The Athens Daily Messenger Business and Editorial Notes
The Athens Daily Messenger details subscription rates and advertising policies. It lists prices for mail and carrier delivery, and notes obituary notices and memorials incur a five cent charge.
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Cctv
Athens Operapres
Zan Merald Priming
Messenger
Wulltse oTeleyheece
Daily Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Audit Bureau
Robert B. Ward
Ernie Co
Fifth Ave
New York
I Tern
Bouth
Household Hints Menu From Classic Breakfast to Dressed Lettuce
A historic menu lists meals from breakfast with blackberries oats waffles coffee and syrup to lunch of creamed dairy bread toast with peanut butter cocoa and war cake. Dinner features cold boiled tongue with Spanish sauce buttered carrots mashed potatoes and dressed lettuce with puddine.
Desserts and Cakes from a Historic Home Recipe Collection
A compilation of old fashioned dessert and cake instructions. Recipes include Economy Pudding Butterscotch Pie Buttermilk Pie and Orange Cake with steps for mixing flour eggs sugar and flavorings. Instructions emphasize creaming, boiling, baking times and toppings.
Sun Spots Signal Potential Weather Link in a Cold Season
An astronomer notes an unusually spotted sun may reflect solar disturbances affecting Earth’s climate. Past similar events in 9816 brought a summerless year with crop freezes and ice in July and August, prompting warnings of three years of unsettled weather.
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Sol
Juty
Earth
United States
Germany
Fighting for Money in German Press Claims on War Costs
An American notes that German media insistence on war funding motives misreads Allied debts and U S spending. The piece argues the true costs exceed expected reimbursements, while American figures face no territory loss or indemnities. It criticizes sensational journalism and highlights philanthropy by The World and The Times.
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Rhine
The
York World
Mitchel
New York Times
Itzer
Vearst
Scripps
Senator Williams Warns on Woman Suffrage in Mississippi
John Sharp Williams, Democratic Senator from Mississippi, signals willingness to back woman suffrage only if limited to white women. He argues Congress must curb Mississippi’s representation for denying the vote, noting colored men do not vote and implying colored women would be spared harsher treatment if suffrage passes.
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John Sharp Williams
Fromissippi
Senate
Williams
Mississippi
John Sharp Williamsongs
Congress
Where is the trouble in distribution and the middleman
The piece contrasts farm produce prices across New Jersey counties in 1917 with high retail marks in Newark and Patterson. It argues that abundant production contrasts with skewed distribution, urging government scrutiny of middlemen and distribution. It also references Henry Ford and President Wilson, plus a World War I era note about bricks and bread.
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Middlesex County
New Jersey
Monmouth County
Newark
Patterson
Monmouth
Wty
Henry Ford
Wilson
Michigan
Recipes from The Table Spice Cake and Peanut Butter Bread
Dietary directions list ingredients and steps for two baked goods. Spice cake uses oil sugar sour milk and mixed flours with raisins and spices. peanut butter bread blends corn meal molasses sugar butter substitute yeast and peanut butter with a long rising and kneading process. The text preserves old fashioned measurements and technique.
Dinner Stories at a Red Cross Tea
An Army versus Navy joke unfolds at a country club tea as a fussy elder confronts a 22 year old man about patriotism. The youth explains he is in the navy on leave and plans to avoid army life. A mother and friend debate discipline while a sergeant tests readiness to die for country. The youth deflates expectations with wit and a grim line about Huns.
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Red Cross
New York Times Opposes Tax Plan Aimed at Business Interests
The piece argues New York pays a disproportionate tax share and blames the bill on lawmakers who misunderstand business. It notes Democratic gains in New York City could ensure Claude Kitchin remains Ways and Means chair, shaping the revenue law. The author questions Times support for future tax reform led by the same authorities.
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The
New York Times
Dem
New York
New York City
House
Claude Kitchin
Ways and Means
Statesman
Scotland Neck
Times
Kitchin
Ways and Means Committee
Ford Praises YMCA Probers on War Camp Morale Report
Ford funded a Yale run survey praising YMCA programs in 82 U S army camps. Investigators found active social recreational and educational work aiding morale with open access to facilities and no favoritism. They noted visiting secretaries aiding soldiers with books telegraphs and purchases and the program included English French math history and typing classes.
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Ford Motor Company
United States
National War Work Council
Ford Company
Y. M. C. A. War Fund
Henry Ford
Ford
Suvine
Pha
Local youth contributes to class meeting at T Runnion’s
Vanderhoof 7 M C0 A students and many locals attended a service at T Runnion’s home Friday evening. The event emphasized the indispensability of sable work to the morals of the C. C. class, noting harm would follow without it.
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T. Runnion
Y M C A Provides Shelter Reading Music for Sailors
Sailors praise the Y M C A as a substitute home offering instruction reading music and entertainment. Investigators report the facility as a valued refuge with one sailor noting there is no place like home but the Y M C A is a close second.
Angelus Prayer Resolution Sparks Broad Comment
New York critics denounce a Senate measure urging the President to call on the People to observe the Angelus at noon as sectarian and a threat to religious liberty. Clergy and theologians warn against imposing a Roman Catholic rite or any faith formula on the public, stressing church state separation and imperialism in religion.
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New York
N. Y
Senate
Louth
Charles P. Fagnani
Union Theological Seminary
United States
Europe
Ice Cream Social At Baptist Church Draws Large Crowd
The ice cream social at the Baptist church was very well attended. Rev. Brister's son returned home from Washington, D. C. and other points of interest. Josie Galbreth spent Friday night with Ora Davis and J. W. Davis. Saturday in Athens on business. Mrs Harriett Jeffers and Mrs Chas Jeffers visited Mrs Ryl mer Ackley. Story Rails is home briefly before camp.
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Josie Galbreth
Ora Davis
J. W. Davis
Athens
The
Baptist Church
Brister
Sunmlay
Washington, D. C
Harriett Jeffers
Chas
Jeffers
Rylmer Ackley
Story Rails
Mrs Swarm Visits Mother and Ora Davis Enjoys Marion
Mrs Bertha Swarm visits her mother Mrs Hannah Bails. Ora Davis spends the week with friends in Marion. Aged Mrs Chases is improving after a Dart Tree incident.
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Bertha Swarm
Hannah Bails
Ora Davis
Marion
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