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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1919
Page
6
A JA patent grants rights for a CI device with a tip mode feature and a holder included in the tip. The design emphasizes low cost, enabling disposal after use. The filing outlines scope for single use or inexpensive components suitable for throwaway applications.
An article urges avoidance of crowds and provides a home remedy to treat catarrh or colds. It promotes Mentholized Arcine as a nasal spray, explaining a one ounce bottle mixed with boiled water and used twice daily to soothe the throat and keep nasal passages clear.
Jim Belton and Charles Belton persuade Ann Sala berg to share a downtown tenement with Belton after dinner in the hotel. Ann resists but Jim agrees to the plan, promising to give her what she wants while contemplating a shared home with a stranger. The scene ends with Ann troubled, planning to confront Jim alone.
A sixteen year old writes of harsh home life and factory work with little pay and desire to enlist. Advice from Mrs. Thompson urges court involvement, night school, and possible pay rights while guiding toward safer schooling and independence. A separate note from SWEETY asks advice on choosing between an older fiancé and a younger boyfriend, with guidance to date someone closer to age and avoid early marriage.
A vintage remedy promises to cure dandruff by applying four ounces of liquid argon to the scalp at night. It claims instant itching relief and hair that becomes fluffy and glossy after multiple applications, with liquid arvon available at drug stores.
Mr and Mrs Wesley Hughes of Beaumont visited the Briley family in Jackville over the weekend. Ruth Shaw spends the week with her grandmother Mrs Mary Dowler. Fred Linscott improves after blood poisoning in his hand. Doris McHarg visits sister Mrs Clinton Oxley. Clarence Briley on the sick list. The Linscott visit Nelsonville over Sunday. Nearby residents attended John Marshall’s bell ringing at Union. A pie social is scheduled for Friday.
Describes a homemade cough remedy using 21 ounces of Pinex in a pint bottle with sugar syrup or substitutes. Claims instant relief, pleasant taste, and cost savings. Mentions uses for throat chest colds, bronchitis, croup, hoarseness, asthma. Credit to The Pinex Co Fort Wayne Ind and refund guarantee.
The Athens grange will hold its next regular meeting at the Jackville school Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. The third and fourth degrees will be conferred upon a class of nine. Refreshments will be served. Every member requested to be present. Miss Elsie Braley teaching at Tick Ridge spent the weekend at her home.
Musterole soothes sore throat bronchitis tonsillitis croup stiff neck asthma neuralgia and many pains with a clean white oil-based ointment. Massage gently to relieve quickly without blistering and without mustard plaster. jars 30c 60c hospital size 2.50
Urey Bates reports farmers husking corn and hauling coal. Earl Ator attended a pie social at Tick Ridge. Teachers met at Center Stake. A Saturday pie social netted 11.20 dollars. C. S. Tippie and family visited Athens. Kenney brothers attended a picture show in Athens. Tim Hawkins visited Mrs. Ralph McClain. B. H. Pugh family were guests on Angel Ridge. Mrs. J. H. Ator was a guest.
Mr and Mrs John Ashton and Mr Glenn Pratt were Sunday evening guests of C S Tippie and family in Athens. Mrs Elbert Sams and daughter Helen visited the former’s father on Long Run. Miss Mary Tippie, previously ill, shows improvement after a few weeks of sickness.
William and Robert Dixon of Albany were guests of W. P. Elliott Sunday. M. E. Oxley and Herb Ballen dig coal on J. P. Wood farm. Obert Cabeen and wife near Athens visited Frank Martin and family Sunday. George Gilkey helps Bush King with coal digging. Maurice Parker finished a barn and cistern for Frank Martin. Washton McVay and family of Albany visited B. W. Kenney group. Gilkey returned from Sand Rock where he worked for Mr. Basom. Butchering and husking corn are current local tasks.
A vintage pattern note describes a comfortable coat style blouse and side closing trousers for boys aged 3 to 6 years. Size 4 requires 34% yards of 27 inch material. Pattern available by mail for 10c in silver or stamps. In Cincinnati, WM Hanna, a chemist, experiments with oils in a hotel room and smokes a cigarette. the cigarette falls and Hanna is burned.
In Constantinople reports say harems are waning as only the very rich can afford multiple wives. The high cost of living has turned life in Turkey expensive, with some Moslems even hesitating to take a second wife.
Rome Grange held a well attended meeting at I O O F hall Stewart with two candidates earning first and second degrees. Six degree and membership applications were voted on and two more received signaling future growth. If votes pass for those favorably voted on the grange will reach eighty members, its under three months old. Canton Ed Davis, colored, wed two weeks ago and was arrested today on his wife’s charge after allegedly threatening to beat her unless she found a job.
A pie social will be held at Peach Ridge school next Friday evening November 21 by teacher Miss Sarah Stanley. A short program will be given while pies and refreshments will be sold. Everyone is welcome to attend and bring a pie.
An advertisement extols Begg's Mustarine a condensed yellow mustard remedy for chest colds pleurisy lumbago rheumatic pains and various aches. It claims rapid relief with a non blistering formula sold in a yellow box at 30 cents, replacing mustard plasters and listed as widely used by druggists.
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