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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1919
Page
6
A laboratory tour shows the care in producing Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for women. Over 350000 pounds of herbs are processed yearly with sterilized utensils and pasteurized sterile bottles. Letters from grateful women support the remedy’s reputation for female illnesses.
A reader from New Haven, Conn. praises Neolin Soles for lasting long and saving money. The article notes Neolin Soles are tough, durable, comfortable, and waterproof, made by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and sold for men, women, and children with options to re-sole old shoes.
Claims the tonic purifies blood and removes skin blemishes by expelling impurities. Advertises tablets or liquid from dealers or a mail order package from Dr. Pierce’s Invalids Hotel in Buffalo New York.
A Ohio reader, Lowrie Hargtwell, reports boils clearing after using Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. He claims blood purification and lasting health improvement, praising the medicine as a tonic to build up a run-down system.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets offer a mild laxative effect as a calomel substitute. The ad claims instant liver relief without damaging teeth, touting a safe alternative priced at 25 cents per box and sold by druggists.
Walt and Janet Stedman see their play gain silent critics praise and first-week struggle shift to a breakthrough run. Attendance grows late in the second week, leading Rowe to extend the show as word of mouth drives success. Rowe offers a contract, but Janet teases a future for Walt.
A reader asks how to handle an engagement calling off by a fiancé who returned from France while rumors of a YW worker linger. Mrs Thompson advises self back away from the illusion, seek indifference, and pursue a more suitable suitor. Other letters ask about electric needle safety for facial hair, hair loss remedies, and nursing eligibility before eighteen. responses caution against extreme styling, suggest mild treatments, and urge high school graduation before hospital nurse training.
Berne reports May 5 that according to German newspapers the former Kaiser has asked the government for permission to return to Germany and live on estates near Iyadinen.
The article notes Tokyo public baths, once a social workmen’s hub built in Yedo tradition, faded due to fuel price hikes and higher costs. Bathhouses raised charges from a sen or two to four sen then stopped offering morning baths as fuel costs surged, while a new lamp regulation offers twelve lighting intensities.
Advertisement from E. W. Rose Co. Cleveland Ohio touts Zemo as a cheap antiseptic liquid for skin care. It claims to remove pimples blackheads blotches eczema and ringworm without being sticky or greasy and to stain nothing. Available at drug stores for 35 cents or a dollar for extra large bottle.
Monessen Pennsylvania is described as the nation’s real melting pot with eighty percent of residents foreign born. The Bureau of Naturalization notes the city’s diverse population, and an Americanization campaign has placed a representative from each nationality to promote citizenship, sparking rivalries over becoming 100 percent American.
The Carl Hagenbeck and Great Wallace Shows Combined will reach Athens about daybreak from Charleston West Virginia on Wednesday May 7. Two performances at 2 and 8 p.m. with a two mile street parade at 10 a.m. Circus doors open an hour earlier for the zoological paradise.
Advertisement touts Chamberlains Tablets for indigestion boosting stomach function and encouraging gentle bowel movements. It claims users feel notable improvement after a few doses.
Ohio's War Savings Committee urges Athens county schools to form Vacation Thrift Committees to boost summer sales of War Savings Stamps. Principals and teachers are asked to report, as $8,000 in prizes will be awarded to the top twenty five sellers this summer. Teachers Grace Roberts Florence Parks Louise Pearce Beulah Scott M. M. Bryson are named among those forming committees.
Advertisement urging readers to mail a slip to Foley Co. in Chicago for a trial package including Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Foley's Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets claimed to treat coughs colds rheumatism kidney and bladder ailments constipation biliousness and headaches with a cleansing cathartic.
A real show unfolds in the Apollo Theater lobby while inside a staged scene, three bandits robbed E. D. Marriott, the manager, of 60 dollars in a bold daytime heist.
In New York, Trinity church offered pews free to worshippers for the first time in two centuries, marking a historic departure from the usual paid seating. The move drew congregants and tourists who filled the nave amid explanations of long-standing generosity.
In Chicago Illinois a man ransacking a drawer at J W Pierce's residence was grabbed by a policeman after a short struggle. The suspect cried I gotcha and Leggo you mut before being identified as J W P himself.
Coolville Ohio May 3 The Troy Grange program for May 10 includes a short prayer and remarks on planning to raise more vegetables. Five members share two minute talks and Irma Webster presents a paper Observing the birthday anniversaries. Mrs Ed Dutton speaks on What I call the marriage lifter. Mr and Mrs Fair give a talk on Controlling the stable fly. Commemory is noted by Mrs Laura Gunder and Mrs Myrtle Morrison.
Daisy Bell of Savannah Georgia reports eight years of back pain and rheumatic discomfort relieved by Foley Kidney Pills. The ad notes thousands have found relief from kidney or bladder trouble and urges readers to try the product.
May 3 report assigns units to early convoy including 506 engineers HQ and medical detachments and companies A B C D Ford engineers 832nd company transportation corps 159 aero squadron clothing squad number 316 sanitary squad 21 537th bakery company and 20th company fourth regiment air service mechanics The text notes a Central American humming bird about the size of a blue bottle fly.
In Atlantic City on May 4 Lieut. Jean Ors demonstrated parachute drops of groceries and mail at pan American aeronautical convention. The small parachutes aimed to safely deposit milk bottles or eggs at a target with minimal breakage.
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