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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1920
Page
4
Her sister Mrs Alfred Rogers recounts the event as Miss Dora Carothers gave a very interesting talk here after Sunday school.
Advertising rates on application at Home and Foreign offices. Nominal charge for obituary cards. Representatives: Robert Ware, venue New York City and South Abasts Avenue Chicago.
Breckinridge Long's resignation from the post of third assistant secretary of state has been accepted by President Wilson. He plans to retire to run for the United States Senate seat from Missouri and has departed for St. Louis to begin his campaign.
A Magazine of Wall Street writer outlines precepts for evaluating stock circulars. Avoid overly colorful ads or three or more sizes, demand officer names, distrust promises of immediate large returns, and check whether dividends are funded or diverted to depreciation and improvements.
An inquiry into the road paving problem shows light construction and little traffic regulation led to extensive damage from trucks. It argues for nationwide laws on truck weights, speeds, and road standards, with strict enforcement and costs justified by reduced wear and repair.
A 1920 editorial urges women to act against wage injustice for postal workers. It questions readers about postmen’s long service and aging, and stresses that taxpayers fund government while labor is underpaid. It calls women to inform Congress and Senators to push for higher postal wages.
Household hints describe potato and egg salad with parsley garnish and a caramel pudding with corn starch, milk and brown sugar. Also includes chocolate coconut corkiss cookies made from condensed milk, coconut, and melted chocolate. Serves vary per recipe.
A vintage recipe fragment notes Indian Pudding with milk corn meal molasses salt and ginger baked in a slow oven and Lemon and Raisin Pie with raisins lemon juice rind flour sugar and butter baked with upper and lower crust.
A collection of old kitchen directions lists ingredients for doughs and batters. It specifies flour sugar shortening baking powder soda salt eggs milk sour cream or milk and flavoring. Steps include mixing dry ingredients then adding liquids and eggs and forming dough with hands.
Kate Richards O'Hare a leading Socialist figure narrowly missed the vice presidential nomination at the party’s national convention. She was rejected due to imprisonment for espionage act violations and was serving a five year term in Jefferson City Missouri. The offense stemmed from wartime remarks in Bowman North Dakota criticizing mothers who send sons to war. Her commuted sentence allowed release in a fortnight after convention adjourned.
A pleasant evening was enjoyed at the home of Emerson Daugherty Wednesday with attendees including Lela Dunfee Sylvia Cubbison Myrtle Hornsby Mabel Hornsby Mildred Hornsby Helen Keller Nina Gaskins Leota Sleets Irene Davis Martha Wildman Clara Barne Root Irma Russell Thelma Underwood Orville Brandeberry Rodney Brandeberry Reece Dodd Ivory Dunfee Elwood Sleets Raymond Wilpon Carleton Davis Floyd Russell John Barnette Everette Keller Hersel Hornsby and Arthur Shanks.
Mrs Gabb accuses Mr Gabb of selfishness in a domestic exchange about saving others. Topham's emporium sues with sharp wartime style humor as a customer breaks a leg and a shopwalker quips Cork legs.
Readers in Poughkeepsie vow to end the era of dollar haircuts by adopting overalls and local movements. A satire strolls through bungalow house living with cheap construction claims and quirky comforts. A dentist protest and a witty remark about a woman with two remaining teeth close the piece.
Rutland sick at home with W J Lanning dangerously ill. His daughter Mrs Herbert Hoskinson arrives from vuysville. Prof Bernard R Higley re elected principal. Marietta District M E conference closes with Judge Mauck address. Keep your yard clean contest draws entries and top contenders. Miss Clara Belle Strangly visits Rutland friends.
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