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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1930
Page
4
Seasonal Commerce Sets Stage For Christmas Trade
The article notes winter demand arriving as weather turns cool and drought persists. It highlights merchants stocking for holiday sales, expecting strong December business and higher cash circulation, with discounts to offset earlier slow periods and robust advertising.
World Revolution What of It
Felix Shay argues that a tenacious belief in a better future under a Russian style system is unfounded. He contends the Russian model harms workers as much as capitalism, noting bureaucratic elites enjoy ease while brains may lead improvements under a humane system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felix Shay
Red
Russia
Notions of social systems and upward mobility
The passage contrasts Capitalist and Communistic systems, arguing that in capitalism the extraordinary man can advance while the ordinary worker struggles. It links Russian conditions to shared poverty and misery and suggests workers do not riot because they cannot envy the social model.
Make-Up of General Assembly He Eighty-Ninth
Ohio's eighty ninth General Assembly begins January 3 with 32 senators split 18 Republicans and 14 Democrats and a large lawyer contingent. The House contains 128 Republicans and 58 Democrats with 32 attorneys and a wide mix of other professions. Lawyers comprise about 27 percent in both chambers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
Ohio General Assembly
Senate
Should motorists give rides to boys in traffic
Judge Lee E. Skeel questions motorists on giving rides to boys signaling for a lift. Opinions vary from cautious to against the practice, with safety groups opposing it as dangerous and encouraging risky habits for children and drivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee E. Skeel
Cleveland Safety Council
Cleveland Automobile Club
Parent-Teacher Associations
Ohio motorists hope no new gas tax after election
Governor-elect George White promised no further increases to the gasoline tax after the 1931 election. Voters recall his campaign pledge citing the long rising levy since 1925. With White now governor-elect, motorists await action to honor that pledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Ohio General Assembly
George White
White
Broadway Feuds End With Shared Compassion Across Time
In a New York dispatch the longtime Belasco Warfield feud is recalled as both sickbed telegrams and flowers bridge old animosities. Similar reconciliations mark the Weber Fields split with a funeral drive reunion, showing age softens rivalries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belasco
Warfield
Pythias
Rapid
Weber
The
Lambs Club
Central Park West
Massa
Broadway
Weber-Fields
Fields
Joe Weber
Joe
East Ride
Moveable pictures and industry eyes on trust law
The passage argues that cinema and automobiles show world leadership but face anti trust scrutiny still, noting rivals in France Germany and England. It urges permitting successful industries to grow and prosper without overbearing restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moving Picture New
France
Germany
England
Massigili Warns DO-X Could Become War Engine
Massigili, the French delegate at Geneva, warns the League of Nations that the massive DO-X airplane could be suddenly transformed into a formidable war engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massigili
Geneva
League of Nations
Meander and the ancient river name explained
Yesterday's cartoon notes that Meander means winding from the ancient river of Phrygia now called the Menderer. It flows into the Agean Sea opposite Samos, with a reference from Popular Questions Answered. Tomorrow preview hints at a Thanksgiving theme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phrygia
Agean Sea
Samos
Asia Minor
George W. Stimpson
George Sully & Co
New York City
Merchandising Research Division Aims to Grow Markets
Washington Letter describes a new Merchandising Research Division in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to study effectual demand and consumer behavior. It notes newspapers and advertisers must align value with local needs, including a Bureau of Advertising under the American Newspaper Publishers Association, with 262 papers joining a standardized information plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O.henry
Department of Commercce
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
American Newspaper Publishers Association
United States
Canada
Prepared defenses against air attack and poison weapons
The piece argues that any major factory can produce killing machines and that nations must be ready to deter and retaliate. It warns against sentimentally seeking peace, noting historical examples and the threat of bombs, gas, and TNT reaching large cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis
Napoleon
England
Switzerland
Britain
Tariff Law Use To Bar Russian Goods Over Convict Labor
The Tariff Act allows Secretary Mellon to block imports from Russia if goods are made with convict labor or forced labor. An order would require proof that no convict labor was used by both the Russian producer and the American importer. The editorial hints this is a signal to Stalin that trade with Russia may be curtailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mellon
Russia
Stalin
United States
C. L. Bushnell
Jesse James
Clay County
Missouri
F. D.C
Snell predicts no income tax cuts with possible rise
The speaker notes the House Rules Committee chair Congressman Snell says there will be no income tax cuts and suggests an increase may occur, warning that those with high incomes could face a mental shock amid economic mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snell
House Rules Committee
Warden Lawes on Gangsters and Police Complicity
Sing Sing Warden Lawes says many racketeers are on friendly terms with police making enforcement hard. He notes about 16 000 New York racketeers are known to police and go unprosecuted, complicating crime control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawes
New York
Sing Sing Prison
Reapportionment Fight Heats Up In Congress
Washington notes mounting friction over a 1932 reapportionment plan that would limit House seats to 433 and redraw districts. States losing population seek amendments to exclude aliens from counts, while cities gain influence amid political clashes across the South and Midwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
House
Hoover
South
Middlewestern Wrain
William H. Anderson
Indiana
More Truth Than Poetry by James J. Montague
A fragmented verse piece critiques human pride in invention and the bee world. It contrasts nature's efficiency with man’s arrogance and includes stray lines about figures like James Hamilton Lewis and a mocked reference to Einstein. The text mixes satire with misaligned scraps and ad hoc asides.
You Would Facts a quirky Q and A feature from Haskin
A long OCR fragment presents a Washington Information Bureau feature by Frederic J. Haskin. It includes Q and A items on remedies for hard times, charters, aliens in representation, the National Van Theater in Washington, Bermuda islands, Gorgas South Africa work, General Forrest, Bant Hot Springs, double entendre, smuggled jewels, Dan Patch, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and assorted trivia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D. C
Panama Canal
Gorgas
South Africa
Pneumon
Dea
Oxford University
Forrest
W. Eln
Sherman
Bant
Dovb
Pacer
Dean Messner
Patch
John Wattles
Dan Patch
Lord Fanntroy
Frances Hodgson Bynett
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Arthur Brisbane
King Features, Inc
Ripley
Wurkes
Turkey
New World
JE. Hargreaves
Tarleton
Sohn Tarleton College
Bend
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Oregon
Loomis
O'Brien
O’brien
Frederic Haskin Washington
Tropics
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
By Rodney Dutcher
James J. Montague
James Hamilton Lewis
Einstein
Volstead
Gale Stalker
Elmira
N. Y
Dickinson
Jaws
Hoveh
Kansas
Hoch
S. M
Washingto Monument
Bermudas
S. FE
H. Db
F. O'R
Mie
Monroe
Sanderson
G.c
Utah
B.S. A
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Matograph
Nickelodeon
Santa Claus
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Laurence Hope
India
Adela Florent
Nicolson
Ea Stake Bishop
Gloucestershire
Madras
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