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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1921
Page
6
Father John’s Medicine is praised as the greatest body builder due to pure food elements that nourish the weak and underweight, rebuilding flesh and strength. It follows nature’s method, is not a stimulant, and is guaranteed free from alcohol or dangerous drugs.
Billy and Frisky follow blue hills when a tin peddler on a lame horse abducts Frisky. Billy, snagged on barbed wire, ends up bound to the wagon while Frisky is tied to a post. The peddler moves on leaving Billy and Frisky to face their predicament as the tale hints at future trouble.
Fragmentary text mentions yellow complexion poor appetite and mouth taste with scattered terms like Edwarda Olive Legs and Olive Tailateares. No coherent event or subject identified.
Mrs. F. Wartenberg, 21, waives distress after taking poison at the Rand Hotel. She told hospital attendants she wished to end her life and that she had taken the tablet in a moment of gaiety. Her husband said they had come from Huntington, West Virginia, for Christmas to Cincinnati.
A treatment claimed to ease catarrh related deafness and head noises is offered. The home internal medicine uses mint and alcohol with granulated sugar, to be taken four times daily, purportedly easing Eusta toan tube pressure and secretions for quicker relief.
Canaan township PTA will hold a business meeting at 7 o clock Thursday April 14 in the high school. Agenda includes furnace system water supply laboratory equipment basement excavation for gym and auditorium renovating cleanup of rooms toilets janitor service and commercial equipment as the district plans build up through Community Day April 22 all are urged to attend with special invitation to the township school board.
Fern announces Fedya wants to take Gwenda to Paris for a honeymoon and plans to chaperone her. The trio imagines travel, romance, and potential marriages abroad while Gwenda remains pragmatic about simple, rural life. The scene ends with Fern vowing to oversee Gwenda during the trip.
A married mother describes domestic abuse from her husband who curses controls her, endangers children, and threatens to take furniture. The column advises not signing papers, consulting a lawyer, and considering divorce to protect home and children until they are able to support themselves.
A correspondent declines to provide an address, stating it violates his policy and arguing that without a definite reason the search is improper. The exchange emphasizes caution over disclosing personal locations.
A twelve year old writes of love for a sixteen year old and asks if he may take her to church. The response says she is too young and should attend with her parents until older.
The Heap Natural Gas Company of West Virginia raised its rate to East Ohio Gas Company by sixty percent under contracts starting April 1, an announcement said today in Cleveland.
An old advertisement urges lightening diet to combat high uric acid from meat. It claims kidney weakness causes backache headaches dizziness and fatigue and promotes Dean's Kidney Pills from Cline's Pharmacy as a cure with a testimonial from Mrs Samuel Woodruff of Athens.
Cath erine Cook Rea age 82 of Rea Pennsylvania died in Columbus from complications. She is survived by eight children, twenty three grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren.
The Supreme Court ruled that states may enact anti narcotic laws that do not conflict with federal law. The Minnesota statute was challenged by Dr. C D Whipple of Minneapolis who argued it was unconstitutional and that his prescriptions to parents in decreasing amounts did not violate it as an attempt to cure an evil practice.
The association of railway executives reports February operating costs fell seven and a half percent from a year earlier while revenues declined four and a half percent. Over the six months to March railroads earned only 2.5 percent on valuation, with bonds totaling 5.5 percent plus a half percent for improvements. Shippers strike over high rates and 496 thousand idle freight cars on March 23 signal big deficits and a improving but tight system.
Williamson West Virginia April 12 Judge R D Bailey told the grand jury he will draw jurors from other counties if local jurors fail in duty He urged honest verdicts to curb rising crime He cites a new law aimed at Matewan murder trials and notes Sid Hatfield and fifteen others may face trial for the Baldwin Felts deaths Anse Hatfield murder case also awaits date this term
Pattern 3562 is offered in three sizes 12 14 and 16 years. A 14 year size needs 3144 yards of 44 inch material. Crepe de chine with frills of taffeta or organdy would suit this model of pongee voile linen batiste gingham chalice satin and serge. Pattern mailed for 12 cents in stamps.
A new collapsible ash tray for smokers folds compactly with its ashes inside and can be carried in a pocket. The invention promises convenient disposal and portable use.
In Buchtel Ohio the Central Methodist Episcopal church will host Charles E. Putnam of Richmond Kansas for several days beginning Sunday April 17. Putnam, a longtime banker and ranchman turned Bible instructor, will present lectures using original charts on Chronology Dispensations Legalism Evangelism and controversial topics drawing large crowds.
In Williamson West Virginia on April 12 the second Hatfield trial and related Matewan indictments face adjournment to the June term. Hatfield also stands as a defendant in another murder case this term while detectives survivors and three Matewan citizens await trial next month.
Nathan Simon mis took John Litzinger's flivver for his own and was half way to Boston before he discovered it. Telephon ing disclosed both machines worked better for their new masters. They swapped.
Two men died and two were injured in an Elm Grove Mining Co accident at No. 1 mine in Wheeling West Virginia. A mine car jumped track and knocked down roof props causing the roof to collapse on workers in the cars.
Mrs. Shields reports indigestion and weakness eased after using Nerv Worth. She praises the product and says letters praising its effects flood Nerv Worth offices. The ad claims a money back guarantee and lists McKee Drug Co. as a seller.
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