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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1932
Page
4
The piece lists Frederic W. Bush as publisher of the Athens Messenger with a 1909 note, noting morning editions except Saturdays and Sundays, and a circulation across five Ohio counties. It names staff roles, an address for the paper, and subscription rates including one year for 64.50, six months 2.50, and other weekly options.
The House sub committee hearings in Philadelphia expose vote buying and intimidation at the polls tied to political machines. The Ware outfit faces charges similar to historic New York Tammany and Chicago machines, with a call for the average citizen to invest more interest in local government to break the systems.
The piece notes a surge in realistic Christmas toys aimed at children, offering items like electric stoves, dollhouses, toy Paris fashions, miniature railroads, steel sets, and cash registers. It contrasts modern sales with bygone simple cast iron toys, arguing imagination matters more than perfect realism.
A plea urges residents to patronize local Athens Nelsonville Pomeroy Gallipolis and Giouster merchants this Christmas. It argues Columbus profits should stay local and praises neighborhood shops for quality service and local tax support. Buy locally this Christmas.
Analyzed as a light human interest piece, the article recalls Franklin D Roosevelt meeting Gus Sumnick and family in Waterloo Nebraska, noting their large, unmarried children and the father’s remark about their home life. It reflects on parenting, home life, and the desire for children to find joy at home.
Dorothy Dix argues that wealth does not guarantee happiness in marriage. Money brings comforts but not better companionship. many rich couples drift apart as husbands focus on work. The text contrasts vowed loyalty with the temptations facing wealthy men and the loneliness of wealth.
Olive Roberts Barton argues children form standards from parents actions and words. Parents should concede to the needs of growing children rather than enforce rigid self interest and concede to the Allied Association of Growing Children for prudent guidance.
A dispatch from Manchuria warns rebellion grows despite a large Japanese army. Guerilla groups widen, subjection lags, and costs mount. The piece questions how long Japan will sustain the project as finances and industry suffer.
A horizontal clue list provides answers to a previous puzzle and includes terms for geography and common words. A vertical set follows with mapping questions plus labeled entries such as back of neck and auditory, guiding a word-finding puzzle.
The article outlines how diphtheria spreads via bedclothes bottles and objects used by infected children and through throat discharges. It warns of carriers and stresses early medical evaluation and treatment, noting high death risk in under fives and the need for isolation until germs disappear.
Ten years ago on Thanksgiving Day Mr and Mrs BE Morgan and son Laddie of Youngstown visited Capt and Mrs J B Allen. Frank X Rauch and wife traveled to Columbus for Mrs Rauch to broadcast on WCAH with sister Elizabeth Sisson Willsey joining saxophone numbers. Dean Stickney came from Springfield to visit his family. Sumner Price spent Thanksgiving in Charleston West Virginia with relatives. C H Grosvenor visited daughter Mrs C M Shepard in Columbus.
The text notes that the Venus flytrap closes when touched but reopens quickly if fooled, and after repeated cheeky stings its response may wane. It also claims Argentines as the world’s heaviest eaters and Buenos Aires drivers must keep cars mud free, with a scattered mix of observations.
Senator Borah of Idaho faces continued influence in the next Senate despite a weakened party position. He contemplates battles over prohibition, sales tax, war debts and disarmament, with his prestige and leadership undiminished. Idaho voters backed a Hoover ally, yet Borah remains a focal figure in national politics.
The clippings discuss birds seen by pilots above three thousand feet and unusual coinage uses such as copper slabs in Sweden and bricks of tea in China. It notes sugar cane entering America in 1592 on the island of San Domingo and Romania’s 17.5 million people being about eighty percent peasants. It also mentions postmeal dishwater care with ammonia after greasy foods.
Brass kettles stored away should be washed with warm water, vinegar, and salt. Human hair is half as strong as steel used in structural work. In Japan, cars must have interior and exterior lights on at sunset.
The Messenger forum urges gratitude for life health and a just government while critiquing misused aid and stressed teachers. Preston Thompson and Lillian Bardin argue for accountable schooling, noting crowded seventh and eighth grades, Hermon school threat of closure, and need for practical education and better teacher pupil bonds.
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