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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1918
Page
6
The piece urges readers to fight spring weariness with tonics and purifiers like Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets. It promotes blood root and related roots, glycerine preparations, and weekly purges to prevent auto intoxication, framing them as time tested cures.
A laboratory tour shows Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound produced with strict cleanliness. 850000 pounds of herbs are processed yearly using solvents and pasteurization to ensure purity. Women share letters praising its health benefits for female ailments.
Doctors endorse Vinol with cod liver and beef derivatives as boosting health in delicate children and aged parents. The ad claims it restores strength to weak adults and nervous individuals, offers a money back guarantee, and cites McKee Drug Co as a national retailer.
Peptiron pills are chocolate coated and easy to take, claimed to be the most successful iron combination by C. J. Hood Co. in Lowell Massachusetts. The ad says iron-rich blood boosts vigor for life’s battles, notes higher iron needs in spring, and cites pep sin wax celery and other tonics aiding digestion nerves and stamina.
A narrator reflects on Annie from a village household, detailing Annie’s long habit of patent medicines and poultices, her mother’s controlling chaperonnage, and the narrator’s own push for individuality. The piece warns against propriety tyranny and urges protection of personal rights as the reader grows up.
A Georgia extension survey in Athens shows 75 000 bushels of corn could be produced if 30 35 nonessential town workers switch to farms. The piece argues towns must replace drivers and doormen with farm labor to win the war, citing examples of chauffeurs elevators and shoe shiners as nonessential.
Weather outlook predicts showers on Monday or Tuesday then fair conditions for the rest of the week. No significant temperature changes expected.
Dr. Poling states after returning from Europe that reports of vice in the American Army are unfounded. He cites investigations across camps and France confirming soldiers in uniform live on a higher moral plane than civilians and reassures mothers and fathers nationwide.
Miss Nellie Moore says Tanlac revived her flagging health and ambition after years of fatigue and poor appetite. She reports improved work capacity and restored appetite, recommending Tanlac and noting availability at Cline's Pharmacy along with Tanlac Rheumatism Treatment claims.
The State Civil Service Commission announces more than twenty examinations for diverse state jobs in June across Columbus Cleveland Toledo Dayton and Cincinnati. Openings include corporation accountant dredge engineer junior messenger guards clerks electricians actuaries engineers chemists and more with salaries from 50 to 3250 dollars monthly or yearly. Prospective applicants are advised to request a free copy of the official bulletin.
A mixed sports roundup records several scores from American League and American Association games including Cleveland 5 New York St Louis 4 and Detroit 3 Philadelphia Chicago 19 Washington. A wartime note promotes Buy War Savings Stamps while a crude remark targets white collars in Petrograd, labeling them suspects in a hostile political climate.
Our Modern Fashion Dept presents a pattern for a dress in 4 sizes 4 6 8 10 years. Suitable for cottons linens silks and crepe with elbow or wrist sleeves. Requires 3 1/2 yards of 36 inch material for size 8. Pattern mailed for 10 cents.
The text outlines a wheat free meal plan with substitutes like cornmeal rice flour and barley. It lists breakfast cereals breads desserts and sauces using non wheat ingredients and includes a cornmeal oat recipe with oatmeal flour sugar and eggs.
The article promotes S. S. S. as a dependable vegetable blood purifier available for over fifty years. It urges readers to keep blood free of impurities and offers free medical advice by writing to the Medical Director of Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta.
Barley Hermit Cakes recipe lists ingredients and method for a stiff dough rolled thin and baked. Zanesville plans to switch to pure well water later this month as the new plant with 20 wells and a pumping station nears completion, ending river water supply.
An advertorial urges women to improve complexion via discretion and nutrition. It promotes Bloferen, a lecithin and iron supplement, claiming it boosts vitality and appetite. The product is sold by The Sentinel Medics Co Inc Cincinnati Ohio with a money back guarantee and a 1.00 large package.
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