Athens Daily Messenger Advertising Rates and Notices
The Athens Daily Messenger lists advertising rates and payment terms with charges for obituary notices and memorials. It notes delivery and subscription prices, plus office addresses in New York and Chicago and a standard postal classification statement.
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AI and Meralé Printing Company
Closs Mail
Athens
Audit Bureau
Ohio
Robert B. Ward
MASN
Fifth Ave
New York
TERN
South
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Buying Now Is Wise In Postwar Market Conditions
The piece argues against expecting price drops after the war and urges immediate purchases. It notes manufacturers prefer stable or lower prices, that costs rose since 1914 due to war, and that delayed demand will collide with a coming postwar boom. A surge in demand abroad and in the U S will tighten supplies and push prices higher.
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Europe
Whither Are We Drifting Bolshevism in Russia
The article critiques Russian government seizure and funding of factories with public money, claiming overpayments and unsustainable subsidies. It compares U S rail financing and employee payouts, arguing government funding fuels inefficiency and reduced output, questioning the system’s durability.
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Russia
T of
Spee
Grantan
Letiove
Ein
Building program urged to meet wartime housing demand
A call to action urges Athens to start home construction as war time conditions create acute housing and labor shortages. Dense crowds in crowded quarters, traveling salesmen seeking homes, and high real estate prices are noted while money remains plentiful and banks report strong deposits. Citizens are urged to obtain house plans and compare contractor prices.
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Athens
Belgium Waits War Peace Promise for Belgium Recovering
The article recalls President Wilsons Fourteen Points urging Belgiums evacuation and restoration. It notes months pass without concrete aid or industrial rehabilitation for Belgium after German withdrawal. It argues Belgium seeks priority in German indemnity but cites British and Wilson oversight delaying progress.
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Belgium
Wilson
Germany
Easter 1863 to 2024: fashion and fiction fade
Easter Sunday falls on April 20 this year, a date last seen in 1863. The piece contrasts hoop skirts and Jane Austen era tales with modern fashion, the “Weir silhouette,” and problem plays in theatres and books favoring thrills over moral depth.
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Jane Austen
Louisa Alcott
Concord
Lively Breakfast Menu and Dessert Recipes Featured
A list of breakfast items and dessert recipes includes Baked Apple Waffles with lemon sauce for a lemony finish, Pineapple Sago with whipped cream, and Steamed Prunes with Rice. Salads feature Beet Inlay and Bean Salad, while beverages include coffee, evaporated milk dressing, and grape juice.
Dinner Stories and Tales of Misplaced Memories
A besotted professor nearly forgets his wife as she jokes she tied two knots in a handkerchief. Mrs Ladybird’s feet cause friction in a shoe shop until she buys two pricey pairs. Pa Twaddles boasts Orpheus could move trees, while his daughter Teresa clears homes with her piano.
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Pas
Tommy
Orpheus
Teresa
Pa Twaddles
Ohio Black Laws and Intermarriage in the 1800s
The article outlines Ohio's Black Laws starting 1807 banning interracial marriage under penalties, including fines and imprisonment. It notes the last repeal in 1887 and a postrepeal shift to permit intermarriage, calling it a legislative blunder. It also mentions that black voting rights in Ohio began with the 1870 Article XV adoption.
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Ohio
Mary
General Assembly
United States
Clothes For Refugees Calls To American Housewives
An appeal by the Red Cross urges housewives to donate clothing to refugees abroad. The article argues thrift has shifted from necessity to habit and stresses the moral duty to send usable garments to those in dire conditions, promising personal satisfaction in freeing homes of unused items.
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Red Cross
America
Senator Sherman Critiques Wilson NY Speech
Senator Sherman says Wilson's New York address only succeeded in crowding Taft off the first page and warns the two Democrats may grow jealous of each other.
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Sherman
Wilson
New York
William Howard Taft
Dromies
Edith Withers McVay obituary in Marshfield New Marshfield
A detailed obituary for Edith Withers McVay born in New Marshfield twenty eight years ago. It praises her Christian home life, devotion to family and church, four children Adrian Elda Rolland Wilna May, and her quiet strength through illness. She died March 13, 1919 at 2 15 am and is laid to rest with faith in eternal happiness.
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J. S. Withers
New Marshfield
Edith
Bernice
Zion
Heaven
Marshfield
L. L. McVay
Albany
Adrian
Elda
Rolland
Wilna May
Isle of
Somewhere
Olive Tablets Ad Claims Gentle Calomel Substitute
Vintage ad promotes Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle safe substitute for calomel. It links the product to improving digestion and a clear complexion, urging nightly doses for a week and noting a 25 cent per box price. The copy touts health benefits and urges readers to try the vegetable compound.
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Edwarde
Dr. Edwards
Edwards
Edwards Tienta
Letters From Chauncey Sons in Service Describe Frontline Hardship
Mrs. Anna Mullin reports two sons, Clarence in France and Charles in Germany, both alive and anxious to return. Excerpts recount brutal marching, limited rations, disease exposure, and battlefront horrors including shelling, dead comrades, and graves. The Fifth Loan is credited with saving countless lives per Woodrow Wilson.
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Anna Mullin
Chauncey
Charles
Clarence Mullin
Clarence
France
Massain
Germany
Alsace- Lorraine
Luxemburg
Elza Cunningham
Card of Thanks for L. L. McVay Family
The McVay family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and after the death of our wife and mother. Appreciation for the floral offerings. L. L. McVay and children.
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L. L. McVay
Casualties Listed for Washington as War Updates
Washington lists 86 casualties today broken down by status. Killed in action four. died of wounds seven. died of disease thirty eight. missing in action thirteen. died from accident and other causes zero. died in airplane accident one. wounded severely one.
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Washington
Ce Cceas
SOB i Kg Oc Oko
Ck Cs Ee
Plane with new carpenter’s plane and liere protractor
A carpenter uses a new plane equipped with a liere protractor to check correct angles during planing. The tool assists achieving precise geometry by guiding angle alignment as work proceeds.
Woman’s letter touts Lydia E Pinkham remedy
Nashua New Hampshire woman recounts relief from monthly period pain after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She notes safety and absence of narcotics and urges other girls to seek advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Nashua
N. H
Lydiana
A Martin
Bowers St
N.H
Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss Martin
Cocoanut Oil Shampoo Proofs Safe Hair Care
Plain refined cocoanut oil makes a gentle shampoo that avoids alkali found in soaps and commercial shampoos. Moisten hair with water and rub in to produce rich lather that cleanses scalp and dust from hair, leaves it soft, bright, and easy to manage. a small bottle lasts months for many users.
Bio-seven Health Claim Targets Nervous Women
An advertisement promises rapid vitality for weak and nervous women using Bio-seven. It touts a two week course of seven tablets daily and guarantees improved health, skin, eyes, and energy with a physician-declared transparent formula.
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Bio-seven
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