The Athens Messenger History and Publication Details
The Athens Messenger published afternoons except Saturday and Sunday editions by The Athens Messenger & Herald Printing Co Gordon Bush publisher and general manager with editors Harris and others. It lists subscription rates and advertising terms for obituaries and notices.
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Frederick W. Bush
Athens Messenger & Herald Printing CO
Gordon Bush
Mgr. Onaries H Harris
M Maneging
New Ideas in Education Through American Education Week
Educators increasingly adjust teaching methods and courses to meet new needs. American Education Week, observed late this month, highlights radio addresses, programs, and local observances led by teachers with cooperation from the American Legion. The period emphasizes expanding opportunities, updating curricula, rural education, and citizen responsibilities as part of education’s recovery and reconstruction.
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American Legion
Apa
Worth Emulation Minstrel Show Tour By Legion
The American Legion of Pomeroy plans a minstrel show and follow up Meigs County tour to broaden community life. Rural schools with auditoriums now host stage productions and moving pictures. Advances in cars radios and newspapers blur town country lines and raise rural play standards. County tours by home talent groups should become the norm as stage offerings reach more places.
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American Legion of
Navy Takes Charge of Merchant Marine Safety Plan
The Navy Department will help insure the safety of ships and passengers on the high seas. Senior naval officers will voyage on Commerce Department controlled ships to inspect crew and equipment and report new regulatory systems. Discipline and training improvements are expected from this initiative.
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Navy Department
Department of Commerce
Baseball’s Heroes: Cobb Ruth and Dizzy Dean
The piece traces how Ty Cobb Babe Ruth and Dizzy Dean embody American baseball heroism. It contrasts Cobb’s fierce competitive drive Ruth’s physical power and youthful joy and Deans boastful confidence, noting their wider appeal across towns and cities and the national role they play in the sport.
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Ty Cobb
Babe Ruth
Dizzy Dean
Cobb
Ruth
Dean
Tourism Comes and Goes in Busy Districts
The article notes residents in popular tourist areas accept the motor age as given. It suggests complacency in embracing progress and hints that many locals benefit without deliberate effort. The piece contrasts favored districts with backward areas lacking initiative.
Price rises hinted by Roosevelt drive buying momentum
Washington observers say the presidents promise of higher prices signals a restart of used inflation tactics to boost demand. The White House aims to lift consumer confidence, prompting early buying as a prelude to potential devaluation moves and higher overall prices.
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Paul Mallon
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
NRA
Roosevelt’s Timing for Price Policy Faces Early Buying Season
The passage notes Roosevelt’s choice of a favorable time of year to lift the price policy, tapping the buying season for individuals and firms. It warns against profiteers exploiting the window, saying such acts would force the President to revert policy to stricter terms.
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Treasury
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt Speech Edits Signal Shift After Election
A top New Dealer distributed an advance speech but had a paragraph removed that mocked government power to curb expenses. The edit reportedly was not at Roosevelt’s insistence, suggesting a post election shift. Meanwhile New Deal financiers laughed as Boston Edison securities sought approval, a process Dallas New York rivals avoided by fighting. Justice officials clash over Hauptmann case moves in New Jersey, while a Republican senator weighs a hot scandal story's public release before the vote.
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Roosevelt
Boston
O. K
Brooklyn-Manhattan
New York
Edison Electric
American Bankers’ Association
Justice Department
New Jersey
Hauptmann
Tourist Trade Awakens in Southeastern Ohio
The passage notes a heavy summer tourist rush bringing profits and winter respite in Florida. It argues those who thrive in travel businesses bring service ideas and fulfill visitor wants, while Southeastern Ohio awakens to tourist value and lags behind other regions.
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Florida
Ohio
Revelers Dramatic Club Plans Little Theater
The Revelers Dramatic Club at Ohio University announced plans to try the Little Theater concept. Other notes include a gas well drilling on the Lucius Cross farm near Racine with a pressure gauge at 4,770,490 feet and September birth stats favoring girl babies in Athens County records. Homer Gabriel and J W Gebriel of Logan attended a Wheel ing family reunion, while Mrs H W Grover hosted the Tuesday Needie Club at 240 East State Street.
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Revelersa
Ohio University
Lucius Cross
Racine
Homer Gabriel
J. W. Gebriel
Logan
Wheeling
H. W. Grover
East State Street
Twenty Years Ago in Athens Ohio News Snapshot
Park Place tunnel work in progress for heating project at Ohio University. Nomination committee formed at First Methodist Church. Blaine R. Goldsberry earns expert marksman medal with Company L at Camp Perry. Ohio University auditorium hosts Athens Concert and Lecture Course. Mrs. Thomas N. Hoover and child visit relatives in Youngstown. H L Atkinson and son Merrill tour Cincinnati auto show. Young People’s Temperance group campaigns for Ohio dry law ahead of November 3 2014 election.
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Park Place
Ohio University
Blaine R. Goldsberry
Camp Perry
Dangers of Carbon Tetrachloride Warned by Dr Fishbein
Health expert Dr Morris Fishbein cautions against carbon tetrachloride used across industries from rubber to dry cleaning to beauty shops. He notes skin absorption, nervous system effects, possible death, and stresses ventilation, immediate removal from exposure, and medical treatment for poisoning.
They Say This Is A Passage Between Civilizations
Quotes from Mussolini and business leaders discuss fascism versus collective interests and future economic planning. Notable names include Premier Mussolini T. M. Girdler Irenee Du Pont and early automotive executive Knudsen.
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Mussolini
Banker Critique of Government Finance in The Messenger
W Kittle from Millfield voices sharp critique of federal money policy and banker power citing a 1930s scene of bank holidays. He argues bankers profit from government credit via bonds and tax exempt securities while workers and farmers gain little. He questions taxing wealth and urges work over wealth.
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Messenger
Temple
New York
Banketer
Arthur Brisbane
al Smith
Treasury
Horatio Boardmans
W. Kittle
The Post Office Amal and the King of Death
A reader reflects on Rabindranath Tagore's The Post Office as a meditation on childhood spirituality and imagination. Amal, confined yet hopeful, befriends passersby and longs for a letter from the King who is Death. the piece warns against dampening a child’s inner divinity and urges preserving wonder and freedom in the young.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Amal
Sudha
Tagore
Poison and mystery in The Forgotten Mutt case
Dan Bleeker hires criminologist Sidney Griff to unravel the death of Frank B. Cathay amid libel intrigue. The story centers on a fake Cathay arrest, a poison death, a wary widow, and clues from a hitchhiking Mary Briggs as Griff begins work on the case.
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Dan Bleeker
The
Blade
Charles Morden
Sidney Griff
Morden
Frank B. Cathay
Cathay
Mary Briggs
Beckley
Kenney
Bleeker
Sidney C. Griff
Griff
Mary
The Scotch devotion and the myth of Burns and the kilt
A historical cartoon explanation extols Burns and his widespread cult while arguing the kilt and bagpipe misattributed to Scotland. It claims the bagpipe and kilt originate in ancient Egypt and cites Egyptology hints and King Tutankhamon references.
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Bobby
Robbie
Egypt
Persia
Greece
Rome
Carnarvon
Tutankhamon
Tut
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