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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1919
Page
8
Revitalize your blood and boost resilience for cold damp days. The ad touts 8. S. S. as the best known blood tonic to purify blood and energize the system, claiming even those in fair health can improve and reduce winter sickness duration.
This state advertisement extolls S S S as a pure vegetable tonic healing blood disorders for fifty years. It promises renewed vigor and a cleansed bloodstream, claiming no minerals or mercury and urging readers to obtain it from local druggists with medical advice available from Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta Georgia.
Pleasant harmless Cascarets help banish biliousness indigestion and gas overnight. They ease leaden sickness without gripe or discomfort, offering a inexpensive solution that works while you sleep.
Ireland reports a flurry of social visits as Mr. and Mrs. Baur of Barnesville called on their grandparents, the Dodd family. Nearby, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cubbison of Glouster conducted business here, and Mrs. Belle Pace of Roanoke spent days with sister Mrs. W. E. Bingman. The week includes several family gatherings, church conference at Centennial, and a ladies aid social planned at the Earl Clark home.
The article argues women’s health governs complexion digestion and overall personality. It lists symptoms like dark circles, headaches, backaches, nervousness and sleeplessness as enemies to womanhood and promotes Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a trusted remedy used by three generations of women.
Thieves tunneled into the cellar of Joseph Hinch’s saloon in Worcester Massachusetts and stole about thirty gallons of a potent liquid. A separate notice announces a social at Angel Ridge schoolhouse on October 24 with invitation to all.
Voters are urged to support two referendum measures while opposing both amendments. The prompt stresses casting ballots for the two referendums and against the two amendment proposals.
Athens schools plan a Roosevelt Memorial Fund drive Friday with pupils from grade to high school asked to contribute a mite. Teachers are informed and programs will honor Roosevelt Day with an outside speaker at the high school assembly. offerings collected at meeting end.
A Detroit reader endorses Foley's Honey and Tar for bronchitis and winter coughs. The ad claims quick relief without opiates and notes suitability for children, promoting the product as common medicine sold everywhere.
Conflicting dispatches from London claim Bolsheviks defend Petrograd while other reports say they push on multiple fronts. Estimates cite 720000 opposing troops across Kolchak Denikin and western fronts with gains at Orel and along several sectors.
An elderly Columbus resident Charles Johnson reports rapid relief from gas indigestion and stomach trouble after using Earle's Hypo-Cod. He claims improved appetite and nerves, saying he feels like a new man at 75 and would not trade the remedy for $1000. Sold by McKee Drug Co. at $1.25 with tax.
Plans proceed to resume about 150 suspended periodicals by publishing elsewhere or outside New York City. John Adams Thayer announces the move with William Green authorized to help arrange temporary publication outside the city under the printers’ league and publishers committees.
Pearley Gaskill secretary of the Athens Co operative Company met with U M W of A locals in Pomeroy Bend territory for a conference on extending cooperative merchandising on the Rochdale plan. About score locals in Bend endorsed starting stores and work out rules and membership. One Rochdale store already operates in Bend with deep interest and determination. a follow up meeting is planned next week.
Earl Holland of Akron visits friends in Coolville Ridge. Rocky Point school grows with Carl Love as teacher. Mr and Mrs Thomas Phillips of Anthony stay with Mr and Mrs James Sams. Mrs Vernie Bobo and daughter Frances visit Elmer Poston. Miss Mabel Byres of Columbus visits Mollie Poston. Miss Mildred Wood of Beaumont visits locals.
Miss Fauna Linscott and her pupils plan a pie social at Harmony school on Friday evening October 24 with entertainment and a prize contest. Everyone is invited to enjoy the festivities.
District Superintendent I M Moore resigns after five years heading Lee Alexander and Lodi townships schools. He cites inadequate salary and travel costs and will join Midland Mutual Insurance of Columbus to oversee Athens and Washington counties. Moore will remain in Athens with his family.
Advertisement claims immediate relief from indigestion by taking one or two Pape's Diapepsin tablets. It asserts the remedy ends stomach pain gas acidity and misery caused by acidity and costs little at any drug store.
Franklin county prosecutor Schlesinger plans to submit a tentative rent regulation bill at the upcoming state meeting of county prosecutors in Columbus. He said weeks of work have shaped the measure and data will be presented. Prosecutors note Ohio lacks rent control laws and debate over legislation will be key.
Ohio river stages show Point Bridge at 4.3 feet rising Herrs Island 4.6 feet rising Davis Island 6.5 feet rising Beaver Dam 6.5 feet falling Farkersburg 9.5 feet falling Point Pleasant 13.4 feet falling as of Oct 22.
The Hampton Robb Memorial Nurses' Club, with 200 members, raised salaries for graduate nurses to 35 dollars a week for ordinary cases and 40 dollars for contagious or obstetrical cases, citing higher uniform and laundry costs and noting that most large cities had already set 35 dollars weekly.
Thirty two men described by police as steel strike breakers were seized early today at Berea outside Cleveland. Officers said they had arrived from Chicago by train and traveled the remainder by automobile to evade capture, in violation of a local ordinance prohibiting importation of strike breakers.
A Chauncey community group lists key organizers including Ida Pendergrass Gertrude Carter Lizzie Harvey and Naomi England among others. The women form a campaign network to oppose alcohol sale and support dry policy efforts in the town.
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