Athens Daily Messenger Advertising and Circulation Note
The Athens Daily Messenger lists publication details and rates including delivery and mail options. It notes obituary and memorial notices incur a five cent charge and provides office addresses in Athens Ohio and New York Chicago for advertising.
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Chicago
Saving Babies Pays Big Returns, Says City Editor
An editorial argues saving a life costs 30.23 and yields 1469.77 in community value. It urges both men and women to share duties from sanitation to education, framing child survival as a public investment and wartime profit.
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Babya
Burbank Unveils New Wheat Promising 40 Bushels Per Acre
The wheat wizard Jaither Burbank claims a new wheat plant with large grain and full head could yield 40 bushels per acre, likely in California, with potential to double U S wheat output if adopted nationwide. He frames the advance as a liberty driven food victory, praising his achievement as a great boon.
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Jaither Burbank
California
United States
Burbank
Riveting Contests Spark Rules Amid Record Push
The piece notes Glasgow riveters driving 4,452 rivets in nine hours with a pneumatic hammer and an American team of Black riveters later hitting 4,875 in nine hours. Enthusiasm grows, and organizers plan rules classifying rivet size hammer type and crew composition to regulate the contest.
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London
Glasgow
Ireland’s shift after Sinn Fein crackdown sparks conscription debate
The piece argues Sinn Fein leaders were seized and deported by the British, provoking protests but little resistance. It suggests the rebellion talk was bluff and that with leaders silenced Ireland may submit to conscription, likely without violence or widespread upheaval.
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Ireland
Sinn Fein
Circus Handbill Lures with Spectacular Animal Wonders
A historical handbill promotes a carnival showing living animal wonders and grand spectacles, noting a war era distraction. It mentions a joint party effort in Ohio to sell Thrift Stamps, led by a War Chest campaign team planning a June 10 drive.
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America
China
Ohio
Athens County
War Council
Household Hints Menu Breakfast and Meat Dishes
The text lists meal ideas such as Breakfast Peaches Creamed Codfish on Toast and Lunch Peanut Butter Candwiches with Baked Apples. It then details meat dishes including Spaghetti With Pork Chops, Meat Pie, and Ragout of Mutton with stepwise cooking instructions and ingredient lists.
Tried Recipes for Baked Corned Beef Hash and More
A compact collection of kitchen tips from an old menu includes Baked Corned Beef Hash with layered meat and potatoes, Dumplings for Stew with oats and herbs, Fried Onions with mild vinegar, a Breakfast Cake using sugar and cinnamon, and Prune Butter made from prunes raisins and syrup.
Dinner Stories From The War Front and Home Front Follies
British troops discover a skeleton in Jericho tomb reported as John of Antioch remains but identification fails. Irvin S Cobb’s farm water-drilling costs rise while a tale of hauling water four miles entertains. Colonel House jokes compare Belgian guarantees to a boy carving his name on a goat.
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Jericho
London
John of Antioch
Irvin S. Cobb
West Chester
Cobb
Colonel House
New York
Little Willie
Language shifts and wartime figures across the era
Col Watterson notes English simplification from chauffeur to driver and seaplane to replace hydroaeroplane. Billy Sunday claims 49 000 souls saved in Chicago costing about 50 000 dollars. Ukrainians burn grain to deny Germans and fear grows over concrete ships as Gen Goethals handles a larger project than the Panama Canal.
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Col. Watterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Billy Sunday
Chicago
Everyday Etiquette Advice and War Remembrance Reflections
A 1918 column blends etiquette guidance by Marie Reilley with letters on wartime patriotism and social conduct. It urges enjoying friendships without assuming serious plans, suggests proper card party notes, and calls readers to honor fallen soldiers and participate in commemorations. It also notes jail security concerns as deputies monitor convicted youths and planned breakouts.
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Miss B
Mrs. Grey
Marion Woods
Decoration Day Observance Emphasizes Patriotism and Remembrance
Public Forum notes May 30 as Decoration Day a time to place flowers on graves and honor patriots from 1776 1861 and 1917. It urges Americans to reflect on democratic freedoms and the cost in lives to defend and sustain the nation.
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United States of America
Wobbly Talk Creates Curious Lexicon Rumor
Chicago May 27 A note from the S W W writers exposes a glossary of I W W slang used in a trial. Terms like cream for kitty feeding the kitty guerilla warfare and direct action appear amid descriptions of clashes with mounted police and tradespeople.
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Chicago
Bad Bunch of Young Criminals Taken Away
The county jail population fell to three men today the lowest in months. Deputy Sheriff Parker moved four young York township criminals to Mansfield Reformatory Charles Spiel man Howard Hunter and Earl Simins leaving three inmates remaining.
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Everett Koon
Deanville
Lowry
Parker
York Township
Mansfield Reformatory
Charles Spielman
Howard Hunter
Earl Simins
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