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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1904
Page
2
The ad claims scrofula can be slow to develop and may affect stomach, bowels, and digestion before skin or gland issues appear. It urges complete eradication and calls Hood's Sarsaparilla the best medicine for all humors.
A collection of humorous observations on politics, aging, fashion, and public life. It jests at weather prophets, Prohibition tides, marriage, and stage speechcraft while noting the era’s social foibles and common sense wisdom.
Mrs E F Hayes of Roxbury Boston suffered long with fibroid tumor causing severe pain swelling and bleeding. After following Mrs Pinkham’s directions she reports being a well woman capable of walking miles and endorses Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as effective. Letters claim cure and urge trials.
Services at the Presbyterian church included Dr. King delivering the morning sermon Mighty Through God. Miss Krapps and Mr. Hoover sang a duet while Miss Mary Slattery played the organ. Bishop David H. Moore spoke at a united service with the Methodist church.
A gentlest voiced operator used a time marker to log long distance calls at the Central Union Telephone Company. The device stamps start and end times on a ticket so charges reflect actual minutes and seconds, helping settle disputes and enforce rate limits. A navy device later addresses Missouri explosion concerns.
Sedgwick Arkansas July 11 a father claims Dodd's Kidney Pills saved his son's life after severe dropsy left him unable to walk. He reports giving 35 pills over eight days and the child recovered to run dance and sing, contradicting doctors who said he would not improve.
Rath, the daughter of E N Dewey of Agnewville Virginia, suffered cholera infantum last summer. Her family expected death within hours until Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was used. Within five hours her condition improved and after part of a small bottle she recovered. The remedy is sold at McKee's Drug Store.
Colusa California resident Joe Golo bick credits Electric Bitters with ending 15 years of rheumatic pain after trying everything. Ad claims the medicine also aids liver and kidney troubles and general debility with guaranteed satisfaction by W H McKee, Druggist. Also notes a Washington report on rising factory exports.
Fourteen floating bath houses have been provided in New York City and an estimated six hundred thousand persons will use them weekly.
A drug store notice warns customers to inspect bottles for Perry Davis Painkiller and not be swayed by cheaper substitutes. It advertises Perry Davis Painkiller in large bottles priced at 25 and 50 cents.
Middleport, Gallipol, Pt. Pleasant. Special train excursion via Ohio Centralines on Sunday July 17. Train goes and returns. See posters or call agents for full particulars.
The Coolville camp meeting starts Thursday night August 4 with Rev J L Glascock of Cincinnati preaching and leading evangelistic services. Thomas Osborn of Boston will head singing and children's meetings, Daisy Nichols of Cincinnati leads Young People, Geo W Hooper of Athens oversees the hotel. Reduced railroad rates offered. Write 8S 8, Humphrey, Coolville Ohio for programmes or info.
An oldirmative travel blurb touts Rocky Mountain Tea from Online's Pharmacy and details a daily Athens to Chicago sleeping car service on train No. 5 via the Ohio Central Lines, with arrival in Chicago at 7:10 am and connections to Toledo. It invites consulting Ohio Central Lines agents before planning travel to Chicago or the West.
The Athens county teachers institute will run August 15 to 20 with sessions led by Prof. E. M. Mills of Ohio University, Prof. Willis Bongthon of Columbia University, and Prof. W. H. Mitchell, superintendent of New London public schools.
The Chicago Limited on the Wabash line derailed near Litchfield Illinois causing many deaths and injuries. Emergency crews rushed to the scene as trains halted and authorities began a full report into the accident.
A man representing an agricultural implement factory at Moline NL travels 300 miles to the World's Fair in St Louis aboard a cultivator. He is accompanied by his wife and child.
Druggist P M Shore of Rochester Indiana reports selling fifty boxes of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets on the recommendation of a local lady who bought a box about a year ago. The positive effects make the tablets popular with women widely and McKee’s Drug Store sells them.
In enervating days, Hood's Sarsaparilla is urged as a sustaining diet beyond a blood purifier. It helps bear heat, aids refreshing sleep, and may avert illness. A Bluefields girl choked on a live fish, underscoring caution in hot weather.
Scientists confirm Bmrpentine acts as an antidote to carbolic acid exposure. Trials indicate rapid neutralization of toxins and stabilization of patients with minimized complications. Further studies underway to verify dosing and safety.
Advertises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential, urging immediate purchase. Claims the remedy will be needed eventually and implies strong effectiveness. Mentions McKee's as seller and a compound chemical lectithin associated with promoting growth of giants.
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