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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1925
Page
6
Family dining notes by Sister Mary cover breakfast lunch and dinner menus with labeled courses. Recipe for potato ball salad includes potatoes eggs mustard salt olive oil tarragon vinegar onion juice and anchovy sauce with serving tips and safety notes for young children.
Sister Mary describes packing for open air meals with paper cups spoons and waxed paper. She outlines cooking steaks over coals using forks on sticks or broilers, plus a simple menu including coffee rolls ginger cookies salad fruit and marshmallows. The piece stresses simple tables settings cloths and enjoying the natural dining spot.
Washington report notes tests show aging eggs in storage preserve nourishing qualities, with rates rising in recent experiments.
A freight car derailed on a bridge near Sunbury Pennsylvania sending six tons of chocolate bars tumbling into the nearby river. Rescue crews aided bystanders watched as the cascade of candy drifted downstream and into the water creating a sweet obstruction.
High prices for fruits and nuts this summer forced at least one Court street soda fountain to raise all fancy fruit and nut sundaes by five cents. Fountain operators cite scarce home-grown fruits and higher jobber prices for sundae fruits as nuts push to peak costs.
J. G. Kelley a 91 year old wealthy New Zealand farmer explains he always makes his own bed and declines to register at a San Francisco hotel until he can continue the habit.
Expert divers will depart to salvage the Yasuka Maru, a Japanese transport sunk by Germans in the war. The vessel carried bullion valued at $500,000.
Communities in the area use the anti-fee splitting law to hire enforcement officers at fixed salaries rather than sharing fines. Smithfield hires Caleb Harris Steubenville Calvin Johnson and Carl Aiken Tiltonville at 200 dollars a month plus expenses. James Pilney named enforcement officer at Dillonvate as raids expand with more crews to be added.
In St Clairsville a letter from Mansfield Reformatory Superintendent T C Jenkins to Prosecutor H W Mitchell reveals 200 to 400 prisoners exceed capacity. Attorney General Crabbe allows release of inmates with less than a year served, to be acted on by the state clemency board before autumn court terms.
The leaning tower of Pisa in Rome is now illuminated with electric lights, highlighting the historic structure after dark.
The Saratoga aircraft carrier sails endurance and speed as the navy highlights its electric motors. At 888 feet, it is described as the longest naval craft in existence.
A passage notes the broad flat noses of Eskimos and African tribesmen as a result of mothers carrying babies on their backs and pressing the noses during infancy, described within the context of cultural habit and physical development.
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