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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1919
Page
4
A government note argues farm machinery lasts longer when used for profit and kept up with maintenance. It urges overhauls, oiling, repairing and proper housing before winter to ensure readiness next season and avoid rust and decay. It compares neglect to a 50 percent business loss and stresses expert upkeep.
Although Congress repealed the national daylight saving law, cities and states move to adopt or extend daylight saving. New York City debates a April to September ordinance while Georgia enforces uniform eastern time. Local schedules and travel concerns drive broader interest nationwide.
The poem contrasts a penny pincher chasing cheap junk with a narrator who spends wisely on quality. It mocks shoddy goods and cheap thrills from cages to cars, noting the buyer’s repeated losses and misfortune, while the speaker vows to invest in the best items like cows or collars.
A minister observes a girl drawing a picture and adds a dog tail to his imagined portrait. Tom excels yet loses to a girl, prompting a fatherly note that girls can be more capable. Riley and Nye share a barber gag and a boy explains a rushed car ride joke about an improvised hour.
A reader observes how worry becomes a selfish, social weapon in households. The piece notes mothers and spouses use fear to control others, citing a wife pressing her husband to wear a heavy coat and a mother coercing her sons to avoid swimming. It argues the worry is driven by self interest, not genuine concern.
A reconstructed recipe guide showing a cherry custard pie with milk cornstarch sugar eggs vanilla and cherry topping. Also includes jelly peaches grape delight and grape frappe ideas with steps for custard filling topping and serving enhancements. The text provides method details for custard, garnish, and grape based desserts.
A compact collection of creamy desserts and puddings described with steps and measurements. Cream Sauce uses butter sugar vanilla and cream. Pineapple Pudding blends scalded milk cornstarch pineapple and egg whites. Sour Milk Pudding combines stale cornbread sour milk eggs raisins cinnamon and molasses baked to a caramel crust.
The Tribune reprints Sena tor Shields of Tennessee leaving party ranks to back reservations on the Versailles treaty. The piece notes bipartisan devotion and views the southern Democrat’s stance as indication that the treaty’s weaknesses are becoming clear to lawmakers and the public.
London reports the 1597 Elizabethan proclamation against profiteers or badgers who seek to raise prices on grain corn butter and cheese. It orders inquisition and action by local authorities to seize unlawful purchases and revoke deals, with warning to name offenders. The note ends with a modern echo that readers sympathize with the old measures.
Mr. Spitzer of West Washington street sold a small farm after placing a For Sale ad in the Messenger Monday. By Tuesday morning he had five inquiries and sold to the first bidder, paying the Messenger a commission of 0.0625 percent of the sale price.
Twenty years ago September 14 1899 Mr James A Miller of this city was promoted from fleet lieutenant commander to fleet commander at a naval veterans convention in Philadelphia tied to the G A R reunion. A Monday night armory dance followed with Selbys orchestra. A State Hospital grounds runaway buggy injured Silas Hedges and his son Elson. Hedges broke a wrist and hurt his hip, the boy unharmed.
Fred Dennis and family of Williamstown visited here last week. Rev H. Garrett moved to a new appointment near Cincinnati last Thursday. Mrs Connett’s funeral was held at Dutch Ridge Friday. Leonard Ogg toured Athens on business. Finley James went to the Marietta Fair. Clarence Rathburn of Columbus visits family here. Chas White left for Columbus due to his mother's illness. W W Totman and family from Athens called on Mrs Viola Tuttle Sunday. Little New York amusement hall opened Saturday with a grand ball.
Several hundred candidates seeking appointment as district health commissioners under the Hughes state health law were to begin a three months training course today at Ohio State University's College of Medicine. The program opens to medical and public health graduates and to those with at least one year in public health work. Salaries for the one hundred district commissioners were to be announced.
From 2000 to 6000 dollars a year salaries set for civil service appointees who will take office at the start of next year. The first concrete steamship built on the Atlantic seaboard begins service between New York and the West Indies.
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