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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1936
Page
4
The Athens Messenger and Herald Printing Co publishes weekday editions with a Sunday morning issue. Rates shown include Ohio subscriptions, carrier weekly and monthly options, with publishers and editors named and professional associations listed.
The piece weighs the merits and risks of socialism and public planning versus capitalism. It argues that centralized control could foster new faults, including war timing, overexpansion, and loss of liberties, and warns that unknown risks may rival known economic flaws.
A U S customs court defines infant as any child under six years old overturning older notions. The piece jokes about mothers perceiving children as babies at all ages and even spouses as helpless infants.
The article likens enforcement to the income tax and social security act, noting 1 percent payroll deductions for gangsters and bosses, with required business descriptions. It warns noncompliance leads to prosecution and predicts uneven benefits, mentioning 65 as a retirement threshold and limited help for farmers and others.
The fragment suggests a cautious outlook about ongoing conditions with an emphasis on stability. No clear entities or definite events are readable to anchor names, places, or dates from the source text. The readable portion conveys expectation of calm.
Paul Mallon notes Hull and Wallace gain prestige at the White House after the election. Wallace is favored for honesty and campaign poise, while Hull’s age in 1940 weighs against him. A Roosevelt renomination remains a possibility, with Phil La Follette and John Lewis as other figures looming in an evolving political landscape.
The A F L executive council backs a possible SS amendment to preserve social security amid debates over NRA AAA and SS. The piece argues against altering rules to fit situations and notes Roosevelt’s rumored stance on a constitutional NRA amendment, an AAA proposal, and the A F L SS idea.
A provocative line asserts that fat women react less angrily than thin women and require less monitoring, reflecting dated attitudes about body size and behavior rather than objective traits.
The passage suggests preferring simple, unknowing company over expertise on an island. It notes that many with income can still save in hard times and that people cheer friends by sharing troubles. It argues humans have an instinct to do worthwhile work despite imperfect worlds and comments on the cost of peace at home versus snipe and sulk.
A descriptive tour of central Ohio's sandstone country in Fairfield and Hocking Counties. The region offers waterfalls, caves, grottoes, and cliffs, formed by a hard sandstone cap over softer rock, revealing ancient drainage and glacial history. Archaeology and history appear in Ash Cave, Cedar Falls, and nearby caves with traces of tribes, French trappers, and early settlers.
A collage of quotes on slogans politics and everyday whimsy from Irene Castle McLaughlin Sir Gerald Campbell Gov E W Marland onion grower A M Milnar Marjorie Hills and Senator Gerald P Nye. The excerpts touch on peace war costumes onions reading in bathtubs and military restraint.
Poet FLOSSIE GABRIEL of Athens Ohio shares a reader verse about a Little Brown Church by memory. She recalls a sacred parish where she learned of Christ’s care and longs to be laid to rest in that sacred spot beside a friend.
The article reviews eyeglass options from bifocals and trifocals to telescopic lenses and the newer contact lenses. It notes the face shape and eye conditions guide lens choices, the higher cost and fit challenges of contacts, and cautions use only under expert guidance.
Marcia Canfield, engaged to Frank Kendrick, faces gossip as Kendrick vanishes amid a fraud fallout. She pursues him to Chicago after a cryptic meeting with a hotel stranger and a sketch titled Portrait of an Unknown Lady. John Wad dell suspects accountability and helps plan a search.
Joseph M Risley Logan mail clerk was chosen worshipful master with C Wood Bowen senior warden Lawrence Adcock junior warden Dan Soliday treasurer and M G Harebaugh secretary along with other officers at Mingo Lodge 171 annual meeting.
Twenty years ago Mrs A H Simms of Peach Ridge was the honor guest at a surprise party. Neighbors of Mrs Charles Weiss hosted a miscellaneous shower for Miss Grace Wilson at her parents’ home 71 May Avenue with numerous guests and attendees from the community. Prof Jefferson hosted a church class gathering at the First Methodist Church for the Winners and the Laffalote classes, with W B Bartells and Raymond Slutz in attendance.
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