The Daily Messenger Advertising Rates and Mailing Info
The Athens Daily Messenger lists pricing and service details. It notes delivery and subscription options, obituaries and memorial notices charged per line, and advertising rate policies. It also provides postal registration and association memberships and lists offices in Athens and New York.
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Athins Merten
Werald Primning Company
Vred
Iet
Messenger
Roth
Daily Messenger
Cartier
Mai
Memoriala
Athens
Otto
Hartes
Audit Bureau “Treulations
Robert B. Ward
FTICR
Porth Ave
New York
Western
Bouth Wabeth Ave
Chicade
After St Mihiel a major swing toward German iron rich areas
The piece praises American forces for breaking German lines at St Mihiel and argues the next aims include reclaiming iron and coal regions in Metz Briey Longwy and Lens. It warns Germany must not hold these assets and lauds U S leadership and potential victory in the iron mine campaign.
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St. Mihel Salient
der Fin
Rhine
Metz
Metzill
Briey
Longwy
Prussia
France
England
Germany
United States
Lens
Ecesia
Uncle Sams
Kansas women rise in public offices during war
In Kansas war conditions expand women’s public service. Women candidates outnumber men for many posts, including county superintendents and state offices. Husbands in military service appear among those seeking posts once held by men. Some races see women nominated by all major parties. sheriff appears less contested.
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Kansas
Letters From Soldiers Urge Cheerful News to Lift Home Morale
An editorial urges soldiers to write uplifting letters home to sustain civilian morale as the war effort relies on optimism. It notes that many blue notes come from trainees seeking glory and warns these letters can mislead loved ones. Soldiers should avoid exaggerated tales and share hopeful, realistic updates.
Household Hints Menu For Breakfast And Dinner
A readable menu fragment lists breakfast items such as cantaloupe corn flakes with top milk bakey and corn muffins rye bread sliced peaches coffees lunch includes corn on cap butter oatmeal cookies tea dinner features creamed chipped beef lima beans with pimento cabbage salad brown bread baked fruit whip with rotted custard coffee.
Letters From Men In Service From Sid Mallon in France
Sid Mallon writes from France to Mrs. Mary Beckler reporting he is well except for a cold and a ten day hospital stay after a foot injury. He says his division is resting after hard work, notes few Americans nearby, mentions good weather with recent rain, and describes France as cheerful with poverty shown by begging children in wooden shoes and a town scene where wagons and horses blur with people.
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Mary Mallon Beckler
Sid Mallon
France
EB. Wood
Postonia
C. Wood
Co. A
Ernest A. Wood
C. CC. Wood
O. K
Jerry
C. L. Caster
Dyesville
Jasper Cox
Carbondale
Fred
Desert Corn Pudding and Fruit Pie Recipes
A collection of old time recipes includes Desert Pudding with corn meal and milk, Yale Blueberry Cake with berries and cream of tartar, Molasses Pie with eggs and brown sugar, Cream Sponge batter baked in a square tin, and Cherry Pie with cherries and evgar. Instructions emphasize mixing, beating, and moderate oven baking.
Spanish omelet with bacon and olives recipe text
A rough cooking recipe describes frying bacon then cooking a mixture of peppers pimiento parsley onion olives and mushrooms with paprika in bacon fat. It includes beating egg whites and yolks separately then folding and baking in a pan. Also includes griddle cake and rice griddle cake instructions.
Dinner Stories and Jokes From a Newspaper Page
A wild-eyed woman bursts into a police station claiming her missing husband may drown himself and instructs the canal be dragged. She notes he is deaf for identification. A joke exchanges follow about a donkey and stubbornness, then a quip from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree about hearing poetry twice.
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Los Angeles
Sir Herbert Beerbohm
Sir Herbert
A Taste of Bitterness and Suffering Drained at Home
A brief note describes bitterness and suffering to be endured and drained at home, conveying a somber tone without explicit details. The fragment hints at personal distress or hardship and the implied need for relief or release within a domestic setting.
The Labor Battalions Formed For Home Labor Needs
The War Department mobilizes soldiers unfit for overseas service into reserve labor battalions to perform fatigue duty at camps and stations. Some units from black troops will receive 60-day furloughs to work in cotton fields as part of an industrial furlough system for both whites and negroes. The plan frees combat troops for overseas service and aims to ease labor shortages while keeping discipline and military efficiency.
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War Department
War letters from France recounts of courage and rest
Mrs Pennell writes from France describing time on leave in a quiet village, hope for victory, and requests for news. She notes soldiers from Athens and discusses front hard tasks, while families back home await word. Two Wood brothers in France report OK status, unit praise, and gas exposure with no losses.
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Albert Pennell
Pvt
Raymond Pennell
Holy. Co
France
Athens
Wartime letters from soldiers abroad share details from France and Italy
Letters from Private Albert Laudermilk in Italy and Andrew John Wilson in Camp Sherman describe Alpine travel, boxcar rides, and hopes to meet loved ones. Messages from Elwood Caster in France note hospital recovery, heat, and brief letters home. Other notes report home purchases, land transfers, and property sales across multiple townships and counties, reflecting a mix of distress and daily life during the war era.
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George
Laudermilk
Nelsonville
R. D
Albert Laudermilk
Italy
Andrew John Wilson
Batt
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
Laudrmilk
Alps
Berlin
Kaiser
Baby Crib Brings A Thought Of Duty In France
United Press reports near Chateau-Thierry the sight of a lone baby crib by a shell ruined village. A German shell blew the bed from a house but left it upright and intact, prompting two doughboys to reflect on home and purpose as they advance toward the fighting.
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United Press
France
Chateau-Thierry
Old Soldier Passes Away at State Hospital
J. T. Haning died Monday afternoon at 3 o clock in Athens State Hospital. Undertaker T. W. Coe of Albany shipped remains to Downington for funeral services and Wells Cemetery interment. Survived by one son Ed of Downington. wife predeceased him four years ago. He was a Civil War veteran.
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State Hospital
J. T. Haning
Athens State Hospital
Downington
T. W. Coe
Albany
Wells Cemetery
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Sylvester Smith
Verity
Sarah Appleman
Dorris Sawyer
Will. Dorris Sawyer
Athens City
Woolley and Mosure
Charles F. Mosure
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Ira H. Gilkey
Herman Wilson
Melvina Maxwell
Coleman Dpd
Ashworth
Ralph A. Dalton
Lucinda Cooper
Adam Niggemeyer
Errett A. Person
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T. J. Barlow
Kathryn J. Barlow
Buchtel
Edward Taylor
C. V. Sayer
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H. S. Sayer
Thomas W. Wallace
James Tolljiver
Bern
Henry Ogg
William Guhahan
Canaan
Frank J. Hill
L. W. Brown
Chauncey
John Palmer
Minnie Palmer
Newton Schoonover
Glouster
Morgan J. Williams
Clarence Gatchel
Edward Mills
William FE. Patton
Lewis Gatchell
David Walburn
Eugene Rosser
Elizabeth Rosser
Bertha Runion
Rome
W. P. Skinner
William Gahagan
Branch
Townsend
Carl A. Grandstaff
George J. France
William Gah
Fannie G. Ogg
Grosvenor Ogg
John Tabler
Sarah Tabler
Will
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Withers
W. &. Carter
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Emma Nice
Frank Davidson
Olive Pidcock
Hurley Pidcock
John Pidcock Et al
Nora Zimmerman
Nora Zimmermen
Nora F. Zimmerman
York Township
George Badwell
Anna Issels
Deanville
M. FE
Mary L. Stratton
Cell
Sayer
C. D. Shafer
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Buster Brown
Murphy’s Shoe Store
F. J. Beasley
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