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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1918
Page
2
New York reports mounting fatal accidents at military and naval aviation camps. Experts note temperament, confidence, and physical tests as critical to selecting recruits. Eye color vision, balance tests, respiration, and nerve reactions drive suitability for flying under extreme conditions.
Athens Ohio August 28 1918 letter notes government release of extra sugar for canning. Athens County Committee distributes 1050 certificates totaling 56250 pounds to grocers based on April June sales, with rules to keep sugars separate and only sell to those with canning certificates. Also requests return of unused certificates to reallocate.
Washington reports drastic steps by the capital issues committee of the Treasury Department to thwart rental profiteering and hotel tariff abuses. Measures under consideration aim to check exorbitant profits by eliminating funds that could be commandeered.
It is reported that Noahs ark measured 647 feet in length 91 feet in breadth and 54 feet in height. Bishop Wilkins lists the ships capacity at 72626 tons.
The C. C. Higgins wholesale grocery building on Union Street has been converted into a milling facility by Frank J. Beasley & Sons. Beasley, after building a trade in Amesville, acquired the Higgins building and a house, remodeling the former into a modern mill run entirely by electricity.
Mrs. Hugh Moore of Chillicothe shares her son Clyde Laird’s letter from France dated August 1 1918. He reports being well in a quiet front sector and asks for frequent mail. He recalls meeting two French girls, Lucienne and her sister, and mentions a charm to ward off harm and a 1600 church visit.
Mrs Thomas Page of Brooklyn Connecticut recounts pneumonia left her weak with a persistent cough. A Virginia friend urged Vinci which healed her cough improved appetite restored sleep and strength. Vinci attributes its effect to beef and cod liver peptones iron manganese peptonates and gly cerophosphates advertised by McKee Drug Co. and leading druggists.
Marie Riley answers readers on etiquette in this column. A warning is given that praising gifted children may burden hosts and friends, so questions mailed to the columnist are answered in print. Readers are invited to send questions with a stamped self addressed envelope.
Mrs B speaks on plain living versus grand entertaining and how refinement, grace, sympathy, taste, and fitness draw people into social life. Madameine adds etiquette for correspondence when a traveler is away, advising whether a woman should write first or wait for the suitor to initiate contact.
A folding troning table adds a smaller sleeve area a shelf and racks to hold troned articles alongside the usual board.
Washington Aug. 27. The United States employment service issued a statement saying it will not use compassion in recruiting workers. It notes that the War Industries Board decides industry priority and that several industries are deemed unessential by the District of Columbia community labor board during the war.
A inventor receives a patent for a street intersection danger signal featuring a movable arrow that points toward the direction from which harm may come. The device aims to warn approaching drivers and pedestrians by indicating potential threat from a specific side.
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