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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1919
Page
4
An established cotton growers group plans to hold back 2,000,000 bales to raise prices, arguing the crop totals about 10 million bales and that current prices around 37 cents a pound are profitable. Critics warn a corner in cotton mirrors other commodity squeezes and could provoke public reaction.
A new statute restricts alienism to not exceed one half of one percent. The measure aims to curb perceived excessive foreign influence and sets enforcement provisions and penalties for violations.
A reflection on reckless self interest and law breaking in modern times with reference to Dave Crockett’s warning. The piece laments disregard for others and legality in pursuit of wealth, urging wiser restraint and ethical conduct.
National Republican Chairman Will Hays calls for a balanced plan linking labor and capital. He argues production and wages require equilibrium with justice for all, while business must secure returns before shared profits. He opposes lockouts as barriers to cooperation.
A portly Dutch woman seeks a money order to send to her son in the far east, mishearing a place as Hong Kong from a car sound joke. In a shop, Mr Fatboy complains of flat tasting pig feet. the butcher notes an epidemic of flat feet. A string of one liners follows about stage beauty, worthless stock, and mistaken belief in gain.
A columnist explains energy use from emotion to food. Mental effort follows physical work with emotion draining the most. By understanding assimilation of food and daily energy, a reader’s fatigue can improve through dietary adjustments and behavioral changes.
Cream of Parsnip Soup scald milk with onion, remove onion, add milk to parsnips, sieve, season, thicken with flour and butter for a luncheon dish. Celery Cabbage Salad uses cheap celery cabbage with French or Russian dressing. Apple Sauce In Cranberry cooks cranberries and apples with cranberry juice for a pretty dish. Bran Muffins mix whole wheat flour bran sugar salt baking powder egg milk and shortening bake 25 minutes.
Tips on reviving stale bread by steaming in a hot oven, slicing cheese with a vegetable slicer for quicker melting, keeping birthday candles on ice to slow burn, using leftover jelly or fruit to enrich mince meat, adding sugar to sour oranges for flavor, storing egg yolks in water, and covering cereals with a hot-cloth to prevent crust formation while cooking.
A Conneaut Ohio testimonial series praises Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for back pain bearing down sensation and general weakness. Ms Wa Fancier from Bryan and Ms Joan Bishop from Cleveland report relief and strong health after use. A third speaker Mara Ru Theensbere notes its value as a woman’s tonic during motherhood. Free confidential advice offered by the Doctor Pierce invalids hotel in Buffalo New York.
Farmers gathered for the Marshfield Institute sessions on November 17 and 18 in Marshfield Ohio. State speakers energized the meeting while local pupils entertained with a polished program reflecting credit on teachers.
Ohio University lost the homecoming game to Denison 32 to 16 before a large crowd. Denison dominated the second quarter with a 20 to 9 lead, while Ohio fought back in the second half. Key plays include Hagley, Kreiger, Jenkins and Hollinger with several long gains and touchdowns. Substitutions and injuries depleted Ohio as Denison held on for the win. AKRON note: Nute foundry plant fire in Cuyahoga Falls causing $100,000 loss.
Washington observers expect a packed agenda when Congress convenes next week. The program includes the German treaty League of Nations Lodge resolution ending the war and many postwar measures. Domestic items cover railroads merchant marine bolshevism army peacetime reorganization naval policy tariff public lands and funds for the 1920 fiscal year plus absentee campaigning after Christmas with up to one third of the Senate and the entire House facing reelection.
The Board of Religious Education for the Ohio diocese, Protestant Episcopal church, holds an all day session at St Pauls church Marion in the interest of a nation wide program of religious education and social service. Bishop Wm A Leonard of Cleveland presides with officials including Bishop Frank Dumoulin Canon John R Stalker and Reverends Chalmer Woodruff Mapes Payzant Daniels and others.
The H. K. Company in this city announces the retirement of George M. Hickle. Byron Wolfe purchases Hickle’s interest, joining Fred L. Preston and Tom B. Carroll of Columbus in the firm. C. H. Cable, prominent in Ath ens railroading circles, marries Lilian F. Holland of Toledo. Dr. T. R. Biddle returns from New York after two months at the Postgraduate Medical College.
Paris November 24 The peace conference ratified the credentials of M Stambouliski the Bulgarian representative who will sign the Bulgarian treaty. Thursday was announced today.
Gust Mantanka reports a burglary at his parlor in Akron with $500 in cash and $1,000 in checks missing. Police are investigating the incident and seeking any leads.
A vintage medicinal advertisement urges vigilance over sluggish blood and disease, promoting S. S. S. as a vegetable blood medicine to revitalize the blood and boost vitality. It advises visiting a drug store for a bottle and offers free medical advice by writing to Swift Specific Co., Atlanta GA.
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