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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1919
Page
4
A wartime plea urges readers to support the Victory Liberty Loan to cover medical care rehabilitation and transportation for more than a million soldiers overseas. It stresses duty debt and the need for rapid recovery and self sufficiency through successful funding.
Dispatches from Rome show Italy rethinking self isolation and recognizing economic dependence on the Allies. The piece urges America France and Britain to renew friendship, noting Italy’s wartime sacrifices and its Piave victory as pivotal to Allied triumph. It cautions against holding past missteps against a brave nation.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels in Paris urges American optimism and faith in self and nation. He argues wages will not drop to prewar levels and warns against delaying house building, saying courageous belief will win the economic victory as surely as the wartime triumph, a shared democratic gain.
The Tribune discusses two Hungarian bolshevist rulers Alpaii and Sevrest claiming capitalism cannot cope with bankruptcy high wages and labor apathy. It contrasts Lenin and Trotsky’s dictatorship of the proletariat with a hypothetical Cook County Labor party stance. It argues American labor is progressing and warns against returning to communism citing Russia's history.
Readable scraps describe soup classes with stock and without stock and how to prepare shin beef stock, browning meat, and simmering for hours. Also instructions on making burlap bag aprons for rough work and home economizing.
Retold in Willian Ewing's collection, a burly Irishman in a field hospital endures many wounds. A veteran officer recalls a dull candidate and a testing exam with a captain and an impossible retreat, ending in a humorous misreading of a late night with a sick friend.
The piece traces Ohio’s single tax system from 1803 to 1826, noting how non residents paid more, spurring settlement and ending absenteeism. It highlights classification fraud, county disparities in tax burdens, and the shift to a universal property tax in 1825. It ends with a reflection on American labor and information.
The Navy plans a public anti submarine flotilla tour on the Mississippi river and tributaries. The ships include the U S S Isabel destroyer, submarine K 5, three submarine chasers and two flying boats. Aimed to show vessels and gear used against U boats to West region readers.
A war era verse extols the cootie as a tireless intruder in trenches. It portrays the insect as a relentless foe, feasting on soldiers and evading sleep, symbolizing hardship and pestilence in the field.
Two ships reached Hoboken today in a wartime return to New York with troops aboard. The Nieuw Amsterdam carried 2,072 men and the Canonius 1,304 men.
Beaumont notes list visits over Sunday and afterward from residents including Mr. Orval Ryan and sister Anna Witham to Lancaster relatives. Lizzie Ryan and Edyth joined Mrs. Julia Wyant. Mahlon Bradshaw called on his sister and brother-in-law. The Carr family from Circle Hill visited the Wyants, with John Wyant and Ervin Pidcock seen in Nelsonville. Mrs. Cochran hosted George Cochran’s family at The Plains. Pidcock hosted Alma Bricker and Laura Crabtree from Columbus, Mare North of Chauncey, and Ou Chapman of Glouster.
Mrs. Julia Wyant and Nettie Wyant visited Circle Hill with Mrs. Alfred Carr. Emmett Ryan and nephew Stanley were in Athens on business. The Tittles were in Athens Wednesday on business. Nettie Wyant dined with Mrs. Myrtle Pidcock Sunday. Carl Tinkham from Hocking visited the sitter’s family Sunday. Harry Lovsey and family hosted Nettie Wyant for dinner. Emmett Ryan called on his brothers William and Charles. John Wyant was in Circle Hill Thursday.
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