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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1918
Page
7
JOHN F. BUTTS of Athens represents Gallipolis Marble and Granite Co. offering miscellaneous monuments of every description with unmatched material and workmanship and prices.
Rex the bulldog belonging to Belford Nelson returned home after weeks with soldiers at Pt Pleasant and Nitro West Virginia. Soldiers who cared for him sent a photo from their camp and asked Mrs. Nelson to forward it to Dink Nelson in France.
Mrs. N. M. Klein of Chillicothe Missouri says she keeps Chamberlain's Liniment at home and has used it for years. She asserts it relieves rheumatic pains quicker than anything she ever used and has recommended it to neighbors who have used it successfully.
Tobacco ash holds about 20 percent potash. A cigar ash is estimated to contain 6.5 grains of potash, a cigarette ash 1.75 grains, and an ordinary pipe tobacco ash 1.6 grains.
In Paris the capture of the U-boat lieutenant Schweiger and four crewmen after the submarine sank a British steamship has sparked debate. A French patrol ship seized them in the Mediterranean and thwarted an attempt to discard papers identifying him as the Lusitania’s destroyer.
Buckeye Building and Loan Company invites visitors to meet officials at 22 West Gay Street Columbus Ohio. The conservative lender offers five percent on time deposits with assets of 14800 dollars and promotes Liberty Bonds War Savings Certificates and Thrift Stamps. Safe deposit boxes are available for Liberty Bonds.
Production fuel administration asks miners to mine coal eight hours daily, six days weekly and to stay on the job during disputes while adjustments are made. They should abandon funeral shutdowns and wait longer for cars rather than halt mining, keeping the country’s coal needs first.
The National Fuel Administration establishes at each mine a six member committee three chosen by miners and three by operators to ensure efficiency and fair treatment. The panels will report miner absences and underperformance while urging greater output to support US and Allied war needs.
The Dunnington and Porter families hosted a reunion at the Porter home near Amesville on Sunday August 25 with about fifty attendees. Guests from Chesterhill Corning Zanesville and Conneaut joined, sharing baskets and a noon dinner while Clifford Porter prepared to depart for Camp Taylor as the family’s second son to be called to service. Pearl Porter remains in France.
A British scientist reports men fall asleep faster than women but sleep less soundly and, if in normal health, shorter sleep duration than women.
Robert B. Leopold plans a training battalion for Class One draftees and others who volunteer. Denver saw 55 commissions and 75 percent becoming non coms. A school of non coms will open from deferments, selecting commanding officers. If turnout is strong, multiple companies and drill activities will form with guns and drill grounds sought.
A report notes that thoroughly dried bran can quickly cleanse delicate fabrics such as velvet and wool. The suggestion frames bran as a gentle cleaning aid for fine textiles.
A British government order restricts flax from Ireland and Scotland used in linen for airplane cloth to be reserved for that purpose only. Jacob Graham appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Harry W. Graham of Athens County Ohio, deceased. Dated August 26, 1918, Probate Judge H. T. Phillips.
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