This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 20 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1918
Page
4
The piece argues that switching to cash sales from August 1 would reduce uncollectible debt and align business with wartime economics. It asserts credit is costly for both merchants and customers, driven by manufacturers and jobbers, and claims cash terms protect buyers from inflated wartime prices while ensuring merchant solvency.
Former Premier Asquith and British leaders urge a practical league of nations as essential to international stability. The concept, once dismissed as rhetoric, gains traction in American, French, and British circles as nations seek orderly global cooperation beyond wartime divisions.
War gardeners across Jahone County and beyond face discouragement as potato crops succumb to blight and drought after their best efforts. The note reflects widespread hardship among agriculturists during shortages.
A compact list presents meal ideas including shredded oranges, baked potatoes, corn soup, stewed lamb with tapioca cream, coffee, cereal, jelly, milk and fruit sauces. It reads like a period kitchen guide with suggested courses for breakfast lunch and dinner.
A recipe set outlines lamb preparations including stewed lamb with green peas two hours simmering then thickened with corn flour and milk. It also details lamb filete marinated overnight, broiled lamb chops, browned breast of lamb with onion celery bay and peppercorns, horseradish sauce, and lamb flank roasts tied with twine and baked two hours.
Instructions describe cooking Cape Cod stew with beef, pork, turnip, potatoes and dump lings in one kettle with timing cues for eight, ten, and twenty minutes before serving. Also details Snappy Ginger Snaps dough with sugar molasses butter lard ginger and flour, rolled thin and baked after boiling briefly.
A collection of short humorous anecdotes about defaced epitaphs at a funeral, a sergeant testing recruits with conflicting commands, a disgruntled hoodlum quitting a drill, and two wool traders where one brother weighs wool before joining a church.
A column by Marie Reilley offers etiquette advice. A young lady should tell a gentleman who asks her to dance that she is a beginner so he may recall his invitation if he cannot handle dancing. Readers may send questions to Miss Reilley addressed to this paper.
A late nineteenth century tone prescribes concise funerals and restrained conduct. It notes minimal flowers, no public gaze on the casket, home services behind screens, and strict decorum. In social invitations bachelors are advised to avoid at home wording and use request the pleasure of your company.
Mr. and Mrs. Cash Boudinott and family plus Mr. and Mrs. Fletch Boudinott and Oras attended a birthday dinner at Mrs. Tilda Post's home in Burroak. Visits included Mrs. Francis Wahl with Miss Inez Wemmer at Taylor Ridge and shopping trips by Mrs. Wahl and Mrs. Wemmer in Glouster.
Shade reports a well attended quarterly meeting. Ohio University students visited relatives. Yvonne Neimeister from Columbus plans weeks with her grandparents. Anna Myers mourns an infant son buried Saturday. Farmers busy with hay. Kincade twins born last week. mother and babies thriving. Wild raspberries and blackberries plentiful after rain. corn crop improving after drought worries.
A trainload of colored troops reached New York and surfaced on Long Island after emerging from a city tunnel. One soldier proclaimed from the window that they were in France at last, uttering a spirited shout of relief.
Dayton plans to wind down six brewing firms by August 15 due to the new federal fuel order. By that date only one brewery will remain active in the city, as the others go out of business.
Reports indicate Athens County potato production is largely a failure from insufficient moisture at the right time. Some patches fared better where early planting or clay soil retained moisture. The note urges effort to boost the nation’s food supply and mentions using potato patches for late sweet corn and other garden crops.
A movement to educate the public about ethnography advances rapidly as more people become familiar with the term Czecho-Slovak and its cultural implications.
Covington Kentucky July 18 Mrs William Hub cultivates coffee in her war garden sending a near ripe sample to the national war garden commission Washington urging support for more plantations in home gardens to aid wartime needs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt assistant secretary of the Navy accepts election to the board of directors of the American Junior Naval and Marine Scouts. The organization has enrolled 60 000 boys nationwide to prepare them for service in the Navy Marine Corps and merchant marine.
The British navy incurred expenditures totaling 1 049 396 085 dollars in the previous year. The report details the overall budget burden on ships personnel and operations, underscoring the scale of naval upkeep and investment needs.
About one hundred Czecho-Slovaks, including university students from across the country, were granted permits to leave the United States to join Allied forces in France. They marched to the Federal Building in New York led by a band.
An advertisement touts Bio-seven as a quick fix for fatigue and nervous exhaustion. It promises to restore energy in less than two weeks by taking seven tablets daily for seven days, then continuing with after meals. It claims to revive nerves, blood, and ambition regardless of cause.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.