Sunday Messenger launches animal story page for youths
The Athens Messenger reports a new Sunday feature for young readers, offering 50 animal stories with drawings by Col. Sol A. Stephan of the Cincinnati Zoo. Prizes up to $1 for best colored pictures, with groups 6–9 and 10–12, and guidance to color from full prints displayed in schools and the paper office. The program aims to foster interest in animals and their roles. Also notes interest in the Navy airship Akron and public fascination with dirigibles.
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Night life in New York opens for a vivid season on Broadway
Gilbert Swan notes that while cover charges persist, New York nightlife shifts toward midpriced speakeasies and glam venues. VIP crowds mingle with performers. Tex Guinan tours, top clubs like Connie's Inn and Cotton Club thrive, and venues such as Nut Club and Z Patio lure stars, radio personalities, and theater folks with free acts and lively entertainment.
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Ampere Named After French Physicist Facts Quiz
A Q and A feature from Frederic J. Haskin mirrors readers’ questions about science and history. It notes Andre Marie Ampere, 1775 to 1836, as the unit’s namesake and explains his work in electricity and mathematics. The piece also covers meanings of White Christmas, the Leviathan in Baltimore harbor, Weber and Fields, and Marion Barbara Carstairs a.k.a. Betty Jo Carstairs.
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Byways and Fire Safety in Bygone Verse and Policy
A layered piece blends James J. Montague poetry with a public safety editorial urging noncombustible construction. The poem meditates on rural lanes and quiet scenery while the prose argues that using non combustible materials is the only reliable way to reduce fire losses and promote public safety.
Will Adams and Japan’s naval rise amid old world tales
Fragmented scribbles recountWill Adams teaching shipbuilding to Japan and influencing maritime power before sealing navigation bans. Also notes Belfast lord mayor Sir Quo Jaffe born 1816 in Hamburg and a boastful Illinois bricklayer Roy Sivinford. Terse bits link reverend histories, cartoony portraits, and odd feats from 19th century era.
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Washington Letter Digest on Employment Figures
The Frederic Haskin Washington Letter analyzes the 1930 census data showing that about 48 percent of the population were gainfully employed. It notes the census counted all individuals as population units regardless of work or status and discusses the challenges of comparing employment across the year.
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Canned Food Booklet Offers Useful Recipes
An illustrated booklet presents over 20 canned recipe ideas covering soups salads vegetables entrees sauces sandwiches and desserts. It promises tested guidance from experts and appeals for a six cent coupon plus postage. Also included is a lengthy discussion of employment and census data from 1920 to 1990, analyzing work rates and shifts in occupations and demographics.
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Recipes For Canned Foods booklet request
Information Bureau letter from Frederic J. Haskin directs to enclose six cents for a copy of the booklet on Recipes For Canned Foods. The note mentions Washington D C and a blank line address.
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Debate over bi metals and silver value in U S trade
The piece argues the Washington administration shuns bi metallic policy and silver restoration while noting Britain and Europe drift from gold standards. It insists silver remains valuable after five thousand years and warns that national credit hinges on monetary policy, with temporary shifts possible. It recalls a 50 year old New York anecdote about a boy, Tom's son.
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Athens County notes and meetings span ten years and beyond
Ten years of local events unfold with raids expense, luncheon for the Chamber of Commerce at the Masonic Temple, and meetings of the Women County Medical Society at the Athens Federated Church. About 59 doctors from Athens County attended while delegates to a state convention in Cincinnati list Mrs. F. W. Bush and others.
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Washington Bicentennial pageant to cap nine month celebration
Washington gears for the George Washington Bicentennial running February 22 to November 24 to mark his 200th birthday. Congress and Hoover chair the effort with Sol Bloom directing nationwide activities and Arnold Kruckman planning the capital’s events. A weeklong musical tribute, mass bands, and a massive parade are planned with foreign ambassadors attending and a grand colonial ball.
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Order at Home Shapes Health and Character
The piece argues orderly home routines reduce nerves and improve health and efficiency. It links early habit formation in children to later behavior, urges calm, structured schedules, and a clean, quiet environment as essential for learning and self control.
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Washington writer Strickland Gillilan riffs on weather in Washington D C noting climate shifts affect public mood and opinion. He humorously contrasts heat with a cooling rain cloud that changes attitudes from misery to relative comfort.
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