The Athens Messenger and Herald Printing Co. History
The Athens Messenger established 1825 lists Frederick W. Bush as publisher 1896 to 1929 with Gordon K. Bush as publisher and general manager and Charles H. Harris as managing editor. Population served 100000 across five Ohio counties. Official paper for multiple communities and affiliated with national press groups and the United Press. Advertising rates available. nominal obituary charge.
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Athens Messenger & Herald Printing CO
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Detroit
Thought for Today and Quote by Longfellow
A brief devotional note cites Psalm 136 4 and asserts mercy endures forever The piece adds a comparison that mercy suits a magistrate better than wrath described as justice through a Longfellow quote
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Longfellow
Drought Tone of the Season Across Regions and Outlook
The writer notes a mixed drought picture with revived fall pastures in some Ohio counties and better crops locally, while the Shenandoah Valley and Atlantic seaboard face desolation. Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia see poor orchard yields and water shortages. Some blame is directed at governing parties, and optimism remains for recovery next year.
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Shenandoah
Virginia
Atlantic Seaboard
West Virginia
Kentucky
Seaboard
East
Middle West
Ohio
Drouth
Check Up On Your Own Faults On The Road
An appeal to motorists to self-examine driving habits and stop blaming others for accidents. The piece urges both drivers to count the risks they take each trip and use head and eyes every minute, stressing personal responsibility on the road.
Democracy must prove itself as efficient as autocracy
Governor Lowden argues at a University of Virginia conference that pure democracy is inefficient and must prove its efficiency or yield to autocracy. He advocates representative republicanism, warns against primary distortions, and calls for renewed patriotism and active citizen duty to sustain liberty and good government.
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National Republic
Lowden
America
Coolidge
United States
Driving on the road requires patience and restraint
The author argues drivers must use judgment and tolerance on busy highways. Slow drivers deserve attention, faster cars choke traffic, and responsible thinking prevents damage and wasted time. A call for safer, more courteous driving habits and shared responsibility.
Daniel Frohman A Lasting Figure In New York Theater
The piece profiles Daniel Frohman, nearing sixty, a storied Broadway impresario, and recalls his brothers Charles and Gustave, the Lusitania tragedy, and Frohman’s long span from the Lyceum era to the modern stage. It notes his thinning goatee and retreat from ghoulish early theater memory.
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New York
Daniel Frohman
Charles
Lusitania
Gustave
Daniel
Capital of Frohroan heyday on Fourteenth Street described
A fragmented reminiscence notes how Fourteenth Street once thrived as a Frohroan capital and now hosts shooting galleries orange juice stands and crowded shops. The text contrasts old bustle with new signage and the barrier to a new day between that point and Mod doon Square Garden.
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Fourteenth Street
Moddoon Square Garden
Belasco’s Lyceum Home Kept For Actors Fund Affairs
Broadway figures note that a decade passes since his last play while he clings to theater glamour. The Lyceum serves as his office and base for Actors Fund meetings and finances, a room steeped in stage tradition.
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Lyceum
Actors’ Fund
David Belasco
New York
Porteone
Gery Sxohman
Greeley Office Boy and Early Stage Comedies Noted
The fragment recalls Ace Greeley’s office boy role and E. H. Sothern in Lord Chumley while Joseph Jefferson acted in Rip Van Winkle, marking early career notes in 19th century theatre history.
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Ace Greeley
Office
E. H. Sothern
Lord Chumley
Joseph Jefferson
Rip van Winklie
Theatrical legends adorn a studio wall and Frohman aids actors
The space shelves with autographs of Jefferson Booth Gillette Barrett Mansfield and others who shaped stage history. Snoopers linger among the photos while social events for the Actors Fund bring a thrill to surrounding clubby ladies. Frohman remains focused on helping actors as he moves beyond the old theater era.
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Wallack
Booth
William Gillette
Lawrence Barrett
Richard Mansfield
Actors’ Fund
Frohman
Aliost
Tase
Ved Manuele
Museum staff psychologists shadow visitors in new era
The Washington Letter explains museum staff psychologists observe how visitors react to exhibits and how exhibits respond. Aimed at attracting the public, they conduct Socratic true false tests on schoolchildren and use card games to measure reactions and sales resistance.
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Sherlock Holmes
American Association of Museums
National Museum At
Washington
United States
Bride and Green
Wall Street Slump and Shifting Financial Minds
The market shows another downturn as crops remain weak. The piece mocks former financial experts who claimed deep insights a year ago and now vacillate between questions and uncertainty about what to think or hear.
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Wall Street
Courage Needed Amid Surplus Wealth and Depression
A discourse argues that America faces no true shortages but excess in sugar oil cotton wheat coal and money. It laments the lack of 1929 style courage and financial resolve, claiming prices deceive farmers and profits do not reward labor, urging resolve to endure depression.
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America
United States
Museum exhibit theft intrigue hints at a re auction
The narrative hints at sleuths pursuing a museum exhibit theft case centered on a re auction. It suggests a lone adult visitor acting independently to inspect exhibits and possibly cause access issues.
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Seutieman
Americans Consider Paris Auto Show Independence Plan
A New York Times dispatch notes the Paris yearly automobile show favors American exhibitors with cramped space. It questions why U S firms do not rent a Paris hall to stage their own exhibition, suggesting it would showcase independence and might be admired by the French.
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New York Times
Paris
Europe
America
Ethel Barrymore Co Lt Debuts in Play Amid Acting Dynasty
Ethel Barrymore appears in a stage debut marking the ninth generation of the Lanea Drews and Barrymore acting family. The newcomer profiles as a direct descendant of classic performers while beginning a modeled career in theater.
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Ethel Barrymore
I the Fanquils
Lanea
Drews
Barrymeres
Shige Deviut
Vito
Scarlet Sister Mary Star Finds Stage Ease Early
The young actress, cast in a small role, begins her life work free of stage fright signaling promise for the ninth generation of performers in the local theater.
Sisson Sees Prolonged Rise in Savings Bank Deposits
Banker Mr Sisson told a Canadian audience that deposits will steadily grow, urging savers to avoid panic and the impulse to hoard. He warned that fear and end-of-world beliefs erode the economy and stressed maintaining prudent spending.
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MR. Sisson
Tariff Critique and Founding Fathers Reflected in 1930 Letter
Chauncey, Ohio reader CHAS. C. SHIELDS argues a tariff revolt idea, claiming only 12 men understand tariff mechanics. He traces Hamilton to a protective tariff, links it to oligarchy, cites Washington Jefferson Lincoln, and questions GOP devotion, in a 1930 letter dated Sept 27.
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Alexander Hamilton
Republican Party
Hamilton
Coln
Pathans
Lincol
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Stephenson
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Chas. C. Shields
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Two Toledo Housewives Killed in Traffic Crash
Two Toledo housewives, including a mother of four, were killed in a traffic crash on elements that occurred within an hour Sunday night.
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Toledo
A Claim to Fame and Other Fragments of Verse
A collage of brief humorous bits and reflections unfolds from a country lad’s failed wish to tour the world. It hints at poverty delaying travel, then shifts to quick gags about Davy Crockett and golf and a farmer renting barn roofs for billboards as air travel expands.
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Mr. Pope
Domestic jealousy ignites shooting in Washington and La Plata
In Washington and nearby La Plata Maryland a string of midlife affairs ends in violence. Lula Mae Gamble shoots Elsie Davis after repeated infidelity allegations, killing her. In a separate cinema incident Parker Bowie shoots Sylvester Fornwald amid marital strife. Bowie states he did not intend to shoot.
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Washington
Republican Press Bureau
Démocratic Press Bureau
Joé Gamble
Lula Mae Gamble
Elsie Davis
la Plata
Joe Gamble
Mrs. Davis
Billy
Mee
Nye
Nebraska
Brookhart
General Pershing
Maryland
Ritchie
Information Bureau Answers On Shrinking Tissues and Other Queries
Freely offered by Frederic Jaskin's Information Bureau in Washington. Readers send questions. service is free with a two cent stamp, answering topics from aging tissue shrinkage to Shackleton’s grave location and colonial population estimates. Answers cite the U S Public Health Service and various experts.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Washington
Atherenennee Information Bureau
Frederic Jaskin
Washirston
D. C
United States Public Health Service
Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton
Grytviken
South Georgia Island
L. B
Ripley's Proof Sighted in English Hayfield Flight
In Denbighshire England on July 25, 1857 hay moved contrary to the wind startling residents of Wrexham five miles away. The scene was captured from an old print in the Illustrated London News dated August 1 1857.
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Denbigshire
England
Wrexham
Illustrated London News
Theodore Volz Wins Whisker Contest in Stuttgart 1912
Theodore Volz claimed a whisker contest victory in Stuttgart in 1912 for the most original facial hair. Judges noted a practical element in his design that could aid memory loss cases. Tomorrow: The King of Apple hateor w.
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Stuttgart
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