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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1907
Page
5
Verona Clarke surveys winter to spring fashion trends emphasizing sheer evening fabrics, lace substitutes, satin ribbons, fur trims, and jumper varieties. She notes price ranges from 50 cents to a dollar per yard, recommends gossamer scarfs and embroidered scarves, and highlights jewelry trends including gold wire necklaces with colored pendants.
Congress moves to probe deadly railway accidents including the Baltimore & Ohio wreck and Kansas disaster. The inquiry aims to assign responsibility, examine overwork and rush traffic, and consider drastic safety legislation while noting the financial impact on railroads and the need to reduce accidents without crippling traffic.
D. B. Dreamer, State Fire Marshal, argues denatured alcohol or industrial alcohol will cut fire losses in Ohio by replacing coal and wood for home heating. He cites 1.07 million dollars in annual fire costs from coal and wood heaters and notes alcohol flames are smokeless, soot free, and emit water vapor reducing room temperature needs.
Wise counsel from the south features J. R. Blankenship of Beck Tennessee praising Electric Bitters as a certain cure for back and kidney trouble. He testifies the first bottle brought relief and several more bottles cured him completely, with a recommendation. Sold under guarantee at W H McKee's drug store priced 50 cents. Decision sustained in street car case from Washington January 7.
Incoherent OCR fragment references a journey by road and a severe condition near Goolville, with unclear dates or events. No verifiable persons, places, or organizations can be confirmed to form a proper news item.
An old style health advertisement emphasizes liver care, listing symptoms of a sick liver and praising liver medicine, then claims a single safe remedy will keep you well. The piece uses period language and urges attention to liver health.
Thedford’s Black-Draught has stood for over 60 years as a popular vegetable liver remedy. It acts gently on the liver and kidneys, relieves constipation and congestion, purifies the system, and keeps the body in health. Priced 25 cents at all druggists. test it.
August Sherpe, overseer of the poor at Fort Madison, praises Dr King's New Life Pills as properly named and effective. The pills are claimed to cure biliousness and constipation and are priced at 25 cents at W. H. McKee's drug store.
The Sunday Creek Mine No. 275 at Chauncey resumes operations after a temporary settlement. Workers returned to their jobs this morning while state officials examine the case.
An advertisement extols Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer as a strengthening nutritious food suitable for the sick and well. It highlights malt and hops, claims purity and cleanliness from Milwaukee brewery, describes an eight day malt process, and urges drinking with meals for better digestion and appetite.
Washington reports the January start of Congress as it gears up for a strenuous short session. Beveridge proposes child labor limits tied to interstate commerce and rail safety reforms gain focus after the Baltimore & Ohio wreck. Legislation to curb railroad hours and supervision by the Interstate Commerce Commission is debated amid Japanese in California and labor disputes. Cabinet changes include Bonaparte, Metcalf, Straus. Hitchcock retires and Garfield to lead the Interior.
Mary A. Viney guardian sues Andrew Meadows in Case No. 677. The sheriff will auction a parcel in Outlet No. 11 at the Athens County Courthouse on Saturday January 26 1907 at 1 pm. Terms: cash. bids cover rents and taxes owed to Ohio University.
Notice declares on December 28 1906 in Gusville Ithgin that a petition in the Court of Common Pleas requests authority to borrow 800 dollars without funds and mortgage church land in Rome Township Athens County Ohio described by metes and bounds totaling about one half acre for church erection under the Board of Erection Fund terms.
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