Locals letter list of visits and relatives
Miss Hagel Geisicke visits brother Will Geisicke at Carbon Dale. Mr and Mrs Joe Hutchins spend Thanksgiving with mother Mrs Seth Robinson at Logan. Roscoe Shields and family visit Liz Guess Jeff Harrison and daughter Frances at Athens. Carl Geisicke of Columbus visits Lon Humphrey. Steve and Mary Kachman travel to Congo for wedding of cousin Mary Demco on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagel Geisicke
Will
Carbondale
Joe L. Hutchins
Seth Robinson
Logan
Roscoe Shields
Liz Guess
Jeff Harrison
Frances
Athens
Carl Geisicke
Columbus
Lon Humphrey
Steve
Mary Kachman
Congo
Mary Demco
Gobbler of unknown ownership Flees Over Canton Wires
A Gobbler of unknown ownership goes A. W. O. L. and flies over Market Street, tangling with overhead wires in Canton. In relief, two carloads of sugar arrive to ease a local sugar shortage.
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Canton
Gobbler
Market Street
Your Catarrh May Lead to Consumption Warning Ad
There is a serious stage of catarrh beyond nasal annoyance as it can progress to lung involvement and consumption. The ad warns against sprays and inhalers and touts S. S. S. as a direct remedy reaching the source. Free medical advice is offered from the Medical Director at a distant laboratory.
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Advic
Swi Laboratory
Atleate
Mischievous Prosperity Insights On Postwar Spending
A commentary argues prosperity is illusory as war debts and high prices erode purchasing power. It blames a spendthrift culture for extravagant living, labor strikes, and slack work, urging a temporary embrace of poverty to revive production and wartime efficiency.
Beginning of the Year Symbolism in Tree Letters
A man notices maple branches outside his window forming letters A and occasionally M and H or W. He tallies the symbols as a daily game and reflects that beginnings recur with each new day, year, or life. The piece ends noting that life’s always Alpha, a fresh start.
Some Day We Return to Work as War Feeds Lull
A fragment poem laments postwar unrest and wishful longing for normalcy. It recalls workers returning to trades like carpentry and blacksmithing, imagines discipline, and warns that continued idleness could lead to poverty and public confinement.
Dinner Stories and Courting Misfits in Wharton Era Notes
A humorous collage recalls Edith Wharton seeking a parlor maid and a college graduate journalist aiming for a six syllable word heavy story. A minister probes a newlywed couple amid rumors of domestic strife as the wife hurls dishes in fits of anger.
Side Talks by Ruth Cameron on Battling Imagined Judgments
A neighbor frets she is unfairly judged for not keeping a house as well as her sister in law. The piece warns that dwelling on imagined disapproval wastes energy and raises blood pressure, urging readers to stop the internal battles and avoid harm to health.
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John
NEW York Times
Household Hints Tried Recipes Creole Sauce and Desserts
A page lists Creole Sauce using stewed tomatoes onion peppers sugar salt paprika mustard allspice cloves with cornstarch thickener. Peach Dumpling with peaches pastry sugar nutmeg butter baked with water and sauce replacement. Egg Muffins mix flour salt baking powder sugar shortening egg milk bake in muffin pans.
Cleaning and cooking tips for home use
Tips cover bedstead cleaning with soda and vinegar mixture to restore whiteness. Cooking hints include preparing dough a day ahead for cookies and crisper cakes, overnight ice cream with custard base, whipped cream additions to sherbets, reheating boiled frosting, and cleaning methods for bathrooms using gasoline with safety cautions about open flames.
Opinions on Reds and deportations in New York Tribune
The New York Tribune reprints views questioning the Bolshevik threat and the push for deportations. It contrasts federal raids against radicals with Russia's Leninist state, noting radicals’ paradoxical calls for asylum while opposing U.S. law and courts.
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THE
NEW York Tribune
Bolshevikia
Soviet Russia
Russia
Lenine
Trotzky
United States
You Are Safe When You Take Father John's Medicine
An old reassurance claims Father John's Medicine is free from morphine chloroform codeine heroin or dangerous drugs and suggests taking it for a cold in a promotional tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father John
Tony
Japan drafts dry bill for drinkers over 60 years in use
Secretary Tago of the home office drafts a drastic prohibition bill for the diet. It would ban liquor for anyone under twenty five, with possible exception for traditional wedding ceremonies. The move reflects rice conservation concerns and marks government backing a temperance measure.
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Japan
Tokio
Nec
Tago
Home Office
Diet
Nemoto
Woman jailer in Tillman county calls for more boarders
Frederick Oklahoma December 1. Mrs L C Hadaway the only woman jailer in the state says the jail business is on the bum and she will quit unless more prisoners arrive toot sweet. The jail has housed her and her children with seventy five cents daily for boarding prisoners but currently there are few or no inmates making the jail unprofitable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Okla
L. C. Hadaway
Tillman County
Shep herd Grosvenor wedding in Athens Methodist Church
Twenty years ago on Monday evening in Athens the Grosvenor and Shepherd wedding drew crowds to the Methodist church. Grace Grosvenor, daughter of General and Mrs. H. Grosvenor, wed Dr. C. M. Shepherd of Columbus with a large bridal party including Edith Grosvenor and Mrs. P. C. Leete as maids of honor. Best man Charles G. Bond led the Columbus party among several Athens ushers. Also noted is the transport Manauense sinking in mid ocean with 400 Ohio Valley soldiers fleeing death, including local men Lieut. F. S. Lowery Albert Graft and William Gilmore.
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Shepherd-Grosvenor
Athens
Grace Grosvenor
Thirty-First Regiment
San Francisco
Ohio Valley
Athens County
Lieut
F. S. Lowery
Albert Graft
William Gilmore
Nelsonville
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