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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1924
Page
2
Washington officials debate the 25 year plan to retire the national debt and its tax implications. Treasury Secretary Mellon urges caution while Assistant Secretary Dewey promotes a bold 25 year funding strategy.
The Lavoptik eye wash with camphor hydrastis and witch hazel promises quick relief for weak sore or strained eyes. A small bottle is claimed to help any case and a free aluminum eye cup is offered by Gibson's Pharmacy.
Proceeding slowly down the Pacific coast the Navy airship Shenandoah pierced the midsection of California at 7 o'clock and was expected to arrive at its destination by 9 a.m. today.
Count Zgor owski, driving a German Mercedes, was killed when his car ran off the track during the Italian Grand Prix in Monza. The winner clocked 168 kilometers per hour.
An unidentified white man was shot to death in a rooming house fight with four men after being found with Mrs May Dorney’s husband’s wife. Mrs Dorney is under arrest and James Spurney has disappeared. George Melvin Samuel Ogden and William Sweeney are held. Melvin faces suspected murder charges.
The Middleport Square club announces a minstrel review at the New Masonic auditorium on Monday and Tuesday evening, December 22-23. Harry Burnett of New York City will direct produce and costume the show, the first home talent minstrel in Middleport in many years, with local talent secured to perform.
A Birmingham scientist J B Kramer claims to have discovered a generative source of electricity drawing energy from radioactive substances without fuel or chemicals. He says the process is natural and simple, offering batteries that could last thousands of years.
The article describes using dissimilar metals like copper and aluminum to create a discriminating charge from radio activity and store it as electricity. It notes vast global supplies and radioactive sands in India with many minerals lasting for millennia. Kramer claims a device to harness and demonstrate driving a small engine.
Children love the pleasant taste of California Fig Syrup and take it when bilious feverish sick or constipated. No other laxative regulates tender bowels so nicely. It sweetens the stomach and starts the liver and bowels without cramping or overacting. Contains no narcotics or soothing drugs. Tell your druggist you want only the genuine California Fig Syrup with directions for babies and children printed on bottle. Mother you must say California for you may get an imitation fig syrup.
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