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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1918
Page
4
The piece notes perturbation in railroad circles over government limits on directors pay. Former railroad presidents reportedly earned up to 100000 annually, with an average around 50000. A Wall Street banker defends high pay to attract top talent, while arguing many workers earn ample but modest sums without such guarantees.
President Wilson tells Congress to tax the nation as war costs rise, urging lawmakers to adopt a just plan. He cites public support, noting the people are ready to bear heavy taxes cheerfully and with solemn pride as they funded Liberty Loans and the Red Cross.
The article notes Costa Rica declares war on Germany and 21 belligerents oppose the Central Powers. Panama Nicaragua and Guatemala join. Honduras severs relations. El Salvador remains neutral yet pro United States. Cuba joins actively. Brazil allies. Colombia and Mexico remain unaligned due to canal dispute and Carranza era policies.
The snippet lists a daily menu item line up including breakfast with bananas milk poached eggs a la creme of toast coffee, lunch of fried potatoes with eggs corn bread nut margarine home canned apples tea, and dinner of clear tomato soup spaghetti garnished with liver pear baked potatoes salad custard pudding coffee. The fragment mentions greens and custard pudding as desserts or sides.
Recipes describe corn flour and rice flour pastries with precise ratios for crusts and fillings. Methods cover fat cutting, water binding, rolling, and slow baking. A cheese and paprika flavored rice flour sheet is brushed with milk and baked to a delicate brown.
Use a clean cloth sized to the can to cover fruit before sealing to prevent mold, including pickles. A layer of absorbent cotton in mouth of fruit cans helps deter mold. Sugarless jam notes Prunes can be made without sugar, while apricots peaches and plums need little sweetening. Cook long on slow heat in enamelware, adding molasses after reaching smooth jam, then remove from heat.
A humorous column recounts a buxom Irish maid asking for higher pay, Kipling’s misadventures with a landlad y and a bus driver, and a tall Irish applicant who cannot swim but can “wade like blazes.” The tone mirrors light anecdotal jests from a bygone era.
In serving a dinner food is served from the left and plates removed from the left. Coffee and water are placed on the right. When escorting a girl to a dance you are entitled to at least every fourth dance.
Rev. Smith and Rev. Woodard visited Athens on Monday. The War Council drive of the Methodist churches on the Guysville charge was conducted Sunday led by Messrs. Roberts and Thompson of Athens. The quote was more than doubled. Thanks to all that helped to make this possible.
Heavy rains hinder farm work with some farmers still wet but clover and grass thriving. Prospects point to an excellent crop of weeks. Preparations for Children’s Day exercises at Mt. Hermon underway, likely in June. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bardin visited their son Wayne Edgerton near Cutler on Sunday.
E E White and wife moved to Broadwell from Athens on Tuesday. Edy Rathburn and daughter Wilmia from Athens visited J R Rathburns. M P Totman of Athens made a business trip. Will Colvin and wife and David Colvin’s family hosted visitors from Sugar Creek and Chauncey. Alvin White and family touring relatives. Lewis Sutton from Haga Ridge visited the Conants. Mrs Garrett traveled to Huntington to care for her ill father. Carl and Jack Gorham visited grandmother Mrs Sarah Johnson.
Wiggin quits citing need to devote full time to personal business. Dr Harry Garfield traveled to New York to urge reconsideration, but Wiggin says he must focus on securing his family coal supply for next winter.
Citizens are urged to hold Liberty Bonds at par value and avoid selling unless absolutely necessary. If someone near you faces embarrassment and contemplates disposing of bonds, offer to buy at par to keep bond values stable and support the government’s credit.
A column contrasts colored troops in Picardy and Flanders with life in Florida where voting rights lag. It notes bravery abroad and inequality at home, urging reflection on race, military service, and civic rights amid wartime costs and taxes.
Secretary Baker argues that criticism of the aircraft delay is Hun propaganda and will gain little credence. He suggests the Kaiser tolerates the aircraft program in America as it drags along, while supporters of the air effort are foes of the Huns.
The Kaiser’s forces have stolen inmates from German prisons and outfitted them in military uniforms to bolster the army. The general staff expects these convicts to fight like regular soldiers and believes their Hun-type fighting will come naturally to them.
Rose Pastor Stokes, once a cigarmaker and now the wife of a Socialist millionaire, has been convicted of disloyalty. She can pay her fine from money she refused to divide and must serve a prison term rolling cigars for soldiers.
A wartime slogan claims saving garbage could be used to produce T N T and nitroglycerine to blow up the Hun. The rhetoric links waste collection to explosive weapons, reflecting extreme home front messaging and fear in the era.
Go Slow Washington May 30 report quotes President Wilson urging purchases of only essential items to save material for war. He also calls on the public to invest systematically in War Savings Stamps and government securities.
A county seat visit by C. E. Kincade is noted along with relatives gathering in Guysville. Pittsburg visitors Dow Calvert and son Dow Jr spent the weekend here. Several locals, including Mrs. Kate Harper and Hall Chapman siblings, are listed with weekend and weekday activities and a funeral in Columbus. Mrs. Elizabeth Perry plans a visit with N. C. Townsend in R. D. 3.
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