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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1905
Page
3
Fashion notes describe hat shapes from tip tilted to toques and large picture hats with plumes and velvet bows. Colors include smoke gray peacock blue electric blue empire green and deep crimsons. Dress fabrics highlight broadcloth with many color shades a wheat colored taffeta gown trimmed in black lace and a fall walking suit with plaited skirt widening at the hem.
The Civic Improvement section announces plans to form a local branch of the American Civic Association based in Philadelphia. D. J. Thomas of Springfield leads Ohio efforts and aims to mobilize residents, with the Oct 4–6 Cleveland convention in view. The paper urges public participation and offers to join citizen efforts for neighborhood betterment.
A Chicago musician Marion Knight credits Dean's Kidney Pills with curing her backache and kidney pain after a week and full recovery in seven weeks. She notes prior costly medicines failed and urges readers to request a free trial from Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo New York. Pills sold nationwide for fifty cents a box.
Mrs. B. Earnest of Jersey Shore Pennsylvania reports Dodd's Kidney Pills relieved five weeks of bedridden illness. She now works and travels to town with no suffering and urges women to cure kidneys with the remedy. The advertisement asserts women’s health hinges on kidneys and claims consistent cures.
Albany Ohio anticipates two strong games this Friday and Saturday. The local amateur team, undefeated in twenty outings, will meet an undisclosed opponent Friday and Salem Center on Saturday afternoon. Expect a well attended, hotly contested series with quality play all season.
A Vernon Connecticut child burned on the hand found rapid relief after applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Local merchant James N. Nichols advised the balm, noting swift inflammation reduction and proven effectiveness for cuts burns and strains. Sold by W. H. McKee and Barton Drug Co Chauncey.
The General Assembly proposes a constitutional amendment to restructure terms and election timing for state and local officers. It fixes elections to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in even and odd years and sets term lengths for governor, judges, and other offices with possible extensions by the assembly. Vacancies filled by governor and subsequent elections.
The General Assembly proposes an amendment to Section 2 of Article XII to clarify taxation rules. It adds a uniform tax on money, credits, investments, and real and personal property with exemptions for state and municipal bonds, public school bonds, and specific public properties up to two hundred dollars per person. The measure takes effect January 1, 1906 and was adopted April 25, 1904.
Send for Rock Island travel literature with free booklets on Colorado New Mexico California and the Pacific Coast to plan a summer vacation. Reduced rates apply on certain dates with long return limits and liberal stopovers. Visit Rocky Mountains Yellowstone Portland Exposition at low cost. Write John Sebastian Passenger Traffic Manager Rock Island System Chicago.
Examinations for elementary certificates occur on the first Saturday of every month in Athens. High school and special certificates hold on the first Saturday of September December March and June. Stewart Nelsonville and Glouster host exams on the first Saturday of May June and July respectively. Boxwell exams occur in Athens and Glouster on the second Saturday in May. By order of the Board of Examiners M M Bryson Clerk.
An advertisement claims a guaranteed cure for piles including itching bleeding and protrusion. It promises relief in 6 to 14 days and offers a money back guarantee through a 50 cent price, directing readers to send stamps to Paris Medicine Co. St. Louis MO.
In Athens Office Hours from 8 a m to 4 p m the Catamaran draws attention as a hollowed jog craft popular among Madras fishermen. It carries letters to ships offshore when shore communication fails, requires steering with a paddle, and its skillful crews repeatedly ride out fierce surf to reach safety.
Dr Shallenberger offers specially ground prescription glasses to correct misfitting frames and improve vision. He claims headaches eye strain and dizziness can be reduced by properly fitted lenses and stresses non surgical treatment with free confidential consultation. He warns against ill fitted glasses and urges care for children's eye health to prevent blindness.
Public notice lists a Chicago address 145 Oakwood Boulevard in Illinois and references Drexel State Bank Chicago with an August 3 1922 style date fragment. The readable items suggest a banking or property-related notice tied to Chicago Illinois.
A Leslie's Monthly insight contrasts being in love with true loving. It argues that romantic passion can be bondage while genuine love grants freedom for both partners, focusing on the loved one's best strength and happiness rather than self-interest.
The Empress invites Mile Potocka to a ball and has her escorted as a milkmaid. While dancing the empress slips a pearl necklace into the milk pail, declaring it is only curdled milk, as Potocka exclaims in wonder.
The exchange begins with a country squire claiming he would reform his hypothetical donkey son, and Sydney Smith retorts that the squire’s own father showed a different temperament, implying inherited nature in wit and conduct.
Mr Munn E Baggs asks for a price to build a house and the architect questions the original planned expenditure. The Chicago Tribune reports the exchange as part of a home construction discussion.
In a New York Weekly item two sisters in law joke about family health care with Jinks praising his wife’s care and Blinks noting his wife has insured his sister, highlighting witty domestic clichés.
The Security Savings Bank of Athens Ohio announces a new installment plan for real estate loans. Borrowers pay 7 percent interest with principal reduced monthly, can prepay, receive a pass book, and see exact remaining balance. Those seeking longer terms or conventional loans may still apply. Deeds and last tax receipt encouraged.
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