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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1919
Page
4
A London derived view argues that English girls grow more beautiful due to movies. Constant theater ambience and idealized faces shape mental impressions, echoing Oscar Wilde on nature imitating art. If true, the movies deserve worship and higher salaries for leading performers.
A physician advocates careful feeding of growing children and all diners. He urges seated meals lasting at least twenty minutes, with calm conversation and rest to aid digestion and maintain full physical and mental energy. He warns against hurried meals and distracted minds during eating.
Report of a Saturday near fatal crash at the South bridge urges city leaders to strengthen barriers after an auto carrying five passengers vaulted the iron railing and risked life, property, and traffic. The piece calls for a taller wall and stricter controls as a warning amid congestion and rising car usage.
A rousing meditation on how trees soothe the speaker. Under birches the narrator finds churchlike quiet and dreamlike rest. He imagines trees as a sylvan choir crooning a mournful lullaby across ages as mortals live and die.
In New York a naval critic draws laughter as Admiral Fiske riffs on Swetson who failed in three careers and now writes Why Men Fail from a Riverside Drive flat. Senator Capper jokes about the league of nations and freckles. A hostess shares uplift talk with a husband who stays aloof. Wombat the class favorite is now an umpire.
A narrator laments neighborhood gossip among couples and the harsh talk that corrodes friendships. She contrasts mild critique with the malicious rumors about Jack and Miriam and notes the tension between curiosity and cruelty in social conversations.
Instructions for corn canning with sugar and salt, removing silk, and boiling times. Crabapple jelly and preserves using wild crabapples stored over winter, sugar choices, and cooking steps. Tomato preserve with peppers and lemons, plus a tomato soup recipe with celery onion and spice, including canning and sealing steps.
Cleaning jewelry requires warm soapy suds brushed gently and polished with silk or wash leather. Floors burnished with linseed oil and paraffin, then dried. Silver glass washed with borax, rinsed in hot water, and lint-free linen polishes. Chinchilla furs cleaned with talcum, sealskin and beaver with hot salt. Range care uses paraffin and warm cloth. avoid wet cloths and use old newspapers.
The Galveston (Tex.) Tribune notes an El Paso Mexican alliance aiming for peace by uniting factions opposed to Carranza and urges cooperation for national progress. The Columbia State comments that Turks gain courage from peace and Mexico acts boldly against Britain and the United States.
G H Logan of 35 Fern Street Athens testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills relieved his backache kidney pain and nocturnal urination after two boxes cured him He continues endorsing the remedy and urges others to ask for Dean's Kidney Pills priced 60 cents at dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
Mrs. Josie Thompson of Portsmouth credits Trutona with relief from constipation kidney and liver trouble and intestinal gas. She reports better sleep improved appetite and less back pain after a few days use. The medicine is being introduced at The Cline Pharmacy Co in Athens.
Dorcas Allison entertained many friends at her home to honor Mary Louise and Doris Cullins. Numerous locals and visitors from Athens, Gallipolis, Carbondale, Moundsville, and Barberton were noted guests, with several residents returning from trips and fairs. The column lists attendees and recent travels across Meigs and surrounding communities.
Ptew Froggie. .24 Mr. and Mrs. Swanger of Athens visit W. S. Vorhes and wife. Farmers fill silos as corn ripens. J. L. Maxwell and family of Delaware visit. A nine pound son born to Mr. and Mrs. Mills on September third. The local school opens with Fred Kern as teacher. Teachers Mack and Elsie Braley move to White Hall and Tick Ridge. A birthday gathering at J. 8. Radford’s includes Edna Moore and many others with ice cream and cake. Mrs. N W Stedford learns of Mia Lovina Silvus’s death in Athens.
Boston split a doubleheader with Pittsburgh, 0 held by Pirates in game one and 8 to 4 Braves in game two. The pennant race tightens as Reds face 15 remaining games and could clinch even if New York wins out. Other teams show varied numbers in the standings with Philadelphia holding a midseason position.
Columbus took two games Sunday from Milwaukee but lost Monday's contest 12 to 3. Kansas City lost to Louisville 4 to. The first places lost to Toledo 3 to.
Babe Ruth of Boston hit his 26th homer this season against Thor mahlen of the New York Americans at the Polo Grounds. The blast breaks Buck Freeman’s 25 homer record set in 1899. In Cincinnati, school opens as a circus arrives in town.
Poston Ohio September 9 Sugar Creek remained strong as they routed Floodwood 7 to 1. Hutchinson collected four hits and Handley three while Leo Bradley starred at first base and Haughey pitched well for Sugar Creek.
About fifteen hundred delegates from thirty six states attend the National Association of Stationg Engineers convention in Huntington West Virginia. The event lasts five days starting Tuesday morning. In early 1920s Western Texas mines yielded silver at an annual rate of 590000 ounces.
A Kentucky man claims a simple Mentholized Avcine gargle and nasal spray can conquer hay fever or render it mild. He dispenses the remedy through pharmacists, offering a nearly free treatment. Users mix one ounce of Mentholized Avcine with a pint of boiled water, gargle twice daily, and snuff or spray each nostril. If used a week or ten days, yearly symptoms may not return.
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