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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1920
Page
2
A La Crosse Wisconsin man, E. J. Tovalik of 1438 Rose Street, recounts twenty six years with chronic bronchitis and winter hoarseness. He credits RUNA PRU-NA for relief after using three quarters of a bottle and plans to keep PE-RU-NA in his home for catarrh and related ailments.
A claimed method to dissolve and remove dandruff is described with a curious mix of ingredients and steps. The piece then shifts abruptly to note that Burma houses the world’s principal jade mine, historically controlled by an Indian tribe for generations.
County Superintendent Root visits Waterloo township schools to observe class work and discuss education. Mrs Martha Robbins resumes teaching as emergency educator at her home school while Supt Root urges reading, high school and college goals, and book fundraisers. Waterloo board provides supplementary readers for grades 1-8 to boost reading interest and aims to supply Ohio Pupils Reading Circle books to all schools this year.
Supt Root urges OPRC work at school year opening and in all travels. He visits New Marshfield Dowler and Hamly Run schools to observe classes, discuss reading material, and stress stay in school. He impresses pupils with high school plans, notes lack of certified teachers, and returns to Athens after a full field day. SUPT PEARLY GASKILL.
An advertisement touts Cadomene tablets as the best tonic to restore health strength and energy for impoverished men and women. It claims quick results and lists drugstores as sellers. A separate note mentions a new factory jack enabling one man to lift and move loads in narrow aisles.
An old advertisement promotes California Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative for children. It urges mothers to look for the California label and promises a tasty fruit flavor and clear dosing directions on each bottle.
Relatives, friends, and neighbors gathered at the Croy home near Hollister for the funeral conducted by Rev. John Wilson with burial at Buchtel. Attendees included out of town relatives from Pomeroy, Chillicothe, Gallipolis, Cleveland, Marietta, Murray City, and Trimble, as well as local residents. A birthday party for Miss Forest Roe’s thirteenth birthday followed at the Roe home, with games, music, and late lunch.
An old ad style item touts Pepto Mangan as a red blood builder for anemic and run down individuals. It promises improved energy, rosy cheeks, bright eyes, and a clear mind, claiming physicians' recommendation for thirty years and worldwide sales. It notes forms and packaging and urges purchase with the Gude's brand name. Various property transfers and lots in townships are listed in a separate section.
Ed Grosholz of Columbus Ohio testifies the tonic cured his run down condition. He claims improved appetite and bowel function and better kidney activity after using Earle's Hypo-Cod from McKee Drug Co. and local druggists priced at 1 dollar 25 plus 5 cent war tax.
A series of land transfers recorded across Athens and Alexander Townships and Athens City. Names include Thos Phillips Lucy Rose Russell G Herrold L A Koons Wm Sullivan Chas Workman Matilda Workman Frank Beebe Edward Sycks Phillip Schall George Percy Ernest Moore Everett Russ Orria Glidden Edgar Lee James Davis W O Burk Mary Atkins Loren Carpenter Cora Moser Jacob Graham Chas Coen Cora Moler Wm Wyatt Robert Hails David McClain Mary Leslie Alma Burk Chauncey Corporation Penn Insurance Co Wm Glass Ellen Archer John Glass with properties ranging from lots and tracts to acres and fractions, with consideration amounts listed.
Deep snows and a severe Arctic winter drive thousands of birds rarely seen this far south to Hartford Connecticut. Naturalist John Burroughs long predicted Greenland and Labrador conditions would bring such arrivals echoed by weeks of zero temperatures and heavy snow. Species spotted include snow buntings grosbeaks shrikes and woodpeckers.
Harry Krohn a middleweight will face Billy Mercer in Cleveland on March 17 in a ten round wind-up staged by Tommy Hurley. It is their third meeting. Billy McCann from Akron also appears. opponent TBA. Separate note mentions ancient artificial heat egg hatcheries in China and Egypt.
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