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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1919
Page
2
Local notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional cure for catarrh claiming it works through the blood to mucous surfaces. A one hundred dollar reward is offered if it fails to cure, with testimonials and samples available from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Also advertised Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Chas Ohnesorge, after 14 years of tobacco addiction, reports relief after using a free information book. Edward J Woods distributes the book by mail from New York Station. The ad claims countless people benefited from quitting cigarettes, pipes, chewing, and snuff, promising health, nerves, eyesight, heart, energy, and life improvements.
Washington June 10 Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board told the senate commerce committee he will immediately lift all restrictions on foreign ship building in American yards. The pledge aims to speed wartime production and boost domestic ship capacity.
A brief daily practice of silent meditation is suggested to reduce excessive talking. The note implies a routine of a few minutes to help improve focus and self-control in conversation.
Reports from allied commissions on German counterproposals are to be included in the forthcoming peace reply. Britain and the United States favor early German entry to the League of Nations, while France resists. The Adriatic settlements propose free cities and plebiscites with Italian and Yugoslav control.
At the home of Mrs. Belle Chesser near Zaleski a homecoming was held on Thursday June 5 for the birthday of her mother Mrs. Lucin da Martin. The event drew 134 attendees and a Athens photographer documented the occasion. Jerry Martin of McArthur, her stepson, delivered a commemorative address.
A historical note advertises two related 78 rpm records. The first showcases real saxophone tones with a lively middley fox trot. A second fox trot pairs Waiting from Listen Lester. Also listed are A2730 85c and A2725 85c featuring Sterling Trio and American Quartette with Lullaby Blues.
A large family gathering honors Grand ma Martin on her 77th anniversary. Relatives recount her resilience through trials and her long years of service, noting her crocheting lace and steady guidance of the household.
The Plains society notes report visits and gatherings with residents traveling to Athens Salem Nelsonville and Fisher Station. Families including Stauffer Howard Ball and Coon attend events while Lon Humphrey buys a Ford and Colonel Locke plans to move to Wayne Roach’s flat.
Monday evening the Short Plains folks enjoyed an open air vaudeville. George Gabriel mounted the front porch with a Victrola and a new record, performing ancient style jigs to amuse the audience on his thirty ninth wedding anniversary.
The John Hancock High senior class presents Wednesday morning rites in Ellis Hall with history prophecy music and a modern morality play Every Student to be staged Wednesday evening June 11 preceded by Old English songs and an Eug Morris dance. The program includes portraits poems and memorials by students and staff.
In Columbus on June 10 liberal groups pledged to circulate petitions to place a vote next fall on revoking Ohio’s wartime prohibition amendment. Wets argue a statewide vote could sway national opinion toward repealing Prohibition. Illinois also ratified the national suffrage amendment in Springfield.
George A. Saxton of Dorchester Mass is rated as a 100 percent specimen of man by West Point officials. He stands six feet four and a half inches tall and weighs 210 pounds. Not an athlete but won high scholastic honors at Harvard and Yale. He is eighteen and recovered health after years of poor condition.
The Epworth League of the First M E Church Athens sent a fifty word night letter to Governor Cox on Monday asking him to stop the Willard Dempsey prize fight in Toledo on July 4. Christian Church workers sent a resolution arguing that in this era of moral uplift a prize fight would undo good done by Christian peoples. Copies of Mondays Messenger with early fight details were sent to Toledo's mayor and to all.
New York June 10 transport Mount Vernon arrived with over a thousand troops of the Sixth Division. The ship carried Sixth Division headquarters troops 54th Infantry 11th Field Artillery Sixth Field Battalion Signal Corps 12th Infantry Brigade Headquarters. Major General Walter H. Gordon Division Commander and Brigadier General Lucius J. Durfee 12th Brigade returned.
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