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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1919
Page
8
Mrs. Alice Heller of Christopher Illinois reports four years of irregularities weakness and nervousness with poor health. After two doctors failed she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and was cured becoming regular and in excellent health. The ad invites other women to consult Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. for guidance.
An advertisement touts Bio-Feven as a cure for nervous exhaustion and low energy. It promises doubled energy and sharpened ambition within seven days of a specific dosing plan and offers a full refund if expectations aren’t met. The drug is claimed to be inexpensive and widely available through local druggists.
An old promotion touts Senreco Tooth Paste as the quickest path to white teeth and healthy gums. It claims antibacterial effects, film removal, and acidity reduction, urging readers to buy a large tube for 35 cents at drug or department stores.
A set of reader queries ranges from marriage and engagement timing to studying concentration and memory, choosing attire, and relationships among teens. Advice emphasizes practical finances, realistic expectations, and measured choices in romance, study routines, and fashion trends.
Today's market notes show eggs firm with firsts around 43 cents per dozen and other grades near 42 to 41 cents. Live poultry steady with fowls 32 to 34 cents, springers 65 cents, roosters 18 cents. Cattle receipts 610 with dull to lower trading, hogs 3,000 mostly steady. calves, sheep, and lambs mixed with several high bids noted.
Cattle receipts light and market steady with choice 16.25 to 16.75, prime 14.50 to 14.75, common 13.00 to 14.50, veal calves 15.00 to 16.00. Sheep and lambs receipts light with prime wethers 12.50 to 13.00, good 11.00 to 12.00, good mixed 8.00 to 10.00, fair mixed 9.00 to 16.50. Hogs receipts 15 double deckers, market lower. prime heavy 21.25 to 21.40, mediums 21.25 to 21.40, heavies 21.00 to 21.25, light workers 20.25 to 20.50, pigs 19.75 to 20.00, troughs 18.00 to 19.00, pigs tags 13 to 14.
Prices listed include butter creamery at 56% 57c stand ards 56 19c firsts B4c 56c seconds bS0'gc H8c eggs ordinaries 41'4c 42'4c firsts 42c 44c cheese Twins 304%c 314%c young American 31%gc 314c live poultry 32'gc.
Hog receipts 49000 and cattle 8000 and sheep 9000 with mixed prices across categories. Beasts include beeves near 10.25 to 19.50, butchers 7.75 to 14.50, cows 7.50 to 14.25, calves 13.50 to 14.50. Sheep with lambs 12.75 to 19.65. wool and other items noted. Oil prices list standard crude quotes across several towns with Illinois Indiana and Ohio entries.
The Toledo grain market lists corn at No. 3 yellow $1.73 per bushel. Oats standard white priced at $1.03. Farley No. 2 $1.24. Clover seed cash $27.90, Oct $20.00, Dec $19.80. Alsike not quoted.
A vintage home remedy advertises lemon juice mixed with orchard white to create a cheap freckle and tan lotion. It promises quick fading of freckles and blemishes, claiming a fragrance free and non irritant formula suitable for face neck arms and hands.
Timothy new cash and May five dollars thirty five cents Sept six twenty Oct five ninety Rye one sixty Butter brick creamery six1 cents pack ing Soe Eggs selects strictly fresh forty eight candled forty six Hay unchanged
Liberty bond quotations listed for New York trading: 31s at 98.72, Second 4s at 94.00, First 41s at 95.80, Second 414s at 94.08, Third 414s at 95.14, Fourth 44s at 94.06. Market brief ends with signoff Sali.
A historic notice urges readers to share a home remedy for catarrhal deafness and head noises. It touts Parmint doubled strength dissolved in hot water with sugar, taken four times daily to reduce eustachian tube inflammation and improve breathing and hearing.
Advertisement urges using a few drops to remove corns. It promises quick relief as the user lifts away sore, touchy corns with fingers. The copy emphasizes ease and intimate control of the removal process.
A claim that Freezone instantly relieves corn pain and allows easy removal is presented as a cheap drugstore miracle. The ad touts low cost and universal effectiveness for hard and soft corns and between the toes with no soreness. Additionally a Cincinnati inventor is credited with the discovery as a sensational product.
Troy township, the county's third district, exceeded its $32 500 quota in the Victory Liberty Loan campaign. Herbert P. Dutton of Hockingport led a team of persistent workers who covered rural roads to sell bonds highlighting the five percent interest and the call to finish the job.
Mathias Brown of Waterloo Ohio testifies Nerv Worth tonics helped stomach trouble and nervousness. He and his wife bought two bottles from Nerv Worth distributor at Ball Warfield Co Ironton and found it reliable. The ad claims the tonic steadies nerves boosts appetite aids digestion builds up rundown systems with a money back guarantee at McKee Drug Store Athens and Hickman's Pharmacy Nelsonville.
S Ughet, charge d affaires at the Russian embassy in Washington, states the Omsk government will cede all power to a government chosen by the constituent assembly once Bolshevism is cleared from Russia.
Dr C L Strecker pastor of the First M E church Athens will speak Saturday evening at 8 oclock at the McDougal church where a social will be held for the benefit of the church. Everybody is invited.
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