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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1927
Page
5
Town social columns report on Mrs. Bean's illness and recovery, the Business Women's Club meeting, and multiple gatherings. Initiations include Miss Helen Hull and others. visitors from Columbus and Manchester noted. A bridal dinner honors Beatrice Sams with Earl Foley pending Canadian wedding plans.
An advertisement extols Kruschen Salts as a simple health corrective. It claims six essential salts revitalize the liver and kidneys, with a two-tablet daily dose dissolving in coffee or tea. The pitch promises renewed energy and wellbeing for six cents per day, with 60 tablets for 60 cents.
A fragment notes a discussion on how sedentary work and other causes affect the body by citing a source on nutrient proportions from a 1926 copyright by E. Griffiths Hughes Incorporated.
Miss Irene Watkins a bridge lecturer and teacher in the Decatur high school commercial department received a bridge luncheon and kitchen shower from Miss Matery Prestley and Miss Mary G. Beck at Prestley’s home. Fourteen guests attended as flowers were daffodils and place cards were quill motifs. Watkins graduated from Ohio University and was connected to the Decatur community through teaching and her fiancé John Mann a young attorney in Decatur.
Mr and Mrs Harvey Ramsey left noon for Columbus called by the death of John W Acord a general contractor who died yesterday at White Cross hospital from injuries after falling from an attic window. Funeral planned for Saturday and Ramsey pair to return Monday. Mrs Alice Kill and Miss Grace Jan morning for Cergy for funeral Sunday of Tucker a great uncle of Mrs Kiine. Tucker died suddenly at 2 this morning at his Cumberland home. he was well known in Athens and visited Mrs Kiine each summer.
Eight tables were filled at the Country club last evening for the calendar card party. Mrs. Harry Kelley of Nelsonville won the women’s high score trophy, with Miss Charity Faber in second. For the men, Mr. Harley E. Moler took the high award and Dr. R. J. Studer was second.
Mrs. Lillian B. Stewart of Lafayette Indiana national president of Delta Phi Delta honorary art sorority is guest of Iota chapter at Ohio University this afternoon. Mrs. J. N. Brown leads Iota chapter. The chapter hosts dinner at the Colonial and a theater party at the Majestic to view the Girls Skit show.
More than 199 women gathered yesterday afternoon at Dean Irma E. Voigt’s home to entertain Della Connett Hixson of Cambridge, a former Athens resident. The Athens League of Women Voters planned the at home which fostered new acquaintances and reunions with old college and town friends of the guest.
Medical authorities attribute about nine tenths of stomach troubles to excess hydrochloric acid rather than a lack of digestive juices. The remedy Bisurated Magnesia, taken after meals in water, soothes the stomach, prevents excess acid, and reduces gas and pain.
State health department staff will present eleven radio messages on typhoid fever from station WAIU from March 28 to April 29. The program, under the Seymour plan, features speakers like Dr. John E. Monger and Dr. C. O. Probst, with topics on immunization, water supplies, history of the Salem epidemic, sanitation, milk safety, personal hygiene, and stream pollution. The Athens county and city health district urges listeners to tune in.
An old advertisement touts a tablet called meuol or midol as a harmless cure for menstrual pain. It claims fast relief within five to seven minutes and distances itself from habit forming drugs. Availability is noted in drug stores for 50 cents.
A local classifieds desk announces ready access to creating and placing ads for readers, inviting inquiries and guidance on formatting, pricing, and deadlines.
The Christian church in Dayton hosts a missionary pageant Sunday at 7 p.m. by the Ohio University student class. Fifteen characters embody occupations aiding Christian aims with symbolic props. Dr. E A Hansen coaches. Dayton Frost reads parts. Admission is free.
An advertisement extols Vinco chocolate coated tablets made from herbs and barks as a harmless bowel regulator for constipation. It claims no griping, refunds if relief isn’t felt from a 25 cent box, and urges readers to tell others about the mild alternative to harsh laxatives.
A quiz gathering science themed queries from history. It asks about Tesla, Darwin, Copernicus, boiling points, Archimedes, Euclid, insulin, an early transatlantic flier, Freud, and Henry Fairfield Osborn with a mix of field identifications and famous lines.
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