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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1918
Page
2
A vintage ad touts Gets-It as the sure corn remover with money back guarantee. It claims corn pain ends quickly without cutting and promotes buying from local druggists and stores in Athens.
Advocate promotes drinking a glass of real hot water with a spoonful of limestone phosphate on an empty stomach to flush the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. Claims it cleanses sour fermentations gases and acidity, improves appetite, and brightens the complexion, with little cost.
A Wichita Kansas woman testifies that Milks Emulsion revived her health after years of coughing and digestive trouble. The ad claims the emulsion builds flesh, restores appetite, improves digestion, eases coughs, and even aids nervous and tuberculosis cases. It promotes a money back guarantee with six bottles per purchase. The Milks Emulsion Company advertises Terre Haute Indiana origin, with local sellers The Cline Pharmacy Athens and Fountain Pharmacy Nelsonville carrying guaranteed product.
English housewives are urged to conserve kitchen bones for glycerin and explosives, with ministerial approval. Bones help produce grease for glycerin, glue for airplanes, bone meal fertilizer, and aid food crops against U boats. Householders earn one cent per pound via butchers, with profits shared along the collection chain. The movement aims to let those at home contribute to the war effort.
In Montrose Colorado the Uneoem pahgre Valley Cattle and Horse Breeder's Association plans to present every enlisted man with a thoroughbred cow and calf. Rancher Adam Thomas will care for the animals until soldiers return from the battle fronts. If any herd increases, it remains the property of the man to whom the cow was allotted.
Red Cross laboratory cars assist at cantonments and training camps to locate germs threatening epidemics. Surgeons general wire the service to send a car when needed. Each car costs 1200 dollars a month to maintain, with germ containment claimed for each dollar spent.
Mrs Beechey widow of Rev P W Beechey of Priesthorpe Lincolnshire has given eight sons to military service. Three killed on the Western Front, one died at Rouen, another died in East Africa, two survive as paralyzed or serving. Two sons enlisted in Australia while farming.
An advertisement extols Neutrone Prescription 99 as a blood purifying internal remedy for rheumatism arthritis and related pains. It claims rapid relief from inflammation and soreness with a few weeks of use and pitches McKee Drug Co. and leading druggists as sellers.
Mrs William C Profit of Pana Illinois says her family has used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for fifteen years. She claims it is a quick cure for coughs and colds and that she has taken it herself and given it to her children.
Pattern department presents a dress design for a girl with a surplice waist and peplum, available in sizes 12 14 and 14 years. Descriptions note plaid or wash fabrics, trim options, and sleeve lengths. pattern mailed for 10 cents with material guidance for size 14.
Camp Eustis VA December 12 1921 War changes amusements as soldiers learn new games and resist baseball. Veterans and home camps show a shift toward amateur sports with rules differing from professional play. When the war ends many will favor other sports over baseball and the spring season may suffer.
Mrs Ella Wright of Chillicothe Missouri suffered frequent bilious attacks and indigestion. She took Chamberlain's Tablets and was very surprised by the rapid relief they gave.
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