The Athens Messenger and Herald editorial details
The Athens Messenger and Herald lists publishers Gordon K Bush and Charles H Barris with staff notes and staff affiliations. It notes association memberships, national representatives, and advertising rate inquiries. Subscription rates are shown: carrier 15 cents. eight weeks in Ohio. one year $4.60. six months 2.50. ten weeks 1.00. four weeks 1.00. one week 15 cents.
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Frederick W. Bush
Athens Messenger & Herald Inting CO
Gordon K Bush
Mgr
Charles H Barris
A News Publishers Association
Ohio
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Associated Ohio
Inland Daily Press Association
Associated Press
John W Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Athens
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New Deal speaker urges constitutional security for all
A New Deal spokesman argues economic security should come without dictatorship and that true security requires constitutional agreement across society. He warns against drifting toward unregulated self destruction and emphasizes preserving liberty while expanding daily life security for Americans.
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New Deal
Parents Decide What Children Read Not Parents Taste
In The Parents' Magazine Jo sette Frank argues that no book is good for a child unless it interests them. Parents should provide access to good books and let children choose, as tastes vary widely and children often reject books adults assumed they would love.
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Parents’ Magazine
Josette Frank
Child Study Association
S. S. van Dine
Sinclair Lewis
Henty
Junior
Kim
United States Steel
Roosevelt
Laborers at Ludlow Use Golf Balls Against Factory
Striking Ludlow Massachusetts workers, angry at former bosses, mounted a unusual protest by driving hundreds of golf balls from a hill across the river toward the factory windows. State troopers were called as the dispute escalated into a pitched confrontation.
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Ludlow
Mass
Inside Estrangement Grows Between White House and AFL
Washington reports reveal a deep rift between the Roosevelt administration and the American Federation of Labor led by Bill Green. Green sent a blunt demand list after a San Francisco convention, while labor critics press for truce terms and sharper action from the Justice Department.
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Paul Mallon
Washington
Justice Department
White House
American Federation of Labor
Bill Green
Green
Roosevelt
Mr Green
Auto Labor Board
Leo Wolman
Green Shirts
National Labor Relations Board
Houde
Cummings
Labor Struggle Echoes in Golf Tactics
The article contrasts labor conflict with golf once seen as a leisure pursuit. It notes the humor in a new kind of tactics emerging in a sport traditionally associated with calm, measured play.
Ohio U. football 6 Ohio Wesleyan scoreless
Don Peden’s Ohio University football team defeated Ohio Wesleyan 6 to 0 with the only score by Wise who returned an intercepted pass 0 yards for a touchdown. Other notes include the sale of the David Putnam residence at 42 West Carpenter Street and the Home Beautiful Demonstration House near Glouster.
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Don Peden
Ohio University
Ohio Wesleyan
Wise
Wesleyan
Mrs. Thurman L. Morgan
David Putnam
West
Carpenter Street
Charles Swartz
Glouster
Corn Growing Contest Highlights Nellie Hill’s Yield
Nellie Hill of Canaan raised 114 bushels of corn per acre in the corn growing contest. The Rubber Grower’s Association in Columbus discussed rubber roads for Ohio and planned testing. An Athens Council of Boy Scouts formed at a mass meeting led by Henry W. Conner as president with B. O. Skinner as secretary. Velours and ratine with plush like pile topped mid winter style, alongside broadcloth faille serge gebardine and chiffon broadcloth fabrics.
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Nellie Hill
Canaan
Ohio
Rubber Grower's Association
Columbus
Athens
About Your Children by Olive Roberts Barton
The article argues temperament shapes happiness in parents and children, with a focus on how some people cannot stand pleasure. It cites a birthday party where joy turned sour for a child whose happiness was spoiled by a junior brother’s action, and notes worry is contagious, often starting with anxious parents.
Notable Quotes From Early 20th Century Figures
A collection of historically referenced lines includes Prof Hugh Findlay on flowers appealing to aesthetics and suppressing self-destructive impulses, Dr Diton Ryan Fox on shaping colleges, Dr William Ralph Inge on fear driving modern war, Benito Mussolini on poverty inevitability, and Francis B Sayre on nations preferring fighting to starvation.
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William Ralph Inge
St. Paul's
Public Forum on Bootleg Enforcement and Prohibition Reform
The Messenger notes a stronger push by federal and state agencies, with Morganthau aiming for about 4000 operatives and Mr Mathews tweaking state forces. The piece argues Prohibition failed to end illicit liquor, calls for repeal or a licensing system, and questions revenue as the motive, urging focus on morals and social welfare. November 18.
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the Messenger
Washington
Morganthau
Mathews
United States
Nudist Colony Hidden in Tree Vision
A poem by A. L. Bartoe from Nelsonville dated November 19 describes a nudist colony on a hill revealed as naked trees. The imagery shows wind scattering imagined garments and dancers in sunlight, but the scene is a metaphor for barren branches rather than people.
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the Messenger
A. L. Bartoe
Nelsonville
Editorial Briefs Reflect Global Oddities And Domestic Politics
A collection of quick editorial notes spans events from a Japanese inspector deviating from imperial routes to Germany, America and Europe facing social trends. The piece cites Pennsylvania job gains amid Democratic changes, a Texas cemetery well spilling oil, African expedition by New York scientists seeking a rhinoceros, Barbara Hutton Mdivani’s Paris party funded by small donations, Nordic hair bleaching in Germany, Yugo Slavia naming a six year old as Boy Scout leader, and New York elevator strikes threatening city life.
Proven worth of Graf Zeppelin in air travel
Dr. Hugo Eckener defends the Graf Zeppelin noting its accident-free record across years of service. The airship has completed Arctic and world cruises, crossed oceans multiple times, and conducted Europe to South America flights for three summers.
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Hugo Eckener
Pacific Ocean
Arctic Sea
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
South America
Graf
North Atlantic
Tarah Michelle
Riddie of Jutland and photobook Metropolis reviewed
The Riddle of Jutland is analyzed as a booster for British victory myth, crediting Jellicoe and exposing Scheer crisis. Agnes Rogers and Frederick Lewis Allen's Metropolis portrays New York in striking, dramatic photographs, showing both its grandeur and its squalor.
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Jutland
J. E. T. Harper
England
Langhorne’ Gibson
Scheer
Jellicoe
Beatty
Metropolis
Agnes Rogers
Frederick Lewis Allen
New York
Alien
Babylon
Third Avenue
Fifth
Tuberculosis Susceptibility Linked to Constitution and Environment
Health experts discuss how tuberculosis develops from a person’s constitution heredity and environment. They note germ varieties, exposure levels, nutrition, sunlight, air, rest, and work conditions influence risk, while anatomy cannot be altered and inoculation methods are not yet established.
Stop Sign Changes at West State and Lancaster Streets
Traffic regulations changed at the West State and Lancaster intersection. Westbound State Street and southbound Lancaster Street retain right of way. New stop signs install for northbound South Lancaster and for westbound West State from the hilltop.
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W. State-Lancaster
West State
Lancaster Streets
Scott Haney
State
South Lancaster
History of This District and Chase Free Church Legacy
The oldest Athens County district recalls the Chase Free Church founded centuries ago by settlers near the Meigs County border. Early records are scarce yet the church and its people shaped the community with rough tools and shared worship. Pioneers like Merril Chase built homes and schools, while ministers guided religious services and burial grounds linked to the church.
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Chase Free Church
Chase
Song Meigs County
Union
Merril Chase
Wid
Chase Rutland
Aboumiah Woodyard
United States
Vick Robinson
Eat
Church
the Baptists
Mr. Chase
Henry Dineeington
Harrison County
Lavina Carbaugh
Congress Horse-Draro
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Columbia University
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Francis B. Sayre
the Public Forum
China
Manchukuo
Pennsylvania
Texas
Africa
Barbara Hutton
Mdivani
Paris
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Yugo-Slavia
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Jacinto Cemetery
Thenland
Moberly
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Graf Zeppelin
Torak
Ingo Singhale
North Sea
DR. Morris Fishbein
Athens County
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