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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1919
Page
4
The Plains area lists many Sunday visits including Jessie Tuttle and family with Peter Pfarr and wife and others. The community notes prompt high school reopening with Prof. Conroy as teacher, plus several residents traveling, visiting, or moving. A scientific note warns windborne disease bacteria can travel 200 feet and 60 feet up.
New Orleans September 20 Motion pictures will replace speeches at the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World convention. Films will trace advertising history and show methods to lower living costs, with 17000 attendees set to view the screenings before films are sent worldwide.
Signora Luisa Tetrazzini, famed Italian prima donna, reappeared in London at Royal Albert Hall marking her first engagement since the war. She had previously performed in Paris, earning substantial fees, and is noted for wide renown in South America and the United States.
The New York World argues public patience is exhausted by frequent strikes and warns against stirrings by steel workers. It supports organized labor’s right but urges postponing action until after the Washington labor conference, noting potential gains from a conciliatory approach.
A poem laments aging vanity and the narrator's efforts to appear young. The speaker admits frailty and longing for vitality, joking about gout, rheumatics, and a musty liver while insisting on keeping up appearances.
An old woman traveling to Stamford boards a car that plunges down an embankment. A Boston man suffers but jokes about the disaster while the crowd ponders the aquatic exhibition. In a separate quip, remarks about husbands and household chores close this assortment of light anecdotes.
The New York Tribune argues that Article X reservations do not isolate the United States but require Congress to define when how and where intervention may occur. It says the stance rejects pre judgment or transferring war authority, and that reservations restate the President s covenant terms in clear language to avoid ambiguity.
Ruth Cameron discusses why children whine as they approach ages four to six and how discipline and school entry can curb the habit. She suggests imitating the tone, withholding whined requests, and consulting a doctor if the behavior persists or seems physical in origin.
Practical instructions share methods for preserving tomatoes in cider vinegar with sugar, making grape conserve with oranges raisins and walnuts, sweet pimento pickles with multiple brine steps, and crisp cucumber pickles using saccharin and mustard. Detailed steps cover preparation, simmer times, and canning procedures.
Plain white sauce with milk flour and butter, folded with chopped hard boiled egg whites, served over buttered toast. Baked spaghetti uses tomato pulp cheese sauce and bacon, baked slowly in a covered dish.
The passage discusses Senate efforts toward open diplomacy and critiques the idea of secret diplomacy. It notes the President’s lip adherence to these ideals in one of his fourteen points, warning of possible accusations if obligations are not openly construed in the future.
Miss Wilma Lines and Joe Dowler were Sunday guests of Miss Golda Tippie. Missouri relatives visit after forty-three years. Athens visitors James Winning and Ed Leighty couple. Peach Ridge youths Howard and Leslie Davis visit Glen and Phil Gillett. Gertrude Lyons eighth birthday celebrated by Mrs. Will Lyons. Local students at Hancock high school include Golda Tippie Ruth McClead Lois McClead Glen Gillett Phil Gillett. School starts next Monday with Kathryn Falls of Bishopville as teacher. Mrs. Hattie Jordan visiting Frank Finsterwald. Faye and Beryl Bennett attend East Side school in Athens. Mrs. John Gillett visits mother Mrs. Brown in Athens. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cline move to Guy Graham house. Sabbath school Sunday at 1 30 p m followed by preaching by Rev Snyder. All welcome.
Community items recount happenings along Ohio roads with residents Crippen and Kimble. Crippen, an 82 year old, boasts vigor and political knowledge while Miss Kimble in Trimble Township reports dairy herd 110 pounds of butter sold in four weeks. A brief note mentions arson or vandalism on Green Branch.
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