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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1920
Page
4
A new nonpartisan national organization named The United Americans was formed at the Colony Club New York with leaders from nearly every state. Its purpose is to defend the Constitution and promote American government through education and propaganda while avoiding public debate.
The piece urges thrift during high prices and wartime recessions. It promotes buying Thrift Stamps or War Savings Stamps and setting aside a fixed weekly sum in the bank. It argues savings today buy more later and that families can save more now than in prewar times.
Reprinted editorials critique New York Evening Post and World opinions on Wilson and the treaty. The Harrisburg Telegraph notes rising food prices from 1919 to 1920 and mocks political figures including Hoover, Glass, and Palmers in a satirical forecast of economic strain.
A chaotic newsroom quarrel over a sensational Jimjam pardon unfolds as editors debate printing a full page feature with images of the escaped killer while poker tales and travel chatter mix with distant conversations about a Mars expert savant and a forgetful professor.
A writer muses on the wonder of eye contact across distance in a girls dormitory and on a trolley car. He asks how exactly one can know when another’s pupil is focused and explores whether such gaze carries a psychic message or hidden meaning.
A vintage recipe pair shows Hamburg with Noodles, using egg, salt, flour dough rolled thin and cut, meat fried, simmered with tomatoes and water then noodles added. Also Mock Cherry Pie-Filling with cranberries, raisins, sugar, cornstarch, and a two-crust pie baked in a moderate oven. Graham Bread rounds out the text with graham flour, molasses, sour milk, and soda baked into two loaves.
Recipes describe Turkish Chicken with rice and tomato juice and butter. Also covered casserole and broiled chicken instructions, detailing quantities, layering, baking times, and slow broiling methods to ensure tenderness. The guide emphasizes careful heat, salt, and onion juice for flavor.
In Conneaut and Elyria Ohio residents laud Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe tonic for pregnancy. They report relief from back pain weakness and nausea with strong babies and improved health for the mother. Readers are urged to obtain a trial package from the Invalids' Hotel Buffalo New York.
Rear Admiral Mayo who commanded the Atlantic fleet in the war is called to testify before a Senate sub committee. The panel aims to finish this phase of the inquiry before a broader navy probe follows the Admiral Sims letter alleging mis management. Sims faces cross examination as administration senators prepare a grilling. Daniels may press a naval board if Sims fails to prove the charges.
The poem laments Emma Goldman sailing away, mocking her radical stance and public persona. It mocks her as a boisterous agitator who denounces money kings and plutocrats, and wishes her well in distant lands while deriding local dissent. The piece frames her departure as an idle threat and a loss to local critics.
A cheeky proverb suggests selling the orchard at night to protect fruit. It tells how simple birds will continue to feed on others’ plums apples and pears while unaware of the ruse.
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