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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1923
Page
6
An urging advertisement promotes Kellogg's Bran as nature's regulator for constipation. It claims daily two tablespoonfuls with meals, versatile uses from cereals to muffins, and highlights benefits for children and adults, with recipes printed on packages and wide grocery availability.
Logan health officials warn of a measles epidemic in Hocking County. Health Commissioner W G Thoten urges parents to safeguard children, monitor cold symptoms, keep ill children in bed, and expose no one to measles. Nonimmune children must stay home 14 days after exposure. avoid visits to homes with measles. Dr Rhoten notes Ohio measles deaths exceed those from smallpox and scarlet fever. Haydenville reports most cases, with recent isolated cases in Logan. cooperation urged.
A crowded note rail recounts social events and local happenings near Hermon including a surprise supper at Mrs. Grimes’s home, visits from Miss Alta McLeak and Mrs. Grace Glover, travel by auto up Sharpsburg hill, and a sale by E F E Dille. Mrs. Carpenter’s injury and ill health of Mrs. Prince Armstrong are mentioned alongside a wedding of Hermon teacher Miss Chloe Harris to Mr. Harry Brill of Sharpsburg. other brief items note farm sale plans and health concerns in the area.
Mr and Mrs Lewis E Buell express thanks to friends who assisted during the passing of their infant son John Edward. They praise the care of Mrs Stout, the undertaker, and the consoling words of Rev Tifft of Nelsonville.
French troops occupied railway stations at Luettringhausen Hoerde and Alplerbeck seizing 150 cars some loaded with beer. Dayton Ohio police report Earl Kreitzer 33 under arrest for two brutal assaults on a Dayton woman and a young girl with alleged confession.
The Ohio House approved the Taft measure to limit borrowing by boards of education without public vote and to fund existing indebtedness as of July 1, 1923, by a 98 to 2 tally.
A man with an official air told village officials he was sent by the government to replace the village electric wiring with heavier cable. He removed the wire and fled, leaving Marzhausen in darkness. Villagers now rely on candles.
Nancy Collins Pollock born October 11 1940 died February 2 1923 aged 82 years four months twelve days. She married James Pollock in 185% and had two children then married Henry Collins in 1875. Survived by husband Jacob Pollock Nelsonville sister seven grandchildren and other relatives. Card of thanks from Henry Collins and the Pollock family.
Two excellent models combined for a suit with a convertible jacket collar and loose box lines. Jacket sizes 84 36 38 40 42 44 46 bust. skirt sizes 26 27 29 31 38 35 waist. Medium size uses 6 38 yards of 40 inch material. foot width 214 yards. Pattern mailed for 12e or two patterns sent on receipt of stamps.
Infant Eugene Robert Willis son of Oscar and Minnie Willis was born June 6 1922 in Jobs Ohio and died March 25 1923 aged nine months and nineteen days after five weeks of illness. Survived by parents two sisters four brothers grandparents and other relatives. The family laments his brief stay and gentle blessing he brought.
Mr and Mrs Oscar Willis express gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness during their baby's sickness and death and for the flowers received. The Pueblo notice is dated March 30.
Four mice entered the municipal power house transformer in Lincoln England and chewed through a cable rubber, plunging the town into darkness. The mice were electrocuted.
Mary Agnes Smith born in Meigs County Ohio on September 22 and died March 22 1923 at age 44 years six months after gall bladder and appendix surgery at Grant Hospital Columbia Ohio. She married Holshop Archer in 1887, had one son Clarence Archer, later married The W Wilson and had three sons Tamer Oakland Jesse and one daughter Myrtle Devis plus a stepson Calvin Wilson. Survived by five grandchildren a step mother two sisters three half siblings and many friends. A Christian all her life she was a devoted mother wife and church worker and he poem closes with a lullaby about a precious one gone from us.
The king and queen visited a London tea factory, inspecting machinery used in weighhouse and cacao operations and showing interest in the factory’s interests and production.
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