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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1919
Page
4
A committee urges total ban on heroin, arguing medical need is negligible compared with its harm. It notes morphine and cocaine have legitimate medical uses, while heroin is highly addictive and especially dangerous to youth.
An extended ad discusses typewriters adding machines and cash registers for farm use, urging farmers to adopt office equipment to improve records. It notes growing demand and frames farming as a business activity, with a nod to postwar German events and a safe sober Fourth of July.
Gene Green, the entertainer, shares new stories from a demobilization camp in the east before heading to California. A tale features two colored soldiers planning postwar mischief while another about moonshine stills in Ireland ends with a joke about a private still.
The piece lauds the YMCA for its war service abroad, noting massive reach from 400 million sheets of paper to 575 000 baseballs and 1900 entertainers. It cites 11 229 men selected for overseas service from 150 000 candidates, and 1400 plus casualties among 14 secretaries killed or wounded.
Ruth Cameron outlines mental habits that shape life. She urges concentration control and thoughtful decision making, urging readers to guard thoughts, avoid fretful preoccupation, and focus on the present task. She notes habits of optimism and steady mental patience.
A speaker boasts of paying bills promptly and shunning debt. He contrasts a former life of owed money with current self respect, praising prompt payment to merchants and the relief of clear credit. References to debts, bailiffs, and various currencies appear in a humorous, reflective voice.
Elihu Root former secretary of state and senator writes to Senator Lodge outlining three reservations for the peace treaty league. He urges rejection of Article X policing provision and preserves Monroe doctrine and withdrawal rights with two years notice. He also proposes embedding his March 29 amendment on purely American questions into the Senate resolution.
A flurry of social activity and health notes from The Plains recount visits by Mrs. Ben Bess of Murray City and others to Athens and Beaufort area relatives. Eye injury at Sugar Creek mine hospitalizes J. K. Brown while overseas returns bring updates on Harry Harrison and William Bricker.
Mrs. W. T. Minear of Beebe visited Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Chas M. Campbell and Alice Leone Minear accompanied her home. Cream and cake were served and attendees reported a good time.
The George Washington, averaging sixteen and a half knots, was expected to reach New York next Tuesday. If the morning tide helps, she would dock before noon. otherwise about two o'clock. The President is varying his study of no papers with tours of the deck.
A vintage home recipe roundup covers Quick Parker House Rolls with milk yeast dough and biscuits, Pineapple and Cucumber Gelatin Salad with sour cream dressing, Tomato Soup, Sun-Preserved Cherries, Cherry Conserve, and Strawberry Conserve. It details ingredients, steps, and processing cues for jars and sun drying.
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