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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1918
Page
7
A clipped reader notices an aging woman seeking a simple method to tint gray hair and regain a youthful look. The piece emphasizes an easy, quick routine and promotes a hair tinting product as a practical solution.
A controversial advertisement urges readers to avoid paying anyone until Bio-seren doubles energy vigor and nerve force in two weeks. The claim centers on a promised personal uplift without upfront costs.
Advertises Bio-feren as a seven day upbuilder restoring nerves and vitality. Recommends seven days of seven tablets daily with a money back guarantee if results are not seen, noting vitamin and mineral components and a physician note.
Sally leaves Phillipsburg to join a nurses unit amid farewell crowds. Friends, family, and a band bid her goodbye as she contemplates a future far from home. Stephen Torrance appears in memory as the train departs, hinting at a looming drama.
A series of reader questions on romance during wartime. Advice covers asking for a man’s picture in uniform, a 17 year old’s living situation, returning rings, and reading a boyfriend’s signs of affection. The column encourages patience, self reliance, and practical work options for young women.
A letter column offers guidance from Mrs Elizabeth Thompson on how a boy should begin courting a girl and whether a seventeen year old girl should attend a party with a boy. The guidance stresses parental involvement and cautious consent with escalating dates after a first call.
This fashion department note details a blouse and skirt illustration with chosen materials such as serge gingham chambray or gabardine for the blouse and sports fabrics or linen for the skirt. The pattern offers sizes 8 10 12 and 14 years with yardage specs and an option to mail for the pattern for 10 cents.
Reader asks for suggestions on items or services to advertise in the Messenger Want Ad section. Encourages consideration and prompt placement of ads to reach local buyers and sellers.
Oden Johnson, artilleryman in France, writes home from June 2 1918 about packing gear, witnessing a brave French private's funeral, travel through a scenic French countryside, timber shortages, hedged stone fences, and hope to return after victory and peace. He urges sending newspaper clippings and notes all are safe despite fast moving fronts.
A health tip warns against using soaps and red shampoos containing harsh alkali that dry the scalp and brittle hair. It recommends plain classified coconut oil as a greaseless, inexpensive alternative. moisten hair, rub in a teaspoon, produce rich lather, rinse easily, leaving hair fresh and dust-free.
Thousands of motorists weekly seek United States Tires as dealers promote it with local shop listings. Glouster Liver Auto Co and Glouster Miler Auto Sales Co in Glouster along with F. H. Gilford in Amesville and Coolville Garage in Coolville advertise the brand. Other shops include Lostro Auto Sales Co, Martin's Garage in Albany, and Webster & Sutton in Canaanville.
Private Oden C. Johnson writes from a billet near the front describing nightly bombardment in No Man’s Land, airplanes and balloons, and quiet days in a village with horses to tend. He notes safety, meals, and a snug loft quarters, asks about Roy Shafer and Clarence Barnhill, and says he has written home twice and once to Gertrude.
A newspaper etiquette column presents Miss Reilley answering readers questions. It notes that a young girl can attend a movie unaccompanied during lunch hour if she behaves properly and advises polite courtesy when meeting newlyweds and addressing elders.
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