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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1920
Page
4
The article urges small income savers to maintain a bank savings account for emergencies and to buy small denomination bonds or life insurance as safeguards. It notes war era Liberty Bonds normalized regular saving and warns against wildcat investments, recommending reputable guidance and steady purchasing of safe bonds to build financial footing.
The piece argues farmers fault themselves for low product prices, citing cooperative marketing by California fruit growers and Colorado Oregon apple growers as models. It notes farmers hold a land monopoly and can improve value through cooperation, while also warning that personal loans are not deductible as charitable gifts.
The statement frames a resolve to endure as the war ends, stressing commitment and perseverance. It emphasizes steady involvement and a pledge to remain until the conflict concludes. The speaker positions the nation as steadfast and enduring through the final stage of the war.
An organization that professes to stay out of politics appears to be exerting notable political influence, highlighting tension between its stated neutrality and active involvement in public affairs.
A brisk collection of quips on near beer legality in different regions, humor about spare tires and the Kaiser, and a Flushing Journal headline on club women favoring smoking. The piece notes widespread famine of pessimism and touches on immigration policy and interment wordplay.
A humorous slice from a dinner table scene features Mr. Crossnlots and an Irishman’s quip about death. Mr. Brown praises a willing servant Mary yet laments her forgetfulness as a bell-ringing dinner ritual leads to a long ladder climb to locate the missing salt.
Practical kitchen notes offer sausage based casseroles with hominy or mixed vegetables and two tested dishes Tomato Cheese Rarebit and Pimento Hash. Additional quick treats include Lettuce Salad Banana Cherry Dessert and a note on oven efficiency by baking multiple items together.
Edith Be Moriarty recounts how business and professional women in Columbus used a hotel bar as a meeting room to form the Ohio Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs. The bar served as a practical conference space as Prohibition altered its traditional use.
Admiral Miklós Horthy named regent by the Hungarian assembly. Former commander in chief of the Austro Hungarian navy, he led the anti Communist army and helped retake Budapest. Allies view him positively as a stabilizing figure and may yield power to Charles of Hapsburg when prudent, with the alliance opposing a Hapsburg restoration.
Athens County Farm Loan Association directors met at the Chamber of Commerce with W T Copeland of Wapakoneta representing the Federal Land Bank to appraise applicant farms. Weather halted appraisals. Copeland to return soon. The Supreme Court is to decide on the farm loan law's constitutionality, affecting loan timing for later applicants.
A fine son was born Sunday morning to Mr and Mrs Harry Hulbert. Rev Dabritz married Harold E Michaels and Miss Edna E White at the M E Parsonage in New Marshfield. Mr Michaels served overseas in Italy with the 88th Division. Families and visitors from Columbus Radcliff Salem and Ward WV are noted along with influenza confinement of Ww Phillips.
In Tombstone Arizona Deputy sheriffs return from Chiricahua Mountains with Andrew Hoska after the sixth venue. Hoska cites a fence project and a misdirected threat as his reason to avoid court. The sheriff insists jury duty takes precedence over personal threats as the trial continues.
Mrs Port Dicken learned Tuesday that her brother Lester Briley’s 10 month old daughter Helen Briley has died at Carbon Hill. Funeral services are set for Thursday.
Terrell is ill with pneumonia. George Burdette's wife and children are ill with the flu. Colonel Locke and wife were called Monday by the death of her sister's husband, Pearl Dupler. Neva Hawk is on the sick list. Miss Hazel Geisicke returned Sunday to her sister Mrs. Lon Humphrey after a stay with her brother Will Geisicke and family at Mineral.
Charles Taylor of Simmons, West Virginia, was arrested on a murder charge, authorities announced. Investigators did not specify the alleged victim or location of the incident in the initial report.
In Princeton Mercer county jail a suspect is charged with the murder of John Smith who had recently been released from jail for bootlegging.
John Hodge M. P. argued during the prohibition campaign that supporters of a dry nation face a revolution. He defended beer as moderation that harms no one and makes the bad tempered man genial.
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