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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1918
Page
4
A reflective piece urges gratitude for the chance to build a wiser, cooperatively minded future after wartime upheaval. It emphasizes shedding old prejudices, embracing quality, sensible living, and collective effort to create a better world. It calls for lasting faith in unity over distrust and provincialism.
A American woman of German descent argues that German women cannot grasp Allied wartime atrocities and armistice terms. She notes reporters are censored and suggests German-Americans, shaped by American liberty, may misjudge German actions. The piece urges reflection on how empires mold moral views.
The piece argues that champions rarely return after a knockout and extends the idea to rulers. It cites Napoleon and Kaiser Wilhelm as failures to reclaim power, warns Germany’s fate hinges on sane governance, and calls for Prussianist reform before the Fifth Liberty Loan is announced.
Experts forecast a drop in food prices after a while but urge calm with no immediate impact. The anticipated decline is described as gradual and not tied to a current event or deadline.
A readable meal items list includes oatmeal cream fried cornmeal mush fried apples luncheon cream of celery soup war buns putter canned strawberries cereal sugar quince jelly coffee cottage cheese oatmeal puffs dinner panned chicken apple corn. Apple and celery salad eo.
A vintage collection of festive recipes includes Creole Fowl with rice stuffing baked in a roaster, Mock Mincemeat from green tomatoes and apples, Cranberry Sauce with apples, Squash Pie with optional enhancements, Hamburg Cream dessert, and an Orane Tart using orange and corn syrup.
A genial shopkeeper jokes about a wedding as a young woman buys paper. A widow laments a new, quiet nightly routine after her husband is buried, waiting for cats to quarrel under the stars. A Louisiana Black soldier explains language gaps with French learned from New Orleans roots.
Voice rails against feeding Germany in wartime as a financial and political lever. It argues Belgium funded prior aid, Germany has gold to pay for grain and meat, and if needed a mortgage on German assets could secure repayment. The piece frames relief as business, not philanthropy, aimed at preventing chaos and aiding European reconstruction.
Washington lists 2 402 casualties for the war, 716 killed in action and 347 died of disease. Ohio names include Samus Jibson Youngstown and many others, with wounded and missing figures. Private James Hoak of Coast Artillery visits Newport relatives over Thanksgiving as Mrs Haddox recovers.
An 18 year old London boy writes that with peace near he cannot fight but he is willing to donate his own skin for grafts to wounded or blood loss soldiers. He says he would be proud to help the war effort before it ends.
Carbondale reports Mr and Mrs Prestley Enderlin visiting Chillicothe while Miss Nell Brewer stays with relatives in New Marshfield. J P Smith welcome a son born November 20. George Gardner family visit Chillicothe. Luther Branscomb dies after two weeks of flu illness leaving a widow, children, and siblings. Murra Arnold of Sugar Grove visits the Arnolds. Muria Arnold serves with Engineers in France. The Haddox infant died Saturday morning.
A St Louis dispatch notes railroad workers offer W G McAdoo a 2000 monthly salary to stay as Director General. The piece warns such payoffs threaten democracy, suggesting favoritism by classes risks corruption and Bolshevik like control, urging vigilance to protect equal rights and republican government.
Rome reports Italy has spent over 100 million fancs equivalent to 20 million dollars on refuges brought here by the war. About 120000 Italians fled to safety as Italy entered the war, rising later with those fleeing Austro German invasion to a total of 700000.
Italian chambers of commerce abroad will be unified subsidized and reorganized as a postwar measure to rehabilitate commerce, announced in Rome on November 12 by the Italian press service.
The Italian government decrees chambers of commerce will become integral parts of the consular system and serve as ex officio members of executive committees. The government will subsidize these chambers for promoting Italian industries and commerce wherever located.
Two former royals living apart in Holland are painted as plotting against each other. The article implies mistrust and potential schemes for a dramatic comeback, casting both as cunning contenders in a tense impasse.
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