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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1919
Page
4
A late statement from R G Dunn and Company warns that reports of falling prices for food and necessities often prove unfounded in retail markets. The piece notes seasonal drops and wholesale reductions, but says consumer relief will be gradual, with no quick return to prewar levels despite cautious optimism.
The article argues for a single national road-building policy to unify federal aid efforts and ensure high quality highways across all states. It notes counties like Owensboro Kentucky face local bond defeats while traffic from neighboring areas suffers, stressing equal accessibility and nationwide connectivity from east to west and north to south.
A collection of quips and brief tales. A man trains memory with a slip on the looking glass. A judge hears a couple’s quarrel while another man faces a 15 day stay. A child’s geography lesson ends with an armistice. A bank overdrawn prompt elicits a practical banking tip.
Albany Journal reprints an opinion arguing that descendants of the thirty nine signers of the second declaration of independence would not admit to supporting Americanism while the nation faced a proposal to subordinate the country to a league granting Great Britain six votes to the US one.
Ruth Cameron discusses the "gusher" socializers seen at parties and in everyday greetings. Molly, a sharp observer, labels such effusive people as not genuine warmth, noting they often promise visits and tea while keeping real plans distant.
Three chili sauce recipes using tomatoes onions peppers vinegar sugar and spices. Steps include peeling and chopping tomatoes, cooking until tender, adding salt sugar and spices, then boiling or simmering until thick and sealing hot. Variations include different onion pepper counts and spice blends.
A preserved note shares steps to make Mint Jelly using Baldwin apples and yard mint, detailing washing boiling sieving and sugar ratio. It then outlines a Corn Chowder with corn cabbage onions peppers celery sugar salt vinegar mustard flour and turmeric and finishing with jars. It ends with Crabapple Butter from crabapples sugar water lemon and cooking until thick and glossy.
A satirical riff denounces reformers and agitators while endorsing thrift and law and order. The speaker mocks radical cries against plutocrats, rails at a broken economy, and urges prudent savings over upheaval. Political anxieties parody 19th century style with references to courts and wealth.
Mrs C C Bean of Guysville stayed with her brother T B Fitch for several days. Mrs James Phompzon and son Franklin visited her parents F D Shanks. E D Morrison and Grace returned from Pittsburg after visiting their son. T E Fitch family and Vern Bails went to Marietta. Residents attended Harmony Hill picnic on R R Houston farm. John Shanks and Wilda visited Clarence Fultz at Torch. E Keller bought a new Ford. Audrey Tombaugh and Fitch visited Morrison relatives near Stewart. Ralph ONeill left for Graf ton seeking work. T B Fitch family toured Guysville and visited Jean. C E Morrison of Menessen PA visited his father B E Morrison. Bertha and Norma Keller visited Success last week.
White Hall and Darwin residents visited friends in the area as Hartsell Martin and Dr. Roy Martin from Nebraska joined Moore family guests. Nora Brattin from Pleasanton stayed with the Tribes, while Tewksbury and Lawson households hosted relatives and Jones kin from Huntington. George Tribe and Pearl Coe families hosted guests, and Elmer Dent with Betty Jane of Middleport spent a day with the Moores.
Mr. and Mrs. G. South and others visited the South family. Ellis, Harvey and Glen joined Mr. and Mrs. Joe Koker. Henry Everett and children Fred Virgil and Hazel visited Sam Everett. Carlos Dorr and son Lee visited Ray Mathews. Nora Flinn Flora Stephenson Athens visited F J Hubler and family. Clem Everett and daughter Flora visited A Burchfield and family with several others as afternoon guests.
Nella and Bessie Hubler join Mr and Mrs G R Smith and Cathryn and Irene Linscott of Athens for Sunday. George Sutton on a Beebe business trip. F J Hubler with E C Johnson near Amesville. Maggie Hatch of Factory visits A Burchfield and Hoisington family at Poston. Nancy Linscott attends Carpenter farm dance. Mrs F J Simms and Mary Judd of Athens visit G South's home.
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