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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1919
Page
6
Injury remedy claims to prevent soreness from swimming tennis and running. It promotes muscles with a finger massage and lubricating oil, touts antiseptic properties, and warns not to wait for injury. Houstonia liniment marketed as safe on sensitive skin with sizes 25 50 and 100 cents. Dr J C Jones Co. Charleston consumer notice.
Annie faces renewed labor with optimistic resolve as BernieEndures job loss and a gambling scare while Grandma Carroll and neighbors recall past struggles. Annie hopes fourteen dollars can replace twenty two, Bernie's pride and hardship weigh on him, and their baby boy anchors their resolve amid hard times.
A collection of Q&A notes covers dating boundaries, marital distress, hair care, and teen etiquette. Topics include declining unwanted visits, contemplating separation, consulting a lawyer, a hair rinse remedy, and guidance on dances and kissing for sixteen to eighteen year olds.
A fragment advises readers to attend an event without a gentleman escort and to select a dress by personal taste, suggesting fashion magazines for suggestions and style ideas.
This sewing pattern describes an apron with crossed strap ends at the shoulders and a waste-minimizing design. It offers four sizes from Small to Extra Large and specifies fabric needs and mailing details for purchase.
San Cura Ointment is advertised to relieve itching bleeding and protruding piles and to heal running sores fever sores and chronic skin ailments. The Cline Pharmacy Co Athens and The Fountain Pharmacy Nelsonville guarantee the product and offer a money back promise with prices listed for jars and a San Cura Soap for tender skin and babies.
Grand jury ordered to re assemble September third to clear remaining criminal matters of the current term. Petit jury to convene September 8 with Judge Mauck presiding September 8 9 10 and 11. Various divorce actions proceed including Josephine Extenkemper and Edna Bartoe restore maiden names. Roy Sharp bond set at 1000 on sodomy charge.
Troy Grange meets in Coolville Ohio on August 30 with a program including a chaplain roll call current events paper on farm life pleasures and disappointments a solo by Mrs Nellie Conklin and talks on school medical inspection lime use and abuse.
Senator Jones of Washington introduced a bill proposing U S withdrawal from the League of Nations two years after the peace treaty is ratified unless every nation abolishes conscription within that period. The measure signals a hardline stance on military service tied to international commitments.
The wheat crop in this vicinity is reported to be good and cPo e on Bates is noted. Local events include a Sunday ball game at Holiday and the Mount Pleasant Sunday School reorganized with officers Supt. Ollie Puck and Mary Tippie as secretary. Rev Franks gave a farewell sermon before leaving for the M P Church conference.
Five hundred dancing masters gathered here declare the Shimmy must go. They denounce the refined version and offer the jazz sidestep as a substitute.
Native Hawaiians adopted American dress and Christian missions spurred schools and teachers. The nation wide Episcopal drive aims to extend religious education while Japanese Koreans and others gain Christian instruction amid Hawaii’s rapid civilization.
Mr. Fred Olbers visits Columbus to see his brother in Grant Hospital. Several locals travel to Columbus for health care. Edges of community gather for family visits and the Athens Fair as Mrs Heffken undergoes appendicitis surgery. Continuous social notes include visits by the Welling and Wenner families and extended relatives from Crescent Ridge and Sand Ridge.
Werner spent Sunday in Hartleyville with Mr and Mrs Sullivan Maxwell. Miss Lenora Lemoine visited her sister Mrs Harry Leek of Greens Run recently.
The McGraner family met for a reunion at Patrick and Mrs. McGraner’s home in Hocking on Sunday August 24 with twenty four members present including Earnest Howard and Charlie newly discharged from the U S Army. Attendees spanned multiple branches from Athens The Plains Nel sonville Chillicothe Pana ma Johnston City and Ills.
A local Athens citizen recounts severe lumbago and kidney trouble eased by Doan's Kidney Pills. W S Reynolds of 120 West Union Street credits three boxes with restoring health and says he has had no kidney issues since. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo, N Y sells the remedy for 60 cents.
A home remedy mixes two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White to create a quarter pint everyday lotion. The ad claims freckles sunburn windburn and tan fade with daily massage and asserts the product is harmless and inexpensive.
In Brooklyn Judge Mc Mahon suspended the sentence for Teresa Izzo who faced bigamy charges, remarking that her only crime was loving, and that she had broken the written law by loving.
Hunters flock to pawpaw fields in Southern Ohio where experts say the fruit makes the best beer yet marketed. Local interest centers on harvests and the emerging pawpaw beer craze spreading toward Cleveland.
Frank Davenport was captured Monday evening in Pomeroy by Sheriff Hartenback Sheriff Parker and Chief Porter after pursuit from Athens. A wire alerted officers at two o clock Monday afternoon Davenport was a wanted man. He was found asleep in a boarding house in upper Pomeroy and brought back to Athens before Xenia officers arrived.
A Kentucky man claims a mentholized medicine mixed with water provides strong relief from hay fever. He reports dramatic improvements for many sufferers and offers the remedy through pharmacists. A one ounce bottle of Mentholized Avcine is diluted in a pint of boiled water and gargled twice daily with nasal spray as directed.
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