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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1919
Page
8
An OCR fragment touts California Syrup of Pigs as a laxative for stomach liver and bowels. It claims children love its fruity taste and shows directions for child’s dose on each bottle. It urges mothers to say California.
Athens County Red Cross campaign opened Sunday with speeches at M B church, telling nearly two thousand residents of the Red Cross mission. The drive seeks one dollar per person and aims to reach one hundred percent participation through county firms and homes amid the wartime context and disaster relief work. Officers for the county chapter to be elected at a mass meeting in the county court room tomorrow afternoon.
Coal operators in districts affected by the strike schedule a meeting in Charm to invite striking miners to resume work. The move follows a nationwide stand in West Virginia coal fields. Logan field production is claimed to be at risk of breaking.
Western Pennsylvania districts reported mines closed as nonunion areas prepared for higher production. Strike leaders avoided details but signaled confidence that 100,000 miners remained on strike in the state while operators expected gradual returns in Connelsville Uniontown and Greensburg to address immediate consumer demand.
An advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle substitute for calomel. It claims olive colored tablets mixed with olive oil cleanse the liver and bowels, promoting normal digestion and removal of waste matter.
An old health ad touts Jad Salts or rad salts as a kidney flush. It claims meat forms uric acid that overworks kidneys and promotes bladder irritation. The remedy allegedly neutralizes acids, cleanses urinary waste, and improves kidney function with a daily spoonful before breakfast.
Thousands of mothers use Mother's Gray's Sweet Powders for headaches colds feverishness stomach troubles and irregularities in children. In use for over 30 years it is sold by druggists everywhere. Government tests confirm a new spark intensifier to raise voltage and prevent trouble when spark plugs are clogged by carbon in automobile engines.
In Columbus Ohio on November 3 union officials and operators discounted wagon mine labor as a relief for the ongoing coal strike. Data cited show about 500000 tons or one percent of state production last year and an expected drop of surface mines this year. W D McKinney and George Miles weigh the impact and predict little change.
Twelve years ago a class of men organized in Ewing Hall during church construction and named Class Six. Sunday marked the twelfth anniversary with 300 students and citizens present for an address by Prof. C. L. Martzolff paying tribute to leading Athenians and several letters read.
The professor explains Class Six does not belong to the church or Athens, but to the state and United States. He notes the class is known across Ohio and beyond for its unusual progress since its founding a dozen years ago. Argentine is highlighted as a country lacking coal mines.
New Kensington state troopers rounded up suspects after three bombings that damaged five steel worker homes. Two foreigners were under arrest. The blasts occurred within minutes of each other with no injuries reported.
An estimate proposes that Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River in Africa could supply 35 million horsepower. This would surpass current global output from coal and oil resources.
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