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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1936
Page
4
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The article argues tuberculosis signals general health conditions and costs nations millions in treatment and lost earnings. It promotes Christmas Seals as a funded public health effort, urging community support and voluntary funding to sustain preventative measures and protect future health.
Kettering of General Motors urges individuals to own problems and stop blaming external conditions. He recalls a drill test where using a diamond drill solved a sample that others deemed too hard, illustrating that the issue was tool choice, not the steel. He stresses personal accountability as the sane path when problems resist solutions.
A man mused at lunch about paying a worker two thousand five hundred dollars and a top officer ten thousand a year. The writer argued women seek class distinction and demand male achievement, predicting nagging consequences for revolting men.
A New York hotel manager asked his wife to pose as a stranger to quiz staff. The doorman directed her to a rival eatery noting the lady did not belong there. H N Findley confirms the tale as true, noting a similarly named Cleveland boast decades earlier.
Washington by Paul Mallon notes the Supreme Court avoided public division in a tied 5 to 4 decision upholding New York employment insurance law. The move preserves executive and judicial appearances, with Roberts aligning with prior dissents and no public opinion issued.
The piece lists backers including Charles West Roosevelt's liaison to Congress Thomas Corcoran and Frank Hague. It notes a NY unemployment case attorney who won NRA and Guffey rulings, and mentions Roosevelt restricting public works projects to before July 1. It also covers A F L demands on social security tax, German tank claims, and varied quips on politics and Spain's civil strife.
A collection of verses from Messenger Readers with Thanksgiving themes and a football season closer. Mary Francis Kempton of Glouster posts a warm family Thanksgiving memory, Dorothy Kuntz contributes poems on gratitude, November, and sympathy for a grieving mother, featuring Ohio places and names.
MIKE J. GARRICK of Columbus writes that newspaper figures misstate Civil Spanish and World War deaths and cites figures from the Ohio United Spanish War Veterans. He questions Sheridan birthplace with conflicting claims from Somerset Albany Ireland and Cazon County Ireland.
A car carrying Mr and Mrs Ira Meyers and their son Pearl Chauncey went over a 25 foot embankment near Nelsonville with only slight injuries reported. Roy Smith Chauncey opened a new poolroom on Main Street in the Tittle Building. Emma Jean Smith of Pomeroy hosted Night Owl Club guests including Ruth Thomas Ruth Humphrey Beula Forquer Louise Sergeant Lucille Mayer Aileen Biddie Floyd Koehler Clyde Battyn George Broyles Dale Werner Ralph Graves Harold Russell Jesse Swisher David Jenkins Basil Casto Frank Knopp. Mrs W H McKee returned from Columbus after visiting Dr and Mrs C M Shepherd. Mrs Stewart Hoodlet Nelsonville entertained a bridge club with high score by Hazel Hamill and low by Gerald Nelson.
Miss Jeanette Rankin of Montana was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and declared she must represent women nationwide. The article lists Mine Workers sub district election mailings and various candidacies for president vice president secretary-treasurer and auditors in small towns such as Athens Murray Glouster The Plains Nelsonville Jacksonville and Chauncey. It also notes Mr and Mrs Loring Hill of Amesville visiting Athens on their way to spend winter in Fairhope Alabama with family.
In Eden a vanished fiancé and a suburban tangle drive Marcia Canfield and friend Helen Waddell into danger during a restaurant hold up. Bruce McDougall hides among locals as Marcia heads to Chicago then back home when a new holdup tests their loyalties.
A collection of quotes from Yale presidents and leaders like Dr. J. R. Ange James R Angell Lady Astor Fannie Hurst and C M Chester Plus remarks by William Lemke reflecting on democracy education industry and voting outcomes in early American discourse
William Job led the Chauncey area coal efforts, starting one of the region’s largest mines in Monday Creek Valley. The Jobs mine set a daily production record over 4000 tons but faced marshy ground forcing an initial shaft to be abandoned and relocated near Chauncey. The mine later changed hands to Slater and Poston, then Sunday Creek and finally New York Coal, remaining a steady regional asset.
Dorothy moved as Mrs Charles Horton tiptoed on the aisle with a summons for Joan from the costume committee chair. Joan, a committee member, could not ignore the call or disrupt the auditorium during the act. Continued on Page 8.
Dr Morris Fishbein explains cataracts cloud the lens and blur vision. Most patients are aged 50 to 60, but cases occur younger. No drugs reverse cataracts. surgical removal restores sight in about 97 percent, with specialized cataract glasses afterward.
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