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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1919
Page
4
An editorial argues that labor has inherent rights superior to property, citing Lincoln and U S policy that labor is not a commodity. It warns against prejudice and urges recognition of organized labor as essential to human life and national progress.
A prominent motor car salesman condemns bad roads as Bolshevik roads that destroy property and hinder growth. He argues good highways are essential to attract visitors, new enterprises, and investments, and calls for swift construction to avoid stalling prosperity despite unsettled conditions.
In a historic view Ladendorff discusses German war tactics as generally sound though under supported by evidence. The text notes slogans like More of everything as a price strategy, describes the first week of strike as vacation then the hard holdout phase, and recalls last year’s boys gathering nuts to help manufacture gas mask shells.
Opinions reprinted condemn President for portraying the issue as treaty or no treaty while arguing the core is treaty with or without reservations. The piece accuses the President of untrue rhetoric and urges him to yield two inches to the Senate in ratifications.
A narrator returns from a forest vacation claiming rest and wild adventures. He describes mountains, fishing for perch and grayling, a shot at a golden eagle, and a pushback from a listener who tires of stories. The piece ventrally notes audience resentment toward travel tales.
Ruth Cameron recalls a childhood debt repaid by sharing a fairy godmother day. A friend remembers a lunch and matinee with a favorite performer, Papinta, turning a modest upbringing into a cherished memory and showing the trip was its own reward.
Household hints describe making boiled cider from fresh sweet cider by reducing to half in a large kettle and bottling. It covers using boiled cider in mincemeat and sauce, preserving apples and pears, and adding sugar to tempered water to adjust sweetness.
Instructional notes for a meal plan featuring stuffed green peppers with a buttered crumb topping and a creamy corn sauce, plus a tapioca dessert with gelatin and whipped cream. The pepper dish combines onion pepper and spices, while the dessert blends Jell O with tapioca and sugar, topped with cream.
A man named Brown, desperate to find a home after months of effort, wanders to the river and contemplates ending his life. He then spots his friend Green drowning, but Brown rushes to a house agent seeking Green’s house instead of aiding his friend. The agent refuses, noting the house has already been rented to someone else.
Jacob Kerk visited relatives at Moxahala Sunday. Families from Chillicothe Athens Greens Run and Jacksonville joined local residents for birthdays and gatherings. A pie social at the school cleared 26 dollars for school benefits.
News item lists visits by Mrs. Nella Parr, Mrs. Emery Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Davis, and others. It notes Dan Pierce and C A Pierce, Swartz and Day unloading fertilizer, and silage filling. Wheat seeding expected, Lottridge switchboard sent to Chicago for repairs, sale on Shade River, and an apple crop of about 400 bushels.
Mrs Homer Moorehead a shopper in Athens. visitors from here include Mrs Charles Inman and others. Families travel to Port Jefferson, Carthage, Rushville and Stewart. J C Chapman moves family to Bethany. J C Stewart moves into vacated house. Pallie Chapman paints his house.
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