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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1923
Page
7
Advert suggests taking Hill's Cascar Quinine Tablets to boost resistance against colds flus and pneumonia. Warns that exposure is unavoidable in crowds and advises regular use before and after outings in cars streets shops and theaters.
Readable testimonial style ad copy from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper. The snippet features Mrs L K Myers of Winston Salem North Carolina praising the benefits of Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for “women’s troubles” and a Keene New Hampshire resident Mrs A F Hammond endorsing the product. The notices emphasize relief from weakness and backache and renewed energy enabling housework and work at the store.
Attorney G C Maxwell urged Athens Chamber of Commerce to back stronger Ohio Public Utilities Commission powers. He traced utilities growth from 1870s to today and argued regulation protects rates, investments, and contracts, while criticizing state underfunding and urging higher appropriations to retain competent staff.
Hermony Hill R R Hueston and John Barnet hauled locust posts Tuesday afternoon. A L Cornes sawed wood at the Foster home Sunday and Saturday. Cecil Cornes and John Dutton assisted. Otis Crawford and wife called on Mr. Crawford's mother last week, as did Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Crawford and two children Thomas and Kathleen. T J Foster and son Milo are ill with colds or flu. G K Thorpe visited J C Cogshell at Foster home Tuesday. Dan Livingston called on his parents Friday. M N Linscor of Athens visited Friday to Monday with his daughter Mrs A L Cornes, also called at Foster home and on N S Dutton. Mr and Mrs Millard Foster and two sons Mandry and Millard Jr spent Sunday with his parents. Mrs H J Craford remains seriously ill. Mrs Ruth Jenny is seriously ill and not improving. J K Vickers delivered mail on Route 2 replacing Mr Miller Tuesday. S H Noland was a business visitor at Little Hocking last week.
Burglars entered J C Coggeshall's blacksmith shop and stole a large quantity of bolts and tools. The incident is being investigated by local authorities with no arrests reported at this time.
Dr E L Ray received a photo of Floyd Glass an inmate at Fort Leavenworth asking for help identifying him A Malta Ohio woman with a nephew named Harold Glass missing for three years sought the picture to compare with her own He sent the photo back to prison authorities unable to confirm identity of the young man
Mr and Mrs Arthur Christian of Buffalo Street are the parents of a ten pound son born Tuesday. Born to Mr and Mrs John Wilkerson of Ohmar Avenue is an eight pound daughter born Wednesday.
Co. C. Winstead left Tuesday afternoon for Knoxville Tennessee after being summoned by the death of his father-in-law J. B. Lowe who died Monday night.
The residence of W. H. Dye on Main Street caught fire around noon Tuesday. The new fire bell rang the alarm and citizens responded promptly, extinguishing the blaze with little damage.
Della Cade youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs John J Cade died at home on Dundas Pike two miles north of Hamden on Wednesday afternoon after a brief illness of tonsillitis. She was a first grade pupil at Hamden School. Miss Tillian Thomas of Paintsville Kentucky visits her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs BD C Thomas and family. She will travel Sunday to New Straitsville to visit relatives before returning home.
TN H Kirkendall of Columbus son of Judge Kirkendall of Creola was calling on friends here Wednesday morning.
Richard Mischka and his wife celebrate their golden anniversary this month in Amherst. The couple formerly owned much land where Lorain steel mills now stand and have resided in the area for over 40 years.
Nick Criss rode along a sidewalk in Yorkville when he bumped into Marshall John Ferguson. After the incident, Criss was arrested and fined $2 for violating a sidewalk use ordinance.
Rev. W. A. Genheimer, of the South Africa General Mission, recounts travels from Tort Herald to Africa including a London princess wedding and a Zambesi river ride. He describes Chiddi in Nyasaland near the Shire river, local life, poverty, and harsh living conditions. Vehicles and wildlife are noted along with a focus on spiritual and educational work amid difficult health and sanitation.
Charleston report notes the second of quadruplets born to Mrs. Tomer McManee of Greenbrier County died yesterday. The mother and the remaining two babies are listed in favorable condition. The first infant died three days after birth. Mrs. McMann, 36, has now given birth to 20 children, including three sets of twins in 19.
Miss Nora Johnson returns from Parkersburg visit. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Keever host relatives there. Swearingen family and kids visit Carl Medley. Miss Mary A. Stone weekends in Marietta. Measles affect Wires seven children and Evert Deeters. Rank Minénr loses a horse to lockjaw. Claude Anderson works for I K Parker in Parkersburg. Stanley Mills and Bailey family host Long Bottom visit. Mike Moore moves family near Little Hocking. Harry Logue moves onto Moore farm. Josephine Hersman ill. Ed Heiney moves to his farm from Tuttle Washington Pa. M F F church youth class organized. Marl Dickerson teacher. Rev EB Wilson preaches. Cold weather at eight above zero. Gladys Parker visits Parkersburg home. Messenger buys a team of horses.
Graduation exercises marked the end of OSU’s three year agricultural program for 42 students. The course had been voted out two years earlier, with remaining classes for freshmen then enrolled continuing only for those students. A Pikes Peak hill climb event featured 109 curves on a 121 mile course.
Dayton man John Lumpkins reports in his home paper that two years of waking 15 to 20 times nightly with scalding and bladder pain eased after using Lithiated Buchu Keller formula. He notes large gravel pieces passed and credits the remedy’s kidney effects, priced 12 cents per tablet, available at McKee Drug Co. Athens and other drugstores or via The Keller Laboratory Mechanicburg.
Consumers must pay a five dollar deposit before obtaining a meter and no combined meter readings will be allowed, per Service Director W T Harps. Also Secretary Wallace extends the merger hearing for Armour Morris packing interests from April 2 to April 30.
The evening schedule for WIAX and WJAX in Cleveland for the week of March 25 includes March 27 at 7 P.M. radio concert by the Cleveland News with Vincent H. Percy at Cleveland Public Hall at 10 P.M. on the organ. March 29 features Stromberg Vokoun’s Cleveland Athletic Club Dance Orchestra broadcasting from 8 to 10:30 P.M. with banjo solos and saxophone numbers. Both programs air on 360 meters.
Miss Emily Baldwin of 1534 Broad St South Greensburg Pa attests the Thacher Liver and Blood Syrup relieved five years of rheumatic pain after two bottles. She reports restored mobility and energy and urges others with similar suffering to try the tonic. Distribution spans multiple towns via local druggists with a money back guarantee if first bottle fails.
The house highways committee recommended passage of the Mischer bill authorizing state and counties to abolish grade crossings on main market and interstate highways.
D. St. Steel, whose nationwide business was placed in receivership recently, died on a Pullman car near Toledo, Ohio, last night, according to word received here early today.
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