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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1918
Page
4
The Daily Messenger notice lists publication by Athens Mereenger and Merald Printing with Fred W. Bush as managing editor. It details format, delivery method, and subscription rates for carrier and mail options, including weekly and yearly pricing and advance payment terms.
The Manufacturers' Record urges a strong national highway commission to plan and build a broad highway system. It warns current delays in leadership and interagency transfers threaten war and postwar transportation, calling for a Washington this commission to operate independently of Agriculture and other departments.
The article lauds General Petain as both a supreme soldier and a gifted orator. It compares his speech to Henry V and Napoleon, praising its cadence and morale-boosting impact on French troops and allies amid four years of hardship. It notes France favors deeds over grand rhetoric and suggests Petain’s speech could become a masterpiece.
An Italian order moves all officers and men in office positions into active service, replacing them with wounded veterans. The piece argues desk-bound officers should be removed and field experience valued, urging Baker to heed Italy's harsh lesson.
A fragment quotes a view that Uncle Sam taxes soldiers at the front as a “leetle picagunish” act. It contrasts patriotism with the burden of income taxes on servicemembers and laments the cost of war.
A list of daily meal suggestions including breakfast items such as baked apples and cream of rye, drinks like coffee and iced tea, and a full menu for lunch and dinner featuring barley soup, plum jam, prunes, stewed carrots, coffee meat stew, and a cornmeal and date pudding with fruit salad. The menu emphasizes simple, sugar-free preparations and bread-based courses.
A historic recipe for Conservation cookies uses corn oil sour milk barley flour rolled oats raisins and nuts. Mix dry ingredients including oats raisins and nuts then blend liquids with eggs and combine. Drop spoonfuls on an oiled pan and bake twenty five minutes in a moderate oven.
A simple fruit punch recipe combines two oranges one lemon and one-third can corn syrup with two pineapple slices and one quart water. Squeeze the citrus, chop the pineapple, add syrup and water, then mix well and chill with ice.
A compact home cookbook list describes Cheese and Nut Roast with nuts cheese bread crumbs onion butter lemon salt and pepper, plus Baked Eggs with Cheese Welsh Rarebit Cheese Toast Cheese Straws and basic cheese toast tips. It includes preparation steps and oven browning guidance.
A collection of older kitchen formulas including Cornmeal and Date Pudding with eggs and molasses, Nut Biscuit with nuts and shortening, and Lentil Tamale with lentils tomatoes onion and rye crumbs baked in a casserole.
A patrol exchange features a probate court marriage license mix up and a liquor license joke about a sober husband. In另 another vignette two women hire a pony and trap and guard against a startled horse with umbrella held over the tail.
A diner shouts for fried potatoes with ground glass in them at a fast food counter. Claudine questions service while a guest demands his order, sparking tension as the young server handles the exchange. The outburst highlights hazards of unsafe kitchen practices and rude exchanges in a dining scene.
A reader voices strong opposition to young couples joining training camps during wartime. The signatory argues men must focus on military work, while wives should stay home to save funds for the war effort and support Liberty Bonds. The piece urges real men to urge their wives to remain at home and keep busy.
Washington August 14 House Ways and Means Committee added special taxes of ten dollars a year on occupations and professions except war industries trades farmers teachers and preachers plus a two thousand dollar annual receipts threshold for businesses. Red Cross workers in Paris packed meals ready for refugees arriving by canal boats to feed about four hundred fifty people at midnight.
The Secretary of the Treasury oversaw war fund raising urging soldiers and officers to maximize Liberty Loan subscriptions to set a record for the outfit, arguing loans must be raised from defenders and suggesting time to end the solicitation.
War Department expands Students' Army Training Corps as MIT President leads drive to turn notable colleges into military posts. Camps open July 15 at Plattsburg, San Francisco, and Fort Sheridan with 7 000 faculty and students for a sixty day course. Officials emphasize scientific and engineering needs and lifelong leadership training. Members join the Army on furlough without pay and may be recalled for active service.
The War Department orders that all land forces in the United States be unified under the single designation The United States Army. Distinct terms like Regular Army Reserve Corps National Guard and National Army will be discontinued to maintain a unified force. The directive appears from Camp Sherman Ohio as announced by General Peyton March and Secretary of War Baker.
The American Red Cross dispatched twenty one thousand clothing items to Paris within forty eight hours including five hundred blankets and two thousand sheets as part of the relief drive for thousands of degrees’ aftermath.
An advertisement touts Bio-feren as a quick path to vigor for nervous, weak women. It promises a healthier body, clearer skin, and brighter eyes in two weeks, with a regimen of seven days and ongoing doses. The maker offers a refund if expectations aren’t met and notes the formula is printed on each package.
The Coop and Lent Motor Circus in Dover Ohio is halted by a $99,000 lawsuit filed by truck manufacturers. The treasurer absconded with receipts last Friday, leaving staff stranded and the show struggling from the start. The suit appeared several weeks ago in this report.
The American Red Cross assists Union des Familles to help delin eate children plant small vegetable gardens on Paris fortifications. It provides a barracks as a shelter and rest room for children.
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