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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1919
Page
6
A vintage advertisement touts House-tonia as a soothing cure for chafed skin and raw irritated limbs. It claims immediate relief from the first application and long term prevention with regular use, highlighting safety and a Dr Jones genuine label from The Dr J C Jones Co.
An old ad touts Blo-Feren as a cure for nerves and fatigue promising vigor, ambition, and a clear mind. It claims daily use of seven tablets with a bedtime dose leads to sustained energy and confidence for men and women seeking improved performance and mood.
A dubious ad touts a toothpaste claimed to whiten teeth, remove filmy coatings, and banish acidity in a week at low cost. It urges visits to a dentist twice a year and mentions widespread use by dentists. The text ends with a provocative Nation League joke note.
Annie endures coercion from peers during a Coney Island incident and resolves to outwork poverty through night school. Aunt Maggie loses her job as a secretary as the office shifts to efficiency and age is deemed obsolete, revealing untold family tensions and a mounting burden on Annie.
A reader asks if she may travel for a vacation with her brotherinlaw’s brother without her mother as chaperone. The adviser warns against going alone and stresses the need for a chaperone to avoid gossip and social censure.
A collection of questions and answers on personal style, etiquette, and relationships. Topics include eyebrow shaping warnings, returning a borrowed ring, hat trimming colors for a brunette, and tipping etiquette on streetcars.
Advertisment urges stout women to use oil of korein capsules to reduce 10 to 60 pounds under guarantee. Claims a sensibly easy path with no drastic exercise or starvation, promising health, youth, confidence, and renewed appeal by following the Korein system after visiting a druggist.
J. W. Selby of 68 East State Street reports relief from kidney pain and lumbago after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He describes initial symptoms including frequent and colored urine with sediment and scalding sensations. He purchased at Chenier's Drug Store, finished multiple boxes, and claims his kidneys returned to normal and pain vanished. Manufactured by Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo New York.
The transport Louisville arrived with 314 wounded and disabled men from the Archangel front, all members of the 339th infantry and 310th engineers. The steamship Guiseppe Verdi docked with 1902 troops, mostly casuals, including the 820th repair unit and the sixteenth evacuation ambulance company. Major General Ernest Hinds was aboard as a casual.
The Carranza government orders Tampico military authorities to pursue and capture the men who killed American citizen John W. Correll and attacked his wife near Colonia, twenty seven miles north of Tampico on June 16. The U S embassy in Mexico City informed the State Department.
There is more Catarrh in this section than all other diseases, once deemed incurable. Local remedies fail, as catarrh is influenced by constitutional conditions. Hall's Catarrh Medicine from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo is taken internally and acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. One hundred dollars reward for any failure to cure.
Washington July 8 The agriculture department issues a statement noting high consumer meat prices and low livestock prices. It argues for government supervised manufacture sale and distribution of meat to prevent profiteering and ensure fair markets for producers and consumers.
Basle July 6. Reports say the peace treaty will be submitted to the German national assembly for ratification midweek. Prussia negotiates with the Weimar cabinet on autonomy for Silesia. Hamburg transportation remains demoralized due to the railroad strike.
In Rome on July 7 a radical movement was spreading across Italy led by socialist and anarchist organizations along with labor and political agitators. They invited other towns to join the effort.
John D. Rockefeller declares he expects to live to age 100 and beyond. He spoke after celebrating his eighty birthday and said the milestone does not end his years of activity.
Francis X. Bushman testified that his former wife wrecked his picture business during their divorce proceedings. He said only one of his pictures has sold so far this year.
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