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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1919
Page
6
An advertisement promotes Favorite Prescription as a temperance tonic for women across life stages. It claims to ease backache dizziness and general weakness without alcohol or narcotics and notes availability in tablets and liquid form.
Careful about alkali in soaps and shampoos dries the scalp and makes hair brittle. The article promotes Malsified cocoanut oil shampoo as pure grease free, cheap, and long lasting. It says to use about a teaspoon with water, produces rich lather, cleanses well, rinses easily, and leaves hair soft and fluffy while removing dust dirt and dandruff.
Judge Robertson ruled that any man who fought in France is entitled to one drunk as a homecoming celebration. The decision freed a veteran who had over indulged after his return.
Mrs A W Brazer of Black River Falls Wisconsin says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her from surgery for organic troubles and helped her recover enough to do housework. Doctors recommended operation but she was cured, prompting her to warn others about ailments like inflammation ulcers and backache urging trials or advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co.
Annie labors in a shirtwaist factory seeking higher pay and a way to support her mother and siblings. She quizzes moral maxims against harsh wage reality, endures foreman favoritism, a broken needle, and a locked exit as she contemplates a plan to earn more, including shorthand lessons.
A teen girl asks which suitor to choose between two young men one is older and in town the other near her home. An adviser warns against rushing and urges heart guidance. Other letters cover dieting fattening foods and teen curfews with responses from Mrs Thompson.
A family exhorts a fourteen year old girl to stay home after evening events. The father’s strict rules for her mother are noted as a contrast to the daughter’s social limits and travel arrangements. The excerpt reflects generational tensions and parental control over teenage activity.
This pattern suits chalice lawn cimity batiste voile silk linen percale and other wash fabrics. A plaited panel joins the side fronts forming a pointed yoke over the center front. Cut in sizes 2 4 6 and 8 years. size 6 needs 414 yards of 27 inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents.
Louisville and Nashville Railroad announces nationwide plan to reduce local staff with 700 workers in the mechanical department set to be laid off today. The move affects operations in Louisville Kentucky and other depots as the company trims costs.
Advice urges housewives to shift from prime cuts to cheaper options like tails and livers to lower food costs. It argues these meats provide as much meat per pound, help stabilize prices, and offers simple recipes such as Calf Liver Pasadena and Lamb Liver with Brown Gravy to prepare nutritious, inexpensive meals.
The Ohio University faculty approved a rule barring Athens High School students from regular university registration unless they are graduates or have fifteen units. The measure excludes current seniors enrolled and taking university subjects. It clarifies the policy does not apply to those registered in the past year.
Winnipeg mayor Gray announced street cars will run next Thursday with limited service guarded by a special constabulary. He ordered the street car company to resume operations under city direction.
June 11 report says Admiral Kolchak rejects key conditions from the peace conference including independence for Finland and summoning the 1917 constituent assembly. He asserts control over all outlying Russian territory and acknowledges Poland’s independence while his forces retreat far east of Moscow. The piece ends with an unrelated drug advertisement for Chamberlain's Cholera Morbus remedy.
Auditor Riley announced the board of revision has formed to revise county tax returns and locate delinquent payers. He warned that missing tax blanks by week’s end will incur a fifty percent penalty plus the one hundred dollar exemption denial. The board includes President Fred Porter, Recorder Fred Linscott, and Auditor Riley.
Detroit United Railway faces a legal clash as carmen strike for higher wages enters its third day. Circuit Judge Marschner issued an injunction to stop service cuts on the three cent Dingree lines, while the company has not moved a car, signaling it will contest the matter in court.
Former U S Senator John Colt Spooner died at his New York residence after several weeks illness. He was 76, suffered a nervous breakdown, and had served sixteen years as Wisconsin senator before retiring in 1917. He is survived by his wife and three sons.
Louisville reports Sergeant Alvin C. York, now a Tennessee colonel on the governor’s staff, has canceled his Salt Lake City honeymoon with the Rotarians. He calls the hero cult “the snares of the devil” and unbecoming for the second elder of the Pall Mall church.
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