Local Athens area newspaper announces prices and affiliations
The Athens area paper serves 100000 across five counties in southeastern Ohio. It lists memberships in major agencies and delivering offices with subscription rates: one year in Ohio four fifty, six months twenty five, ten weeks one dollar, four weeks fifty cents.
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Ohio
Athens
Nelsonville
Glouster
Logan
Pomeroy
Middleport
Coolville
Fall Prep Drive Urges Readiness for Winter Next Season
The piece urges preparing properties, roads, farms, and businesses for winter with tasks such as coal storage, furnishing cellars, car maintenance, ditching roads, repairs, and winterizing gardens and trellises. It stresses planning now before cold weather and snow, and suggests donating old clothing and repurposing furniture to help needy families.
California’s six day holiday push prompts holiday debate
An editorial argues California’s extended holiday period raises a national question: do we need more holidays. It cites a sequence of events from Fiesta in Los Angeles to Admission Day and Labor Day, then argues fewer workdays and more leisure improve productivity and welfare.
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California
Los Angeles
Sacramento
Rail crossing study flags 1930 driver risk at lesser gates
A report to the Interstate Commerce Commission shows 25 percent of 1930 highway grade crossing accidents stemmed from motorists colliding with trains. Of 4,853 crashes, 1,276 involved cars, killing 248 and injuring 1,771. The piece urges motorists to heed crossing signs and slow down at lesser crossings without gates or guards.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Met auditions reopen as chorus seeks new voices
In New York the Metropolitan Opera House resumes chorus auditions after a summer pause. Singers from around the world and Italy arrive for a month long process led by chorus masters to select performers for leads from the ensemble. The stage setting and backstage bustle frame hopefuls awaiting discovery.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera House
Manhattan
William Guard
Opera
Broadway
Globe
Europe
Met
Fortieth Street
Italy
Rome
South America
Information Bureau Answers From Washington
Frederic J. Haskin offers free access to a Washington information service via the Athens Messenger Information Bureau. Readers ask about John Erskine, Jess Willard, the Macom flag, a New York exhibition for women inventors, wheat and coffee carryovers, and the origin of the term attic.
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Washington
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
John Erskine
Juilliard School of Music
New York
Jess Willard
T.L. A
Hollywood
Hotel Astor
Brazil
E. W. Co
Solomon and his wives wisdom in olden days
Explains Solomon's famed wisdom and courtly problem solving through his wives. Suggests that while Solomon could resolve troubles by discussion, modern men lack such collective insight and suffer from mental haze. The poem contrasts ancient balance of counsel with contemporary solitary judgment.
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Old Solomon
Ecclesiastes 2 9 Theme Reflections
A compact devotional note cites Ecclesiastes 2 9 praising wisdom and wealth as the speaker recalls increased honor in Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem
Violin of Matches Wins Believe It or Not Prize
Mr. Robert L. Ratte of Springfield Mass built a violin from ordinary matches over eight months using a razor blade and glue pot as tools. His work won a Believe It or Not radio contest prize and he demonstrated the instrument on air. Tomorrow: The Man Who Preached for 58 Hours Continuously.
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Robert L. Ratte
Cherry Street
Springfield
Mass
Ratte
End of the world price slump seen as real turning point
The Washington Letter notes a slower pace in wholesale price declines across major economies. France and the Netherlands show bigger drops than the UK Austria and Czecho Slovakia rise, while overall prices from 1929 to 1931 have fallen sharply yet hint at a forthcoming recovery with potential prosperity just around the corner.
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Washington, D. C
Poland
Canada
Germany
Italy
France
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Austria
Czecho-Slovakia
British India
Neumark
Great Britain
Belgium
Famous Love Affairs booklet offered by The Athens Messenger
The Athens Messenger promotes a booklet titled Famous Love Affairs, recounting tales of an emperor who marries a proscribed girl, a Spanish dancer who dethrones a king, and a milliner who controls a French monarch before the guillotine. Readers can use the coupon to receive a copy.
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Louis
Athens Messenger
Request for Famous Love Affairs booklet submission
Information Bureau directive sent from Washington D C by Frederic J Haskin requests ten cents in coin or stamps for a copy of the booklet Famous Love Affairs. The notice asks the recipient to provide name and city.
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Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Prices and supply drive business cycles in long term
The piece explains that extended price declines signal large commodity stocks and that liquidation brings prices up as supplies tighten. It notes that producers will restart factories once supplies near exhaustion, and that supply and demand govern booms and depressions amid events like crop failures or abundant harvests.
Wedding Flight Unites Aimee Semple McPherson and Hutton
The famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson wed choirmaster Hutton in a high flying ceremony aboard an airplane. She took off with her husband above clouds and Los Angeles promising future happiness. The piece notes the playful bee metaphor and ends with a somber twist about reality.
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Aimee Semple McPherson
Pharoah
Hutton
Criminals Payoff Windup Trumpets Police Caution
In Atlantic City the American Bar Association may discuss justice for offenders as city mayor recalls a tale. Two young patrolmen are offered a bribe, the criminals are released after a constitutional defense, and a lawyer pockets a thousand dollars while the policemen walk away as suckers.
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American Bar Association
Atlantic City
New York
Scientists and Henry Ford on what the next eighty years bring
A number of distinguished scientists and Henry Ford respond to Adolph Ochs' question about the next eighty years. Ford's closing line praises the human being as the newest thing in the world and foresees the greatest changes within him. Bacon's old axiom about humanity is referenced.
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Henry Ford
Adolph
Ochs
Bacon
Athens Country Club House Breaks Ground and Kiwanis Formed
Ground breaking for the Athens Country Club house kicked off an active member drive. C P Kircher was contractor as 54 members joined the Athens Kiwanis at a Masonic Temple banquet with E B Bryan giving invocation. E C Woodworth delivered the welcome and Mrs Alston Ellis donated Doctor Ellis library works to Ohio University.
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Athens Country Club
C. P. Kircher
Athens Kiwanis Club
Masonic Temple
E. B. Bryan
Athens
E C. Woodworth
Welcare
Drys brace for fierce 1932 campaign in Congress
President Hoover faces a wary dry base as a strong push to preserve dry strength in Congress unfolds. A national board of dry organizers plans early headquarters mobilization with Ernest H. Cherrington leading and Dr. E C Dinwiddie named executive secretary.
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Congress
Roosevelt
New York
Hoover
Coolidge
Republican Standard
Board of Strategy
Ernest H. Cherrington
E. C. Dinwiddie
Babies Prefer Family Interaction Over Silent Handling
A columnist discusses research showing babies fear loud sounds and silence yet thrive when included in family life. An obstetrician notes a baby’s crying may ease when rocked nearby, suggesting rhythm and exposure reduce distress and aid development.
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Irue
Human Race Acknowledged as Brief in Modern Times
The speaker contends that ancient ages stretched humanity less than contemporary eras, declaring modern humans as mere children in a long timeline. He emphasizes that today’s generation is relatively new compared to the ancients.
From Flint Tools to Ford Swope Steam Engine Benchmark
The piece contrasts Stone Age weaponry with Henry Ford's purchase of a 150000 horsepower steam engine from Gerard Swope of General Electric. Ford praises Swope on the radio as "the best salesman I ever saw."
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Henry Ford
Gerard Swope
General Electric Company
Swope
From Flint Tools to 150000 HP Machines
A concise survey traces human progress from sharpened flints to modern engineering wonders. It notes the leap from basic hand tools to engines, aircraft, and submarines, highlighting escalating power and capability across eras.
Veterans Name New Commander in Chief in New Orleans
George R. Lunn of Schenectady New York is elected president of the United Spanish War Veterans at the New Orleans reunion. Lunn, a doctor of divinity, four time Schenectady mayor and former New York lieutenant governor, assumes leadership.
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George R. Lunn
Nove
Schenectady
N. Y
United Spanish War Veterans
New Orleans
New York
Vision of science and time in human progress
The excerpt ponders humanity's reach across vast time spans, asking how far we will advance in the next dozen centuries with knowledge of the atom and traction from early breakthroughs. It notes science claims Earth ages beyond a billion years and suggests mankind may gain hundreds of millions more years of advancement.
Gandhi Delivers Silent Remarks At Indian Affairs Conference
A queer creature Gandhi of India spoke on the radio Sunday and attended the opening of a major conference on Indian affairs. He traveled far, said nothing, and smiled when introduced. He argued for nonviolent freedom, saying he would wait ages rather than seek liberty through bloodshed.
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Gandhi
India
Gandhi’s view on India’s religious strife and caste
The piece notes Gandhi’s moral stance against Hindu Muslim violence and untouchability, praising his honesty and call for prohibition in India. It laments centuries of hatred and contrasts with English drinking habits seen by Indians, questioning how such issues persist over vast distances.
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Gandhi
India
Howe
Poor Ganda and the Question of Indian Glory
The piece questions Indian historical greatness aside from Gautama and Gandhi. It contrasts India’s vast population with alleged restraints on self government and imagines possible harms such as child marriage and widow burning under liberty. It reflects colonial-era discourse on India's past and governance.
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Ganda
India
Gautama
Gandhi
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