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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1922
Page
2
Experts from Ohio State University advise fall spraying as the most practical window to combat peach curl. Spring applications often fail due to wet, windy conditions delaying tasks and allowing buds to open. Fall spraying with lime sulfur or line sulfur solutions is recommended, especially when scale is present, to ensure effective control.
Tokyo reports a surge in American movies as the Imperial Theatre hosts premier programs under Tom D Cochranes Far East unit. Wealthy patrons attend, despite censorship and kisses in films, while piracy is curbed and copyright treaties broaden protection for future profits in Japanese markets.
An old advertisement urges readers to treat back pain by targeting kidney health using Deans Kidney Pills. It cites a testimonial from Mrs. T. H. McHenry of Athens praising relief from backache, fatigue, and dizziness after using the product.
In a Moscow government village, peasants paid a ten percent food tax during a period of food shortages. Pravda notes the tax was paid with singing the Internationale, now used as the Russian Republic anthem. The article highlights improved harvests and the end of wartime land use for national defense.
Amherst reports the hospital board ready to act on nurse misconduct probe. A shake up among the nurses is expected as directors consider actions following internal review.
Leland Minch fought a colored footpad in Elyria on October 10. He sustained a discolored optic and a knife wound to the arm but saved his belongings and did not capture the culprit.
An advertisement touts a home made cough syrup using Pinex and sugar syrup or alternatives. It claims rapid relief within 24 hours for coughs including throat tickle hoarseness croup bronchitis and asthma like symptoms. The copy urges asking a druggist for 24% ounces of Pinex and guarantees satisfaction or money back from The Pinex Co Ft Wayne Ind.
A revival begins Saturday night at Circle Hill led by Mr and Mrs C B Overly and continues through Sunday in the school house. Old time gospel singing will feature the event and attendance is expected from Logan Greendale The Plains and Morgan county.
Washington reports a Department of Commerce survey shows the best production level since the low mood period two years ago. Factories run at higher output with more workers than in 1920, easing buying power distribution. Agricultural prices dip briefly due to bountiful harvests, while credit remains easy. Manufactured goods and minerals trend upward with demand. Experts deem industry sound after two years of reduced production.
Latrobe residents and visitors are noted with gatherings and visits. C. C. Mars' visit to Sciotoville, Mr. and Mrs. Styers and family from Marietta joined Morrison household members, and Audrey Tomlaugh recovers from illness. Ohio University student Mildred Fitch visited home, the Gaskins mourn a death, and a Sand Hill school pie social is planned for October 13.
Street car conductors in Stockholm sell hatpin protectors for one cent each to all women who went to buy.
Insurance men report nearly 9.5 million dollars paid out last year for motor car fires plus about 1 million more from specialty companies. Carelessness, both direct and indirect, causes most fires. Keep engine and wiring in good shape, avoid sparks, and use non water methods to extinguish gasoline fires.
A painting method uses a paint can with lampblack and turpentine, a hollow tin handle, and air tubes to spray paint. Air forced through the handle draws paint up and out through a spray tube into the radiator.
Advice on how to twist wires when placing a wire terminal under a terminal nut to ensure the nut tightens the connection. If twisted incorrectly, the nut will loosen the wire instead of securing it.
Manufacturers promise safer driving with suction cup chain carriers that grip slick pavement. The cross links support the cups, showing minimal wear on the chain while the cups cling to smooth or wet surfaces.
A pie and candy social will be held at the Kasler school house in Ames township on October 14 Saturday evening. Girls are asked to bring pies and all are invited. Proceeds will benefit the local school.
About 1000 tents shipped from eastern Ohio miners union headquarters to Connellsville Pennsylvania to shelter families of miners evicted from company houses during the strike.
Columbus reports the American Farm Bureau Federation will campaign nationwide to abolish the $10,000 cap on federal farm loans under the land bank act. President J R Howard says March 1 1923 will be settlement day for farm purchases and the banks can better serve purchases and improvements if the limit is removed.
The class-1 railroads of the United States earned enough in August to pay a 2.65 percent annual dividend, but $61,659,689 short of the 4 3 per cent return fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Net operating income declined from $80,160,200 in August 1921 to $52,579,799 in August 1922.
The Wheeling Steel blast furnace in Martins Ferry Ohio will reopen Monday after a year idle. The plant has been modernized with a skip hoist and a 33 percent capacity increase.
A statue named the Pollu Liberator was unveiled in Metz, replacing the former statue of Emperor William of Germany. The ceremony marked a symbolic shift commemorating the new statue on the historic site.
A description of a growing girl pattern for ages 12 14 and 16 with instructions for yardage on 22 inch material and a mail order price of 12 cents. The piece also notes many British prisons no longer needed for their proper use are being closed and handed to caretakers.
Notice states the sixteenth day of October as the hearing date at the Athens County Commissioners office for damages in the proposed road opening from Rens Hooper residence eastward through Sunday Creek Coal Company land and Bethel Mayle land to West Trimble. Claims must be written by the hearing day. Commissioners Andrew Murphy A I Johnson J W Hawk.
The notice lists the 1923 start dates for the Courts of Appeals in multiple counties including Washington Athens Vinton Hocking Meigs Gallia Lawrence Sexto to Pike Jackson Pickaway Highland Ross Adams Brown with terms beginning at 9:00 a.m. on various dates. signatories Edwin D Sayre William H Middleton Roscoe J Mauck.
The Clerk of the Common Pleas Court of Athens County Ohio certifies the foregoing is a true copy from the court journal after comparison with the original entry. Dated September 26 1922 at the Athens Ohio courthouse with official seal.
Major international telecom firms from the United States France Britain and Germany have united to create a consolidated network pool aiming to build a single expansive wireless station in Argentina.
The sugar ash of Sicily yields a sap that hardens into cane sugar, which locals use without refining.
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