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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1926
Page
5
A quiz style page asks readers to identify the actress in a pictured caption and to solve clues. It also asks which college Benny Friedman attends and seeks the name of a person named Aimee, all on a single test page with multiple questions.
Personal notices recount Miss Edith McBee leaving for Foo Chow China to teach English, with multiple local visits and gatherings across Athens and surrounding towns. The column lists attendees, host residences, and upcoming engagements among residents and visitors from Cleveland, Portland, Schenectady, Columbus, Akron, and Marietta.
Hollywood article reports the divorce proceedings between actor Adolphe Menjou and his wife Catherine. The disputes over social rank and family ancestry fueled bitter fights and accusations.
Philadelphia begins testing women as taxicab drivers in a historic move. The city leads major urban areas by inviting women into a demanding, traditionally male occupation, challenging the stereotype of cab work as too tough for women.
Sylvester Wolverton arrested in Dayton on a three month Cincinnati manhunt. He faces charges as leader of a jail break that freed seventeen inmates from Cincinnati prison in July. Wolverton was found near the National Military Home with a revolver. third Dayton arrest.
The Fort Pitt mine near Moundsville across the Ohio River from this city ends a two year idleness and restarts production today. The mine employs 400 men and marks a notable revival in regional mining activity.
An ad claims taking a tablet of Pape's Diapepsin relieves indigestion and all related discomfort. It promises fast relief from sourness, acid upset, flatulence, heartburn, and gases at low cost, with a pharmacist guarantee.
The Ohio department of agriculture now estimates Ohio's corn crop at 142 million bushels, down from last year, with wet weather reducing harvest, while frost damage remains negligible. The U S corn crop also declines by about 8 percent. Potatoes and apples in Ohio also show declines.
In Havana four people were killed four seriously hurt and nine more injured at automobile races honoring President Gerardo Machado. A balloon streamer collapsed killing its pilot and a dredge crushed Jesus Gonzales to death during harbor cleanup.
In Christ Church England on October 18 the Rev W H Gay vicar of the Priory Church promises ten minute sermons while coal is scarce. The fuel shortage caused by a miners strike affecting nearly a million workers since May spurs worry for town residents and potential hardship until miners and owners resolve the dispute.
In Lemont Illinois Henry and Irene Rodar aged 8 and 7 drowned while attempting to recover a last ball from an old gravel pit authorities reported no other details available.
Actress Edna Wallace Hopper touts Youth Cream as key to her beauty, claiming annual trips to France for breakthrough skin care. The ad notes Cold Cream and Vanishing varieties, 0¢ jars and 35c tubes, with a Miss Hopper appearance in Parkersburg West Virginia the week of October 11 with a women only matinee.
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