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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1918
Page
4
The piece urges Ohio voters to support statewide and nationwide liquor prohibition next Tuesday. It argues temperate drinkers enable state support for the weak and asserts personal restraint is needed to protect society, family, and work.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer criticizes Democratic leaders in the House as abdicating responsibility during the war crisis. Kitchin Dent Clark and Gordon are singled out as deserters, with calls that Republicans bear much of the burden of leadership as Americans brace for universal military service. King George is noted as receiving a sword and badge in a symbolic gesture from Japan.
A collection of home tips covering meals and cleaning. Advice includes a vegetable soup menu with steamed rice and coffee, a dressing for woodwork using linseed oil, oil of turpentine, and cider vinegar, and a method to carry large rugs with bamboo poles. Also features a way to refresh leftovers and create a tiny personal newspaper for a soldier.
A collection of simple recipes and dessert ideas including Rhubarb Water Mutton Broth Grape Juice and Egg Cream Toast Mock Custard Crystalline Icing and tips for thickening and flavoring. The instructions cover preparation steps heating cooling straining and serving suggestions with emphasis on dairy and pantry ingredients.
A widower adds a joke to a tombstone inscription about his late wife and later marries again. He stands by the first grave with a new partner, saying he has lit another match as the light of his life has gone out. The piece ends with a quip about matches and appetite.
A gallery tour shifts to a statue of a disrobed figure as a caretaker asserts the work is Venus rather than Alabaster. A stranded railroad passenger jokes about a singing boy and the station master who times the trains for returning porters after the war.
The piece lauds the Japanese for their role in the Allied effort in the Far East and warns that the real threat lies within Germany, symbolized by a plant flourishing under the Linden trees.
The piece argues the war likely lasts two more years despite optimistic public belief. It notes troops move to France at similar rates, flu delays exist, and production and transport of war material rise. It urges full selective service mobilization and warns against underpreparation, claiming greater fighting power shortens the war and reduces losses.
A commentary notes a moral standoff as Germany faces the question of sacrifice between the Kaiser and the German people. The author suggests the Kaiser will give up the last German for the Fatherland, while Germany would sacrifice the last Kaiser, concluding with skeptical wit that bets aren’t on Wilhelm.
Washington reports outline four front phases for ending the war with Germany. First focuses on the west front with Belgian push and Verdun area concentrations. Second would drive into Germany from the south via Italy. Third uses Austrian surrender to open a route through the dual monarchy. Fourth envisions an open Bosphorus dash to seize Germany’s Black Sea fleet remnants. In New York, Richard Spillane argues postwar expansion opportunities for American business and markets abroad.
A Paris Liberte feature notes that if all Kaiser soldiers' bodies were laid end to end they would form a carpet stretching across the German empire. The report also mentions an oil from red pine stumps aiding silver recovery via flotation.
The text discusses a large liquor tax amount of 2 400 900 000 and compares it to twice the capital of all national banks. It notes 1917 liquor revenue tax at 248 095 079 and questions whether such revenue suffices. It references the Athens County Dry Federation.
New Washington report by Charles B. Hughes and Attorney General Gregory details excess profits and missteps in old aircraft board era. Dayton Wright, Ford, and Packard are cited for large gains on Liberty motor contracts, with government financing and tax take noted.
With a serious fuel famine facing many sections of the Dakotas and Minnesota, officials warn that unless coal can be moved faster from Superior docks, workers may shift from nonessential jobs to priority fuel shipments, risking shortages.
A brief unsigned note urges voters in Athens County to consider transferring emphasis from liquor to cer indus tries, claiming the era invested could go four times farther in employing labor and using raw materials if dry Reform is adopted.
Athens County treasurer James E Woodworth lists the 1918 tax levies by state county and local purposes. State total levy is 0.46 mills, county total 4.35 mills, with detailed allocations to sinking fund school funds highway, road, debt and pension funds. Taxpayers must pay by January 1 1919 to avoid advertising and penalties, with December payment advised to avoid delinquency.
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