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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1918
Page
2
Peace will not bring panic. financiers expect price declines and the labor capital adjustment after the war. Strong evidence cites post civil war patterns, while labor gains and manufacturing expansion are forecast to balance markets.
Washington November 22 War Department casualty lists show 1505 names including 18 mined 404 wounded degree undetermined 259 wounded degree undetermined 376 died of accident and other causes 11 died from airplane accident 1 died from disease 105 wounded severely 87 missing in action 13 prisoners of war. Ohio natives listed include Glenn Frazier Toledo Forrest Weiser Wooster Homer Pierson Wilkshire Radovan Radevick Toledo Anthony Schwab Cincinnati Harold Thomas Youngstown Dwight Keller Newark Forrest Baird Lore City.
Blue and green plaid woolen for skirt and trimming with blue serge for waist and tunic. Suitable for gabardine silk velvet checked suiting gingham rep and poplin. Pattern to mail to any address for 10 cents in silver or stamps.
Albany notes list residents and guests visiting Athens or from Athens visiting nearby towns. Florence Strong stays with Mrs. Bain in Athens. Nelle Wheeler returns to Columbus after visiting Allie Richey. Clarence Throckmorton and Mr. Roy Cline are among Athens visitors. John P. Coe and T. W. Coe visit Margaret Calvert in McArthur. Stella Wiggins cares for bedridden Allie Richey. Vivian Dowd visits Mt. Vernon. L. D. Gillogly and Will Paugserty call on friends in Athens. Bob Hughes and Emma Higley spend time locally. Guy Moore heads to Phoenix for health reasons.
Geneva reports a continued very disorderly German retreat on the western front with military civil authority said to have collapsed in western Germany and conditions described as worse than the Austrian retreat from Italy according to Swiss authorities and newspapers.
Navy announces all hog shipments to Missouri stockyards or east of the Mississippi must use a car service insured to provide orderly movement control for the food administration.
Governor Cox announced after a long distance call with Secretary Baker that the war department will hasten casualty reports and complete the list by week’s end. He said deaths from wounds injuries and accidents will continue to be reported.
The column argues farmers should join the Athens County Farm Bureau to learn how membership dues are spent and to participate in county agricultural projects. It stresses the program is non political and benefits individual farmers by boosting local agriculture and profits.
A report notes that funding to the County Agent produced useful results and mentions new devices. A spring reel holder for key chains eliminates loose chain in pockets. A stove ash sifter uses a shovel with a screen bottom and a metal plate to hand-separate coal ashes.
Bonded by age and location the miner Bert Judson 21 and Lillian Deal 16 both of Jacksonville obtain licenses to wed in the county seat prompting note of age compliance and nuptial plans.
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