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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1922
Page
6
A vintage style advertisement touts a cheap home cough syrup using 2% ounces of Pinex with sugar syrup or alternatives. It praises rapid relief within 24 hours, claims soothing throat membranes, and offers a money back guarantee from The Pinex Co. in Fort Wayne Indiana.
Greenville Delaware letter from Mrs. W S Hugues praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for her daughter and noting decades of testimonials from mothers and daughters endorsing the remedy. The piece urges local women to try the product based on patient experiences and community recommendations.
The notice reports a marriage license issue for Princess Mary with a stated cost of two hundred.
A Washington bulletin from the National Geographic Society notes the Yukon River as one of the world’s great rivers. It spans over 2300 miles, discharges vast volumes, and shapes Alaska’s interior commerce from St Michael to Dawson and Fairbanks amid looming winter.
A health notice claims backache and dull kidney pain signal excess meat. It advises four ounces of Salts daily in water to cleanse sluggish kidneys, ease uric acid build up, and reduce bladder irritation. Jad Salts is praised as a safe, inexpensive remedy.
Torch Seymour Underwood of Little Hocking visited on Monday. John and Austin Hall of Hockingport were Cyruss Jones's guests Monday. Alice Coleman and Margaret Dorisbacher left for Athens to resume studies at John Hancock after holiday visits. A B Bean visited Parkersburg Thursday. Cyrus Jones visited Little Hocking Tuesday. William Mowery visited Parkersburg Wednesday. Berlin held its first auto show recently hosted by the Baptist Ladies Aid.
Watch Dog Valentine surprise relief eases tensions as readers brace for deputation to Athens. Rev G L Ashton preached at South Columbus church on New Year’s Day. Aunt Clarissa Benedict improves after a stroke and nears 87. Mrs L G Bean visited from Athens. M E church ladies aid hosted a well received meeting. Ohio University Prof Cooper to start extension class in normal work next Friday. J H Kincaid visits Columbus with daughter. visits relatives. Charles Smith at 72 recounts lifelong Rutland residence and health. Florence Mitchell left for training in Cincinnati before taking post as postmistress. Rutland high boys edge Pomeroy. girls shut out 9–0. Lin Nora Bratton and Linnie Nicholson wed last Saturday.
The 1855 combined appearance docket and court journal of Athens county records early court proceedings. Notes include the 1815 start under judges Ames Currier Hatch, the guilty plea of John Daugherty with a $1.06 fine, and scarce divorce petitions before 1921, plus land partition notices and a county treasury payment for census work.
A serious earthquake struck San Fratello in Sicily today. The city of 50,000 residents evacuated as the cathedral post office and municipal hall were destroyed and damage widespread.
This evening at 7 o clock the Presbyterian Church opens a week of prayer with Dr Gamarts felder leading the opening service on Christian Education. Brief talks follow on topics from the home to public schools with solo by Ira J Reed and a committee headed by Prof McLaughlin arranging the program.
In Baltimore in the 1200 block of Wilcox street a blaze killed a man and a woman. An aged woman was overcome by smoke. A man saved his wife and four small children from their burning home as another family fled in night clothes.
Officials announced one of the lucky entrance tickets for the Athens Poultry Show last week remains unclaimed. Ticket number 267 entitled the holder to a pen of Silver Laced Wyandottes with four pallets and a cock erel. Notify J. F. Gulley of Athens to claim the prize. Bernice Atkins of 10 Palmer Street won the bantam pen.
Former Empress Zita of Austria arrives in Paris en route to Switzerland to visit her ailing son. She travels under close protection by French secret service agents to prevent contact with Hungarian monarchist agents.
Ohio veterans face higher joblessness than nonveterans, the American Legion of Ohio reports from seventy-five posts. One in five unemployed is a former service member, with wages down 38 percent from the peak while living costs fell 18 percent.
The 1921 Butler Road Contesting Association report, now at Ohio State University Dairy Department, lists A. A. McDonald of Wakeman as leading with a per cow average of 12 084 pounds of milk and 445 pounds of butter from his herd.
The record shows five herds producing over 10 009 pounds of milk with 13 other herds totaling an average per herd. overall the average Ohio cow yields about 4 700 pounds of milk annually. A gallon of milk weighs 3.6 pounds.
The report notes an average of eight ships wrecked yearly in the New Atlantic due to collision with floating derelicts.
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