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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1919
Page
10
Mrs J R ates of Deanville preserves a letter from her son serving with the 308th Engineers in France. The missive details daily life, the front line conditions, and updates on morale as troops sustain operations abroad.
Soldier recounts time in Paris praising its women, noting more beauty there than New York. He spent about four hundred francs for three days and earns forty dollars a month, saying he would spend similar on tobacco back home.
Corpral Cephas H Geer and Miss Luverpa Geer of New Straitsville visit Aunt Mrs Joseph McBride after Geer returns from eleven months in France. Several local relatives and friends visit Athens for weekend events and shop.
A resident purchases soda water for his children and pays the tax with a smile. He then asks for patent medicine his wife ordered, gets stamps charged on the bottle, and a scuffle erupts in a drug store as patrons react to the luxury tax on medicine.
New York reports Parisian influence brings daring backless gowns for women in the coming season. Designers showcase fabrics with gold and silver embroidery, beadwork, and trailing trains, while models reveal bare backs and gloved premieres, stirring controversy.
May 9 report says difficulties finding a referee for the Jess Willard versus Jack Dempsey bout are likely to vanish as the contest nears. The articles bind Willard and Dempsey to choose a referee acceptable to the promoter within a reasonable time, or Rickard will select if they fail to agree.
St Louis Missouri May 9 American Legion delegates begin decision on the site for the November national convention with Chicago Minneapolis and Pittsburg troops present A committee of one delegate from each state will choose the convention city and an election for a third vice president from the Marines was planned for the afternoon sessions Roosevelt declined the chairmanship saying the move was for the Legion’s good
Mrs. Carl Shaffer and family hosted at Nelsonville. The Ryan and Wyant families visited Circle Hill and Chauncey. Miss Hazel Ryan and Mildred Ryan joined relatives in Athens Circle Hill and Circle Hill for a picnic. Jessey Ryan ill with scarlet fever. Holley Thomas family traveled to West Virginia after uncle’s death.
In Chicago on May 9 Alice Frau bel and Margaret Reilly two police women pursued Louis Fernando for purse snatching. They used revolvers to capture him after the arrest.
Marshal Hawkins protested a patrolman during a staged interruption while moving belongings from a house. He insisted the home was his, but the officer replied with a curt retort.
In Louisville Kentucky William Johnson a Black man is hospitalized with a hip wound after a shooting. Police seek Claude Bush as a person of interest in the incident.
A Swiss railway outfits an ambulance car with electrical appliances powered by a generator mounted on its axle.
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