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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1919
Page
8
This item notes a group facing hardship and stress as supplies and support focus on improving vitality and resilience. Local observers describe efforts to boost morale and physical stamina amid ongoing pressures and shortages.
Friends of Representative John L. Burnett recounted a near fatal incident as a bomb mailed from New York reached Burnett and his son Philip. They feared the parcel and handed it to police. it was sent to a river where a bullet struck it and the device exploded with great force. A Salisbury North Carolina post master warned of a bomb in the mails addressed to Senator Lee Overman.
In Syracuse on May 1 between three and four thousand building trade workers walked off jobs for higher pay. Carpenters lathers laborers bricklayers masons electricians engineers and others joined the strike demanding increases from five to twenty cents per hour.
The transport Koenigen Der Neder lander arrived today in Newport News Virginia with 2 568 officers and men of the American army. Many were Rainbow Division soldiers alongside Virginia casuals.
Aboard the transport Sierra off New York Lieut Commander A E Younge of Portland Ore treated a Pollac sailor 100 miles away by wireless contact. Six doctors on Serra and Powhatan then held a conference by wireless telephone amid a flu outbreak fifteen miles apart.
Miss Gloria J. Gould, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs George J Gould, displayed notable interpretative dance at a New York charity ballet for Belgian war relief.
Lieut John A Logan of Cleveland is one of the few to survive a broken neck. The U S Army aviator was injured over the Vosges in France when shell fragments caused a crash landing. He was dragged from the wreck in the base hospital at Camp Sherman Chillicothe and later found to have a broken neck with temporary paralysis in the right side.
Age 108 resident of St Louis Jewish Old Folks Home jokes at Leonard Matthews celebrating his 90th by walking six miles. He says people diet too much and he eats what he likes with liquor and smoke if desired. Also dated notes on weather improvements and Atlantic shipping wireless reports with Sopwith and Martinsyde planes in hangars awaiting transatlantic flight decisions.
An advertising testimonial from Chas W Byers of Terre Haute Indiana claims Milks Emulsion cured his consumption after doctors said he would not recover. He gained weight and strength after 28 days and credits the product with saving his life. The ad promises relief for digestive and lung ailments and offers a money back guarantee with two price points.
Advert asks workers with tender tired feet to use Tiz for immediate relief. Claims draw out poisonous exudations causing swelling and pain in coins, callouses and bunions. Popular 25 cent box touted as year of comfort from any druggist.
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