Subscription rates by mail and carrier
Rates listed for Ohio and outside Ohio include one year five dollars and ten cents by mail, six months three dollars, weeks one dollar and twenty cents. By mail outside Ohio one year eight dollars, six months four dollars sixty cents, weeks five and ten cents. By carrier one year ten dollars forty cents, months five dollars twenty, week twenty nine cents. Daily four cents, Sunday five cents. Entered at Athens Post Office as second class matter under act of 1918.
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Ohio
United States
Athens
Congress Adjusts Tone After Early Roosevelt Message
In Washington the initial irritable reaction to President Roosevelt’s Labor Day price and tax proposals softened as lawmakers urged prompt action. Taft warned against unilateral moves, while Rep. Fish Rich and others pushed for congressional action to avoid dictatorial powers. Congress shows growing common sense and a demand for effective measures, balancing wage and price controls with taxes.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Taft
Senate
Representative Fish
New York
Representative Rich
Pennsylvania
Rep. Rich
New York Herald-Tribune
Executive Branch
Senate Finance Committee
Leon Henderson
Rationing and synthetic rubber urged to back war effort
The author argues that gasoline rationing and civilian driving limits are unavoidable and urges immediate push for synthetic rubber production. Delays by Baruch and government agencies harmed war readiness, while public support for the President remains strong if a clear plan is shown.
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White House
Baruch
Pacific
Washington
Japan
Bernard Baruch
Roosevelt Rubber Committee
Wilson
Tax Parasites Publicly Taxing Government Owned Firms
The piece argues government owned business enterprises including power and light systems are tax free and should be taxed like private firms. It contends war demands justify taxing socialized businesses and urges Congress to close the loophole and levy taxes on these profits.
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Congress
FBI Crime Report Shows Wartime Rise Violent Offenses
The FBI semiannual crime report indicates 1942 early wartime crime rose, with rapes up 9.9 percent and negligent manslaughters up 9.4 percent while burglary, murder, and auto theft fell slightly. Youth under 25 committed most property crimes, and women arrests rose to 10.2 percent.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Just Out
America
FBI
Letart Falls Letter Policy Encourages Brief Signatures
Community column urges readers to send letters on current events. Each letter must be signed with the writer’s name and signature. Multiple letters may be published daily, so brevity is requested to fit more contributions.
Memories of Athens County Bring Old Friends Back Together
A letter from Mrs. May Martin Felton recalls 44 years at Big Run Athens County. She mentions teacher Blanch Smith, Lulu Nice Boles in Florida, brother Rev James Martin, and friend Albert Tabler of a historic Athens family. Felton notes her Army son Jimmie C. Felton at Camp Carson and urges readers to seek salvation amid memories of Ohio hills and lifelong ties.
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the Messenger
Big Run
Athens County
Blanch Smith
Lulu Nice Boles
Florida
James Martin
Chandlersville
Kilvert
Albert Tabler
Albert
Adam and
Julia Ann Tabler
Jimmie C. Felton
Camp Carson
Colorado
Ohio Hills
United States of America
May Martin
Felton
Lyons
Kansas
Bruce
Candace
Belle
Peter
Schol
Martin Corby
Martin
Local social notes recap extensive wanderers and visits
The column lists dozens of residents visiting relatives or traveling. Navy gunner Richard Pickens calls on Aunt Betty Amos in New York City. Teachers Grace and Gladys Crow resume work in Youngstown and Barnsville. Several families entertain guests from Columbus Parkersburg Racine and Charleston. Public school staff and local movements noted.
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Letart
Ohio Valley Grange
Richard Pickens
Navy
New York City
Betty Amos
Grace Crow
Gladys Crow
Youngstown
Barnsville
Irene Miller
Delaware
Bart Miller
Homer Amos
East Liverpool
Ralph Ashley
Rachiel Chapman
Toronto
Guy Shuler
Parkersburg
S. E. Saladean
C. E. Morris
Henderson
W. Va
S. A. Bethune
Charleston
Forrest Reed
Charles Miller
Columbus
Carl Cooper
Opal Miller
Greenfield
Willie Byers
Warren
Fred Peacock
New Philadelphia
Wm. Carpenter
Sandyville
Harry Allen
Freeland Norris
Racine
Burl Ashley
Florence
S. C
Phoenix
Ariz
Kenneth Hoag
New Jersey
Mary Farren
Louise Roberts
New York
Peters
Wilson Carpenter
Jeannine Shields
Clarence Shields
Hartman Hospital
Betty Jane Wilson
Point Pleasant
Donald Grimm
Newton Falls
Elmer Grimm
Hoyt Webb
Orville Hunt
Port Clinton
Bert Hunt
Lucy Abbott
Daniel Abbott
Albert Higginbotham
Kate Higginbotham
Johnson Swinburn
John Quillin
Thomas Day
Lincoln
Neb
Tom Wagner
Wm, Varian
Dorothy
Athens
Gray
Belleville
Howard Roush
Jersey City
N. J
McIntire
Springfield
Marshall
West Carleton
M. E. Sayre
Louis Roush
Hinton
Ten Years Ago In Local News And Events
Government floor was distributed through the local Red Cross in Chauncey. Hal K Wells, fiction writer, visited his parents in Ames Bern Chapter members attended the Ohio State Fair with chapter adviser J L McKitrick. T N T Sewing Club picnic at Moxahala Park. Middleport theft: H H Kitchen car found abandoned in Marietta with empty gas tank after being stolen from N Second Ave.
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Red Cross
Chauncey
Hal K. Wells
Charles E. Wells
Kurtz Ave
Hollywood
Middleport
H. H. Kitchen
N. Second Ave
Marietta
Serial Story of Brightness Gone Friday
Candace Red, a nurse, plans a trip with an elderly patient and is drawn into a past romance with Martin Corby. Flashbacks reveal her struggle with love, family expectations, and a sense of being unloved. The scene ends as she leaves with Peter and Martin, hinting at a deepening attraction.
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Candace Red
Martin Corby
New Plymouth Personal and Social Notes
Local notes from New Plymouth include Mrs Mam ie Specht and family visiting their mother Mrs Samantha Tay lor Hill in Centerbury Ohio due to illness. Walter Peters reports 26 War Bonds sold. Stanley Miller sent three truckloads of apples to Cleveland and Miller orchard hires many helpers. Community visits span Zanesville Columbus Barberton Dayton and Zion Ridge with various relatives and 4-H judging at the school. Church redecorations and a $25 collection for the church amenity.
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New Plymouth
Mamie Specht
Hattie Shafer
Edith
Hanging Rock
Samantha Taylor Hill
Blanche White
Centerbury
Ohio
Hill
Ostrander
Walter Peters
Stanley Miller
Cleveland
Elizabeth Baldwin
Zanesville
J. M. Stewart
Raymond Konkright
Delaware
Gillespie Cherry
Howard
Old Washington
William Cherry
Minnie Cherry
Boney Weede
Grace Delora
Ethel Walker
Dayton
I. R. Haas
Charles Hamrick
Jane King
Jolly Nine
Earl Heinlein
Raymond Fuller
Bobbie
Helen Fuller
Columbus
LaVern Fuller
Charles Uller
F. ©. Stout
Elza Huntley
Jean Ann
Wesley
Fred White
Young
Lancaster
Tom Largent
Phan Filis
Zion Ridge
Luther Bardain
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Raymond Clapper
Farm Bureau Federation
O'Neal
WPB
Peter Edson
Washington Scene
Robert Ruark
Lockheed
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Solomons
Foo
Letart Falls
J. L. McKitrick
Ames Bern
Doy Wagoner
Millard Alien
Arthur Kasler
Edward Keirns
Glen McDaniels
Harold Koker
T.N.T. Sewing Club
Corning
Moxahala Park
Earl R. Baker
Sundhy Creek Coal Company
Homer C. Cherrington
Mt. Vernon, Ia
Cornell College
Mary G. Noss
Mary T Noss
Greta Lash
Hazel Cline
Europe
Rachel Higgins
Ruth Henry
Grace McKee
Melba White
By Galbraith
NEA Service Inc
Holly Watterson
Tarrett
Uncle Bruce
Barrett School
Pelle
NEA Service. Inc
Peter Frazier
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