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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1918
Page
2
This week in New England Mr. Edward Moore and Miss Vivian Maxine Ogg are reported ill with measles. The notice records two local residents confirmed to be affected and emphasizes precaution.
An advertisement promotes Tiz as the ultimate foot treatment. It promises relief from tired aching feet with claims of freshness, reduced pain from callouses and bunions, and lasting comfort. The copy urges a 25 cent box from drug stores and warns against substitutes.
Americans pledge wheat abstinence to stretch supplies over four and a half months. Many join Total Abstainer Clubs and pledge entire rations to allies. Texas largely wheatless from April to June. Also reports a French botanist finding a dust cleansing plant and a new galvanized wire splint.
A survivor known as La Dame Indomitable tends wounded soldiers, cooks for them, and manages a makeshift hospital in a shell‑torn village. She says she is sixty five or seventy, stays amid gas and danger, and treasures a letter of thanks from a French general.
Emil Young of Carlisle says he is personally acquainted with the Kaiser and was held by federal authorities for lack of naturalization papers. He claims service in the German army and asserts his personal ties amid the investigation.
The Dora or Defence of the Realm Act has issued about 212 orders since November 1914. Its powers cover regulations from destroying stray dogs to controlling mines canals highways and shipping.
Maurice Muller, aged eighteen, escaped from a German prison camp with Emil Delroches. Delroches was killed by a patrol after singing the Marseillaise. Maurice swam the Rhine at midnight and was helped by Swiss officers at Schaffhouse before being sent to Evian on the French border. He learned his younger brother Georges, who left the camp earlier, was repatriated to Dijon, while another brother Jean remains a prisoner in Westphalia.
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