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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1935
Page
4
Gordon K Bush publisher and general manager with Charles Harris editor in chief. National representatives John W. Cullen Company Chicago New York. Advertising rates and foreign offices listed. Nominal obituary notice and thanks fragment refer to Athens.
A Washington writer argues ten rich states with one third of the population pay two thirds of national taxes, funding the remaining 38 poorer states. He notes that the disparity shapes politics, with rich states holding 20 of 100 Senate seats and poor states 76.
A young Chicago minister officiating Sidney Smith's funeral urges readers to confront the reckless toll of traffic. He cites high powered cars and liquor as dangerous, calls for moral challenge, and seeks collective action to change highway safety within a year.
The Athens Red Cross proclaims Safety Week from October 29 to November 4 with children acting as home inspection officers. Kids will check cellar stairs railing matches and medicine labels, promoting prevention as 34 500 home deaths and millions injured illustrate danger in modern houses.
Washington reports a solid business uplift with a 91 percent industrial output level, rising payrolls and department store sales, and a five month upswing in residential building. Durable goods like machine tools and cement show gains, auto production surges set for October, and rural sales outpace urban in September.
Halls, unscreened fireplaces, rubber tube connections and faulty electric wiring prompt safety questions. The piece asks what to do with old razor blades broken needles and broken glass and whether to dispose of newspapers near furnaces. It stresses value of saving a life or preventing an accident in the Athens district.
The article criticizes Goebbels order to remove Jewish soldiers who died in World War I from Germany’s war dead rolls. It argues that erasing these names shows petty, illogical thinking and questions how the state can honor those who died for the nation while denying their identities.
In 1818 a Catholic priest arrived in Gallipolis to fill Father Didur’s vacancy. Father LaFont urged the French Five Hundred to build a church but failed to secure funds and became a schoolteacher. He later moved to New Orleans where a lottery investment yielded $20,000. Gallipolis’ social conduct was liberal, unlike Marietta’s strict moral policing with Sunday work bans, a pillory, whipping post, and stocks enforcing Puritan discipline.
A son of Charles Penrod of Amesville was attacked by a bull while driving the family Ford through a cattle herd on the road. The incident is noted among local events from ten years ago in this archival column.
Letter signed by Wilbur D. Mender from Nelsonville dated Oct 28 condemns lack of police protection in Athens County due to unpaid sheriff and deputies. Warns of criminal opportunity and urges voters to consider bond issues intended to fund law enforcement at the upcoming election.
A two part chain of ideas on life and worry ends with Floyd Brown and a note reading mo Kimberly. The quote links wealth poverty hunger life and death to the idea that outcomes determine worry levels. White space and punctuation shape the sequence.
Poets Corner features a reader poem praising Ohio as a land of beauty rivaling Venice skies and Italian romance. The verse extols Ohio hills forests and wildflowers with a closing by Bessie M. Gorslene of Athens dated October 26. A note on shark egg size follows.
Jean Dunn hesitates to answer Bobby Wallace while federal agents probe stolen bonds traced to Montague and Bobby. The investigation gaps widen as Lewis and his wife vanish, and Jean assists Sandy in convincing police he had no role in a holdup.
Heart failure remains the leading cause of death as the body’s organs depend on the circulatory system. When the heart weakens blood flow slows, liver and kidneys suffer, and breathlessness from left-sided failure signals congested lungs and reduced oxygen.
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