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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1918
Page
4
The Athens Daily Messenger announces circulation, pricing, and advertising terms. It lists editors, offices in Athens Ohio and Chicago, and contact details for foreign and western advertising managers.
A newspaper excerpt urges readers to study President Wilson's Senate speech supporting woman suffrage as a wartime necessity. It highlights two key passages about democracy, leadership, and the nation’s duty, noting the Senate vote failed to pass the amendment with a narrow margin.
The piece argues that three months ago forecasts failed as the war shifts rapidly. It declares the enemy reeling and Allies advancing in multiple theaters. It praises swift, epochal changes and the approaching end, urging readers to grasp living history unfolding with unprecedented speed.
A historical view notes miners once seen as quarrelsome and aloof now as a national asset. It highlights miners as invested in Liberty Bonds, showing stronger-than-expected patriotism and savings by workers across coal fields in the Fourth Federal Reserve District.
A period piece list offers a day’s meals with items like milk and maple syrup for breakfast, corn flakes, fried corn mush, sliced tomatoes, lettuce, French dressing, succotash, baked herring, potatoes, cucumbers and onions, corn meal muffins, rice pudding, apple sauce, tea, and a bran muffin. It reads as a compact household menu from a vintage kitchen.
A pantry friendly guide detailing baked bluefish or baked cod style with dressing of stale bread crumbs and butter, salt pork, and parsley. Also covers boiling fish in cheese cloth with vinegar, and a fish pudding using canned salmon or leftovers.
Suggestions advise using syrup as a substitute for brown sugar in ham glaze with bread crumbs and egg yolk for finer flavor. Brush pastries with syrup for glaze and stir a tablespoon into griddle cakes to aid browning. A touch of cornstarch improves texture. When cooking over quick heat drop marbles into syrup to prevent burning and aid stirring. In cake making with syrup, stir the soda into the syrup.
An ad touts Gets-It as the only guaranteed corn remover that instantly dissolves corn from root to tip. It claims no pulling or pain, simple application, and money back if unsatisfied. Distributed by FE Lawrence & Co. in Chicago with endorsements from Cline Pharmacy Co. and Lash and McKee Drug Co.
Stop itching eczema quickly by using zemo available from druggists for 35c. Extra large bottle 1.00. Healing begins immediately and most skin troubles vanish soon. Zemo is a penetrating antiseptic liquid not a greasy ointment and leaves no stain. The E. W. Rose Co. Cleveland Ohio.
Two bluejackets discuss staying in the navy with one noting a four year enlistment. A joking exchange prompts a suggestion to quit after three years. In Sudan a railway project hires many Black workers and an exchange with a telegraph clerk leads to a morbid joke about a white boss being killed and buried.
Mrs D S Dart of Skaneateles New York reports relief from indigestion after using Chamberlains Tablets. She says a bottle strengthened her stomach, toned her system, and was easy to take and very effective.
A seedy man asks a London publisher to publish poems. The publisher hesitates until the poet reveals a well known name. The poet proclaims his name is known wherever English is spoken, claiming to be John Smith.
Mr 8 E Searls of Albany joined the $1000 War Savings Stamp Club by investing $840 in War Savings Stamps last week.
The piece extols Serbian forces reclaiming territory from Bulgaria and Austro Hungarians and lauds Belgian troops advancing against German lines. It lauds their victories and frames the actions as divine vengeance, ending with a religious note about the Lord repaying.
Major W. Pealer of the state draft board told Ohio Agricultural advisors that farm owners managers and workers should file exemption claims if they are in essential farm tasks He noted about 60 percent of registrants may be automatically exempted due to dependency and stressed the need to prevent army demands from harming food production William S Betta was named agricultural advisor for the district draft board and will help form an advisory committee with James M Butler and a third member to assist in securing exemptions for essential war work The local draft appeal district covers Franklin Scioto Madison Lawrence Licking Logan Meigs and surrounding areas
Advertisement touts a Pinex cough syrup recipe claiming quick relief for chest cold bronchitis hoarseness and winter coughs. It explains mixing Pinex with sugar syrup or alternatives to produce a pint of medicine and guarantees satisfaction or money back.
A readout enumerates counties including Morrow Perry Pickaway Pike Union Vinton Ross Athens Champaign Clark Delaware Fairfield Fayette Gallia Hocking Jackson and Knox, suggesting broad geographic scope of the report.
Washington reports senators representatives from wheat states and National Wheat Growers Association officials formed a special committee to urge President Wilson to immediately set the 1919 wheat price at 2.50 a bushel.
A historical advertisement explains catarrh as a constitutional condition and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine taken internally to reach the blood and mucous membranes. Endorsed by Dr. J Cheney and Co of Toledo with testimonials and availability through all druggists.
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