The Athens Newspaper Chronicle and Its Network
The Athens Messenger era publication lists 1625 to 1920, noting publishers Gordon K. Bush and Charlies H. Harris, with regional circulation across five counties in southwestern Ohio. It references multiple papers in the Athens area and associated press affiliations, plus offices in New York and other cities.
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Prederick W. Bush
Athens Adhos Anoes & Herald Printing Co
Gordon K. Bush
Mer Charlies H. Harris
Ohio
Athens
Nelgonville
Gloustilrlogan
Pomeroy
Middleport
Coolville
Thought for Today on Purity and Truth
A brief reflective note cites Titus 1 15 about purity for the pure and declares purity as feminine while truth is masculine in a line attributed to Hare.
Unusual service story boosts customer satisfaction in autos
An Athens professional woman faced delayed replies before visiting a factory to service her car. The president arranged a greeting, car service at the plant, and waived charges, illustrating how proactive attention enhances customer loyalty and underlines the value of service in merchandising.
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Athens
Middle West
Smoke and soot warnings in modern furnaces and fuel bills
The article notes that modern furnaces produce little smoke and dirt and burn farther, making household and family fuel costs easier to see. It predicts a future pall of smoke over rural towns on heavy air days as ordinary coal is burned.
Call for furnace firing schools to curb coal waste
The writer urges every town to establish annual furnace stokers schools before winter. Training men to fire modern methods would cut soot damage, lower fuel costs, and protect homes, noting many households rely on hit and miss firing or let wives handle the furnace.
Tax reform urged by Ohio Chamber of Commerce
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce urges a special legislative session focused solely on taxation. It calls for solid data on re appraisal and revenue, stronger Ohio Tax Commission powers, and adequate funding to oversee budgets, assessments, bond issues, and expenditures within tax limits.
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Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Ohio
Chamber of Commerce
Ohio Tax Commission
Ohio Chamber
Monoplane Columbus Proves Workmen’s Pride in Air Fame
The famous monoplane Col umbia has again shown exceptional performance across multiple long flights. Clarence Chamberlin piloted it on the Atlantic crossing without incident and the craft withstood dramatic maneuvers by Charles Levine. The aircraft completed New York to Havana and Bermuda runs, crossing the Atlantic with various pilots and proving itself remarkably reliable.
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Clarence Chamberlin
Atlantic
Charles Levine
New York
Havana
Bermuda
Sidewalk Personalities in New York City Street Life
The scene centers on Joe the newspaper hawker in Longacre Square who sells papers from towns nationwide and promotes home town papers. Nearby, “Ghetto Gus” dressed in a linen suit performs a distinctive dance while selling assorted trinkets from a spool box, drawing steady passerby attention.
Theater alley gum peddler shunned by educated daughter
A midtown seller known for gum salted nuts and chocolate bars in theater alley is repeatedly given coins by chorus girls. Her daughter, once educated and married to wealth, disowned her mother amid family estrangement. The mother remains ill and continues selling wares at a public hospital nearby.
Golden wedding pair celebrate on same day
Local notice reports that the three Guemmer brothers and Tran CELEBRATED their Golden Wedding anniversaries on the same day April 28, 1902, in a shared family milestone observed in the community.
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Guemmcmer
Finnisserve Tran
New England Still A Major Workshop Of The Nation
A Frederic Haskin Washington Leiter report notes New England remains a leading, diverse industrial region. Textile and footwear output are strong but represent only part of the region’s activity, with 221 lines of manufacture and multiple industries contributing significant income.
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Washington, D. C
New England
United States
South
North Carolina
Bureau
Today By Arthur Brisbane On Tax and Sobriety
A brief column by Arthur Brisbane discusses contemporary issues including four percent matters sobriety and a question about national direction. It mentions Mr McAdoo and a filer in relation to tax exemption debates.
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Mr. McAdoo
Unconquerable effort rules Earth, microbes aside
A terse remark proclaims that a singular force governs the world and its inhabitants, with microbes noted as the sole exception to that dominion. The statement frames a bold, almost mythic claim about human dominance and biological limits.
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Earth
McAdoo Seeks Transcontinental Flight Record
Mr. McAdoo, famed for tunneling under the North River to link Manhattan with the mainland, travels by air from Los Angeles to New York to discover how fast a typical businessman can fly from the Pacific to the Atlantic. He aims to learn the speed of modern air travel.
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McAdoo
North River
Manhattan Island
United States
Los Angeles
New York
Pacific
Atlantic
Tax clash over Chrysler Tower and Exempt Masonic Building
New York faces a tax dispute seeking 330000 dollars yearly on the Chrysler Tower built on Benevolent Cooper Union land claimed tax exempt. A taxpayer also seeks taxes on the Knights of Columbus hotel with shops and a barber. Officials note a large Masonic building with stores also remains tax exempt.
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New York
Chrysler
Benevolent Cooper Union
Knights of Columbus
Masonic
Taxation Freedom Sought for Home of Working Family
Judges will decide these points while a frustrated small homeowner pleads for tax relief on the house where he supports his family with toil and worry.
If Jesus Returned How Would He View Tax Exemption
The prompt asks how the founder of Christianity would respond to tax exemption for a humble home with a family versus a grand building in his honor. It invites contemplation of values between aiding the poor and financing monuments, framed as a hypothetical ethical question about wealth, charity, and religious reverence.
NYSE Leaders Dine With Hoover On Market Tension
NYSE chief officials dined with President Hoover at the White House last Sunday and responded to questions. The President reportedly warned that he contemplates conspiracies to depress values and raise public unease through short selling, a disclosure that may have unsettled the visitors.
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New York Stock Exchange
Hoover
White House
Stock Exchange
Hoover talk softens stock market fears and racketeers
The article notes how President Hoover's discussions with Stock Exchange leaders calmed fears about manipulation of prices. It suggests a temporary pause to accusations that supply and demand were being weaponized and calls for changes to curb racketeering on Wall Street.
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Wall Street
Hoover
Stock Exchange
Metal Industries Dominate New England Economy
Metal using industries form about one third of New England manufactures and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in cash income annually, outweighing textile and shoe sectors in regional industrial life.
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New England
New
Short Side Aims to Dodge Unwanted Federal Rules
The plan seeks to minimize exposure to federal regulations by choosing a path that reduces compliance burdens and avoids triggering broader oversight. Details remain limited.
Hidden dispatches reveal new drowning concealment methods
The piece notes changes in crime tactics, describing how victims are lured or abducted, taken to deep water, and disposed of with iron weights wired to their bodies. It emphasizes that bodies are often not found and the killings leave no traces for investigators.
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China
Riots in Boston Report Sparsely Serious Despite Red Labor Claims
The piece notes that the Boston disturbances labeled Red Communists were not serious. It highlights that women labeled Red were more active, with some biting officers and defying police while being urged to calm, including a remark about what officers know of being a lady.
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Boston
American Federation of Labor
Copperheads Invade Morgan County Farmstead Stream Fight
In Morgan County near zinc and gold country Elmer ware family faces a copperhead invasion around Byers spring. Eight snakes were killed in a single week and a young boy was bitten. Mrs Byers narrowly avoided a strike on a twilight plank crossing the rivulet. George E Thompson Glouster Oct 16 1930.
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Morgan County
Zinc
Elmer Ware
Byers
George 8. Thompson
Glouster
Poetry Versus Birds and a Courtroom Note
Mixed verse laments poets praising birds while praising the swan for form but not mérite, and a column notes lawyers sparring with Atty R T Jones, a heavyweight prize fight absence, and Science cutting death rates yet aiming higher.
Five Republican meetings form new Athens County club
In Athens County and Frost a new Republican club is organized as five meetings occur. Athens residents report cold weather and a coal shortage blamed on a lack of railroad cars for shipping. Tom Morgan of Ohio University will miss the game against Marshall College due to a broken ankle, with Peg Fuller likely to replace him.
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Athens County
Frost
Athens
Tom Morgan
Ohio University
Marshall College
Peg Fuller
Information Bureau answers on Hitler and history
Frederic J. Harkin outlines a free information service answering questions on Adolf Hitler, Cecile Chaminade, gossip origins, carpets age, The Man in the Iron Mask and prison reform bills. It includes brief biographical details and historical notes with direct answers.
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Washington
Athens Saesequeer Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Diractor, Washingon
Governor Cooper's Highway Cost Claims Questioned
Editor questions Governor Cooper's Ohio road building claims and praise for the state highway department. The piece notes disputed credit and hints at campaign manager reactions while mentioning widespread travel by certain individuals.
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Public Forum
the Messenger
Vernor Cooper
Ohio
Ees Department
Tee
America
Thomas Lipton
Ohio Aches From Detours And Patchwork Road Building
A traveling man calls Ohio detours the worst in the Midwest while road projects progress piece by piece. Laborers loaf on sites and costs rise, prompting the Governor to rethink priorities as his re election prospects loom.
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Ohio
Middle West
Rper
B. D. No
Grant’s names and Civil War rise detailed in obituary
The obituary notes Ulysses and Simp son as middle names for Grant christened Hiron after an ancestor. It traces his Civil War ascent from colonel in the 2nd Illinois to lieutenant general in supreme command, with the full rank of general conferred by a 1885 act shortly before his death on July 4, 1885.
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Grant
Hiron
Ulysses
Congress
Wet Point
Simpson
2St
Illinois
A Pail of Warm Water Weighs Less Than a Pail of Cold Water
The article explains a basis of comparative weight for water using its density at high temperature. It notes warm water is slightly lighter than cold water when measured by the same volume. It references experiments showing density differences and mentions air bubbles during heating. Tomorrow feature previews Japan's Awesome Mountain.
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Japan
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