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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1918
Page
6
The report covers cheerful weather and road improvements for the Graham's Chapel area, notes the death of Fred Evans, and mentions Easter services and a school attendance concern. It also records visits by Willie Weatherby and Clinton Poston and a local hay-hauling detail.
Wilson sends Ambassador Page to London to buy a suitable floral offering for the unmarked Tuscania victims buried on the Scottish coast. Scotch towns near the graves move to erect monuments for the Americans as landowners grant cemetery use. A Pittfield man finds a pin, but his hat falls and his teeth break after picking it up.
The Ohio War Board cautions about deceptive propaganda on wheat and food restrictions. It notes French women work long hours on farms to support the war effort and endure sacrifice without complaint despite mourning at home.
An old style ad promotes Dr Olive Tablets as a remedy for pimples and skin clarity. The copy describes cleansing the blood and bowels with a vegetable compound, touting its olive color and a dose of one or two tablets daily for a week. Sold at 250 per box by druggists.
A wartime advice column by Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson answers readers on love during conflict. Letters discuss writing to a France-bound lover, delaying marriage until after the war, managing romantic rivals, and proper responses to unwanted advances, with practical tips from ALFREDA and WEALTHER.
Columbus March 28 Ohio Hotel Representative Ben H Harmon of the Food Administration warns hotel restaurant and club managers about public complaints of smaller portions at higher prices. He urges fair pricing, calls for a Washington meeting March 29–30 on food conservation, promotes potato use to save wheat, and urges ice and ammonia savings. He also notes sherbets and ices will be cut to conserve sugar during the war.
Columbus Ohio March 23 Letters to Federal Administrator Bred Croxton reveal confusion over a Food Administration ruling that bans laying hens and pullets during production. The government actually seeks higher poultry output in 1918 to bolster meat supplies for soldiers and Allies.
In Turin Italy a substitute for sugar is being extracted from grapes. The grape sugar resembles honey contains no water and can be conserved for long periods. It is popularly known as honey of grapes.
Regular use of Hood's Sarsaparilla with Peptiron after meals claims to relieve rheumatism expel humors restore appetite brighten complexions and renew energy by combining iron with stomach tonics. Hood's Pills are suggested for biliousness constipation and liver ills when needed.
Messenger Special Correspondence lists Sunday visits and gatherings in Chauncey and nearby towns. Includes Mrs. John Fisk and Arsetta McHarg at Chas Fisk home, Mrs. Kitty Brokenton visiting her mother, several dinners and hospital visits, a funeral attendance, and local travel to Nelsonville and Logan with notes on garden making and setting hens.
Two Michigan youths John Tiff and Walter Weatherby of Big Rapids hiked 56 miles through mud to reach the British Canadian Recruiting Mission. They join a surge of enlistment as Canadians and Britons accept volunteers, aiming to train in Canadian or English camps before frontline service in France.
A village discusses patriotic work during wartime as women sew for the Red Cross and contemplate taking on “war jobs.” The Old Lady recalls a past lesson about guiding, not just following, and warns against forgetting the value of quiet steady service in calico wrappers.
Wartime readers urged to use Allen's Foot-Vase antiseptic powder in every Comfort Kit. The Plattsburg Camp Manual recommends daily use to ease blisters and sore feet, promising refreshed, pain free feet for soldiers in cantonments and camps. Sold everywhere for 25 cents.
Mrs. Elmer Coon suffers a severe rheumatism attack. Miss Minnie Robinson returns home near Amesville after visiting E. V. Wolfe. Winter harmed bees with some losses. Sam George, War Chest Fund solicitor, tours area as most residents respond generously while a few remain less cooperative.
Seed sows scarce as farmers emerge from winter to sow potatoes. They wear patched straw hats and overalls and hum a spring tune. Potato bugs hop from clods as baskets fill with seed potatoes and resolve to fight the Kaiser.
In the attendance contest between Athens and Nelsonville Christian Sunday Schools, Nelsonville aims to surpass Athens but Athens won last Sunday and intends to win again. Superintendent W D Robinson and aides seek a crowd of 300 Sunday morning.
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