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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1920
Page
6
The piece argues wage increases alone won t restore teaching and urges reforms in hours, duties, and working conditions. It notes overcrowded classrooms, poor ventilation, red tape, and shared desks as demoralizing factors, calling for national action to improve the profession.
A London Daily Mail correspondent notes England’s villages show few old maids while cities teem with single women. The close-knit village life allows a plain girl to be valued for character and domestic skill, influencing rural suitors to seek a steady home over city pleasures.
The passage mocks Turkey for renewing Armenian massacres before an Allied peace settlement, arguing they would have preferred to delay until the council completed its Turkish war settlement.
The two leaders reject foreign debt instruments and settle state bills with domestically printed paper money while amassing hundreds of millions in gold to purchase goods abroad.
Report says Hindenburg Ludendorff Tirpitz and Bethmann-Hollweg would surrender to face trial if proceedings are held in the United States. The note suggests they are confident in American court methods.
A collage of quips and notices, including a billy goat on the lam to claim a liberal reward from Boyd Biles in Athens Alabama, a bank messenger losing 79280 dollars, and light column jests about Cuba, memory schools, and Broadway fashions.
The New York Tribune notes the return of railways to nominal owners as a key sign of peace. It argues December 1917 takeover backed by wartime belief in efficiency under government control collapsed after two years, with the government eager to shed operating duties and President criticized by the Union for overreach abroad.
The article urges American women to value a soft, low voice and a healthy complexion. It condemns sharp nasal tones and gaudy coloring, praising well formed, athletic women who maintain modest grooming. It argues these features define a desirable national type and warns against adopting modern masculine styles.
The article notes General Baron von Luettwitz named defense minister in Berlin as a hardline militarist and opponent of the peace treaty. It recalls his roles as Belgium governor general and Verdun commander, plus prerevolution postings as a military attache in London and Petrograd and a claim of an American wife from Cleveland Ohio. Cleveland relatives dispute the marriage to the current von Luettwitz.
Mr and Mrs Herb Sharp and baby of Athens were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs William Daft. Miss Elizabeth Earhart of Athens spent Sunday with her parents here. Miss Dorothy Dent of Athens was a Saturday night and Sunday visitor of Herbert Moore and wife.
Sugar doughnuts are evenly sugared by shaking in a paper bag with a half teacup of sugar. Boston brown bread steams quickly in baking powder or lard tins for easy slicing and reheating. A conservation hint suggests grinding leftover meat with stock and sealing in a jelly glass for long storage, usable for meals or sandwiches.
A fur coated gentleman confronts a porter about a dangerous truck position at a suburban station. The porter replies with sarcasm and reveals he is the traffic superintendent, while the clerk notes the trick played. Arthur to wash and teases his mother with a banister slide costume joke.
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