The Daily Messenger Masthead Advertisement Details
The Athens Daily Messenger lists publishing details with staff roles, pricing, and office locations. It notes delivery and mail rates, advertising terms, and obituary notice charges, plus address lines for its Athens Ohio newsroom and western offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens Jenuses and Herald Printing Company
Athens
Ohio
Sharter
Audit Bureau
Robert B. Ward
Fastern
Fifth Ave
New York
Western
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Retribution in Cantigny Battlefield Report
An American correspondent recalls the Cantigny victory on the second day of the German drive. He describes trench clearance, German surrender calls, and the use of flame throwers to burn thirty Germans in a dugout. He condemns German treachery and urges Allied restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cantigny
Wliiers
Spirit of Giving and War Time Food Lessons
A Red Cross worker notes varying generosity during wartime appeals as citizens react differently to sacrifice. The piece urges a habit of giving, praises national generosity, and contrasts a grieving donor with a self-proclaimed nondonor. It also offers wartime recipes using cheese and rice for practical nourishment.
Household Hints Menu Highlights Breakfast Through Dinner
A dated menu lists daily meals from breakfast to dinner. Breakfast features cooked cereal with figs and top milk, corn bread and coffee. Lunch includes escalloped cabbage and cheese, rye popovers, and rhubarb sauce. Dinner offers baked corn beef hash, stuffed beets, bread and butter, and bread pudding with lemon sauce.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING Hook Up Curtains for Fresh Sleep
Small dress hooks placed at lower curtain corners two thirds from the edge let you raise curtains nightly for a breeze. The hooks hold the curtain weight unseen, keeping curtains fresh and unwrinkled when set down each morning.
Dinner Stories and Public Transport Gripes in Tit-Bits
A boy cries because his parents will not take him to the pictures. An old lady counsels him kindly. A Lady Conductor pleads for space on a crowded car and wonders aloud for the German phrase for Move up. The snippets capture everyday irritations with humor.
Thoughts are Things in Wartime Cheer Card
A wartime column urges courage and steadfast mood as U S and Allied forces fight. It recalls Lafayette and Pershing, notes soldiers’ morale messages, and uses humor about home and propinquity to bolster resolve amid Hun advances.
One Express Company Consolidation Under Way
There will be only one railroad express company after July 1 as Adams American Wells Fargo and Southern are merged by order of Director McAdoo forming one large private service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Adams
American
Wells Fargo and Southern
McAdoo
Express company to form under public management
A proposed public managed corporation with capitalization of 830 million or more would be known as the Federal Express Company and run by George Taylor. The aim is greater efficiency through standardized equipment, centralized operations, and reduced staff. Shippers would use express service via direct routes with closer railroad and postal cooperation. The Belgian army soccer team has challenged any U.S. team to play in the United States for expenses, provoking tentative athlete response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
America
Federal Express Company
George ©. Taylor
American Company
Postolice
United States
Everyday Etiquette Lessons From A Contributed Column
Advice column by Marie Reilley answers etiquette questions. Topics include calling on a young lady, presenting gifts, and proper courtship behavior with plain rules and cautions for engaged couples and friendships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Reilley
Reilley
Wheat Saving Drive Boosts War Time Grain Output
The article describes national efforts to conserve wheat during wartime. It notes hotel and restaurant commitments to avoid wheat, urges cleaner threshing to save 3 bushels per 100 threshed, and reports the Grain Threshing Division education campaign. It also advises farmers not to hold seed for next year and emphasizes recovering every bushel in the coming three months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Food Administration
Central West
Food Administration Grain Corporation
Trampled to Death in Air Raid Stampede
Eighteen women and children were trampled to death and several injured in a midday panic after an air raid alarm in Mannheim. The alarm followed sighting of four German aircraft returning to their base, triggering a crowded rush for shelter in the city streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Manheim
Mannheim
Surgeon McCracken Led Red Cross Charge Under Fire
London June 1 The British medical corps surgeon William J. McCracken ordered his men to take cover while he moved forward through enemy fire, bearing a Red Cross flag on his walking stick. His action halted bystanders and allowed his platoon to reach the wounded, saving many lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United Press
Red Cross
William J. McCracken
Welded chain of town commerce and trust
A moral on local business ties describing how pay circulates within a community through merchants banks and service providers. It lists Athens based firms from The Athens Electric Co. to The D ZENNER Co Modern Department Store and more, highlighting a self sustaining local economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carpenter How. CO
Athens
Glouster
Nelsonville
CASH
Corner Court
Mill Streets
Cline Pharmacy CO
Cline Ice Cream CO
Cornwell & CO
Henry W. Cotner
Rexall
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Athens Daily Messenger
New York Red Cross
Albania
Parker House
Miss Syrup
Kansas
Mr. Waffle
Doctor
Mabel
Marne
Aisne
Neuve Chapelle
Manning
Gen. Pershing
Lafayette
ONE Express Company
Robert Brown
M.c.meiker
Athens Electric CO
Athens Ice & Storage CO
Athens Messenger
Athens National Bank
F. L. Alderman
Athens Printery CO
Bank OF Athens National Banking Association
W. B. Golden
W. S. Blackwood
W. M. Cray
M. T. Ellis
Foutch’s
Connection
Hibbard’s Music Shop
Columbia Grafonolas
Home Furnishing CO
J. H. Johnson Novelty CO
Kerr Hardware CO
Lash’s Drug
Lash
Lostro Auto Sales CO
Overland and
Willys-Knight Automobiles
Federal Trucks
Maxwell’s Novelty Store
China
McHenry & Sisler
Wooltex
the Messenger Printery CO
Moler Auto Sales CO
Chevrolet and
Cadillac Motor Cars
Republic and
Sterling Trucks
Murphy Bros
Roach
Scott Haney CO
Home of Good Clothes
Sam Sommer
Star Mineral Water Works CO
F. C. Stedman CO
Union Grocery CO
Campbell Block
Wolfe Bros
D. Zenner Co.—Modern Department Store
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!