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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1921
Page
6
Governor of Ohio explains the finance department and cabinet oversight. A state business survey aims to cut payroll costs by at least 10 percent and end overspending through quarterly itemized budgets and pre-approval of contracts.
Three children in the home of E Smith on the lower East Side wrote to Santa while Smith, unemployed, offered his blood to the highest bidder. Harry Jonas faced death and bid $100. Santa Claus had some money and Jonas would live.
A vintage advertisement urges use of Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets to prevent colds flu or influenza. It notes the genuine product bears the signature of K. W. Grove and cautions buyers to ensure they get BROMO. The price shown is 0c.
Charles E. Miller urges adoption of proven methods and renewal of sound old practices in rural schools. He advocates plain readable script, correct spelling, neat handwriting, proper capitalization and punctuation, and integrated spelling with writing to prevent slipshod work.
Cleveland experts warn that bootleg liquor containing fusel oil poisons drinkers and can turn lips blue, with acetone and dangerous additives common in illicit spirits. In Ohio, eleven inmates face execution over the holidays, while other prisoners receive limited celebrations and gifts.
Lottridge reports revival meetings at the U B church ending last Friday night. Seven new members joined and conversions occurred. A Christian Endeavor Society formed and met for the first time last Sunday. Local residents and visitors are listed among guests and speakers scheduled for upcoming services.
Mr and Mrs James Reasoner visited the latter s parents Sunday while Mr and Mrs Rolly Robinson visited her parents Monday. Miss Flossie Chalfant is recovering from a broken collar bone. The Carthage church will host a Christmas entertainment Saturday evening organized by the school featuring recitations plays dialogues and drills.
Members of South Canaan Baptist church and community presented Rev and Mrs Homer Smith with a large donation of farm products including potatoes pork butter beans pumpkins honey bacon corn cabbage canned fruit cream lard sausage flour and nuts The gesture was a generous expression of love not a salary supplement Mr Smith said.
Dublin December 22 The Dail Eireann adjourned for the holidays without casting a vote on the Anglo Irish treaty. An all night session had been planned to force a decision but was called off as members adjourned to January 3.
In Milan Italy a group of beggars have organized into a union to coordinate aid seeking and living arrangements. The move signals a rare collective effort to gain bargaining power and better access to municipal support services.
Chronicle lists key Ohio milestones: Cleveland’s incorporation in 1814, Cincinnati hosting the first Odd Fellows lodge in 1838, Sidney D. Maxwell born in Centreville in 1831, and the death of Alphonso Mart in Washington D C in 1910, born July 4, 1830 in Trumbull County.
A sermon titled What Shall I Do to Be Saved will be preached at Millfield in the evening with Bible school at 9 30 a m in both churches. A Christmas program at Chauncey church will raise an offering for worn out ministers Sunday night. Revival meetings begin in Chauncey on New Year’s night. Garlic noted as a medicinal herb with ancient use.
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