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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1918
Page
4
A city call to action urges Athens to address transit on Sunday Creek traction lines and revitalize the brick plant. Citizens are urged to unite in cooperative effort to boost industry, housing, and development as wartime disruptions end.
The article critiques using the dollar as a fluctuating standard of value, noting that rising price levels reflect a changing unit rather than true wealth. It argues for an absolute standard of value tied to real goods and necessities to stabilize wages and loans, especially after wartime. The piece urges financiers to devise a fixed measure of value beyond dollars.
The article notes that war emergencies have driven many women into factories and mills, expanding opportunities in fields previously closed to them. Commissions study employment standards as women prove capable in light shop work, repetitive tasks, and operations requiring precision, speed, and steady concentration.
A colonial style kitchen menu outlines fish centered dishes including Scalloped Fish with a white sauce and crumbs, Broiled Cod, Cornmeal Fish Cakes, and Fish Pudding. It describes ingredients, quantities, and step by step cooking methods with notes on timing and serving.
Instructions describe making buckwheat and cornmeal cakes with flour milk and baking powder. Steps cover mixing, adjusting with more milk if needed, greasing a griddle, and baking on a hot pan. Also includes a cereal based variation with cooked cereal and eggs for light batter and vigorous beating before cooking.
Cut in pieces two inches square remove seeds and the stringy portion place in a dripping pan sprinkle with salt and pepper and allow each square one half teaspoonful of molasses or sorghum and one half teaspoonful melted butter or butter substitute. Bake fifty minutes or until soft in a moderate oven keeping covered the first half hour of cooking. Serve in the shell.
Humorous exchanges unfold in a country church as a cross examining lawyer taunts a worker about pay for untruths. A prospective groom learns bans can be altered only with fresh publication while a mule bucks at a distracted contractor, revealing rural wit and odd bits of parish life.
The article notes that women should not be assigned to heavy lifting, pushing, or pulling, nor to long hours or extreme heat or cold. It states that women are less fit than men for such tasks due to physical construction and long-standing habits, and agrees she should avoid this type of labor.
Dr Josephine Baker argues 100000 American babies face greater danger in crowded cities than soldiers in France. She cites French 1916 mortality and New York City 1917 infant deaths showing harsh civilian tolls. She urges milder living to blunt epidemic impact.
The War Department lists 1061 Ohio casualties with categories for killed in action died of disease wounded severly and missing in action. Names include Corp. Floyd Briggs Sidney and Lieut. Thurman G. Flanagan among many others from Cleveland Cincinnati Columbus Akron and other Ohio towns.
Chauncey public schools reopen Monday after four week influenza shutdown. BE Karns hired as janitor for the building. Globe Theatre of Chauncey also opens to the public. Funeral held for Mrs. Carl Cunningham who died in Columbus hospital after surgery.
The Chauncey community celebrates Germany’s surrender with bells and parades after the armistice. Burial notes include Mrs. Cunningham and Smith Brooks in Indiana. The town sees deaths from influenza and relatives visiting Camp Taylor Ky while local work and theater communities adjust after recent layoffs and relocations.
Miss Bea Mannering of Wellston and Miss Ethel Ball hosted visitors in The Plains. J W Patton of Haydenville visited Hutchins and West families. Emma Jariette of Nelsonville joined Frank Salitte’s party. Local farms harvest corn as D Swartz adds a barn addition. Everett Cole preaches at Lottridge A B Church. two week schedule set. Mrs Gertrude Dachelder travels to Marion for an indefinite stay. A baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Oscar Evans.
Mr. Herman Humphrey visits relatives in New Lexington. Mr. and Mrs. Dee Thrush of Union Furnace were Sunday guests of Chas. Loomis and wife. Mrs. Loomis accompanied them home to Logan. Mrs. Colonel Locke and daughter Helen motored to Nelsonville Friday. Miss Ethel Ball left Monday evening for a visit with relatives at Wellston.
Promotes a laxative for children claiming it is harmless and fruit flavored. Advises to look for the California name on the package and to follow dosing directions on each bottle. Positions the product as a trusted stomach and bowels aid for kids.
November 12 1918 postal notice lists addressees including Altman Carroll Batt M G Bass Ivan Champlin Mary Crawford Mrs E A Coleman C E Frenkel Julius Hammond Amber Mrs Bertha Larvey Gertrude Sctodel Mrs Frank Johnson F E Kittle R N Lane Emerson Lamum Mrs J E Loeffler Mrs Charles Love Elmer Miller Esther Neff James Poston J P Sager Edward Schafer Howard Swinehart Bert Simmons Sylvia Snow Mrs L Wolf Robert Woody Mrs D B. People who advertised unclaimed will be sent to the Dead Letter Office on November 26 1918.
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