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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1919
Page
8
A health note promotes drinking a glass of hot water with limestone phosphate before breakfast to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims pores absorb toxins if waste isn’t eliminated daily and suggests this practice as a simple inexpensive cleanser.
Readers praise Dr. Carter’s K B Tea as a low cost, purely vegetable remedy. The ad claims the tea purifies blood, aids stomach and bowels, clears pimples and sallow skin, and pleases children, with quick noticeable results.
A leading doctor endorses Phosphated Iron as a treatment that builds pure blood and robust nerves. It claims to energize work performance and endurance, with testimonials of improved health in a few days. Available in capsules from McKee Drug and other druggists.
White House physicians report President Wilson had a good mental state but restless night due to swelling of the prostate gland. Doctors say the condition is common in older men and not considered serious, with vital signs normal and a specialist possible for consultation.
Toledo on October 14 witnessed a daylight robbery attempt at a Commercial Savings Bank branch near the Overland plant. Five armed men entered, fired at teller Carl Souder but missed. E S White activated the burglar alarm. the bandits fled as the alarm rang, taking no money and injuring no one.
Four men arrested in Akron confessed to burglaries and holdups totaling thousands of dollars. Frank Cooles alias Frank Robinson 25 admitted stealing $2500 in Strand Jewelry burglary and claimed twelve prior robberies in 1915 plus others in Cleveland Detroit Erie and Baltimore. Also charged were William R Miller 19 of Dallas Texas Wade Thigpen 25 of New Orleans and Arthur Samson 19 of Gordon Georgia who confessed to several holdups in the last ten days.
Harry Blakley 35 longtime baseball figure and former Cleveland player died in Chicago from suffocation when an apartment house fire broke out. Twenty five tenants escaped to safety as flames engulfed the building.
Major General Edwin F. Glenn awarded the Distinguished Service Cross to Private Arthur Speed Blake of Chicago for bravery at St Remy where he killed one and captured three Germans attempting to flank a machine gun position.
Emmet T Flood leader of the American Federation of Labor denounced Judge Garyer for refusing to deal with unions during the Ohio State Federation of Labor convention in Zanesville. He urged delegates to boycott the Overland Toledo plant and praised President Wilson as a friend to labor. Delegates from public employes league attended, with plans to push a pay raise for state employees. William Greenland of Cleveland spoke on a constitutional tax classification proposal.
Congressman Foster prepared to depart for Washington after the jury verdict in the Hollis-Poston case. He will meet with the emergency fleet committee and head to the eastern coast then watch the Squantan destroyer launch at South Bethlehem. He attends veteran reunions and backs civil war and Spanish American war pensions with a possible World War veteran bonus tied to Congress.
W. B. Edgar awarded contract for new school house at The Plains. Three thousand dollars will be expended for the building and equipment.
Representative Young of North Dakota reports Julius Barnes plans to lift all wheat import and export restrictions. He says Barnes has asked the president to issue a proclamation raising both embargoes and that the request is with Secretary Tumulty.
Flora McDowell a 50 year old deaconess at Shafer Memorial Methodist Church in Cleveland died of heart failure in the Sunday School rooms. She was found seated as if asleep after a daylong search of the neighborhood.
Roosevelt Memorial Association launches a campaign to raise 10 million dollars from five million people to build a Roosevelt Memorial. Roosevelt Day is October 24 in Athens county with school programs and memberships for donors. Teachers, schools in Buchtel and Happy Hollow join Lancaster visits October 22 and a charity entertainment fundraises for room improvements. Examinations in grades eight and below set for October 29 and 30.
The district plans early dismissal on October 31 for all schools so teachers may attend the South Eastern Teachers' Association in Athens. Sept Alex Root visits district schools today as the area faces a teacher shortage. three top teachers will sign life contracts and move into superintendent roles within thirty days.
Sheriff Parker was badly beaten by two inmates Roy Carl Sharp and Earl Rush during a jail delivery attempt. Sharp struck with a bottle and pail while Rush kicked, leaving Parker with a black eye, stiff neck, and head injuries. Both prisoners remain jailed on disciplinary counts with irons recovered.
Walter P. Miller former deputy sheriff and Cook expedition photographer was held in Seattle in connection with his wife’s death. Mrs Miller drowned while crossing Lake Washington to a sanitarium to prove or disprove Miller’s assertion she was drug addicted. She had been married to Portland mayor George Baker. Blood stains were found on the launch. the body had not been recovered.
In Baltimore on October 14 delegates of the Unitarian Society heard Rev. Dr. Henry Wilder Foote of Harvard Divinity School condemn paid choirs as too concert minded and not church oriented. He compared hired mourners at funerals to professional church singers as indefensible.
Mrs Nellie Shoop Muller wife of a Chicago physician and trained nurse arrived in McComb at four this morning and went to the cemetery where she shot herself through the heart with a revolver. No motive is given.
Colonel Edward M. House, President Wilson's confidant, shows slight improvement at his New York home after returning from Europe in a rundown condition. Doctors say he may be moved to hospital for X rays once his condition stabilizes. He remains in bed.
The Ohio Federation of Labor adopted a resolution condemning the importation of Pennsylvania constabulary to block the Lorain steel strike. A telegram of protest to Governor Cox was ordered. The federation endorsed the Ohio steel workers strike and pledged moral and financial support. A new vulcanizing outfit for automobile tires operates off an ordinary lighting circuit or car batteries and stops automatically when its work is done.
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