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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1919
Page
9
An odd, dated advertisement claims a health cure using Cascarets to cleanse liver and bowels. It contrasts Cascarets with calomel and harsh pills, promising a painless, overnight improvement in mood and digestion.
Nelsonville reports Oak Grove school held an entertainment with a penny fish pond auction and box sale raising about forty seven dollars for the school. Happy Hollow and Deanville schools followed with box suppers and prize drawings, raising ninety dollars for library books and readers.
Bayer presents genuine Aspirin tablets marked with the Bayer Cross for safe relief of colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism sciatica and more. Physicians have prescribed for over eighteen years and handy 12 tablet tins cost only a few cents with larger packages available.
Rev A Kennedy Duff of North Springfield church criticized extreme fashions in women’s gowns during a Sunday sermon on the seventh commandment. He denounced bare backs and fronts, low necklines, and high skirts, urging husbands to discipline moral danger in attire.
Edward Stewart, president of the 11th district of the United Mine Workers, says Indiana operators proposed a Washington meeting with Secretary Wilson to seek a new agreement. He confirms the approach but offers no definite details or names, noting leaders rejected sectional talks before the strike.
Alfred McGuire of Wilmington wonders if the war department is deceiving him after four notices of his death since he was discharged as a cook and private from the 312th Infantry, 78th Division. He recalls his St Mihiel wound and correspondence from a Germantown chaplain confirming his supposed death.
Saugus Massachusetts nineteen year old John Hobbs captured a mackerel shark three feet nine inches long by tying a handkerchief around its tail. Hobbs’ sister heard splashing near Riverside cemetery and found the shark stranded as the tide turned. He then wound a handkerchief around its tail and dragged it ashore.
An advertisement touts Father Johns Medicine as a swift remedy for dangerous obstinate colds and throat troubles. It guarantees no alcohol or nerve-destroying drugs, claiming many medicines worsen illness by weakening the body and aiding pneumonia risk.
Young men of the church organized a Bible study class with Prof. Cooper teaching and Clark Williams as president. Donald J. Henry serves as secretary and treasurer. The class meets Sundays at 9 15 in the session room.
Early reports from West Virginia coal fields say the Guyan and Pocahontas mines are operating with about 20,000 workers. Kanawha and New River fields were also reporting activity as of today.
Akron suburb Barberton high school players taped their hands with gauze bandages embedding thumbtacks. The Medina backs failed to break away as tack-wrapped hands prevented passes and tackles.
A group of landowners led by Dan Linscott Stacy Sayers Dow Kasler Edgar Keirns Lewis Morris Arza Linscott Leslie Zayson and Ceral Fae warn that hunting or trap days or nights on their properties will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The notice ends with a price listing for Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets at 30 cents and a claim of a single authorized product with E. W. Grove’s signature on the box.
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