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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1920
Page
7
A health educator extols digestion and the stomach as key to overall wellness. Dreco herbal medicine is praised for stomach care and nerve and kidney support, with testimonials from Mrs. Simmons and Mrs. Bader detailing relief from gas, pain, constipation, and insomnia.
In Akron Ohio on February 26 the will of Ohio Columbus Barber late Match King of Barberton valued at about 4.5 million dollars provides for a new Ohio C Barber Agricultural and Industrial School. The school is to be built on the Anna Dean farm and affiliated with Western Reserve University in Cleveland and the remainder of the estate to be managed per prior ante nuptial terms and a 1915 Squire document.
Local notes describe use of Papes Cold Compound taken every two hours for three doses to relieve severe colds. The ad claims first dose opens nostrils, stops runny nose, eases headache and feverishness. Prices are a few cents at drug stores and no quinine used.
Marietta February 26 Don Whiting a basketball star at Marietta College underwent an operation at a local hospital on Tuesday afternoon. Glands on the left side were lanced after infection from blood poisoning in his left elbow. The procedure was not serious and he feels relieved today. He injured his arm in a game weeks ago.
A Columbus carpenter, J. K. Leake, endorses Earle's Hypo-Cod for severe cold, sleeplessness, breathing pain, and kidney issues. The ad claims rapid relief, notes the bottle formula, and lists McKee Drug Co as a local seller with a $1.25 price plus 5c war tax.
The Iron River valley battlefield fell empty as Major A V Dalrymple led forty deputies and Michigan state police to suppress the rum rebellion. After destroying eight barrels of wine, Dalrymple moved toward Washington to present liquor violation evidence to prohibition officials and the department of justice.
Henry Russell aged 67 vice president and general counsel of the Michigan Central Railroad died in New York from pneumonia on his way to Europe to bring home the body of his son Lieut William M Russell who was killed in aerial combat in France in August 1918.
An old advertisement touts Father John’s Medicine as a safe tonic to rebuild strength after illnesses like influenza pneumonia and colds. It claims 60 years of success, praises its pure nourishment, and cites a New York professional endorsing its use post typhoid pneumonia to restore weight and health.
Governor John J. Cornwell convenes a special session in Charleston to ratify the federal suffrage amendment and pass relief measures against high living costs and profiteering. A proposed law would make excess profits on essential goods a misdemeanor and discuss corporate law changes including non par stock and tax bases.
The article promotes a home treatment using Parmint double strength dissolved in hot water with sugar, taken four times daily, claiming rapid improvement. It asserts most ear troubles originate from catarrh and that the regimen can ease breathing and restore hearing in many cases.
An Oklahoma inventor creates a oil can that resists spills by a rod in the spout that stays closed when the can is upset and opens only when the bottom is pressed.
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