Local Athens Post Office notices and service rates
The piece lists Associated Press rights for republication and publication notes. It includes subscription rates by carrier and mail for Athens and surrounding counties, with annual, semiannual, and weekly prices. National representatives are named and advertising rates are noted.
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Associated Press
Ted Pree
Athens Post Office
Athens
Gailla
Hocking
Ee Vinton
Washington
John W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Cleveland
Raymond Clapper on News and the Republican Line
In Washington the Republican Party lacks a unified policy amid crisis. Rep Martin signals the party line, warning that Rooseveltism risks bankruptcy and loss of constitutional government, while Hitler’s victory would force heavier arms and deeper entanglements. The piece argues the best path is defeating Hitler and restoring freer world order.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Rep
Martin
California
Roosevelt
Hitler
United States
Jefferson
Louisiana Purchase
Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Panama
Woodrow Wilson
Federal Reserve System
Franklin Roosevelt
Senate
Great Britain
Wendell Willkie
No One Is Neutral Voiding of the Neutrality Act
The piece argues the Neutrality Act is being weakened by lease lend policies and executive orders. It urges public awareness that Allied needs require arming and the withdrawal of movement limits on American goods. It warns neutrality cannot coexist with an armed nation and predicts the act will eventually fail.
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Secretary of State
Navy
Helping to Beat Hitler Through Home Garden Food Stocks
The article notes increased home storage and garden planning in the district as a wartime measure. It highlights foresight by families to cut food costs, urges planting gardens, and cites federal agents pushing self sufficient food production to aid allies regardless of war outcome.
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Hitler
Decentralization in Washington Expands to Regional Offices
The push to decentralize federal administration grows with relocations of the Forest Service eastern regional HQ to Philadelphia and the Home Owners Loan Corporation to New York. The SEC already uses a regional structure, boosting autonomy and reducing central reference to Washington. The trend signals a broader move toward regional operation across the national bureaucracy.
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Washington
Forest Service
Philadelphia
Home Owners Loan Corporation
New York
Securities and Exchange Commission
Start Up for Small Industry in Manitowoc Defense Push
The United States faces a decisive choice on small industry as defense priorities threaten aluminum plants. Manitowoc Wisconsin known for pots and pans has received an experimental defense contract, with others planned and Floyd Odlum taking action to address the broader issue. The plight of small industry is serious.
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United States
Manitowoc
Wis
OPM
Floyd Odlum
Sunshine and Health Illusion Questioned by Doctor
Dr Hugh Cabot questions sun exposure benefits for adults while noting sunshine provides vitamins to children. He calls its health boost an illusion of health, prompting debate about practical health gains.
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Hugh Cabot
Arming U S Merchant Vessels Faces Shortages and Law Challenges
Peter Edson notes the U S faces weapon shortages with about 500 ships in foreign trade needing guns plus 700 more for coastwise and intercoastal routes and 1 400 ships under Maritime Commission construction. He cites anti aircraft gun shortages and outdated wartime laws complicating sinking merchant ships by air attacks. He adds reports of labor mobility at defense plants seeking higher wages.
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Washington
U. S
Seven Seas
South American
Pacific
Maritime Commission
United States
Bridge Table
Red Sea
Office of Production Management
Public Forum letter on Nazi threat and world peace
Athens reader Bessie M. Gorslene replies to a letter about avoiding Nazi domination. She argues Nazi conquest would erase civilization, urges strong U S trade policy, and criticizes appeasement while praising Allied aims to preserve national identity and global independence. Sept. 23.
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the Messenger
Betty Schleyer
Cleveland
Ohio
Europe
Latin America
Hall
United States
Hitler
Canada
France
American Federation of Democratic Hungarians
Bessie M. Gorslene
Athens
Higley Study Circle Reviews Uncle Sam Attic Book
Mrs. R. A. Foster presented a book review of Uncle Sam's Attic at Higley Study Circle. Mrs. W. B. Bentley hosted a luncheon honoring Mrs. P. H. Kohn of Ogden Utah, mother of Mrs. Roger Connor. Harry Slaughter and Harry Hudson returned from six weeks in Canada with camping, fishing and sightseeing. They visited Algonquin Park and Timagdami Forest Reserve. Lydia Lash Evans Club met at the home of the new president Mrs. F. C. Schilling.
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R. A. Foster
Higley Study Circle
W. B. Bentley
P. H. Kohn
Ogden
Utah
Roger Connor
Harry Slaughter
Harry Hudson
Canada
Algonquin Park
Timagami Forest Reserve
Lydia Lash Evans
F. C. Schilling
Danford and Danford Enter Postgrad Training Abroad
Dr. W G Danford travels to Chicago for a ten day post graduate course. Byron Danford leaves for Cincinnati to attend Medical College at the University of Cincinnati. F W Bush publisher of The Messenger visits Cincinnati for a meeting of the Ohio Select List of daily papers. Theta Phi Alpha sorority hosts a dinner at the Colonial. 18 guests proceed to Mrs. John Sprague's Morris Ave home for a party with patronesses listed. Child Conservation group meets at Mrs. E R Gross’s N Congress St home.
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W. G. Danford
Chicago
Byron Danford
Fof
Danford
Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
F. W. Bush
the Messenger
Ohio Select List of
Theta Phi Alpha Sorority
Colonial
John Sprague
Morris Ave
W.V
L.,o. Guettman
P. L. Shannon
Charles Walch
H. T. Mulligan
Sprague
E. R. Gross
N. Congress St
Hooper Ridge Social Notes Spreads News and Visits
Hooper Ridge community notes report Bible School Sundays at 10 a.m. funeral attendance for Mrs. Gerald Dunlevy at Glouster Methodist Church. Relatives from Amesville Trimble Glouster and nearby areas visited, bid farewell to Private Frederick Mingus traveling to Chanute Field and Panama with pilot training. 60th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Robinson celebrated near Amesville.
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Hooper Ridge
Clair Sayers
Eleanor Keirns
Bart Kasler
Dean
Trimble R. D
Don Kasler
Harold Koker
Marlene
Batavia
Ada McDaniel
Amesville
Cynthia Kasler
Glouster
Inlaw
Lawrence Myers
Frederick Mingus
Chanute Field
Rantoul
Illinois
New York
Panama
William Mingus
Mary Lou
Cecil Antle
Bobby
Jackie
Hester
Millfield
Vincent Bailey
Neil
John Cavey
Trimble
Opal Myers
Margaret Myers
C. C. Robinson
Poet's Corner: Starving Refusal in Athens Ohio
Poem fragment by Gene Dunlop from Athens Ohio. Voice depicts hunger, hunger pangs, and a stubborn refusal of bread while the hungry shout. Only partial lines survive with imagery of lacquer like heaviness in fingers and timeralds falling from hair.
Bride From the Sky Aerial Kidnap Sparks Wedding Crisis
Judy Allen is kidnapped mid ceremony by aviator Sandy Ammerman and flees in a parachute. As Judy wrestles with love for attorney Philip Rogers and a life of security, Sandy pursues, planning to marry her after landing. A perilous midair escape leads to a cliffhanger as another aircraft roars toward danger.
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Judy Allen
Sandy Ammerman
Peg Gordon
Philip Rogers
Philip
Sandy
Judy
Earth
Rogers
Phil
Canada
Peg
Oak Grove Grange serves birthday dinner for many
Oak Grove Grange held a birthday dinner for 60 members and guests Friday evening with Deputy Master and Mrs. Sanders of Albany as guests. The event featured the third and fourth degrees and a lecture hour. Glen Hanes sang two solos and Ed Howard spoke on agriculture. Besse Warehime talked about buying a hat.
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Oak Grove
York Grange
Sanders
Albany
Glen Hanes
Ed Howard
Besse Warehime
Adda Maccombs
Tommy Mills, Jr
Nelsonville
Orlando
Fla
Edith
Wareline Hartman
June
Betty Bennett
Benson Adams
Connett
White Cross Hospital
Columbus
Arthur Hartman
William Hartman
Violet Hartman
Marion
Neil Swaim
Frank O'Hara
Charles Rythers
Carl Rythers
Canal Winchester
Ethel Young
Everett Mourne
Charles Gilpin
Ea Mourne
Corning man charged with running stop sign on Route 37
Prosecuting Attorney Abel filed an information accusing William Spears of Corning of driving onto State Route 37 from Stonehouse Road and failing to stop at a stop sign after a wreck with George Walters of Chillicothe. Spears, a WPA worker, was arraigned before Judge Riecker and fined $5 plus costs.
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Mcconnellville
Abel
William Spears
Corning
Stone
Eocuse
Spears
George B. Walters
Chillicothe
Riecker
WPA
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Princess Lor
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Morgan County Court
Probate
Lulu Lyne
John Q. Lyne
Morrison Scott
Meigsville
Clara B Hopkins
Marion Town Ship
Clara Belle Baker
Henry S. Hopkins
Mary A. Kenney
McConnelsville
Nancy Best
Malta
Marion “Township
Lula Lyne
B. F. Foster
Manchester
Mary E. Fuller
Huntington Park
Calif
Maita
Mary J. Glass
Chesterhill
Devisee
Eva Randall
Dwight Brown
Glouste
Phillip R
Geretrude Kirkbride Brown
Eveslyn Glosser
Elmer
Minnie Nelson
Charles Henry
Roseville
Charles and
Marie Pletcher Henry
Betty Page
Walter and
Lena Barringer Inman
Recorder's Office
Wilbur F Scott
Gladys Medley
George A. Bailey
Stockport
J. ‘Bryan Medley
Windsor
Lucille Richey
Herschel Henderson
Bristol
Nettie E. Ellis
Mike E. Ellis
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