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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1919
Page
6
A Kentucky pharmacist urges the public to avoid crowds when ill and to practice hygiene to prevent influenza. He recommends a home remedy of Mentholized Arcine mixed with boiled water for gargling and nasal use, claiming relief within days and widespread at home use.
Frances Balin becomes the first Starkey woman in Canton to be arrested on a bootlegging charge. Local authorities moved after an investigation into illicit liquor operations.
A wife rebukes her husband for treating business as a male domain amid a ruined partnership and missing partner. She offers practical help, provides four hundred dollars from savings, and insists on joint effort to restart. The scene ends with her retreat to a private room as the crisis deepens. To be continued.
A young wife seeks counsel on leaving a loveless marriage for a married officer. Mrs Thompson warns against infidelity and urges commitment to husband and children. The second letter advises a seventeen year old to move on, predicting reconciliation. The third requests guidance from an eighteen year old about a sixteen year old girlfriend. The adviser says to let her date others.
An old time remedy uses sage tea and sulphur to darken gray or faded hair. The Wyeth Sage and Sulphur Compound offers an easier bottle form applied with a sponge to evenly color hair in a few applications.
Advert says taking Pape's Cold Compound every two hours for three doses breaks up a cold and relieves grippe symptoms. It claims to clear clogged nostrils stop nose running ease headache and feverishness with no quinine and low cost at drug stores.
A Oswego man reportsDr Williams Pink Pills rebuilt his health after chronic colds, fatigue, indigestion and back pain. He credits the tonic with restoring appetite energy and resistance to illness. Sold by druggists or Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY 60 cents per box. Free booklet Building Up the Blood available.
The Plains school adds cement walks and three new rooms while a Victrola is noted. A Saturday dance at Mr Newan Worthmen drew a happy crowd with hot dogs and coffee served. Mrs Ora West and daughter Elsa manage the home for Mrs Lane Elley in Columbus hospital. Mrs John Shusts visited Glouster and Mrs Nisbet Sharp shopped in Athens Friday.
Mr and Mrs Lewis Freeman visit relatives in Kentucky. Charles Gaskins and Nisbet Sharp attend the Athens opera. Ed Buffington is ill. Mrs Joe Bridgewater attends Sunday school at The Plains. Vincent Cheadle visits Wellston. Charles Gaskins and Everett visit his brother at Sugar Creek. Tona Brooks visits his brother Harrison Brooks. Charles Tate and wife shop in Athens. Corn husking fades. miners gather nightly at the station awaiting word to start work. J L Rice of Columbus visits his parents in Hocking.
Mrs William Canter hosted visitors from Beaumont on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Arthur Coon have gone away on a visit to an unspecified destination.
An old advertisement touts LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets as germ destroyers and tonics for venting colds grip and influenza. It mentions W GROVE signature on the box and a price of 30 cents.
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