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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1934
Page
4
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The piece argues baseball is the national sport, enduring as the top draw across seasons and venues. It contrasts fan interest in baseball with golf tennis boxing wrestling basketball football and other sports, noting records and massive turnouts but asserting baseball stands alone as the premier national pastime.
A reflection on the futility of compulsion and the value of voluntary cooperative action. The author urges willingness to understand others problems, patience, tolerance, and calm judgment to achieve universal satisfaction and lasting progress. History supports the cooperative path over coercion.
The National Committee for Religion and Welfare Recovery cites a 1927–1933 shift in U S spending and church contributions. Armaments rose from 680 million to 788 million dollars while church gifts fell from 833 million to 550 million. The group urges Protestants Catholics and Jews to attend services on October 6 and 7.
A Detroit murder of a young girl who sold school benefit tickets exposes the perils of children soliciting door to door. Officials order the practice halted as parents and authorities learn the dangers faced by children on such work.
A road trip across about twenty states shows trucks and buses outnumbering private vehicles and carrying coal, foods, gasoline, and other goods to consumers. The article notes merchandise moving nationwide on rubber tires and highlights trucks in both mountain and plain regions.
The article analyzes Roosevelt’s post speech mood, noting a sterner, more forceful delivery yet unchanged reform goals. It suggests possible method changes toward practical, softer rhetoric while maintaining commitment to reforms like budget balance, NRA, and tax policy. A moderation from Green Bay speech is described as not signaling a policy shift.
The piece analyzes bank behavior in the bond market shift and housing loans. It notes New York banks issuing more housing loans, others rushing to short term government paper, and explains the 9.7 percent rate on home renovation loans as an instalment loan deduction under a 5 percent law.
The article compares the home renovation loan plan with private instalment loans showing private lenders charging 17 to 22 percent, car loans at around 18 percent, while the renovation loan offers a 9.7 percent rate after expert input from a New York bank.
The piece argues that sustained heavy traffic from motor vehicles reveals road weaknesses and demands higher quality construction. It notes the growing upkeep burden on highways, the shift from private motorist exclusivity, and the need to raise maintenance funding as roads face intensified use.
Mrs H E Pratt hosted a pre wedding shower for Miss Helen Trupp who will wed H C Whiton on October 7. Honor guests included Mrs W R Cable and Mrs H W Grover. Local men pledged by Ohio University fraternities named Beta Theta Pi Phi Delta Theta Lambda Chi Alpha Kappa Psi Alpha. A London dispatch warned Ruhr conditions could spark a future war.
Mrs E C Bibbee departed for Wisconsin to join her husband with a Geological Survey unit in Superior. A farewell party for Miss Bernice Fauser who headed to Chillicothe to join her father. Athens High and Parkersburg High clash featured Ralph Barker John Hib bard Wescott Roach C Dinneen C Duncan Garret Enlow Harry Bastow Joe Pickering Frank Oldfield John Porter Herb Richardson in the lineup.
This near-period record details Letart Township’s grist mill history, the first teachers and officials, early canoe mail routes between Marietta and Gallipolia, and the 1810 population. It lists prominent early settlers like Peter Niswng er, Elijah Run ner, Caleb Price and Andrew Nelson, plus many others shaping Lebanon and Letart Townships.
A reader asks about chaperones and parenting in changing times. The author notes that conventional society still judges young women even as the old chaperone role fades. She stresses mother daughter confidence and the need for a balance between guidance and youthful excitement.
The article explains fever as a result of toxins affecting the brain's heat center and details how fever alters body temperature control, weight loss, and energy use. It notes that fever can aid infection response but very high temperatures cause tissue damage, and stresses hydration and nutrition during fever.
Anonymous letter urges kindness and generosity, warning against false friends and selfishness. It contrasts generous acts with stinginess and yearns for a country home to host friends, advocating humanity and open hearts.
A brief study notes the Ear of Dionysius a 75 foot acoustic grotto at Syracuse used to spy on captives and magnify whispers. It also mentions Sylphium a once valued ancient plant believed to cure many ailments and now extinct.
Boots and Denis reunite aboard a Chicago bound train after a surprise marriage twist involving Edward Van Sciver. Boots confesses a long longing and plans for a life with Denis in San Domingoth with a ranch near Dualito while Mrs. Raeburn frets over the engagement. The scene closes with Boots writing a final letter aboard the train.
A garbled page fragment quotes Justus L. Johnson of the Illinois Republican State Committee and Mrs. Kingfish Levins, mixing accusations and artistic disclaimers. The text references delays, shame, and a claimed confession, and contrasts political and artistic views in a machine age context.
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