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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1922
Page
8
In New York, Sarah Ann contemplates marriage to Neel after a brief courtship while her guardian weighs the risks of elopement. The narrator frets over haste, parental consent, and the pace of modern romance as a car ride hints at a proposed union. The narrator resolves to slow the match despite Sarah Ann’s confident certainty.
An advertisement promotes P D Q a chemical powder for eliminating bed bugs roaches fleas and ants. It claims to kill eggs preventing future generations and offers a 25 cent package yielding a quart and a hospital size option at $2.50 for six gallons. It notes availability through a niece and sealed bottle liquid form.
Egyptian artifacts cited by International News Service show knee length and floor sweeping skirts in pharaonic times. Statues reveal a draped hip buckle model and a scarf belt with tassels, suggesting fashion debates over skirt length persist after forty centuries.
Francis Kluxen third, 15, testified in his murder case defending himself over Janet Lawrence who was 111 years old. He remained calm answering direct questions as his attorney questioned him in court.
In Wellington Kansas a Sunday ban on baseball is favored by residents after a park board vote. 955 opposed Sunday baseball while 855 supported the measure, a narrow majority for Sunday golf. The issue followed a request to city commissioners to prohibit Sunday games in the city park.
NILES OH July 14 An office chair used by President McKinley while in the White House has been placed in the relic room at the McKinley Memorial. The chair is a gift from George B Cortelyou then private secretary to the martyred president. A letter from Cortelyou accompanies the chair and will be framed and preserved in the Memorial.
Paris July 1 Louis Juge performed The Circuit of Death riding a bicycle along a cage edge with lions inside. The bicycle slipped on opening night causing a broken rib and trapping him among the lions. The crowd panicked as circus workers rescued him while the lions appeared unimpressed.
Washington reports a vigorous campaign by the Department of Agriculture to cut wood waste in the United States. Only 30 percent of forest wood becomes seasoned lumber, with 10 to 25 percent lost in manufacturing and in extreme cases as little as 3 percent reaching final product.
An old age health ad touts Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a laxative to relieve chronic constipation symptoms such as headaches and bloating. It promises a daily elimination with no increased dose and offers a free half-ounce trial bottle by mailing name and address to Dr. W. B. Caldwell at 514 Washington St. Monticello, UL.
HALLOWELL Me July 14 Thomas Brown Civil War veteran and ex soldier 1865 1881 of Hallowell offers his two Vermont nephews $1000 each to enlist in the National Guard of Vermont He argues such service would mold every young man into a good American citizen
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