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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1918
Page
4
Article urges rapid wartime mobilization through fuel spending to speed victory. It argues top speed war saves lives and money, compares costs of slow progress, and cites Harry Lauder’s plea to invest in gasoline for the war engine, urging readers to entrust funds to Uncle Sam.
A wave of nationwide condemnation follows Commissioner Claxton as he champions German language study. Public opinion rejects the idea of German cultural and commercial value, preferring English and signaling likely defeat of Claxton's push despite his arguments about kinship and peace.
A critical tirade arguing Germany spared no indemnity to Romania in the Bucharest treaty. It claims Romania will lose vast wheat and land, with forced labor and starvation looming. The piece accuses Germany of exploiting Romania, starving its people, and unjustly profiting from reconstruction costs.
The article argues that Philip Scheidemann of the German Socialists cooperated with Lenine and Trotzky, not out of solidarity but to serve German imperial aims. It asserts German Socialism betrayed Russia and autocracy stood behind these acts, discrediting the movement among international Socialists and predicting its decline after the war.
A list of breakfast lunch and dinner dishes with sauces and puddings. Recipes cover soft sauce lemon sauce egg sauce fig pudding banana pudding fruit dumplings and bread pudding with instructions and notes. Includes quantities steps and tips for steaming boiling and baking.
Pea Loaf combines peas crumbs milk egg onion salt and pepper baked in a water bath and served with creamed carrots. Baked Haddock uses skim milk in a brown glazed dish with oleo onion slices celery salt paprika and parsley, baked until just firm. Egg Flip blends egg corn syrup milk vanilla and salt until foamy and served cold.
A romantic vignette unfolds with Tom and Jennie on a farm, debating a future trip to Killarney. An Irish farmer jokes about not returning from London, insisting he will travel but not come back, while a piano lesson and fatherly admonitions provide comic relief.
The piece notes thrift stamps and savings certificates used in Germany, featuring a design of two Huns lifting the Kaiser's crown before a glowing sun, urging readers to save money for such stakes.
A detailed wartime project outlines an 80 barracks built on campus near Howard Hall modeled after Camp Sherman. Contractor Kircher to be paid 500 dollars. university plans central heating, student labor, and feeding provisions. Military training to persist across Ohio University and other colleges.
Excerpts from Dwight Williams and others describe travel and camp life in France during World War I. Williams notes safe voyage, meeting fellow soldiers from Athens town, and a basic rest camp with cobbled roads and aged stone houses. Other letters from Granville Sharp and Charles Six report front-line rest, planning homecoming, and steady morale.
The Mace family reunion took place near Zaleski on September 21 with twelve living children present. Among attendees were John of Carbondale Jerome and George of New Marshfield Eli and Mrs John Hewitt of Mineral Alonzo William and Hiram of Zaleski Mrs Porter Six of Wheeling and Leander of Lancaster. Fifty-one attendees included nieces and nephews and five nephews in military service two in France with the Rainbow Division a year ago.
About twelve million Russians flee a war torn area as large as France and Belgium. They scatter thousands of miles across European Russia and extend into Turkestan and Siberia, creating a vast displacement crisis.
Discoverer instructs gifts everywhere not to take money unless Bio-ferey doubles energy vigor and nerve force in two weeks.
Advertisement claims Bio-seven tablets restore strength and calm nerves after fatigue and overwork. It urges seven day use with two pills after meals and one at night, promising a money back guarantee if not successful and noting the formula is printed on the package.
Tokio reports that the Japanese cabinet led by Field Marshal Count Terauchi, in office since October 1916, resigned today closing a seven year tenure.
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