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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 31, 1918

Page

4

Household Hints Cornmeal Musy Menu Hint

Household hints note a cornmeal mush recipe as a meal suggestion. The item presents a simple menu hint with practical kitchen tips for using cornmeal to make a hearty dish.

Breakfast and Breads From An Old Menu Addenda

A historical recipe fragment lists dishes such as potatoes omelet coffee luncheon fruit salad canned pears raisins cocoa popovers and multiple bread styles. It provides detailed measurements for sour milk New Orleans molasses soda cornmeal barley flour and yeast based loaves plus directions for popovers Boston brown bread war bread and a seven loaf bread formula.

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Red Cross Worker Recalls Linking Missing Soldiers to Homes

A Red Cross searcher describes tracing missing servicemen by matching hospital reports to company details. She explains gathering stories from wounded men to piece together fates, notifying families, and sending letters for those too ill to write. Included are duties connecting hospital and home, handling inquiries, and aiding soldiers with personal needs.

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Autoless Sunday appeal urges fuel conservation

The National Fuel Administration asks readers to skip pleasure driving next Sunday to conserve gasoline for the war effort. The piece contrasts civilian car use with soldiers marching in France, urging selflessness and warning that indulgence now harms troops and the nation. It notes no gasoline scarcity but stresses need for restraint.

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The Farmer Must Do His Part In War Effort

A call denounces farmers who ignore Liberty Bonds and wartime duties, noting their special government price guarantees, railway favors, coal and sugar access, and draft leniency. It warns they cannot hoard profits or shirk obligations and must support the nation with equal loyalty.

Uncle Sam

Ships for Everybody

The Federal Shipping Board chairmen say the nations merchant marine will become a national asset after the war. They argue inland states gain as much as coastal regions as ocean routes expand trade from the middle of the country to Europe and beyond.

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Patriotism and Teaching in the Wartime Education Crisis

The article argues a nationwide teacher shortage is not new with fewer graduates entering teaching and many leaving for better pay or war work. It calls for patriotic resolve to restore dignity to teaching, urging communities to support teachers amid political and budget pressures and noting wartime priorities shift public view toward education’s importance.

Corn Bread and Flap Jacks Recipe Snippet

A brief recipe passage lists Corn Bread ingredients and method with flour cornmeal sugar salt baking powder milk egg and fat baked twenty minutes. It then provides Cornmeal Flap Jacks mixing rye flour salt soda sour milk egg and shortening, drop and brown on both sides.

Dinner Stories and a Taft Prisoner of the Past

A jumble of anecdotes features a mother with a chewed dictionary and a doctor’s response, a young Taft as a law reporter stopping a through express for a large party, and a comic scene about ice and a fading memory of skating last December.

Jack Taft Somerville Ohio Through Express Express

Committees to Meet in Joint Session at Chauncey

The Athens County Republican executive and central committees will hold a joint meeting in Chauncey Thursday evening. County candidates will meet with the committees during the session.

Athens County Republican Chauncey

Subscription policy notice from The Athens Messenger

The War Industress Board prohibits mailing papers to unpaid subscribers and the paper will stop taking subscription orders by phone. Subscribers should renew before expiration and watch their paper label to avoid missing issues. Published by The Athens Messenger.

War Industress Board

Women Take Up Men’s Roles While Men Go Fight

The piece asserts women now perform traditional male labor on the home front while preserving the household. It notes a shift from passive to active involvement in wartime duties and domestic responsibilities.

Dollars Leave Town for Mail Order Wealth

A moral warns that dollars sent to mail order houses depart from home communities to distant centers of wealth. It cites Athens businesses and services benefiting from local spending while urging readers to consider the impact on their hometown economy and livelihoods.

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