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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 03, 1918

Page

4

Daily Messenger publication details and rates in Athens

Athens Daily Messenger announces publication schedule and pricing. Delivery by carrier costs 12 1 2 cents weekly. annual mail rate 2.40. Subscriptions, months and rates listed. ads charged by line with obituary notices at five cents per line.

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Prince Lichnowsky Faces Treason Trial After Memoir

The former German ambassador to England faces possible criminal proceedings and a prison sentence for exposing the Kaiser’s role in starting the war. The Prussian house of lords has granted permission for action, and Lichnowsky, long a prisoner at home since his memorandum, may be jailed to silence dissent.

Prince Lichnowsky England Rmission House of Lords Lichnowsky Karl Liebnecht Prince Kinesky Germany

Become citizenized by buying a Liberty Bond

The piece argues that citizenship is earned by action not birth and urges readers to buy Liberty Bonds to prove their commitment. It claims many foreign-born residents have become citizenized by bond purchases and stresses personal responsibility to support the country.

United States America

Household Hints Menu Items and Meals

A list of daily meal hints covering breakfast lunch and dinner. Breakfast includes barley breakfast food fried bread syrup milk coffee. Lunch features baked beans with lamp Boston brown bread Wheeler picalilli rose tapioca. Dinner offers apples stuffed with sausages mashed potatoes and simple Bavarian cream celery.

Boston

Bean Soup With Pork Classic Cowboy Potluck Note

A historical recipe instructs soaking navy or kidney beans with samp or coarse hominy in water with baking soda overnight. Drain boil skins burst then add salt pork or bacon molasses salt paprika and baking soda. Bake in a beanpot all day or in a fireless cooker. Summer version omits samp and adds fresh corn at the end.

Food Ideas From Frugal Kitchen Notes

Practical kitchen tips on using leftover ingredients. Suggestions include sweetening bread sparingly, making custard with honey, using potatoes and salt mackerel for meals, apples for jelly, browned bread crumbs with cream, raisins in rice pudding, bananas for marmalade, and thickening soups with uneaten cereals. Emphasizes milk as essential for growing children and cooking potatoes with minimal water.

Sweet potato bake with rice and spice

Recipe notes two cupfuls sweet potatoes and two tablespoons melted fat. Stir in one quart scalded milk, two tablespoons flour and half cup cooked rice. Bake and mash through a ricer, re through with rice, then slowly fold hot milk. Brown flour and fat, add gradually, season with salt and cinnamon.

Prices May Descend as War Board Targets Profits

The New York Times notes price advances may peak and fall with the War Industries Board moving to curb undue profits. Textiles and wool are first examined, with wool priced to July 30 market levels. Clothing fears are said to be unfounded as the outlook brightens across other commodities.

New York Times Sam War Industries Board The Industries Board

Kaiser Wilhelm Proclaims Courland Free and Independent

Berlin wireless reports the Kaiser has declared Courland a free and independent state after conquering it. The piece notes similar moves in Poland, with Poles pressed into German service and Polish women in German factories, while few Polish children under six are mentioned. It ends with a moral warning against Germany's idea of freedom.

Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Baltic Courland Poland Germany

Ireland's Duty and the War Call to Irish Americans

The New York Times argues Irish people must fight with the Allies or risk German tyranny. The piece urges Ireland to accept home rule, conscription, and unity with America, insisting freedom requires shared struggle and aligning against Germany. A closing observational note cites a sign in an Arizona Chinese restaurant proclaiming Americans first, aiding the Allies by forgoing certain foods.

New York Times Canada Great Britain Ireland America Germany England Arizona Restaure

Bread pudding and steamed bread using leftover loaves

Instructions describe two economical uses for dry bread. First, bread pudding with milk egg sugar nutmeg or coconut and butter baked half an hour. Second, steamed bread so it tastes like fresh bread. serve hot with whipped cream and optional chopped nuts.

Dinner Stories and Sentry Pass Word Jokes

A collection of humorous vignettes recounts wedding quirks with triplet babies and serenades to Three Little Maids and The Sextet. Another tale shows a sentry’s pass word mix up with a soldier’s plan to visit a sweetheart. A final quip features a shopper requesting whale meat and a stepladder demonstration.

Tom

Everyday Etiquette and Q A with Marie Reilley

The column answers etiquette questions with advice from Marie Reilley and notes on serving coffee, dining manners, and how to handle a son’s manners. It includes a humorous comment on sheep versus dogs and mentions a candidate appealing to Athens County farmers.

Sheep or Dogs Which Should Rule in Athens County

A reader argues dogs dominate, citing four lambs killed on a farm with throats cut. He blames Commissioners for not enforcing dog tagging or killing laws, questions unused dog tag funds of five thousand dollars.

Athens

Circle Hill Social Roundup

Circle Hill residents report visits by neighbors and relatives from Nelsonville Beaumont Akron Chauncey Lubing and surrounding areas. Mr and Mrs George Fisher with two children visited John Fisher. the Grimm and Carr families were seen in town. others visited relatives and shopped locally this past weekend and midweek.

George Fisher John Fisher Nelsonville John Grimm Alf Carr Beaumont Will Stewart Hazel Akron Arthur Thomas Elmer Lock Bell Stewart Chauncey

New England News and Local Notices

Miss Debbie Lewis returns home from a week with uncle J W Wilson in New England. Pearl Wright visits family in Beaumont while Private Starlin and Dora Clifford stay with grandmother Mrs Rebecca Starlin. Funeral of Mrs Henry Ogg attended by L E H Poston family and friends. Mrs Amanda Vere’s funeral held at Presbyterian church with interment beside husband and two children. Berlin commandant orders fines or imprisonment for wasting paper and cardboard scraps.

Debbie Lewis Bidwell J. W. Wilson Pearl Wright Beaumont Susan Wright Red Starlin Camp Sherman Dora Clifford Nelsonville Rebecca Starlin James Phetteplace Wellston M. E. Church

Treland J A Dye Closes School After Two Year Run

Treland J A Dye closed his school on Sunday afternoon ending a two year stay. All twenty pupils are Red Cross members and many own War Savings Stamps. The pupils organized a Poultry Club at school with officers Sylvia Cubbison president Martha Wildman vice president and Harry Barnett secretary treasurer. Mumps and measles have been fairly thick in the community.

J. A. Dye Srnday Red Cross U. U Walter Dunfee Stewart Martha Wildman Coolville Ray Clark G. W. Dean John Hornsby Dye Sylvia Cubbison Harry Barnett

Millersport Social Notes and Local Events

Miss Flora Stansbury returned to work at Millersport on Monday. Miss Grace Whitlatch visits her brother Walter and family. A Harrisonville play Saturday drew a good crowd with proceeds about 34 dollars. Dyesville school has staged Prairie Rose five times, raising nearly 150 dollars. Thelmer Stansbury and wife, Marian Chase and Ora Bisson visited Walter Jorden and wife Sunday. Charles Lyle stayed at D. F. Domine's Saturday night. Starling Smith has measles. Mrs Erel Nelson and children are ill with the same ailment. Delbert Perry and Vima Sisson ill with neuralgia.

Flora Stansbury Millersport Grace Whitlatch Walter Harrisonville Dyesville Thelmer Stansbury Marian Chase Ora Bisson Walter Jorden Charles Lyle D. F. Domine S. Starling Smith Erel Nelson Delbert Perry Vima Sisson

War Chest Dance Planned in Amesville Flowing Hall

Amesville township trustees announce no balk in plans for the War Chest Dance at Flowing Hall Ames. The event is set for flow of funds rally efforts for wartime aid with local residents urged to attend.

Amesville the Messenger Flowing Hall Ames

Social Evening with Music and Square Dances

A saxophone orchestra secured from Athens and the Linscott orchestra will provide music for square dances in town next Wednesday evening May 8. Callers Jim Bratten of Athens and Solie Johnson of Federal are expected to attend with Fred Shoop offering eats, drinks, and ice cream. Admission is 50 cents with ladies free as the community invites all to support the boys overseas.

Athens Linscott Jim Bratten Solie Johnson Federal Fred Shoop

Spanish in Public Schools Ties U S and Latin America

Mayor Hylan backed by President Menocal favors an international educational alliance to bind the United States and Latin America. The plan calls for teaching Spanish in public schools as the first step, proposed by Severance Johnson after studying Cuba's system.

New York Hylan Menocal Cuba United States Latin America Severance Johnson

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