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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1919
Page
4
A Texas oil company sent a mailer urging women to push husbands into a “gamblers game” that promises quick fortunes. The piece targets households and borrows casino rhetoric to lure investors, warning to avoid such schemes and suggesting real estate stocks and trusts as safe options.
The piece critiques a Prussian plan to pay the ex Kaiser Wilhelm 170 million marks for civil losses from abdication and flight. It questions the logic of rewarding a man blamed for Germany’s ills, and notes Allies may claim war indemnity. It ends with a quip on high living and 6 million cars in the U S.
A fragmentary verse laments a long dreary day and the relief of night. It contrasts hard work and family duties with sleep as balm, noting toiling Vulcan like figures and the paradoxical praise of life while acknowledging death as the harvest.
A collection of humorous banter after dinner recounts an animal trainer Arizona Joe telling of a leopard escape and a telegram seeking exact directions. George Ade laments the bachelor tax at the Chicago Athletic Club while a broker reports Blanceloped with a rich widow and Ade replies with, According to directions.
The New York Herald reprints an opinion criticizing the army Quartermaster General's 1919 plan to keep 200 million cans of vegetables off the domestic market. The piece argues the approach targets political issues, not economics, and questions protections for canners who sold produce to the government.
A reflective critique of reckless stunt sliding down a Mount Washington cog railway plank by youths aged 18 or 19. The piece argues harsh public admiration for danger undermines parental sacrifice and urges wiser judgment and values in youth adventure. It highlights a contrasting prudent youth who refused the dare as the true brave example.
The article lists stain treatment methods for many substances. It covers blood and meat juice with cold water and soap, bluing with boiling water, chocolate and cocoa with borax, coffee and tea with or without cream, cream and milk with cold water, eye with cold water, fruit juices with boiling water, grass with soap and cold water, grease with chalk or absorbents, iodine with soap and warm water, ink with cold water then acid or bleach, iron with acids, kerosene with soap, lampblack with solvents, mildew treated by fresh cold water or Javelle solution, paint with alcohol or turpentine, and perspiration with soap and warm water and bleaching options.
A vintage kitchen note describes Eggs and Green Peas served in a hollowed bread boat with a lemony sauce and buttered peas, then a Cherry Nut Salad with canned cherries and pecan morsels on lettuce and cream mayonnaise.
The piece notes government wartime food purchases totaling 120.6 million dollars and argues that nine months after demobilization the army needs have faded while prices stay high. It claims the War department keeps vast food stores from the open market to shield canners, worsening consumer costs.
An advertisement urges renters to save with Buckeye State Building and Loan at 22 West Gay Street Columbus Ohio. It promises a quick supply of the necessary down payment and loans to savings customers to help them buy homes, noting new accounts may be opened by mail.
A large community meeting in Canaanville forms a committee to secure a safe path to the school near the church. The plan includes a potential new road north of the B and O tracks and a cinder path to avoid two dangerous railroad crossings for district students.
Mrs M M Copeland visits her son in Lancaster this week. John Butts and wife of Athens guest Mrs Addie Biggens. Miss Claris Smith visits relatives in Athens and returns with cousin Miss Gertrude Walker. William Hook of Columbus visits Miss Flossie Cole. Everett Townsend of Logan visits family here. Mrs Said Munn and family from Sugar Creek visit Marion Wetherell. Ladies Aid Society meets at Mrs Sarah Hatch with thirteen members. Clarence Townsend to Chicago for work. Mrs Catheryn Grimes visits Little Hocking. Wayland Brill visits Athens. Leonard Hawk of Chillicothe visits wife. Thomas McAfee goes to Nelsonville for work. Mrs Lucy Windsor of Lottrige visits daughter Mrs C W Townsend. Chas Townsend visits Athens. Rev Woodard preaches last sermon of the year at M E church. rally day planned for next Sunday. Mrs Belva Norris returns home from Bethany. Schools open with Wilbur Reeves principal, with Howard Sands, Miss Roland, Miss Roxie Rice, Miss Eva Norris, 8S A Biddison and two children add to classes.
Mrs. Frank Guthrie and son Fred visit Parkersburg relatives while school opens with Miss Pleasant Davis. W H Wright and son Ralph from Canaanville stay with Mrs. Susan Wright. Congregational services led by Rev. Miller of New York are attended in Guysville. Chas Wilson and children visit James Summers. Vera Wyatt returns to St Marys after a visit with Uncle B B Wyatt. Emmett Copeland and Wade visit E W Cunningham in Guysville. Funeral for Mrs Olive Cunningham conducted by Rev Cherrington of Pomeroy. interment at New England cemetery.
Mrs John Perkins and daughter Rose Grimes and child from Guysville visited the Lewis family in town. Mr and Mrs Ray Marquis and children from Canaanville spent Sunday evening with A J Gould. Emery Poston returned to Millfield after a short home visit. James Burchfield of The Plains stayed as an over Sunday guest. Mrs Myrtle Stewart and granddaughters Ruth and Myrtle Stewart visited Will Wrights at Canaanville.
Glenn E. Plumb, author of the Plumb plan and general counsel for the railroad brotherhoods, told railroad workers in Toledo that twelve million workers will mobilize to push the plan. He criticized the current congress and urged political action to elect a congress that will adopt the plan.
Nine British French and Italian seaplanes faced the starter in Bournemouth England for the Jacques Schneider trophy race and a $5 000 prize. The event resumed after five years. the last contest was in Monte Carlo in April 1914 won by Howard Pixton on a Sopwith seaplane.
A claimed cure for catarrh is advertised as a direct-to-source remedy not using sprays or inhalers. The ad urges readers to obtain a bottle and begin the believed effective treatment. Free medical advice is offered from the Medical Director at Swift Laboratory in Atlanta Georgia.
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