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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1919
Page
4
An inquiry in New York City shows a modest funeral may cost nearly 1000 dollars, with burial expenses 50 to 100 percent higher than before the war. Undertakers cite a casket trust and vanity as price drivers, while cremation rises about 150 percent but remains far cheaper than interment, at about 25 dollars in some cities.
A reader warns that while sugar is a useful food like lettuce, excess consumption mirrors alcohol in harming appetite and increasing nervousness. Moderation is urged with advice on timing and balanced meals, noting stress relief through air, exercise, and greens. The piece ends with a quoted anarchist remark and a critique of government rule.
A barber argues with a furious customer who sold him a patent hair restorer claiming it would fix his bald head. The barber insists the product simply restored the head to its original bald state. A humorous wartime convoy vignette follows with a wagon missing a wheel. A wife asks her husband to show more interest in sports and the National League's fall world series prospects.
A reflection on how inaccuracy in newspapers mirrors sloppiness in thinking. The author cites three recent examples including panic over influenza reports, misreading tax news about Red Cross contributions, and a neighbor mistaken about a book’s author due to misread front-page notes. The piece argues mental grooming is as vital as physical neatness.
A wartime verse depicts a fiery satire where a boiling soup provokes German soldiers. The speaker portrays German leadership as ungrateful and crude, while the narrator claims to guide them to a shared table only to face renewed hostility and mockery of a tyrant’s appetites.
A compact 1910s style household recipe list includes Steamed Cocoanut Bread Pudding using bread crumbs milk sugar butter eggs and vanilla with a test for doneness. Also Teas and Mint Tea instructions and Baked Eggplant with seasoned crumb crust baked onion layers and Pimento Butter sandwich filling with butter pimentoes and salt.
Teapot method for paraffin sealing uses a pint tin can, wax scraps saved for remelting, keep lid on and cork spout when not in use. Also Renovate fat by melting, separate sediment with hot water, and wash repeatedly. Wart cure uses milkweed sap and cider vinegar with salt to treat warts.
The Kansas City Times argues that post Seattle strike revelations show undesirable foreigners fomenting radicalism and violence. It asserts Europeans bring anarchism and prejudice, mingle poorly, spread violent ideas, and urges rigid immigration exclusion to prevent bombing sabotage and class warfare.
The funeral for the late Alonzo Betts was conducted Friday evening at 7 from his parents home by Rev. Ransdell. Interment followed in Wells ton after a large turnout. He is survived by his wife, parents, one brother Thomas and five sisters. Mary Cline recently recovering from a fall was able to be out on her porch. Mr and Mrs Isaac Wilson and children traveled to Columbus for the day.
Marcella Cunningham, two, daughter of Mr and Mrs Homer Cunningham, died Friday at home in Chauncey after a brief illness. Funeral services are set for Sunday with burial at Green Lawn Cemetery.
Chauncey Board of Education hired teachers for the upcoming term with second grade and four high school posts to be filled at a joint township meeting next Saturday. Principal Wilson Downey leads the list along with Miss Ina Merry and others for various grades. Local residents report family moves and social visits in Chauncey including Bradfield, Kraynik, Donaldson, and Carter families.
Do not rely on neighbors or delays for medicine during a sudden bowel attack. Cholera morbus has claimed lives in many neighborhoods when proper medicine was unavailable. Keep a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy at hand. it costs 35 cents and can be trusted.
London reports Admiralty officials will form a commission to hear testimony and assign blame for the German fleet sunk at Scapa Flow. Von Reuter claimed sinking followed Kaiser orders to keep ships from falling into enemy hands. A Daily Mail dispatch notes the armistice ended Saturday and Berlin visit cited illness. A separate note mentions a new double egg beater design with two revolving rings.
Berlin reports reveal Gustav Adoph Bauer as chancellor with Hermann Mueller foreign affairs and Mathias Erzberger finance, as Germany prepares to accept peace terms before the deadline. Disturbances rise in Weimar with labor unrest and a railway strike spreading. plunder in Mannheim and Kassel deaths reported. Marshal Foch asks for halt to German advance in Estonia and evacuation of Windau Libau and former Russian regions.
German experimenters have produced a textile from the fibre of a plant similar to the North American cat tail. The development suggests a new natural material for fabrics and could impact future textile production.
Fire Marshall Mead orders local druggists to stop distributing a popular hog medicine due to risks of spontaneous combustion, signaling possible decline of the product in Texas.
Police found a blind pig operating in a Chicago house once home to a family Jack built, ending a day of activity that drew curious children and local residents. Officials seized liquor and closed the hidden operation as investigators followed up on tips.
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