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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1919
Page
6
This message urges readers to buy groceries from local grocers instead of pedlars or mail order houses. It argues the town grocer provides better goods, fresh coffee, and a square deal, noting many local merchants are neighbors and friends and urging patronage.
A list from Athens Ohio names multiple local grocery firms and associated officers or principals. Included are Athens Co-Operative Co and Bethel Brothers among others, with individuals such as A W Barker, Alfred Black, W H Brooks, Chase and Reading, Flinn Grocery Co, and Sunnyside Grocery Co named in connection with the firms.
Annie takes a job as cash girl at Rooke's on Fourteenth Street earning 2.08 weekly plus eight cents for washing a blue apron. She endures long hours, no extra pay, and harsh working conditions as a young girl amid factory labor and police suspicion.
A collage of letters to Mrs Thompson about love, hair care, and marriage troubles. A twenty year old seeks a boy companion while older men are married, a reader asks about oily hair and a home remedy, and a wife asks how to handle recurring quarrels with her soldier husband with guidance on apologies and self control.
The letter suggests blonds with blue eyes wear pink and blue equally well, though one shade may suit an individual better. It notes color choice depends on personal factors and preferences.
A local column urges households to prevent cholera morbus by storing Chamberlain's Coliana Diarrhoea Remedy. It argues neighbors or delayed medicine heighten risk and suffering from sudden bowel attacks and advertises the 35 cent bottle as a dependable, affordable solution.
A reader from Indianapolis credits Milks Emulsion with ending three months of stomach pain and sleep loss. The ad Claims the product restores digestion, boosts appetite, aids recovery from tuberculosis and nervous debility, and promises a money back guarantee after six bottles. The Milks Emulsion Co distributes through The Cline Pharmacy Athens and The Fountain Pharmacy Nelsonville.
A San Cura Ointment jar is advertised at 25 cents with a money back guarantee from The Cline Pharmacy Co in Athens and The Fountain Pharmacy in Nelsonville. It claims to relieve bleeding itching and protruding piles and to heal quickly. Also advertised San Cura Soap at 25 cents and Thompson Medical Co of Titusville Pa.
An eleven year stomach distress sufferer reports relief after using Dr Parker's Treatment. The ad claims a six month gain of fifteen pounds and renewed wellbeing. Dr Parker, a specialist in stomach and bowel troubles, guarantees results and offers a dollar back if it fails, sold by The Cline Pharmacy Co.
A compact reflection on life as a sequence of years marked by sudden laughter and sudden tears, portraying human experience as a brief passage through time.
Poetic fragment describes a voyage of life as drifting and drifting through storms. The speaker is tossed by wave and wind, weeping at retreating light while clinging to hope and striving toward an unseen destination.
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