Plains Highway Criticism Prompts Call for vigilance
A Plain Dealer style editorial urges residents along The Plains Road to form a vigilance committee to curb speeding and careless driving after noting frequent crashes. The piece argues the road is fast and smooth, attracts speeders, and county funds are insufficient to deploy traffic officers. It endorses a state bond issue of 7.5 million dollars to fund hospital and custodial care improvements, including Athens State Hospital, without new property taxes, as a solution to overcrowding and related social issues.
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Plains
Athens
Elis
Ohio
State Welfare Department
Cleveland State Hospital
Athens County
Athens State Hospital
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Fame Turns on Chicago Folks In Variety Poll
In New York by Gilbert Swan the piece notes a Variety poll asking Chicago residents to name famous figures. The list shows movie stars like Crawford Barrymore and Dietrich alongside business names, gangsters, and radio figures, with many readers misidentifying prominent figures and several figures clearly unknown to common voters.
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Gilbert Swan
Chicago
New York
Metropolia
Variety
Joan Crawford
John Barrymore
Billy Dove
Ruth Chattertain
AL Capone
Jake Lingle
Legs
Diamond
Fatty Arbuckle
Gandhi
Sinclair Lewin
Bernard Shaw
Floyd Gibbons
Arthur Brisbane
Vincent Astor
Polo
Devereaux Milburn
Bill Hart
Runa
Robby Jones
Mussolini
Aimee McPherson Hutton
Bill Tilden
Benny Leonard
Amos and
Andy
Clara
Buddy Rogers
Mariene Dietrich
Ringling Brothers
Ina Claire
Bil Powell
Lupe Velez
Ann Harding
Charles Schwab
Brisbane
Einstein
Robert Edeson
Thomas Edison
Charles Evans Hughes
Books bloom in Soviet Russia as literacy soars
In Soviet Russia the literacy rate has surged with a Five Year Plan aiming for full literacy by ages 16 to 40. State publishing expands, censorship tightens, and Lenin’s works top sales while technical and school books flood libraries and workers’ clubs, reshaping reading culture.
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Russia
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington
PD. G
Soviet Russia
Anye
Lower Volga
Central Committee
Communist Party
Villian
Richard
United States
Leenin
Lenin
Workers' Club
Supreme Economic Counel
Keats
Athens records boom and community notices in 1916 era
The Athens district recalls a decade of rapid growth with over one hundred homes built in eight months at cost over half a million dollars. The issue notes social events at the Pi Beta Phi chapter, a sermon on armament limits by Bishop William F. Anderson, and local civic items including a jury verdict signings by Athens County women and school activities.
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Gene
Athens
Ohio
William F. Anderson
Marietta
America
Answers to curious questions from the Athena Messenger
A quiz-like feature presents concise answers on topics from weather and aviation to historical questions. It explains hangar atmospheres, the coast to coast motorcycle record, cigarette origins, snow as rainfall, and French cruisers at Yorktown.
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Washington
Athena Yacsnenger Inter- Q
Atron
T. McC. A
Goodyear Zeppelin
Alkron
Ohio
M. O's
Allan Bedell
Los Angeles
Calif
New York
France
Italy
Laurence Oliphant
Weather Bureau
Yorktown
M. H
Duquesne
Suffren
Why Worry A Poem By James J. Montague
The poem traces metamorphosis from tadpole to frog and caterpillar to butterfly. It contrasts natural change with human fate noting we must die as we entered life, without true reincarnation or lasting transformations.
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James J. Montague
Manchuria’s fertile promise amid global hunger
The piece argues Manchuria rivals the American Midwest in soil and climate, a potential world garden spot. It says China and Japan seek its lands to feed hungry populations, making their clash inevitable and hard to settle. It ends with a biblical thought from Revelations.
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Manchuria
Middle West
China
Japan
Edison beliefs and France tensions in wartime coverage
A column discusses Thomas A. Edison beliefs and a map backed by official statistics. It notes French financial pressure on America and Laval's forthcoming visit. Chicago owes public school teachers over seventeen million in unpaid salaries, a public disgrace. The Bank of the United States failure leads to indictments of two dozen directors and others.
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Thomas A. Edison
Tom Paine
Soviet Socialist Republica
United States
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Vienna
Europe
America
Premier Laval
France
Chicago
New York City
Bank of the United States
Bonebody Elc
Bank of the
Imagined Heaven and the Makers of a Purifying Sports Era
The fragment praises Eajson's memory and foresees him in heaven aiding improvements. It laments stock market volatility and gambling, noting lower football receipts and scholarships at minor colleges. The passage questions values in sport and higher education amid economic shifts.
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Eajson
Rew Alma Mater
Dems Consider Fresh Nomination Drama For 1932
Washington dispatch notes talk of a possible 1932 Democratic convention romance with Alfred E. Smith and William G. McAdoo. The piece argues Smith is unlikely to be renominated while McAdoo is politically dead, and suggests dry forces plan to back a different Wet candidate to face Roosevelt.
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Rodney Dutchen Messenger
Washington
Madison Square Garden
Alfred E. Smith
Wiliam G. McAdoo
Smith
McAdoo
T and
West
Roosevelt
New York
Calvin
About Your Children and Their Whining Habits
Do not allow children to whine or sulk as a habit. A tone of injured complaint and self pity burdens the family and feeds neurosis. Mothers set the tone. maintain cheerful voices and avoid encouraging pouts. When a child is unhappy, respond with calm positivity and steer toward constructive behavior.
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Earsh
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American Newspaper Publishers Association
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Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Ohio oDailies
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Telegraph
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Wyncote, Montgomery Co
Harrison Cemetery
Hamilton Co. Tenn
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Odie
Frederic Haskin Washington
Pi Beta Phi
West Wing
E E. Bryan
T. W. Craig
Harry Beckley
Frances Hatch
P. B. Lawrence
James A. Palmer
Winnie Higgins
Mr Higgins
John Welch
Roe
Donley
McVray
Strahl
Belijon
Empiire
J. R. Harvey
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Fira
Joe Martin
A. 8. Picker
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Tam Alpha
Mega
Soviet Union
Monsieur Laval
President Hoover
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Froderic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
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Fairmont
W. Va
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Hutchinson
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