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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1920
Page
4
Advance models show silk sport skirts rise to knee length with brims and hats evolving. Southern wear flaunts baronet satins moonglo and fantasy silks in peach apricot Nile green jade wisteria but remains strong on scarfs silk skirts sweaters and hats. Parasol novelties appear amid pinkos green taffetas and veiled chiffons signaling a silk dominated Spring and Summer.
The American Expeditionary Force is now out of France with a few thousand troops remaining on Rhine guard duty and scattered remnants in France to protect property. The force, two million strong, fought, won, and returned, marking the first overseas American war and prompting questions about future large scale expeditions.
A Montclair New Jersey mayor calls a public meeting and asks pastors to pause services to boost turnout. He argues teachers nationwide are underpaid and Montclair must act now without waiting for higher authorities. The piece ends noting the Panama Canal paid expenses last year.
The text denounces reformers and sympathizers as causes of crime. It argues that softer laws and advocacy for reducing punishment erode fear of incarceration. It claims prisoners prefer county jail for food and sanitation and urges focusing energy on victims and bringing criminals to justice.
A collection of quick wits and classroom anecdotes features a student with a barrel of ale cited as a medical tonic by a physician. The exchange includes a craftsman praised for now using a mowing machine, and a lawyer quoted on a $19 fee for legal advice plus ten dollars borrowed for a tight spot.
An essay on how casual directions mislead in travel and life. It contrasts simple misdirections with costly guidance in marriage costs and car running expenses, arguing people accept convenient answers that fit desires and overlook real costs and motives.
A vintage recipe narrative describes making nut drops with brown sugar egg coffee ginger cloves cinnamon baking powder raisins peanuts and four flour forming walnut sized pieces baking then brushing with a vanilla syrup and rolling in sugar Also a Love Cake recipe follows with syrup cocoa cinnamon nutmeg cloves egg milk flour nuts citron and a lemon water icing.
Practical hints include saving cereal pasteboard boxes to cover fruit jars and prevent spoilage, using a splash of vinegar in pie crust water for flakiness, tenderizing beef with vinegar, and removing odors from onions or cabbage. Also suggests tapioca in berry pies and a spiced spaghetti meat mold steamed with stock served with tomato sauce.
A verse satirizes Prohibition and the liquor trade, mocking drinkers turned dry, the public's mood about the end of booze, and the shifting fortunes of bootleggers. It contrasts cheerful resistance to the water wagon with grim jokes about a bootlegger's fate.
Representative Sabbath of Illinois proposed amendments to the Volstead enforcement law including allowing beer with three percent alcohol and wine with nine percent. He also urged extending medicinal liquor prescriptions and delaying enforcement until after the Supreme Court rules on constitutionality to avert stock losses in bonded warehouses.
Athens Township R O Baker transfers lot 33 to Lycurgus C Baker for 150 dollars. John Love transfers 32.41 and 27 acres to Lycurgus C Baker for 1300 dollars. F S Roach transfers lot 15 in Mechanicsburg to Joseph F Gulley for 500 dollars. James Auflick Cr to James Auflick Jr 68 by 100 feet of lot 472 for 300 dollars.
Advert urges readers to try Dr Kilmer Swamp Root for kidney problems. Druggists report many Americans unknowingly suffer kidney trouble and may be rejected by life insurers. Sample bottle available for ten cents by mail from Dr Eimer & Co. Binghamton NY.
A newspaper ad promotes Pape's Cold Compound for fast relief of colds and grippe. It claims a dose every two hours, up to three doses, opens clogged nostrils, stops runny nose, eases headache and feverish symptoms, and costs only a few cents at drug stores.
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