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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1920
Page
4
Mrs. G. B. McKinstry of 19 Kurtz Ave in Athens reports back pain dizziness and irregular kidneys improved after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She says the pills cured her kidney issues and back misery. Price 60c at dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY endorses the product.
The article emphasizes enforcement of the National Prohibition Act and calls for public cooperation. It outlines four actions: foster local support for law obedience, support local officials, advocate permissive cooperation in lawmaking, and keep contact with federal and state prohibition staff to improve administration.
A column argues that disloyalty and violent radicalism fail in demonstrations, elections, and strikes as the public rejects Bolshevism. It claims most Americans and major groups including capitalists, middle class, farmers, and organized labor oppose it, leaving only a handful of foreign-born radicals and troublesome aliens.
A speaker laments endless rent payments for crowded shacks and the landlord’s cold indifference. He recalls eviction after an injury and argues for self owned homes as a remedy, condemning oppressive rents and advocating a humane, affordable path to ownership.
Gwendoline laments love while Harold reacts with shock and resolve as she accuses him of indifference. He defends himself with a flustered confession about missing trains, learning dance steps, and enduring a cheeky brother, all while sniffing eau de cologne to feign Cupid’s bow.
A reader echoes a talk on how mothers influence future wives by addressing a son's selfish habits. A mother recalls cleaning her son’s messy room and realizing the wife later bears the burden and questions whether mothers should curb such behavior now or risk a harder fight after marriage.
Instructions cover Goulash-Cook spaghetti with tomatoes beef and vegetables, bake an hour and a half, finish with peas. Then Gelatine dessert with grapes and fruit, cream, and optional nuts. Finally Sweet Milk Griddle Cakes with flour milk butter and egg, mixed to a smooth batter.
Step by step historic kitchen guide shows meat melts lamb liver and hearts prepped with bacon stuffing boiling water and oven braise methods. Includes melts Salisbury style and braised pork melts with vegetables herbs and gravy. End notes advise trimming veins and blood clots for cleaner cooking.
The piece contrasts Republican cuts of 1.655 billion from Wilson era estimates with Democrat claims of extravagance. It ponders how Cummins would react to higher spending and questions Democratic budgeting. A separate vignette shows Eliza awaiting a visitor, then a surprise and a threat to cut off the gas if amends fail.
Judge E D Sayre spoke on Americanization and the church at the First Presbyterian Men's Club in Athens. He warned that many immigrants remain foreigners in sympathy, urged English as the first language, and urged churches and schools to instill American traditions while teaching adults and supporting foreign language education.
Paris reports tied to the League of Nations gathering suggest a resumed major force against the Bolsheviks as British naval and military leaders outline plans. Analysts note Kolchak and Denikin defeated, with bolshevik offensives spreading, and imperial India and Asia eyed as potential expansion zones.
The text notes that buffer states between Soviet Russia and Europe lack military and economic strength to resist Lenine and Trotsky forces, and stresses urgent action to prevent overrunning Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
In Columbus Ohio on January 17 Mrs Goldie Droses was granted a divorce from husband John Droses for gross neglect. Droses had left October 11 with their children to Cleveland where she lived with John Clay Buttery. A delinquency charge led to trial by women jurors and a suspended workhouse sentence in exchange for returning to Columbus.
Oklahoma City prison inmates query the census enumerators on their present occupation at the city jail as the census process begins.
In St. Paul Bernard J. Barry and his bride visited the court house to obtain a marriage license. They read the World War I honor roll and Barry asked that his name be removed from the list of those killed in action, insisting he is alive.
A Kentucky druggist promotes Mentholized Ar c ine mixed with boiled water as a two week cure for catarrh. Gargle twice daily and snuff or spray into nostrils to relieve sore inflamed membranes and discharge. He urges prompt use at the first sign of a cold in the family.
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