Daily Messenger Ad Rates and Notices Policy
The Athens Daily Messenger lists subscription prices and advertising policies. Obituary notices memorials and thank you cards incur five cents per line. It notes second class matter status and offices in Athens Ontario New York Chicago for advertising.
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Athens Moowenger
Pioor
Messenger
Daily Messenger
Eucen
Mive Cen & Line
Postoffice
Athens
Onto
Hartes
Audit Bureau Cirulations
Robert R. Ward
Fastern
Fifth Ave
New York
Western
Wabash Ave
Chicaro
Fourth Liberty Loan Drive Urges Total Support From All
Wartime plea calls on every citizen to sacrifice and save for victory. It urges crowds to back the Fourth Liberty Loan to fund Allied needs and equip the front, stressing no inconvenience is too great for triumph. Officials praise the troops and predict final defeat of the enemy with united financing.
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Peale
America
Flanders
Rhine
Bersith
Next War Delusions of Pan German Press on Briey and Belgium
A Pan German editor argues for retaining Briey and upper Vosges to enable a future war against Paris and favors keeping Belgium as a buffer. The Austro German treaty pledges 25 years of joint military strength, while Allies vow to prevent a next war by crushing the perpetrators.
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Germany
Briey Ironsin
Vosges
Paris
Reichstag
Alsace
Fatherland Party
Belgium
Austria
Canning Victory Surpasses Target As War Aid Grows
The Agriculture Department’s ambitious goal of 1 500 000 000 quarts of fruits and vegetables for winter use will be surpassed. Average per family reaches about 750 quarts, a record in decades. Factory activity rises with 50 percent more firms supplying canning needs and 25 percent more canning equipment sold. Rubber ring demand soars 800 percent. The effort boosts food supply, aids allies, and helps cap prices while funding war loans.
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Department of Agriculture
Sugar Ration Limits and Allied Sacrifices Highlighted
The piece argues that Americans face a two pound monthly sugar limit while allies in Britain France and Italy have even stricter quotas. It notes Britain could receive more if not supplying ships for France and that President Wilson urges shared sacrifice as the war effort continues. The author questions when home front morale will rise to meet the demands.
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France
Wilson
Household Hints Menu Summary
A vintage menu lists breakfast items such as orange marmalade mold Farina with cream and diced beef on toast. Luncheon items include orange and date salad and buttermilk biscuits. Dinner features rice pudding fruit gelatine coffee grape juice lamb stew en casserole with salads and whipped cream.
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Farina
Boiled Coffee Variations and Techniques
The guide outlines methods to brew coffee using a coffee pot with ground coffee, egg white or crushed egg shell for settling, and steps to reach boiling points with careful water additions. It warns against stale water and long boiling, and covers egg breakfast coffee and church supper quantities.
Simple Century-Old Recipes Mixed Butter Sauce Beans and Fish
A collection of kitchen instructions describes making an English drawn butter with flour and oil, a boiled beans method with pork, and baked fish with corn flour butter and hot water. It provides steps to boil, season, and bake, including timing and salt pepper guidance.
Dinner Stories of Odd Encounters and Witty Exchanges
A surgeon debates delaying hip surgery while a patient quips about being treated like cheese. A butcher sells bone as meat, a brewer's dray crashes into milk, drawing a crowd. A short man blocked by a stout washerwoman finally sees the spill and exclaims at the waste, provoking a sharp retort.
Changing names in wartime to mask alien origins
The piece argues for altering immigrant names to sound American, listing examples like Weiss to White and Schmidt to Smith. It frames name changes as patriotic camouflage and a step toward a homogeneous nation, urging acceptance of anglicized forms.
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Weiss
White
Braun
Brown
Schmidt
Smith
Lehn
Lane
Koch
Cook
Lautenberger
Lawton
Levinsky
Levin
Cohen
Conn
Ochs
Oakes
Town Names Stir Mixed Feelings Across Cultures
The speaker notes difficulty in pronouncing harsh city names like Uskub and Ishuib yet suggests locals may hold them dear, comparing them to American towns such as Kankakee and Oshkosh. The tone mixes humor with cultural perspective.
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Uskub
Ishuib
Kankakee
Oshkosh
Letters From Mea In Service From France 1918
Private Mea in service in France writes to wife and parents from Somewhere in France August 27 1918. He describes long stays, shell fire, dugout fear, hauling road materiel, seeing Chateau Thierry, and German gas masks to send home. He notes pay, lack of mail for two months, and vow to keep fighting toward victory with comrades and sacrifice.
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France
Athens
Chateau Thierry
Creed
Alfred residents host relatives and guests in Jerseyville
Jewell Carr and wife, William Carr and wife, and daughter Mabel visited Jerseyville on Sunday. Emmerson Burson and family were guests of A. Woode. Helen Dinsmore spent Sunday with her parents F. L. Dinsmore as Rev. Shavers moves his family to a new home.
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Jewell Carr
William Carr
Mabel
Jerseyville
Emmerson Burson
A. Woode
Helen Dinsmore
F. L. Dinsmore
Shavers
Revered Rev Shavers mourned in Coolville community
Ada Van Meter recovering at Guthrie Hospital after an operation. D. J. Winters Sr. family from Columbus visited relatives. W. N. Winters and Curtis Dean with Mary Dean. C. D. Swartz family from Lottridge spent Sunday in the area.
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Coolville
Shavers
Ada van Meter
Guthrie Hospital
D. J. Winters
Columbus
W. N. Winters
Curtis Dean
Jacksonville
Mary Dean
C. D. Swartz
Lottridge
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