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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1919
Page
4
National bankers committee outlines ten commandments to steady earnings and thrift in wage households. Emphasizes budgeting, honest business, saving, investment, and generosity to those less fortunate. Public guidance urges prudent spending and fair play for financial resilience.
An aerial survey project in Labrador used two planes to map 1 acres, finishing in six weeks with machinists, photographers, and surveyors. The effort promises faster future large-scale surveys, aiding city plotting and enterprise planning through precise geographic data.
A historical fragment argues that truthful advertising keeps customers content and repeat business. It warns against deceiving patrons with fake goods and excuses, stressing that once trust is broken, an “abbon mark” follows and future sales fall. The piece advocates the honest dealer as the wiser choice.
An op-ed reprinted from the Columbus Dispatch argues the U S Senate remains a steady guardian against haste and rash factions. It praises the Senate as a stabilizing check on executive overreach while it reviews the peace treaty and league covenant. The piece frames the Senate as a bulwark protecting the American people from global anarchy.
A farm tale unfolds as an eet flatters a farmer about scarecrow use. The farmer answers guttingly that clothes on it deter birds. A young actress with a single line in a play seeks more.
A neighbor with four children seeks a maid, exploring fairness in child care and domestic help. The writer weighs housework burdens, worker nerves, and community responsibility, arguing helpers should not be scapegoated while praising charitable deeds and shared paths for families.
Fruit salad combines pineapple bananas oranges and coconut with sugar and chilling. Pear and Peach salads use lettuce red pepper French dressing and fruit, while Cupid Salad sinks into orange cups with grape dressing and decorative ribbons for a party of four couples.
A dialogue showcases comic miscommunications between actors and managers about lines for a third act. Contributors include a clever retort about a dud shell and a soldier’s stern reply to a sentry, ending with a romantic miscue over a proposal.
Public forum notes Capper's Weekly clipping from Topeka praising Arthur Capper a Kansas ex governor and U S senator. It argues miners deserve a square deal and aims to inform the public about miners demands as a matter of simple justice.
The article argues miners seek more work not less, noting many mines run only 1 to 3 days weekly. It cites 1917 as peak production with a similar 6 hour day and 5 day week, warns a strike threatens national supply, and discusses wage demands and price impacts from operators delaying raises.
An Athens miner vents frustration at high living costs and low wages, recounting a $78 paycheck against $71 store bill, $5 rent, $1.46 union dues, and 25 cents burial fund. He urges lower living costs and notes his three sons’ wartime service, fearing sons may work in coal mines for $1.10 daily.
Washington October 28. G J Van Thienen says no nation has demanded extradition of the Kaiser and no tribunal exists for his trial. The peace treaty provides arraignment before a special tribunal and a request for extradition. Netherlands plans to accede to the League covenant after cooperation of the States General.
Washington D C oct 28 with a sugar shortage the piece offers Halloween treats made with corn sirup or molasses instead of sugar. It presents a list of sweets suitable for a party and encourages keeping the celebration festive for youngsters.
A recipe guide explains popping corn in a pan or popper and making popcorn balls. It covers basic sweet balls with corn sirup vanilla and vinegar, peanut and chocolate variations, and instructions to form balls while the mixture is warm and firm.
A vintage recipe for peanut brittle using white corn syrup vinegar salt vanilla and roasted peanut meats. Cook syrup with vinegar and salt, mix in peanuts until browned, add vanilla, pour into a buttered pan, cool and break into pieces.
Instructions for making molasses taffy from New Orleans style ingredients. Cook molasses with vinegar until a hard ball forms in cold water. Add butter, then pour into a buttered pan. When cool enough to handle pull until porous and hard, stretch and mark into 11 inch pieces, then break into chunks when fully cooled.
Mr and Mrs Gilbert Day of Charleston and Mrs Joe Love of Athens visited Charles Day on his 98th birthday. Several attended an Alfred sale. Guy King of Vanderhoof spent Sunday with Fred Warner. Oliver Davis visits daughter Leslie Morris in Athens. Charles Day hosted visitors including a 98th birthday guest. Aylmer Ackley family toured Marion. Lewis McCall and Draper Davis family joined Henry Wiseman on Sunday at Coolville. Fern Metz visited Mildred Runnion while Wiseman planned a Parkersburg trip. Sunday dinners hosted by Day family included Oliver Davis and others. C D Swartz and son Clarence made a Pomeroy trip. R McCall moving to Coolville. Lottridge U B Church installed a light plant. Will Chevalier of Tuppers Plains moves to Ed Rowans farm. Normans of Parkersburg joined H A Wiseman for Sunday visit.
Mr and Mrs Augustus Townsend of Athens were guests of Mr and Mrs Everette Carbaugh over the weekend The candy social at the Chase School Saturday evening drew good attendance despite the weather and a...
Neat sum was realized which will be need to increase the library Ming Anna Martin was shopping in Albany Saturday. Mr and Mrs A J Carbaugh had as their Sunday guests Mr and Mrs George McKinstry and daughter Callie Mr and Mrs Ralph McKinstry and children Edith Anna May and Clar ence and Mr George Riley all of Ath Z B Ator was in Albany Friday looking after business interests. Mr and Mrs Robert Coates of Ath ens were the over Sunday guests of the latter's parents Mr and Mrs Charles Chase. Miss Lydia Douglass who has employment at Snowville spent the weekend with her parents Mr Herbert Douglass and if Mr Charles Haning has been on the jury at Athens for time Mr and Mrs Everette Sa Athens came out Saturday to be the over Sunday guests of the ¢ parents Mr and Mrs Horton Saut and family.
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