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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1920
Page
6
The piece argues for standard bred fowls over mixed flocks, noting demand for quality chickens and hatching eggs. It advises aspiring poultry farmers to gain education, join clubs, study breeds and equipment, and invest before drawing income, promoting industry-wide improvements.
The piece questions if women will gain voting rights in time for the November election. It notes only three states have ratified the Anthony amendment and cites political leaders in both parties as wary of a new factor that could shift the campaign.
The Baltimore Sun notes the Shipping Board is letting out a bowl in Washington as bids fail on 1.5 million barrels of fuel oil out of 24 million for the year starting April 1. Oil traders blame Mexico interference and government inaction for restraining production and rising prices.
Fragmentary clippings mention a damp optimist in a Bell Booth seeking the phrase Spring 1920. The text interleaves humor, crime, and local notes with unrelated anecdotes about buttermen and burglars.
During a post dinner talk Senator Borah cited an anecdote about Old Man Green whose house swarmed with rats. A rat catcher was paid two dollars and after killing many rats he offered to cart away the dead ones. Green questioned what he owed beyond the agreed price.
The article profiles Captain Thomas T. C. Gregory a California lawyer turned wartime operative. It notes his leadership in pressing Austrian relief, asserting food as a key to stabilizing politics. It recalls Bela Kun’s Vienna era and Gregory’s dramatic wartime transformation.
Edith E Moriarty describes a large open political meeting of women where factional conflict erupts over leadership and procedure. The organizer maintains composure as the crowd clashed, some leaving in protest after a rising vote. The piece laments pettiness among mature women and calls women to accept traditional roles until unity is achieved.
An advertisement touts Danderine as a hair tonic that will restore life, color, and vitality to lifeless, thinning hair. It claims to add length, strength, and shine, offering a 35 cent bottle to refresh the scalp and curb dandruff and shedding.
Advertises Freezone as a cheap bottle to end pain from hard and soft corns and calluses. Each tiny bottle allegedly lets users drop in solution to stop pain instantly and lift the corn or callus out with no irritation.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Rowe welcomed a twelve and a half pound girl in Canaanville. A shower for Hugh Stephenson and his wife was held at Isaac Price’s home on February 29 with ice cream and cake, followed by a Band Hall dance. Attendees included many local families and relatives, listing numerous last names and households.
New Marshfield residents and visitors appear in social notes with Frances Imes visiting friends in Marshfield and Lafe Hawk’s trip to Columbus with daughter. Athens shopping and business visits are recorded alongside revival notes in Mineral and social calls from Chauncey and Chauncey area.
J H Ross sold his farm to Harvey Whitlatch who will take possession soon. Mrs Glen Romine and her children of Athens visited their parents Mr and Mrs John Gilbert over Sunday. F G Hoodlet was summoned to Columbus Friday by the death of Edward Fluke. Mrs Harold Stright and her little daughter were guests of Mr and Mrs H B Stright on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Harry Hawk spent the weekend in Athens.
A vintage household guide lists recipes for cookies using lard brown sugar coffee molasses soda ginger flour and eggs. It details Molasses Drop Cookies Oatmeal Cookies Nut Cookies and more with steps to cream mix sift stir and bake in a moderate oven.
The article lists uses for wood ashes including cleaning kettle bottoms sinks and china teacups. It advises a paste of wood ashes and water boiled then thickened with whiting for marble and tiling stains and suggests ashes salt and water paste to fill stove cracks while the stove is cold.
A preacher announced a mission talk on Liars and asked readers to study St Mark seventeenth chapter. He then charged the attentive few with lacking the chapter, declaring there is no seventeenth chapter of St Mark. The scene shifts to a marriage remark about Gerald choosing a wife who can do something, noting she can roll a cigarette better than he can.
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