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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1918
Page
4
The piece argues Senator Johnson of California is right to oppose mixing draft and volunteering. It urges ending volunteer exemptions, extending draft age beyond 31, and treating all who registered as equals, praising both drafted and volunteered service in the nation’s war effort.
The piece urges universal military training extended to girls to build a healthy, disciplined citizenry. It argues camps develop health, morals, and self control, and that service in hospitals and nurseries for a year is valuable. The author says girls deserve the same opportunities as boys for national readiness.
The editor remarks that rationing exposes a paradox as wheat allowances rise while sugar use is restricted. He notes a more hopeful view in contrast to pessimism and observes that German press likewise pursues a strategic retreat amid wartime controls.
Wartime household hints and recipes cover cookies and meals. Recipes include cocoa sour milk cookies and eggless butterless cookies, plus cornflake coconut cookies. Instructions note flour shortages and substitutions, with practical tips for quick ovens and short lists.
Two recipes for crackers describe Scotch oat crackers and lemon crackers. Ingredients include rolled oats milk molasses fat soda salt for the first and sweet milk eggs sugar lard baker's ammonia lemon oil for the second. Instructions cover mixing rolling and baking in a moderate and quick oven.
An article recommends uncooked foods for mineral salts and details preparing prunes without losing salts. Prunes are sterilized in hot water then soaked ten to twelve hours and served with unsalted butter whipped cream or cream cheese. One pound of prunes serves four people for breakfast for several days.
Guidance on removing scorch tea grass and ink stains from fabrics. Steps include using benzine aqua ammonis soap suds milk and naphtha with sun drying and following up with washing. Practical household tips targeted at common stain problems for clothing and textiles.
Millard Bryan visits his wife in town while Mary Burchfield travels from Poston to attend Zion Church camp meeting. Local families host social gatherings honoring Mrs Tirvan and others. Several real estate transfers are recorded in Athens, Ames, Alexander, Nelsonville, Glouster, Trimble and Waterloo townships, including parcels sold and coal acreage trades. A bill to ban conductorettes on night trains in New York is proposed, and Waldorf Hotel in New York adds bellboy staff of women.
The piece collects Q and A notes on etiquette for women including glove handling at luncheons and greetings. It includes a wartime diary style episode where a sender recalls being awakened at 3 AM, arming, and witnessing a skirmish between German and American guards with two dead and two wounded, and notes about French house layout linking barn and family living quarters.
A satirical wartime scene set in Berlin with a dinner table debate between Adams and Eve about the Hun and German lineage. The dialogue escalates to mock accusations of slander and looming divorce as neighbors chatter about the war’s impact on family ties and culpability.
An Ottawa reader reports boots costing 60 dollars a pair in Constantinople and argues the rise tests a Muslim follower who must leave footwear outside mosques before prayer, reflecting broader food regulation concerns.
The author suggests avoiding formal recommendation letters for departing maids. If possible, tell the maid to refer prospective employers to you so they may contact you directly. A sample letter warns that Mary Brown has been employed three years and is intelligent and capable, with discharge due to the writer's departure.
Private James A. Corum of the 166th Infantry Rainbow Division writes from France to his mother Mrs Jane Corum Rinard Mills. He describes sending willow leaves and a German airplane souvenir from a downed machine where two crew members perished as it burned. He notes mild abroad excitements since leaving home and recounts cheering at the sight.
The Plains region residents are listed visiting relatives and friends in Clifton Wellston Pomeroy Lancaster and Columbus. Names include Ed Barker Leola Dean Merle Gazelle Flora McHarg and many others with tent meetings at night and outings to Camp Sherman Albany and Strattsville.
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