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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1927
Page
6
An endorsing customer praises Dr. Jackson's Digestive Powder for chronic stomach trouble and related symptoms after thirty years of distress. Ad promotes 60¢ and 1.60 boxes with money back guarantee and lists a long broadcaster schedule.
Last night a congenial group of Masons and their ladies attended the second serial dance at the IOOF hall with forty couples participating. Thor Olson chairs the committee, and the next dance is set for February 23. Also noted, a bridge party at Mrs. Gill's home on East State street filled sixteen tables with Mrs. Hoover taking top honors.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society observes a guest day at First Methodist Church Friday at 2 PM in the parlor. Mrs. Mary G. Noss will teach from the study book with Mrs. Elery Michael's group assisting social hour. Pythian Sisters meet Friday night. Clyde E. Hines leaves for Columbus road school. Girl Scouts meet at 7 PM to organize a Athens council.
The Drama League holds its regular monthly meeting at 7 30 this evening in Room A basement Ewing hall. The group will read and discuss Young Woodley the fourth play of youth and a year of planned plays. The time for meetings was moved to the second Thursday each month. Officers elected include President Prof George Starr Lash.
A mixed reader quiz presents ten questions with answers on the last page. It asks about a picture error sentence subject flag colors chess piece trapped in play states border questions and measurement conversions. The piece seeks to test general knowledge across geography sports and grammar.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Robinson of Charleston West Virginia, Mrs. John Snyder, and Mrs. Charles Breinig attended the funeral yesterday for Eli Johnson in Nelsonville.
Mr. Sanford Brownlee born and raised in Athens is seriously ill at his Columbus home due to paralysis. Mrs. Brownlee formerly Miss Delia McKee and also a former Athens resident.
Chapter 6 PEO held a meeting at 62 Elmwood Place the home of Mrs George Starr Lasher. Mrs F W Reed led the program reading Claustrophobia by Abbie Carter Goodloe a prize winning 1926 short story.
A 20 page message from British foreign secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to the League of Nations secretariat states Britain does not consider now favorable for intervention in the China dispute. The document asserts policy aligns with covenant principles.
Peking February 10 Marshal Chang Tso Lin the strongest northern ally announced active war against the Cantonese nationalists based in South China.
Thomas Smith of Lancaster is identified as the man who fired the fatal shot that killed Homer Robinson in Newark. Sheriff Carl Foulk says the identification clears up the Newark shooting and several central Ohio holdup cases.
Public health warnings spread as influenza reports reach Britain, France, the Philippines, and Chicago. The notice urges strengthening immunity with Bulgarian Herb Tea, sold by druggists for 35c to 1.25.
A schedule outlines 8 to 11 pm programming across WEAF and affiliates including WWJ WSAI WTAM with a full evening option from WSAI. Highlights include 8 pm Old time music 9 pm Banjo ensemble 10 pm variety and concert performances. WJZ and KDKA simulcast feature 7 pm dance music 8 pm duets 9 pm popular music 10 pm concert orchestra Elsa Gray soprano and 10:30 11:30 pm dance orchestra.
Mary Lewis, who appeared in Athens, will sing over WEAF and its station chain next Sunday night at 9 15 o'clock. She will be accompanied by an orchestra.
Roxy will return to the air with a series of weekly broadcasts over the next month. He and his gang will be heard on WJZ WBZ KDKA WHAS WMC and WSB.
The WillW Sunday afternoon concert series continues with a musical program broadcast on alternate Sundays starting from last Sunday. The next concert is set for a week from this coming Sunday.
Reported poor reception last night mirrors several nights of rising static, affecting listeners and limiting clarity to high power stations only. Local engineers investigate interference sources and work to restore stable service.
Edna Wallace Hopper extols a beauty shampoo created by a long studied lab. The ad claims 60 years of research and 50 formulas, promising a sunny glint and haloed hair. It offers Fruity Shampoo at 60 cents per bottle with a guarantee or trial coupon.
A dense schedule outlines 5:30 to 8:15 p m broadcasts across stations in Boston Chicago Pittsburgh Cleveland Buffalo Schenectady and Kansas City featuring organ recitals orchestras dinner concerts and aviation talks with various programs and timings noted for each city and station.
Sufferers of stomach distress and gas are urged to take one tablespoonful of Deans Mentha Pepsin to ease gas, relieve heart pressing sensations, and restore natural breathing. The ad claims rapid relief for dyspepsia with a bottle proving highly effective and widely sold by druggists nationwide.
The article notes typographical errors in a piece by I. F. E. B. Harshman principal of Athens high school. It provides the corrected book title A Course in Observation of Secondary School Teaching and lists Dr. A. R. Mead of Ohio Wesleyan University and Dr. W. C. Bagley of Columbia University as favorable critics.
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