The Athens Daily Messenger Ad Rates and Publication Details
The Athens Daily Messenger explains its publication schedule and pricing. Delivery by carrier costs 12 1 2 cents weekly, yearly rates listed for subscriptions, and advance payment required. Advertising rates available on application with monthly billing. Obituary notices incur a five cent charge and offices are in Athens Ohio with regional bureaus in New York and Chicago.
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Athens
Isoriymied and Merald Printing Company
Fred W. Bush
Baker, Pirot Pipor
Messenger
Daily Messenger
Oho
Audit Bureau Circulations
Ohio Select Lst
Robert B. Ward
Brastern Office
Fth Ave
New York
Western
Bouth Wabath Ave
Chicago
Saving 100000000 Tons of Coal War era plea for fuel economy
The Fuel Administration says the country will need 100 million extra tons of coal this year for war industries and exports. It urges industry and households to reduce waste through better burning, insulation, and efficient heating to save fuel and protect wartime production and lives.
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The
Fuel Administration
War task for teachers in social service education
The piece argues colleges should lead in social welfare teaching amid war. It cites Henry Suzzalo on putting public schools on the firing line of social service and teaching social and economic science and democracy to students early. It warns that only citizens with limited schooling can solve looming social issues, stressing patriotism and family-based loyalty as foundations of peace and democracy.
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Henry Suzzalo
University of Washington
Suzzalo
Free trade downsizes snap fastener market in Boshesise
The Daily Commerce cites a wartime note that Germany supplied most snap fasteners in Boshesise while English makers struggled. English firms failed under German underselling, boosting Germany's hold on a small but essential good. It warns that if England had maintained duty on snaps, it might have kept domestic industry protected. It also notes Democrats cut American snap fastener duties by 70 percent.
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Germany
Boshesise
England
America
Good Enough for Soldiers Narrows in a Town by the Rails
In a town where troop trains pass to France, local ladies gather treats from passing trains and share with soldiers. A recent incident saw a box of cigars taken with other pies and cookies, provoking questions about propriety and generosity amid the war effort.
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Seaboard
France
Household Hints and Cooking Recipes Featured
A page of household hints lists menu items breakfast and lunch options. Recipes include Pineapple Snow dessert, Ginger Oatmeal Cookies, Veal or Chicken Croquettes with tomato sauce, and Squash Croquettes with butter and crackers.
Community Socials Highlight Weekend Gatherings
Residents spent Saturday and Sunday with Edna and Bertha Moore. Mr and Mrs F J Hooper and family attended a flag raising at The Plains recently. Several from this place attended a party given by Eva Baughman of near New Marshfield Saturday evening.
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Edna
Bertha Moore
F. J. Hooper
the Plains
Eva Baughman
Two Ways to Extend Household Items and Save Gas
Sheets and pillow cases can last twice as long with a double hem and by rotating heads weekly. For pillows buy tubing and repair thinning areas by turning, creating a near new cover. Use a dripping pan of water on hot burners or in a cooled oven to have ready dishwater. War Saving short note promotes bread crusts saved for soup.
Hope 1 tilt as year opens
United Press report from July 1 1918 reflects on Haigs 1917 18 campaigns in Flanders Cambrai and Passchendaele and the planned brigade of Americans with the British. It notes German offensives March 21 and March 28 and the strategic shift to include U S forces with renewed Allied resolve.
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William Philip Simms
United Press
Haig
Flanders
Cambrai
Arras
Lrench
Soissons
Rheims
Messines
Ypres
Passchendaele
Roulers
Germany
Belgium
Cambria
Switzerland
Italy
Fayolle
Ham
Nesle
Chauny
Roye
Noyons
Paris
Hindenburg
Athens Area Residents Visit Relatives and Attend Wedding
Mrs Addie Biggens and daughter Dorothy stayed with relatives in Athens from Friday to Monday. Mrs Samuel Russell and grandson Delmar visit relatives in West Virginia. Mrs John Brannon of Athens guests of Mr and Mrs L H Smith. Eva Griffin visits Athens on Saturday. Roy Smith of Hebron Lenore Smith and Fred McKay of Athens guests of L H Smith Monday. Clyde Featherstone family visited mother Eva Griffin. Murray Melchi and wife visit Chester Hill. Local youths attend show in Athens. L H Smith and Clarys attend Moser Walker wedding in Athens. Mrs Frank Heald returns from Ironton with her mother Mrs Catheryn Grimes. Elizabeth Leeper returns home after extended visit in Zanesville.
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Addie Biggens
Dorothy
Athens
Samuel Russell
Delmar
West Virginia
John Brannon
L. H. Smith
Eva Griffin
Roy Smith
Hebron
Lenore Smith
Fred McKay
Clyde Featherstone
Raymond
Murray Melchi
Chester Hill
Clarys
Moser- Walker
Frank Heald
Ironton
Dinner Stories of a City Clerk Turned Victim
A bookkeeper in a large factory life in a boarding house ends with a string of misfortunes. He loses $16 from his pocket, an ammonia tank explodes in his office, he is wrongly arrested for pickpocket, is hit by a subway wreck and later marries the nurse who helped set his broken arm.
Hog Debate Baffles Seamen As Bill Confesses Uncertainty
On board His Majesty's ships two sailors argued whether a hog is a pig or a sheep. They asked an old salt named Bill who, after thinking, admitted he did not know much about poultry. The quarrel ended with no resolution.
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Bill
Soldier gifts spark quarrel over cigarette costs
A man complains that the smoked cigars were too expensive to give to soldiers. His wife retorts that none of it should be spared for American soldiers, asserting that nothing is too good for them.
Draft Expansion Garners Wide Support The Nation Prepares
Observers note broad readiness across ages to answer a national call, with no objections to enlarging the draft age limits to include a specific individual. The collective stance signals unity as officials consider expanding conscription eligibility.
Lone American pirate raid stirs ominous omen
The report recalls an American pirate capturing three Germans by himself, suggesting a sense of foreboding about the broader wartime mood and risks in a volatile theater.
Teeth biting flesh during torpedoed ship rescue
A YMCA secretary aboard the Oronsa paused while washing his teeth and later joined a lifeboat crew. While rowing he felt hand pain and realized his teeth were biting into his own flesh. The incident occurred amid torpedoing of the vessel.
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Oronsa
Farewell party honors Ray Moore before Camp Sherman departure
White Hall hosts a farewell gathering Friday for Ray Moore who left for Camp Sherman on Tuesday July 23. Guests included numerous local families and friends from Columbus Nelsonville Tuscarawas Rock Bridge Gambier and Gambier area with many attending games music ice cream and cake after the event. Additional notes mention visits from LeRoy Johnson Arlo Johnson and Homer Graves Jr. plus relatives from Mineral Athens Pleasant Valley and Cleveland.
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Charles Moore
Ray
Camp Sherman
Messrs
Ben Dorsey
Wayne Harner
Deane Castle
Carl Vandevort
George Evans
Glen Parker
Emmett Radford
Earl Austin
Dent Brown
Vernal Hoisington
Earl Gibbs
Harry Liggett
Everett Baughtman
Dave Jones
Robert Campbell
Mack Braley
Theodore Wingett
Chas. Lillie
Forrest Johnson
Glen McLeod
Howard Mcree
Cecil McLeod
Harold Brown
Clyde Wingett
Columbus
Walter Griffith
Nelsonville
Anna Martin
Edith Brown
Margaret Harner
Eva Baughman
Edna Moore
Lora Kenney
Jessie Hossington
Slisie
Braley
Harley Parker
W. C. Parker
A. E. Dent
Ada Parker
Myron
Marion
Anson Wingett
Frank Hooper
Orland
Leo
Melissa Moore
Ray Moore
LeRoy Johnson
Near Mineral
Arlo Johnson
Homer Graves Jr
Athens
J. W. Graves
Walter Parker
Cleveland
Charlies Moore
G. E. Tribe
Pleasant Valley
Lucile Unger
Tuscarawas
Mary Canfield
Rock Bridge
Five Children Die in Kent County Juvenile Home Fire
A fire at the Kent County Juvenile Home near Grand Rapids Michigan early today left five children dead three missing three seriously burned and six lightly injured. The blaze started in the laundry and therear portion of the building burned as fire crews arrived. Prisoner line formed then panicked and escaped up the stairs, but barred windows hindered rescue efforts.
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United Presa
Grand Rapids
Mich
Kent County
Here
Allies to act in Siberia soon with Vladivostok move
President Wilson has prepared a program of aid for Russia and will issue it once Japan formally accepts the international proposition. Allies will first occupy Vladivostok to counter German menace. the step is called economic aid rather than intervention.
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Robert J. Bender
Washington
Siberia
Wilson
Russia
Japan
Vladivostok
Labor Day 1918 urged as war effort and unity
A St Paul Federation of Labor circular from Samuel Gompers urges a distinctive Labor Day on September 1 1918 as part of the wartime effort. It promotes ceremonies and demonstrations with the slogan Win the War for Freedom and notes negligible costs relative to the cause and possible self support. D W Wallace organizer signs the notice in Hollister Ohio on July 23 1918.
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Lusitania
Sirs and Brothers
St. Paul
American Federation of Labor
Executive Council
Republic
Tense World War I Chronology On July 24
On July 24 1917 German attacks on Craonne fail and Russians evacuate Stanislau. The prior year July 24 1916 saw Asquintons threaten general elections as Pozieres faced encirclement by German and British guns. In 1915 Austro Germans hammer Warsaw as Russians are pressed, while German bombardment targets Rheims cathedral continues.
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Craonne
Stanislau
Asqu
Pozieres
Warsaw
Rheims Cathedral
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