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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Nov 05, 1918

Page

4

Daily Messenger Advertising and Rates Amid Publishing Notice

The Daily Messenger announces advertising rates and contact details for the Athens paper. It lists prices for obituaries and memorials, notes mailing options, and provides office addresses in New York and Chicago for the advertisement department.

Athene Messenger Mecald Athens Kuarter Audit Bureau Leculatona Ihe Ole Robert O. Ward Manneger Fastern Fifth Ave New York Pestern Opkick South Wabasa Ava Chicago Aevevoen

The Kultur Harvest and the War’s True Costs

An analysis of German culture cited by propagandists as a wartime aim. The piece argues the war’s consequences include millions dying or crippled, vast hunger and disease, loss of wealth and art, and discrediting German culture as presented by its defenders.

Europe Asia

No Pause in Ship Building Keeps War-Time Program Going

Chairman Hurley and Director Schwab of the Emergency Fleet Corporation say armistice talks will not slow plans. With 15,000,000 tons required and under 3,000,000 built, the nation will push ahead to supply ships for occupation, rebuilding, and material flow. The wooden ship program may shrink while steel merchantmen rise, with yards across the west coast east south and Great Lakes maintaining high output.

America Hurley Schwab Ebergency Fleet Corporation Great Lakes

Household Hints Menu Highlights Mixed with Dainty Frozen Treats

The article lists various household dishes and frozen desserts such as oats with peaches and milk, baked oats with nuts, kidney bean and cheese croquettes, African stew, and frozen dainties like raisin cranberry frappe and pineapple sherbet. It also provides preparation notes, ingredients, and cooking methods for these items.

Sabove Boston

Dinner stories and garden fables from wartime readers

A three week marriage ends in a request for divorce denied by a minister who recalls the vows. A British sergeant laughs at a book titled Mrs Wiggins of the Cabbage Patch found in a camp library, while soldiers imagine a garden project.

Flanders

Skunk Joke Draws Grandmother’s Suspicion

A child on the floor drawing asks his grandmother if she smells anything. She denies smelling a scent, and the boy reveals he has just drawn a skunk. The exchange ends with the grandmother again saying she smells nothing.

Ancient Armistice Lessons From Plutarch On German Treachery

A commentator argues Germanys duplicity in war mirrors ancient deception cited from Plutarch. The piece urges firm, merciless response to treachery, warning that mercy could embolden Germany. It condemns act by German forces in naval combat as vicious and cowardly.

Germany Alles Plutarch B.C Julius Caesar Gaul Rhine Julius Caeser Lott

Germanys death throes Paris Figaro warns of Germanys fall

Alfred Capus writes in the Paris Figaro that isolated Germany can no longer withstand the war she caused and that her hours are numbered the world should be ready for her last convulsive effort without pity before an impending collapse.

Germany Capus Aruund Paris Figaro Alfred Capus

Germany flatly warned against peace appeals to America

An editorial warns that German efforts to sway U S opinion toward leniency at peace talks threaten justice and freedom. It stresses Americans must ignore German flattery and stand with allies in demanding firm action to destroy German power.

Germany America Amuelic Europe United States

Ohioans Listed Among 1308 War Depart Casualties

Washington November 5 The War Department lists 1308 Ohio casualties with 124 killed in action 75 died of wounds 80 died from accident and other causes 108 died of disease 210 wounded severely 957 wounded degree undetermined 484 wounded slightly 44 missing in action and 4 prisoners The names include Private Chas A Whalen Cleveland Sergeant Stanley McKinles Cincinnati Sergeant Walter Myers Middle Point and others across Cleveland Cleveland metros Columbus toad Mansfield and more.

Chas A. Whalen Cleveland Stanley McKinles Cincinnati Walter Myers Middle Point Corp Lewis Francis Hall Clevelandfl Michael J. Meister Park W. Utter Magadore McKinley Greig Newark John A. Morgan Harold W. Manship van Wert Mirs Vance Gallipolis Leon S. Palardy Delaware William A. Morehart Columbus Herman Matticks Manchester Joseph Walter Diehn Toledo Jarl Hartford Mansfield Sall Kuriander Fred C. Walls Sparagarsville Harmon G. Steagall Portsmouth Harry A. Shipley Harry W Endher St. Bernard Corp John J. Hawkins Washington Court House Dewey N. Sharp Conneaut Cart W. Creed Hubbard Francis A. Mann Defiance Glenn Mihis Bainbridge Pearl O. Phillips the Plains William Henry Cecil CC. Foreman Mairal Ross Leonza Jenkers Cambridge Walter C. Reed Whisler Lovai Watler Crouch Dean Irwin Grauer Springfield Leslie H. Blank Lima Henry Kihlmeier Nopert Hurat Herbert Leach Frank J. Martina Harry F. Bricker Arcadia Sherman EF. Cox Fostorta

Local Health and Family News Briefs

Nora Graves returns home after visiting friends up the river. Ella Day shows health improvement and may sit up part time. Wthel Walch called to Lima. Frank Dye ill with pneumonia after influenza. Bertha Day visited Pomeroy. Frank and Howard Turner of Akron report sickness in families and plan to move their mother home Monday. Will Lee visits from Millersport to see parents and friends. Charlie Jones of Devil Hole arrives to help care for sick wife and children with pneumonia. Halloween mischief noted as youths were then affected by a prank. Howell remains very ill and hopes to enter hospital this week.

Nora Graves Ella Day Wthel Walch Lima Frank Dye Enza Bertha Day Pomeroy Siay ‘Sh Hove Frank Howard Turner Akron Will Turner Will Lee Millersport Charlies Jones Devil Hole Riley Lathey Hallowe'en

Hockingport Messages and Local Notes

Mrs. Dewey Briton died Sunday night from Spanish influenza at her in law’s home near Torch. School at Hockingport resumes after three weeks of sickness with Ray Strickler and Mrs. H. K. Adams as teachers. Other local items include visits, travel to Fishers Station, and a note on gas works using wood distillates to meet coal shortages.

Dewey Briton Minnie Blackburn M. Frame Howard France Joe Keever Parkersburg Fred Medley Jennie Taylor EF. A Dutton Lew Humphrey

Local Social Visit Log From Circle Hill Area

Beaumont area notes list Robert Mace visiting his mother Julia Wyant and family. Lew Russell traveled to Athens and Nelsonville on business. Mrs. Harry Wince returned from Columbus. Wyant family hosted visits from Nettie, Ann Quinn, and others. Multiple residents named with short calls and weekend visits.

Robert Mace Jobs Julia Wyant Lew Russell Ahens Harry Wince Columbus Nettie Alfred Carr Circle Hill Pimmett Ryan Bennie Jesse Orval Ryan John Wyant Sand Ridge Ann Quinn Orbiston Nelsonville Misa Ellinor Atkinson Misa Christene Courtney Chauncey James Terril Homer Durst Myrtle Pidcock Duster Lock

Partition suit against Hattie Hickman over Athens County land

P. B. Porter guardian of Charles Wayne Hickman filed in Athens County Ohio court a petition for partition of multiple tracts in Section 24 Town 6 Range 12 Ohio Company's Purchase Rome Township Athens County. Hattie Hickman must answer by December 28, 1918.

Hattie Hickman Woodville Allegheny County Pennsylvania P. B. Porter Charles Wayne Hickman Court of Common Fleas Athens County Ohio Uate Ohio Company Rome Township Aaia UGH & Pugh

Carbondale Rural School District Seeks Extra Levy

The Carbondale Rural School District Board of Education resolves to submit a proposition to electors at the November 5 1918 election for an additional two mills levy for four years. The resolutions were adopted at the June 26 1918 meeting. A note mentions a knitters stitch holder resembling an elongated safety pin to prevent ravelling.

Carbondale Rural School District Ohio Carbondale Board of Education of Sanford White Albert Todd T.w

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