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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1921
Page
6
An advertisement extols S. S. S. as a purifier and builder for the blood and system. It claims waste products cause illness and urges readers to buy S. S. S. from druggists, with free medical advice and a booklet titled Facts About the Blood from the Swift Specific Co. Atlanta Georgia.
A description touts Freezone as a cheap remedy that instantly relieves corn pain when a drop is applied and allows lifting the corn with fingers. It claims the small bottle removes hard or soft corns and even toe corn without pain, sold by druggists for a few cents. It ends with a folksy jab about parental tolerance of mischief.
The sixth annual convention of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs will be held in Cincinnati from October 24 to 28, hosted by the Women's Club of Cincinnati, with delegates numbered by club size. Meetings include an executive board conference and council gathering, with registration, tickets, and travel arrangements outlined.
The Giants defeat the Yankees 1 to 0 in the fourth game to even the World Series. McNally attempted a steal in the third inning but was thrown out by Snyder to Bancroft. The decisive rally began in the eighth when a key hit started the Giants’ winning sequence.
Upon arrival at the convention the certificates should be deposited with the committee at official headquarters in Hotel Gibson.
Miss Virginia Clevenger of Union City Indiana recalls a six year eczema outbreak on wrists hands and between fingers. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment she says she was completely healed and recommends the products for toilet use.
Sand Rock residents report calls and visits among Mrs Maude Brawley and Mrs George Ogg on Thursday. W S Taylor visited Athens on Friday. Lydia Bowman of Chester Hill visits her brother Will Marquis. Frank Smith family and Helen Quinn of Amesville joined Mrs Gilbert Boudinot. Moving orders push Mrs Dora Robinson and family to Athens and Glen Robinson near Jerseyville. Clyde Colvin relocates to the Robinson house. The Robinsons have long been residents.
Advertisement asserts Hyomei is the only safe treatment for catarrh and claims it kills germs when inhaled through nose and mouth. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded and lists McKee Drug Company as seller.
United States Steel Corporation plans to invest up to 10 million dollars to extend its manufacturing plants. The finance committee resolution directs subsidiaries to proceed as promptly as possible and to use their own workers where feasible to expand production and provide jobs.
The late Lawson Tait of England, famed as a great woman’s doctor, said he thanked heaven he was not born a woman. He noted no doctor understood better the sufferings women endure. An American woman popularized Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, claimed to relieve female illnesses and help many women.
Milton Stanley the fifteen month old son of Arch Stanley of Stanley & Boring Sugar Creek died when crushed under his father's truck. The mother witnessed the moment as she ran for the child and the father, unaware of the danger, backed the vehicle into a ditch. A doctor arrived but the child died within twenty minutes. Both parents were overwhelmed with grief.
Edward Thomson born in Portsmouth England and died in Wheeling West Virginia in 1870. Rutherford B Hayes elected governor in 1869. 1880 Republicans win state election. 1887 fire kills eight at Cleveland asylum. 1889 William A Leonard consecrated fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio.
A humorous tale by Harold D. Jacobs about Jesse, a worker at McGraw Stoneham, who earns the nickname Seven-Inning Pitcher after toiling in a fickle industry. Fred Toney later falters, but Jesse repeats ten strikeouts in another game, ending with a quirky moral about appearances versus outcomes.
Flyria Ohio real estate agents report a surge in moves during the past week tied to wage cuts. Workers earning 76 cents per hour now earn 40 cents and cannot afford better class homes, prompting a shift to cheaper rents.
A vintage classified style line urges readers to give clothes a chance to get really white using Once-Use Blue Devil. Dated 10 10 16.
Seven men with ages averaging exactly eighty years gathered at Bucyrus Ohio under the buckeye tree on courthouse grounds. The eldest, S. S. Alapach at 88, the youngest, George W Harris 75, joined by Philip Hill 82 J M Van Voorhis 76 D Brinkman 81 Jonathan Heinlein 81 and John Charleston 81. All are hale and hearty.
Columbus Oct 12 Taking fingerprints of prospective bridegrooms at license bureaus is urged by Robert I Miles head of Ohio prison identification and a renowned fingerprint expert He says installing the system in county clerk offices would help prevent bigamous marriages by comparing new prints with existing files and deter temptation.
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