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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1918
Page
2
An old advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic and blood builder. It promises to clear coated tongue, improve skin, and aid lingering coughs, with user testimonials urging others to try the herbal remedy available in liquid or tablets from druggists.
Advertises Zemo from E. W. Rose Co. Cleveland as a treatment for eczema tetter rash and similar skin diseases offering 35 cents for basic bottle and one dollar for extra large size. Claims rapid healing without staining and positions as a dependable remedy.
An advertisement touts Beecham's Pills as a cure to beautify the complexion by cleansing the blood stomach and liver. It promises clearer skin bright eyes rosy cheeks and red lips by eliminating toxins and toning digestion and related organs.
An aunt writes about a court case where a prominent clubwoman sues over club exclusiveness. She reflects on women in court, public sympathy, and the motives of the audience as they watch a fight over social prerogatives and dollars. The piece argues women are learning humor and proportion, even amid theater and controversy.
A sewing pattern description for a splendid girl’s dress suitable for various fabrics including flouncing embroidered materials. It offers four sizes 6 8 10 and 12 with size 10 needing eight yards of 44 inch material. The pattern and illustration can be mailed for 10 cents in silver or stamps.
English wartime guidance urges extreme economy to aid troops. The Food Circulars advise squeezing the last nourishment from every ingredient and detail soup stock from vegetable peelings and trimmings, washing produce thoroughly and using all available parts in cooking.
A home tip describes simmering cucumber peels pea pods potato skins and outer green leaves in water to extract mineral salts. After 1 to 2 hours strain to yield a clear golden stock for nourishing soup with notes on using clean scraps before they spoil.
The text explains thickening soups using purees or additives. It notes foundation soups may supply thickening, and describes flour based thickeners using barley corn rice or oats in one ounce per quart with smooth mixing then boiling five minutes. It also covers bago or crushed tapioca soaked before addition and cooking until clear for a thick cream like consistency.
Wash the cods head then halve it. Slice potatoes and onion and simmer with water until tender. Strain the soup, return to pan, season, boil again and serve hot with chopped parsley.
The funniest farce in the world titled The Private Secretary plays tonight at 8 at the Opera House. The comedy promises rapid dialogue and mistaken identities for a lively evening.
Veterans and citizens of Lodi plan Memorial Day services on Sunday June 9 with an address by Rev L F Miller at 10 am The same speaker will deliver a memorial address at Pleasanton at 2 pm The notice urges loyalty and patriotism and attendance.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cline near Chauncey burned to the ground after a fire started by a defective flue. The CLines escaped in night clothes with seven children. neighbors and Chauncey residents began assistance. Several Chauncey residents and relatives were noted visiting or traveling in surrounding areas this past week.
Humored spring illnesses such as pimples boils eruptions and weakness afflict thousands. Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised as a blood cleansing tonic that improves absorption and elimination and revitalizes the stomach liver kidneys and skin. It claims relief from rheumatism scrofulous troubles and eczema and urges readers to accept no substitute and start today.
Washington reports a bumper wheat crop likely to exceed Agriculture Department estimates. Harvesting has begun in California, Texas, Kansas, and southern Nebraska with gains expected in winter and spring wheat. Winter wheat may reach 600,000,000 bushels and spring wheat around 232,758,000 bushels in 1917, possibly up 25 percent.
A Pittsburg wife describes recovery from a weak nervous condition after using Vinci. She says it rebuilt her strength and appetite, noting the product contains elements to build up a rundown system and red blood. McKee Drug Co. promotes Vinci in Pittsburgh.
Bomber McGinnis spoke at a wartime gathering in Ath ens describing Canadian and British campaigns, trench life, and German brutality. The event, led by Jock Moore, aimed to boost coal miners' patriotic effort for the war, urging support for stamps and bonds.
A son in France writes on Mother's Day describing a pleasant French countryside. He notes courteous locals, fertile soil, grape vineyards, and milk cows, and says he misses home and hopes to eat at the family table again. He mentions YMC A transportation offers and his good appetite.
An notorious skin complaint described as fiery eczema is blamed on a blood infection. The remedy S S S is touted as cleansing the blood to reach the disease at its source, with free expert advice offered from the Swift Laboratory in Atlanta.
Gilbert Stebbins of Cincinnati reports dramatic relief from rheumatism after using three packages of Tanlac Rheumatism Treatment. He describes shooting pains easing after the first week and full recovery after completion, recommending the product available at Cline's Pharmacy.
Try Tanlac the famous ton sic. It strengthens and cleanses the system and helps run down people feel better. Available at Cline's Pharmacy.
Word has been received that Clinton P. Biddle, who enlisted in the navy last January, passed an exam for assistant paymaster. He will be commissioned June 10 and likely sent to Paymaster's School at Annapolis then to sea as Supply Officer. The Girls' Food and Sewing Club of Alexander township meets Thursday at 1 30 at Mrs Letha McLain's home for the first year demonstration led by an Ohio State University instructor. attendance is urged.
The Coolville community celebrates service with a flag of nineteen stars and reports a 390 barrel flour car bound for Britain from Athens county wheat. A 320 barrel car started last week. Local growth includes a new town plat addition with Lena Jackson planning twenty acres and a large farm-homes push via Geo W Dean. Uncle Billy Marshall, an 81 year old Irish-American Civil War veteran, epitomizes Coolville pride as residents recall his long Republican involvement and jovial visits.
The passage links worry and the blues to functional derangements and suggests a few weeks of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a revitalizing home remedy. It encourages more outdoor life sleep and water intake to strengthen the system and improve health.
Florence Alabama June 5 Lauderdale authorities learn several army deserters hid in the county. A sheriff's posse found deserters operating a moonshine still with 1000 gallon capacity. The deserters fled but two were shot and wounded. Since January 1 fifty five moonshine stills have been destroyed in Lauderdale county.
The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the expense of sustaining a family has risen steadily since 1900. The findings trace long term price trends and living costs across households in the United States.
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