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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1919
Page
4
United States Attorney General Palmer criticizes radicals for using Old World methods in the New World. He argues reforms should be achieved through peaceful, lawful means and warns that forceful tactics threaten social order and will be resisted. He calls for education on popular government and restraint.
The Senate plans to delay floor discussion on the peace treaty until a clear ratification or rejection accord emerges. Observers call for a practical compromise and businesslike passage, shifting focus to pressing domestic issues awaiting action.
The Athens gas question appears settled with a rate set by the gas company and accepted by the council. The public utilities commission delaying its decision affected bargaining, but the resulting price is seen as fair and in line with supply conservation. Athens will have gas as long as needed and at a reasonable cost.
Reprinted opinions from Baltimore News and Cincinnati Enquirer condemn President Wilson for pushing the peace treaty without broad Senate support. They argue only 39 of 95 Senators backed his plan and warn of consequences if the treaty fails or is replaced by a military system. The texts emphasize executive policy blamed for political fallout and international instability.
A playful collection of quick humorous exchanges shows a boy mixing eggs with lemons, a motorist racing a train, and light banter about marriage and luck. Witty lines involve a French romance, a florist, and an employment agency, ending with a wary take on lotteries and fate.
The writer muses on how modern romance places like offices and elevators replace traditional settings for proposals. They recall a childhood elevator memory tied to a millinery aunt and reflect on how familiar objects shape mental images when reading.
A collection of cookie recipes including Fruit Oatmeal White Peanut Orange and Lady Fingers with detailed ingredient lists and stepwise directions. Notes cover dough consistency, mixing order, and baking times for light to crisp cookies.
Instructions describe preparing two salad recipes. Bacon and Celery Salad details browning two ounces of bacon, mincing celery, onion, parsley, and dressing with mayonnaise and vinegar, then serving on lettuce with hard boiled egg quarters. Pear and Raisin Salad halves pears, fills with raisins, serves on lettuce with mayonnaise dressing.
A reflective meditation extols enduring virtues such as thrift industry perseverance honesty loyalty and truth over fleeting fame wealth or tactics. The speaker urges readers to value timeless moral standards rather than modern isms or shortcuts to success.
A fragmented 19th century letter urges use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a household remedy for deep seated coughs and blood disorders in Ohio. It includes multiple testimonials from Mrs Emma Vos Akron and Mrs Mary Rina Conneaut, plus anecdotes about local industry, shortages, and social tensions impacting daily life.
New York fashion note highlights two Morrow Matrons wearing bold styles as trends shift. One woman sports a golden ankle ornament visible through sheer hose while another flaunts Russian ballet boots, amid talks of boot costs, ankle lines, and the evolving relation between skirts and footwear.
The item presents a satirical plan praising improvised methods and a family court to convict Mr Style as an anarchist and robber. It notes deportation papers drafted, but Style resists, demanding mass roundup. It mentions clothing via rag and sheep fleece recycling and a corn shredder used in production.
C S Jacobs of Glouster Ohio warns that adopting a proposed system risks widespread ruin or exile to Russia. He predicts new trusts would dominate resources and exploitation would persist, noting lack of steel stock while praising the Red Cross for tuberculosis prevention and criticizing Dr G's democracy of the minority.
Cleveland officials announced that one hundred thousand workers face unemployment as the coal famine order cuts off public utility power to non essential industries. About 3,000 plants will be affected citywide.
S. S. S. is promoted as a blood cleanser that removes the germ-caused disease from the bloodstream. The ad urges readers to stop local applications and seek the treatment by cleansing the blood, directing questions to the Medical Director at Swift Laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia.
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