Public Forum Letters On Alcohol And Press Freedom
A reader responds to Clara Place on temperance, defending free speech and press while urging alcohol and tobacco issues be weighed without church or state bias. He cites advertising, Prohibition nostalgia, and calls for saloon-keeper responsibility. references newspapers and a 1944 Chauncey-Dover school note.
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the Messenger
Forum
Clara Place
Coolville
Athens
Ohio
Pau
Will C. Merritt
S. Garfield Ave
Columbus, Ohio
Miss Shouhee Arpee Plays at Southeastern Ohio District Conference
A guest pianist, Miss Shouhee Arpee, performed at the Southeast Ohio District Conference of Federated Music Clubs in Marietta during the afternoon program. The item appears among a collage of local notes and reader correspondence dated about twenty years ago, including OU publications and community letters from Athens and Columbus.
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Shouhee Arpee
Federated Music Clubs
Marietta
Subscription rates and postage details across services
Subscription rates listed for carrier and mail delivery in Ohio and outside. Rates include yearly, six month and three month terms with regional variations and overseas rules. Notices mention postal and representation details, with reference to newspaper offices and foreign correspondents.
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Eesk
Mall
Obio
Wall
Ohio
Boreresux
Athens
Sarinermans Maveow
John W Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Columbus
Cleveland
Vertining Retesso
Ramine Cherge
Finish the War Loan Drive Victory May Be Won
The final Victory Loan campaign runs October 29 to December 8 as the nation funds peace and veteran care. It cites past oversubscribed drives totaling about 135 billion dollars and aims for 11 billion in this last issue to support demobilization, occupation forces, and peacetime economic conversion. The piece urges national unity and continued sacrifice to secure victory and prevent inflation.
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Treasury
America Betrayed and the Peril of Easy Living
A stark 1945 reflective piece condemns postwar temptation toward phony security and personal profit. It laments loss of financial integrity and liberty, cites officials chasing popularity over justice, and warns labor seeks more pay with less work, urging vigilance to prevent ruin and global fear.
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Earth
United States
Headed for trouble as OPA seeks price control
The article warns the OPA faces trouble by trying to keep prices down while wages rise. It introduces a cost absorption policy where uncontrollable costs are shifted to retailers, risking a burden on distribution and tightening margins for retailers and the economy.
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OPA
Truman Defense Speech Spurs Debate On Postwar Armaments
Washington analysis of President Truman's Navy Day remarks argues his four military aims serve peace and UN duties but sparks questions about why the United States must maintain large forces. It notes potential rivals, limited U.S. need for a big army in Europe and the Far East, and warns of distrust from opaque threats in an atomic era.
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Washington
Truman
United States
United Nations Organization
China
Russia
Great Britain
Europe
Far East
Japan
Latin America
Germany
Washington Letter on universal training raises questions
Washington analyst Douglas Larsen discusses President Truman’s universal military training proposal. He notes a plan to train selected nonqualifying recruits in specific skills for wartime production, considers its political feasibility, and flags educator opinions and potential shifts in manpower policy and college sponsorship. He also covers broader labor and price dynamics affecting retail solvency and OPA wage implications.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Army
Navy
Virginia
Clifton A. Woodrum
General Marshall
Roosevelt
Stimson and
Patterson
Jim Wadsworth
New York
Critique of Athens County Schools Highlighted in September 19 Column
In a Pertinent Information editor's column dated September 19, The Messenger severely criticizes the schools of Athens County and the Chauncey Dover Exempted district, focusing on governance and performance concerns. The piece targets local education administration and calls for reform.
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McNabb
Athens
Ohio
R.F.D
Marjorie Beasley
F. R. Beasley
Mary Baldwin Cole
Melege
United States Post Office
Thave
Z. H. McNabb
Chauncey-Dover
County Supt. of Schools
Chauncey
Chauncey-Dover Board of Education
the Messenger
Athens County
Home From Overseas Pomeroy Soldier Returns After Service
First Sgt. David Wease, son of Mr and Mrs Uswin Nease of Minersville, has arrived home at Camp Atterbury after 34 months in the Army, with 28 months overseas. He served with the First Cavalry Division in Australia, New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, Philippine Islands and Japan, earning four campaign stars, two Philippine Liberation Stars and the Combat Medical Badge. The piece notes India using 280 kinds of orchestra drums and Hindu bands often field 25 in a unit.
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Pomeroy
David Wease
Uswin Nease
Minersville
Camp Atterbury
Army
First Cavalry Division
Australia
New Guinea
Admiralty Islands
Philippine Islands
Japan
Amesville News Notes and Local Deliberations
W L Heston sold his filling station and tourist homes to Raymond Dean who will move here from Canton. Dean takes possession Wednesday. Heston also sold a school bus to E R Eddy. Seven members joined the Amesville Eastern Star at a large special meeting. Institute speakers include I P Blauser of Columbus and Miss Carrie V Wilson of Sunbury for November 9. Esther Class of the Methodist Church moved its meeting to Friday November 2.
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Amesville
W. L. Heston
Raymond Dean
Dean
Canton
Heston
Sadie Wilson
E. R. Eddy
Eastern Star
H. Q. Sedwick
Athens
Guysville
Farmers Institute
I. P. Blauser
Columbus
Carrie V. Wilson
Sunbury
Esther
The
Methodist Church
F. L. Thomas
W. A. Thomas
Grace
Worthington
Chesterhill
Somerset
Delbert Norman
Haydenville
Europe
Thomas
John Goddard
Texas
Dewey Goddard
Max Heston
Vienna
Bell Snedeker
Marta
Wasa
Clara V. Wilson
W. R. Phillips
New York City
Wilma Henry
Springle
Gilbert Sedwick
Cairo and Alexandria Contract Ends In Paris Return
The narrator describes a six week engagement in Cairo and Alexandria with Egyptian manager Gino Abouin, featuring Musette and Pierrette Butterfly among acts. The dull, mixed-audience venue under Morgan’s direction contrasts with uneasy family news prompting the narrator to break the contract and plan a return to Paris.
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XVE
Georges Baud
Gino Abouin
Cairo
Alexandria
Morgan
Spinx
Marseilles
Egypt
Sascha Goudin
Mitty
Tillie
Casino de Paris
Pierrette Butterfly
Champs-Elysees
Musette
Shepheard's
Gezireh
Mena
Paris
Leslie
Kharitoum
London
Pavillon Bleu
Sousa
Pierette
Stalin’s Health and Power Shape World Crisis View
U S Ambassador Harriman reports Marshal Stalin is in good health and still the supreme leader of the Soviet Union. His influence guides Stalin’s allies and drives Soviet strategy, with U S and British leaders seeking closer Allied cooperation despite rifts over Bulgarian and Romanian governments. Differences among Allies are not hopeless, but require decisive action to prevent harm to global stability.
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Dewitt Mackenze
U.S
W. . Averell Harriman
Marshal Stalin
Soviet Union
Stalin
Moscow
Russia
Red Armies
Lenin
Trotsky
Globe
Europe
Asia
Harriman
Black Sea
Truman
America
Britain
New York
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