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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1919
Page
2
A vintage advertisement touts Cascarets as a pleasant laxative and liver cleanser. It promises relief from headaches biliousness coated tongue and digestive discomfort without griping or sickness, suitable for children.
Fragmentary text notes a troop train movement toward Jefferson Barracks Missouri with Ohio cadets and a small percentage of casuals aboard. Details about times and destinations are unclear due to damaged text.
London reports detail eight German spies executed in Tower of London on orders of British authorities. The piece notes the use of a specialized chair and firing squad, with a hasty shift from hanging to shooting as a cost effective method.
Fragmentary text mentions burdens, kidneys, and dealers but lacks coherent events or clear facts to summarize into a full news item.
The Wisconsin State Journal reports a socialist movement forming in the legislature. The item notes Judge Land fencing of issues and urges citizens to pay their same tax to prove patriotism amid charges that not all can be heroes but all can be patriots.
Council authorizes Solicitor Rose to draft an ordinance numbering houses to satisfy free mail delivery rules. It will be introduced at the March 7 meeting. A bridge repair contract for Sunday Creek near Standard Oil tanks will be awarded in March with lumber on site and bids to be sought next week. The K and M railway issues an order closing the telegraph office Saturday night to Monday morning and the depot Sunday afternoon after No. 5 departs. Citizens may leave town for No. 6 Sunday and check train arrival by phone in Corning. A business and city official message to Washington protests the order and seeks its rescission next week.
Several men were slightly injured at Mine 10 yesterday when timbers gave way during boiler unloading. All injuries were minor.
William Dunnett age 86 died yesterday afternoon after a ten days illness with the flu. Funeral services will be held at the home Sunday afternoon at two o'clock with burial in the city cemetery. He is survived by his widow and seven children, the youngest a nine month old baby.
Mrs Dalmah Hilt 68 of Jacksonville dies suddenly Thursday at her son W C Hilt’s home. Funeral will be at U B Church Jacksonville tomorrow with burial in Russell cemetery. She is survived by her husband and five children.
Revenue officers guarding bone dry Indiana decided on trench helmets after a whiskey-filled automobile radiator exploded near their noses in Danville Illinois.
Washington February 21. Legislation proposed by may or Hanson of Seattle targets Bolshevism. Representative Burnett introduces two bills one to ban all immigration for four years and another to deport interned and alien anarchists Bolsheviki and related radicals.
A description of a satin and silk wrap pattern detailing suitable fabrics, front facings, and six bust sizes from 84 to 44 inches. It notes fabric yardage for size 88 and offers mailed patterns for 10 cents.
Tuesday evening features the Grand Exalted Ruler and District Deputy at the Elk Lodge for the annual inspection. A large class of candidates will be admitted to the order, followed by a banquet. The event is the lodge’s biggest occasion and draws Elks from out of town. The piece also notes a tax boost slogan and compares an income tax receipt to a service stripe.
Paris report says Budapest is under siege after a Thursday riot. insurgents stormed Nepszava offices, occupied the railway station and post office. government troops captured the station. Meanwhile in Germany, over 700 Spartacans died in clashes at Hervest and Dorsten amid fresh rioting in Gotha Stettin and Hamburg.
Most Everything Logan Scotia beat the local Scouts of Troop Two 19 to 10 at the Armory last evening. Cameron led Athens with two fouls and one basket. Stickney, Roberts, and Strout added baskets. Logan’s others were Strotman German and Helser. Blair starred for the visitors with five baskets and one foul. In a second Armory game the Training School beat Mechanicsburg 38 to 8 with Briggs and McConney tying on three baskets. Murray, Davis, Shafer added two each. Kaler and Ruth scored for Mechanicsburg. Dr Stansberry was called to Luhrig to tend a sick cow later dying, autopsy revealing a long board in the cow’s stomach. A lumber fall injured William Hayes, a truck driver, crushing his ankle. he received treatment at Dr Henry’s office.
Excellent scores were posted by Athens Gun Club members at yesterday’s fifty target event on the Mill street range. Doc Clark led with 49, followed by John B. Poston 48 and several shooters reporting 40s and 80s amid plans for promising shoots in the coming season.
A death notice reports Mis J L Ferguson formerly Estella Atkinson of Moro Arkansas. A Zaleski native and former student at Ohio University she taught in Ohio Colorado and Louisiana. She spent years in Athens Public Schools seventh and eighth grades. Survived by her mother in Zaleski and two sisters Mrs J G McKibben of Zaleski and Mrs Johnie Pad bach of Newark New Jersey.
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