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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1922
Page
6
A maritime captain recounts a long term double rupture ending bedridden after failed doctors and trusses. He claims self cure through a method found by study of his condition and offers his book and medicine free by coupon.
In PUNXSUTAWNEY PA May 16 former crook Robert W Razor Fenton now reformed recounts his career and how crooks lose most loot to lawyers bondsmen and underworld figures. He estimates a total haul over $300000 with a $20000 single score and recalls robbing a King of England by a duke’s visit in 1901.
Rome reports a revived tourist trade as hotels fill across Italy from Rome to Venice. Prices surge with second and third class hotels raising rates from 35 to 50 lire, while a pensione doubles to 51 lire amid complaints from depositors of Banco Italia di Leonto and calls for a new plan of reconstruction.
Article covers gas as a nervous stomach condition not caused by diet and endorses Pallmann's Gas Tablets as a nerve aid. Mentions opposition to artificial digesters like pepsin or bismuth. Also details local radio programs and upcoming music events from Albany and Schenectady clubs including A F VanDyck talk on tuning and various performances.
Strouds Run social roundup lists Sunday visits by Miss Wilma Sines at the Gillette home and by Mr. and Mrs. J E Bennett to George Sutton’s in Canaanville. Mr and Mrs J E Bennett host a miscellaneous shower for daughter and son in law T A Dowler with many gifts. Sunday school at Strouds Run starts at 9 30 with all welcome.
Advert says Peterson's ointment stops itching almost instantly and heals piles, sores, and eczema. Pricing listed 60c 85c 1.06 2.50 6.00.
Torch Austin Romine of Mildland City visited his parents Mr and Mrs William Romine. The Dunfees attended Murray Hatchs funeral in Frost. Mrs Nathan Day and son Denver left for Buchanan West Virginia for her mothers illness. C M Weeks and Decker from Marietta preached at the Baptist church. Mary Scarlett and her son from Parkersburg visited the DeWeeses. Floyd Dunfee and family of Dexter spent time with his parents. Worthy Beckley sold his farm to West Virginia buyers. Mother's Day noted at the Baptist Sunday school. Coolville visitors included H S Dye Cyrus Jones. Elmer Mauck and Coolville residents visited James Medley and Rowena Nixon.
General Electric station WGY in Schenectady N Y will air radio notes concert programs on May 23 25 and 26 at 745 PM Tuesday Thursday and Friday evenings.
Consolation of dressing in style with simple daintiness. This crepe gingham or new print pattern for girls 2 4 6 8 years features a single piece yoke sleeve and collar. 4 year size uses 314 yards of 27 inch material. pattern mailed for 12 cents.
Columbus May 18 The Ohio Supreme Court rules that candidates in municipalities with 2000 or more population who fail to win nomination in the primaries cannot enter the November election as independents by petition.
Wilson Ator lumberman and Edna Schofield both of Athens. Noah T. Brown Grayson employe Crooksville and Connie Jewitt Trimble. Clarence Sanders Creamer farmer of Coolville and Mary Grace Dugan of Nelsonville housekeeper. Vance Melvin Douglass miner of The Plains and Grace Luella Carsey Trimble. Theodore Charles Doughman telegraph operator of Dayton and Wilma Gladys Rathburn of Athens.
Downington on May 30 1922 will hold a Decoration service with choir music children’s drill declamations and speeches. Atwood Sloane and company will bring a large tent and ample eats for attendees.
In Wayne county since the field opened ten years ago more than 700 wells have been drilled for oil and gas. Many of the oldest wells are producing oil or gas in paying quantities.
Athens residents can try Nuxated Iron with a full money back guarantee if expectations are not met. The ad cites blood iron deficiency as a cause of weakness and lists risks such as heart palpitations and dizziness. It notes wide nationwide use and urges customers to buy at Cline's Pharmacy and test the remedy for two weeks.
The article reviews Athens county natural resources with focus on coal growth since 1867, railroads like Hocking Valley and Ohio Central, and the 1884 miners' strike costs. It notes oil fields opened 1898, Berea sand prospects, and a new Perry Oil & Gas Co field near Fisher Station with two wells active and a third planned.
Portland report cites Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business noting a $250 million Boston company forming to run air routes linking New York Chicago San Francisco Portland and New Orleans. He says two giant lighter than air freighters will carry 700 tons and 500 passengers at 110 mph and first fly NY to Chicago with nine more planes planned for Chicago to San Francisco routes.
The speaker notes rapid advances in air transport and radio telephony. He cites 600000 radio telephones in use and predicts a nationwide shift to aerial carriers, with every family likely to hear the presidential inaugural address within seven years. The need for franchises to prevent monopoly gains is emphasized.
Mrs. Jacob Caranek, a 47 year old New Orleans mother of twenty one children, denounces birth control and extols motherhood as a divine mission. She says she has ten living children, good health, and no time for aches, blaming childless reformers for modernity. In New York State over 350,000 women work in manufacturing and mechanical industries.
Bridgeport May 18 The coal strike boosts the lumber trade in Eastern Ohio with several district branches reporting gains in sales of lumber cement and grave goods as miners fix up properties during idle periods.
G A R posts notice of a special meeting to arrange for Decoration Day. John Kale P C.
Nineteen people died in a fire at Holy Ghost Hospital in Rome. A Central News dispatch says two or more bodies may be trapped in the ruins. The blaze caused extensive damage and halted hospital operations.
Premier Lloyd George will not represent Great Britain at the Hague conference next month. The decision was formally announced from the premier’s office in London dated May 18.
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