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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1953
Page
12
Thirty six persons suffered chlorine gas poisoning Monday night when an empty cylinder leaked in the holds and engine room of the American freighter Sea Coronet in Pusan harbor. Among the injured were 15 crew members 20 Korean dock workers and an American soldier. They were treated and released from hospitals. In Cincinnati Nick Myroff 68 a porter died after a fall at his residence.
Cambridge Ohio firefighters battled a blaze that wiped out the McCreary Motto Co plastic novelty factory on Monday night. The $50,000 loss damaged the plant and halted production, with no injuries reported.
Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Swan included Virgie Bailes and daughters Lena Brahm Emmet from Korea Leore Shauer McGinty Prichet Jerome s ville and Leo Stuehldreyer visited relatives Effie Torrence returned from Jeromesville and Cleveland Georgia Hall Ruth Gilbert and C W Late Parkersburg Carroll Fitch Hazel visited Oscar Babcock Kester Matheny attended a golden wedding in Harrisville D S Yates Cleveland visiting Anna Swan Riverview Council 132 held a social on Aug 17 Larry Cormer ly caught a 42 halves inch Muskey in Shade River Ulah Swan Lindsey Lyons visiting East Liverpool CB Hayman S R Swan spent a Sunday in Parkersburg A 1882 Encyclopaedia Britannica note discusses a temperance proposal to aid tipplers by killing the flame at midpoint of the sprint
Mary Ludwig Morton earned the nickname Molly Pitcher at Monmouth New Jersey for supplying water to soldiers. A British railway payroll reports cats in service as rat catchers with a weekly food stipend of one shilling each.
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