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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1919
Page
10
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a gentle remedy for bilious feeling headaches and constipation. It claims the product clears the system overnight without the harsh effects of calomel or oil and costs little.
An advertisement touts Begg's Mustarine as a fast relief for pains and aches. It claims a small yellow box contains concentrated heat, more effective than traditional mustard plasters, available at drugstores in 30 and 60 cent sizes from Beal Co. of LeRoy New York.
An old fashioned vegetable remedy promotes Dr Carter K B Tea as a safe way to free the bowels liven the liver and improve digestion. The ad claims the tea clears skin improves breath and health when taken every other night for two weeks while noting it helps fretful children too.
In Towne New York Mrs Towne aged 40 and her three children aged 10 12 and 6 died after eating canned vegetables believed to yield ptomaine poisoning Two sons aged 15 and 9 are critically ill The state health department has been ordered to investigate
New York November 7 reports four Giants have sent in signed contracts to manager John McGraw. Players named Nehf Fred Toney Mike Gonzales Hubbell are listed among others in the club’s off season activity.
Athens fans anticipate two games this weekend as Athens High meets a strong Portsmouth squad at three o clock and Ohio University faces Baldwin Wallace at 2 15 pm tomorrow. Flood damage delayed practice, but a yard ditch on the field helped restore play. Injured players Pope Kreiger Goddard Jefferson and five others miss action while Boyd improves for the Wallace clash.
A central German power station distributes light and power to 146 nearby villages. The setup links the villages to a single hub, delivering electric service across a wide rural area.
Mrs Sumner R Hollander of New York returns from Europe after a battlefield tour. A photograph shows her wearing a striking Parisian frock with short sleeves and an odd short skirt signaling Paris design.
County officials plan to tear down the barn behind the county jail and replace it with a garage for county machines. The decision will be discussed at the next commissioners meeting. Also notes on the Roosevelt Memorial fund reports, a Birge murder retrial motion, Armistice Day plans, local veterans and civic events, and various local anecdotes.
The Bayer name and Cross certify genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin. The Bayer package lists directions for colds headaches toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism lumbago sciatica neuritis and general pain. Tin boxes of 12 tablets cost only a few cents. larger packages sold by druggists.
The article reports on a political referendum with 25 counties voting wet and dry, sparking calls to The Messenger. It lists quirky survival tips from ministers and doctors, notes a gravel road funding vote, cream stations expanding in Athens county, a Gallipolis fire destroying Fred Foster’s home, and University of Ohio athletics field drainage work amid flood waters.
A published old remedy recipe claims a constitutional treatment for catarrh and related deafness. It prescribes Parmint double strength mixed with hot water and sugar, taken as a spoonful four times daily to relieve head noises, ease breathing, and reduce eustachian tube inflammation.
Washington November 7 the railroad administration denied that the coal strike has forced extensive curtailment of trains as reported in the middle west and new england. Brice Claggett assistant to Hines said there has been no general curtailment of important trains with only a few northwestern trains taken off. The fate of curtailment depends on nonunion miners' coal production. Palmer's office signaled no change in policy as cabinet met after Palmer's conference with Gompers who stressed the strike ends only when workers return to work and enter negotiations.
Berlin November 7 Hugo Haase minority leader dies from complications after an operation to amputate a leg. He had been ill for several days.
In Chicago the Oakley avenue and Van Buren St. saloon site is now a gospel tabernacle led by Rev. R. Beveridge. A short medical ad promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets to stop cough headache and relieve cold with E. W. Grove's signature on each box, price 30 cents.
Crowds lined the Queen Victoria embankment to view the P-31, a British antisubmarine craft, moored for two days of public inspection after official pe ace celebrations. American soldiers toured the vessel and heard crew explanations of its gear and weapons while watching its 23 knot speed and submarine like design.
In New York on November 7 magistrate Sweetzer ruled that the right to hang out the family wash is unalienable even if it defaces an apartment court. Samuel Goldburg complained the superintendent removed the clothes on three occasions.
A petition presented to the Santa Monica chamber of commerce requests the elimination of bathing girls pictures from Santa Monica public displays.
A college will be established in China to educate natives in scientific tea cultivation with emphasis on sanitary conditions.
This ad urges mothers to use Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children to ease colds fevers teething disorders and other ailments. Marketed as trusted for thirty years the promotion promises relief and satisfaction and warns against substitutes available at drug stores.
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