat elimination. It cites Dr. Lark Horovitz of Purdue University, who argues a thin fat layer protects against constant bombardment by minute electrified particles.
Otis Skinner aged 73 plays Shylock and Maude Adams aged 59 plays Portia in Cleveland on Monday. Adams wears high laced shoes, praised as a relief from modern female footgear resembling gilded Shetland pony harness.
A small uninhabited island vanished after a severe earthquake near Japan. Telegraph wires were destroyed and stone fences overturned as the sea swallowed the island, prompting thoughts on the power of quakes to erase land.
Haile Selassie proclaims a two chamber legislature and forms a modern government. A grand procession in a golden coach formerly Kaiser William’s accompanied a banquet for 10,000 Ethiopian tribesmen wearing lion skins and horned head-dresses.
The text notes two Republican officials from Ohio and Pennsylvania urging repeal of the Prohibition Amendment with light wines and beer. It claims 150 wet House members now, up 80 in three years, signaling a notable anti prohibition wind.
Washington writes that America lacks a national unemployment insurance system and relies on charity to weather winter. An Interior Department official argues Indians have been kept in a dependent dole system, losing land and independence while receiving schooling, medical care, and farming aid but few opportunities beyond the reservation.
The author urges parents to train children in genuine manners from home, stressing self forgetfulness, polite language, and proper table behavior. Emphasizes greeting elders, rising, lifting caps, and firm table etiquette as foundation.
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