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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1942
Page
3
What must we do to win the war how many men will we need
The essay cites Hershey saying no one knows how many troops are required to defeat Germany and Japan. It argues civilians must actively mobilize. It urges Americans to abandon comfort, to train, and to respond with action and cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selective Service
Hershey
Hitler
Germany
Japan
Farming in Wartime Struggles With Labor and Prices
The piece discusses a wartime shift in Southeastern Ohio farming as labor shifts to the Army and industry. It notes more women and children helped harvest, but next year will rely on fewer available workers. Higher wages and material shortages threaten rising food prices and farm sales, urging a wartime production control plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Chiselers Face Trouble With Rationing Worries
The piece warns that chiselers will try to beat wage price and ration laws as easily as bootleggers evaded controls. Investigators report hundreds of improper sales of tires and other rationed goods, rentals, and war materiel. Public pressure is urged as the real curb on evaders in this total war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Public sentiment and its moral balance
The quote reflects Mary Baker Eddy on how public sentiment gains force from correct or incorrect ideas. It underscores that social attitudes are useful or harmful based on the accuracy of their concepts and the direction they push people toward progress or bias.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Baker Eddy
Baruch's wartime labor draft ideas analyzed by Clapper
Raymond Clapper surveys Bernard Baruch's plan for mobilizing labor in war. He outlines civilian versus soldier service, potential government mandates, ration control, and employer as gatekeeper with work cards to keep essential workers productive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bernard M. Baruch
War Industries Board
Baruch
Supreme Court
Mr. Baruch
Peter Edson Reviews Washington Scene
A satirical tale portrays a Great Prince ruling a near perfect state tainted by inept advisers and overbearing officials. The Prince travels incognito, instructs secrecy, and returns to a harsh rebuke for those who spread rumors and failed to grasp the full story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Edson
Washington Scene
Council of State
Inventors Aim for Wealth From Science Amid War Turmoil
A remark expresses hope that inventors and scientists will create wealth quickly as war causes rapid destruction. The quote frames science as an antidote to wartime losses and a path to future prosperity.
Straitsville Personal and Social Notes
Straitsville records weekend visits and local happenings. Families travel to Columbus to visit relatives while others host gatherings and church circles. Local students and workers are noted and a bowling alley opens under new management.
Old show boat Golden Rod in dry dock at Kanawha
Historic notes recount Capt Ralph Emerson once owning the vessel and his links to the Lizzie Bay packet and Gallipolis, with a brief Ath en s football write up naming players and a convention visit by D A V officers. twenty years back mentions local breeders and sorority pledges with social events at Athens venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden Rod
Kanawha
Ralph Emerson
Letart Fails
Emerson
Pittsburgh
Edwin F. Maddy
Gallipolis
Coolville Social Notes Highlight Local Visits
Coolville residents host and visit relatives across Ohio and West Virginia. Notable guests include W. E. Burgoon from Middletown with Mrs Burgoon, Mrs. G L Gill and Beverly from Bowling Green, and Carl Dawson from Fort Knox with Frank Jones of Akron. families gather for meals and hospital and Army hospital visits noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolville
W. E. Burgoon
Middletown
Delphin Creeger
Burgoon
Creeger
G. L. Gill
Beverly
Bowling Green
Carl Dawson
Fort Knox
Frank Jones
Akron
Ira Kincade
Jones
Judith Ann
William Hazlewood
Salem
W. Va
Olive Ashcraft
Camp Grant
Jesse Lake
Ralph Congreve
Cc. R. McKnight
George Robinson
Leland Southerton
Athens
R. 2
C. C. Robinson
Amesville
A. C. Robinson
Fallon
Nev
Floyd Matlack
Springfield
G. R. Walden
E. F. Matlack
Parkersburg
Eddie Ashcraft
Iva Gaskins
School Janitors Get Advance in Pay
Salaries of all janitors in the school system have been advanced 11 percent and they will be placed under contract by the board of education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Board of Education
Langsville Social Notes Headlines and Births
Langsville notes report the birth of an eight pound daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Ledlie on Oct 1. Cora Morris visits Columbus relatives. Von Miller and sisters visit Ray Miller in Parkersburg. Mrs. Alice Grapes visits in the Miller home. Mrs. George Lasher of Rutland visits Edith Titus. Corporal Carl Miller returns to Camp Wolters Texas from furlough. Geneva Humphreys leads an all day meeting on home canning slip covers. Next meeting Nov 17 18 at Mrs. Everett Colwell for slip covers. Ledlie Fetty and Kennedy volunteer for the Navy. Cora Webb and Alice Miller visit Howard Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Langsville
Bernard Ledlie
Cora Morris
Columbus
von Miller
Alice
Daisy
Ethel Miller
Ray Miller
Parkersburg
Alice Grapes
Miller
George Lasher
Rutland
Edith Titus
Corp
Carl Miller
Camp Wolters
Texas
Geneva Humphreys
Meigs County
Harold Miller
Everett Colwell
Lee Fetty
Robert Kennedy
Navy
Cora Webb
Pomeroy
Alice Miller
Howard Davis
Nightly Echoes of a Town’s Quiet Strife
Candace and Peter navigate a tense medical crisis as Mrs. Harper seeks Candace’s return for care after a Caesarean birth. Peters fears professional ruin amid social scrutiny, while Faith Hartsborne’s past shadows haunt Candace’s resolve about duty and love.
Union Furnace Social Notes
Private Charles Murray from Camp Atta berry Indiana visited his parents in Union Furnace. Missionary Society of the U B Church spent the afternoon at Mrs John Bickels with several members. Sergeant Paul McGuire on a 14 day furlough visited his parents. Families hosted weekend guests from Cleveland Columbus Logan and Detroit. Townsend Club met Sept 30 at the Pence home with attendees and refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Straitsville
Grayton Eberts
Charles Eberts
Columbus
Blanch Eberts
John Coats
Dot Williams
Dave Williams
Victory Circle
Methodist Church
William Ward
Sam Ambrose
Curtis Wright
Harry L. Davis
Loraine
Edward Mill
Jack Mills
Edith Knight
Akron
Private Mills
Oregon
Mariam Whorle
Wanda Arnett
Dick Williams
Gwen Eberts
Bess Callahan
Rosemary
Joseph Callahan
Windham
Gene Estle
Fort Hayes
Margaret Ross
Toledo
Walter Ross
Maude Sheets
Logan
Lulla Jones
Fred Blankenship
Levi Wolfe
Lancaster
Helen Fry
Lloyd Fry
Thelma Eberts
Shawnee
John Harris
Floyd Matthews
Carolyn Sue
Zanesville
Union Furnace
Charles Murray
Camp Attaberry
Ind
Ernest Murray
Missionary Society of the U. B. Church
John Bickel
Edith Worthman
Frank Smith
Loomis
Ruth Bryan
Harry McVey
C. Fox
Paul McGuire
J. R. McGuire
Grant Hospital
A. Zimmerman
Dan Jones
George Doris
Russ Freeman
Joe Weed
Harry Freeman
Pearl Lattimer
Phil Weed
Detroit
Mich
Margery Wells
Lois Neff
Dayton
Ella Cramblil
Mary Kennedy
Corning
Harold Powell
J. C. Powell
C. H. Frank
Athens
Carl Anthony
Son
Earl Loomis
Townsend Club
M. Pence
Engle
Parley Wonderling
Hattie Bickel
Jennie Duffee
Doris Holdren
Wonderling
Dave McGhee
Birth Announcement Kathleen Marine Robinette in Sharpsburg
Detroit couple Alice Huge gard and Beverly Jean spend time with Rev E R Robinette and family in Sharpsburg. Kathleen Marine Robinette born Sept 18 to Rev and Mrs E R Robinette. grandparents Rev and Mrs E R Robinette of Sharpsburg and Mr and Mrs John Horst of Buffalo. Normal notes include Norma Robinette visiting and C M Bowman as guest. church services listed and a note on the native bear of Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharpsburg
Alice Hugegard
Beverly Jean
Detroit
E. R. Robinette
Harold Robinette
Buffalo
N.Y
Kathleen Marine
John Horst
Norma Robinette
Dayton
C. M. Bowman
Westerville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Frederick W. Bush
the Messenger Publishing CO
Gordon K. Bush
Charles H. Harris
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Ohio Newspaper Association
Inland Daily Press Association
Associated Press
Ohi
United States
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Cleveland
Milton
Raymond Clapper
Straitsville
John McLean
Athens High
Pete” McKinley
Jimmy Roach
Paul Tribe
John Boggs
Hjalmar Olson
Eddie Fields
Allan Spaulding
Lou Speiser
Ferrol Betz
Dick Whipple
Bolin Shephard
Kilpatrick
Tucker
Goodfellow
Duncan
Amy
Clara Weiher
D.A.V
C. H. Grosvenor
Washington, D. C
Louise G. Leete
Wolfe Brothers
J. W. Stoecklein
Glouster
Chauncey Feed
Alpha Xi Delta, Ohio University Sorority
Hyla Vorhes
Josephine Byers
Lucille Deffenbach
Adrienne Koons
Mary Powell
Alpha Gamma Delta
Robert P. Tompkins
Hazel Cline
Maude Skidmore
Albany
Mary Virginia Crow
E. J. Jones
University Terrace
E. B. Bryan
Ohio University
Coolville Social Notes
By Galbraith
Langsville Social Notes
BY Holly Watterson
Peter
Bruce
Candace
Flint
Harper
Eustis
Harvey Eustis
NEA Service
ING
Martin
Pete
Dr. Patterson
Australia
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