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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1922
Page
6
A fragmentary OCR item notes concerns about a bug infestation and related local issue. The readable text suggests an agricultural or health context with references to animals and care response. The limited fragment leaves full details unclear.
Mrs Clara Williams accompanied her daughter to Columbus for a tonsil and adenoid removal operation. Numerous residents, including Mrs Pride of Glouster and Miss Lena Miles of Middleport, spent time visiting relatives in local towns. Families traveled to Huntington, Marshfield, Nelsonville, Akron, Gallipolis, and Athens for visits, illnesses, and weekly stays.
Dublin dispatch reports rapid Free State advance westward through Munster with hope to end irregulars’ organized resistance within a fortnight. Communique notes five ministry members and sixteen MPs active in military operations. Oscar Traynor captured. a Dublin man disguised as a priest led Free State forces into an ambush at Glen Glenties. Two Free State soldiers killed. four irregulars captured.
A testimonial claims Mayr's Wonderful Remedy cured a decade long stomach pain and bloating after one dose. The product purportedly clears catarrhal mucus and inflammation in the digestive tract, including appendix issues, with a money back guarantee at local druggists in Athens and Nelsonville.
Albany July 26 After fifty six years on the Mohawk Division of the New York Central engineer Charles Brick McLaughlin will retire with a pension on July 31 at age seventy He began as a helper at fourteen in West Albany shops and later drove a Chicago express He has never been in a wreck during his entire rail career and plans to answer the last call by staying at the throttle longer if possible.
St Louis agents inspecting hundreds of home brewed intoxicants report a range of dangerous ingredients from deadly filth to animal life in various containers. The discovery underscores contamination risks in illicit alcohol production.
Hooch and wines tested contained dirt and impurities in varying amounts with some samples up to sixteen percent contaminants. One moonshine batch carried roaches and another supply batch contained four dead rats among its contents.
Detroit agencies warn fuel shortages from bituminous strikes will push many passenger steamers to the docks this summer. Coal stocks are thinning with some companies able to operate for only another week and shippers report bunker coal difficulties forcing possible vessel dockings.
At Jackson County Fair Benny Buck attended with strong political currents among attendees. Eight women voted straw poll with seven backing Foster while a one legged man ran for commissioner. Races featured spirited horses and a lively midway. Educational displays included Farm Bureau, State university, and Juvenile Clubs. No accidents or drunks reported.
The Department of Agriculture says golf courses offer ideal bird refuges with fairways feeding robins meadowlarks starlings flickers and killdeers while roughs host abundant insects. Water hazards give birds drinking and bathing spots and courses are often protected from trespass aiding bird life.
A 35 cent box of P D Q promises to destroy bed bugs roaches fleas and cocoons by killing eggs. The product claims liquid heat action and a patent spout for easy application and is available in liquid and sealed bottle forms from Clige a Pharmaca.
Paris reports indicate a coming increase in the world radium supply. Deposits of uranium have been discovered in Switzerland, from which radium is derived, and Madagascar's export of radioactive minerals will be expanded.
French infantry and artillery units head to Coblenz from Upper Silesia to replace American troops. The transfer boosts the Allied garrison in the A. F. G. city by about 3,000 soldiers.
Boston owner Harry Frazee says the Red Sox could fetch 1.5 million dollars and defends his Dugan and Smith trades to the Yankees while refusing to sell at present. He notes a prior million-dollar offer and argues the club real estate adds value as he compares to Connie Mack’s era. Rail unions deny claims of broad shopmen returns and service gains.
Crestline Ohio with mayor Milton Reed appoints ten striking Pennsylvania railroad shopmen as unpaid police, sworn to protect property during the strike. Chosen from level headed workers who walked out July 1, they will aid the local force under railroad sanction.
Detroit health and sanitation officials confront a near total garbage worker walkout. Two hundred fifty four of two hundred sixty city collectors and drivers protest a wage cut from five fifty to five dollars a day. The force recently organized and joined the American Federation of Labor.
JOPLIN Mo Just wanted a snack of food before I went home to dinner explained Charles Enos of this city after waiters in a restaurant watched him eat twelve hamburger sandwiches and two slices of pie In addition to these Enos drank three cups of coffee and two glasses of water Enos completed the job in twenty minutes declaring he was in a hurry to get home for dinner Housewives in Mrs Enos community are considering marching to her home in a body to extend their sympathy
Jim Chambers, the man who killed Prohibition agents C. E. Freeman and H. H. Fisher in Norfolk, was captured near the city after a lengthy manhunt. He emerged from a field and was killed by bullets from police and federal operatives.
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