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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1919
Page
8
The message endorses Bayer tablets of Aspirin with the Bayer Cross safety mark on genuine packaging. It urges buyers to choose intact Bayer packages with proper directions for relief of headache toothache earache neuralgia and cold pains. It notes aspirin is a Bayer trademark.
Eighteen Columbus Republicans send a telegram to Senator Harding urging support for the League of Nations treaty. Signers include W. O. Thompson president of Ohio State University Foster Copeland City National Bank Daniel J. Ryan E. O. Randall A I Vorys Henry G. Williams Judge Pugh Hugh Huntington and others. They urge the Republican party not to oppose this movement critical to mankind.
Mr and Mrs William Rustin Sr of the Baker Settlement depart this evening for New York City to sail for England. They will visit Washington and New York before a Birmingham area stay with relatives and then return to their Athens area home. Mr Austin, a prominent brick plant man, has retired to his Baker Settlement farm.
Thor Olson of this city defeated Perry Schad of Flint in a wrestling bout at Marietta during the first meet of a new Marietta athletic club. Olson threw Schad in forty minutes with a body scissors and half nelson. The hour-long match continued afterward without a winner as fans hurried to catch the last car to Parkersburg.
Akron Ohio police arrest Betty Reese 19 described as a bandit queen for armed robberies in masculine dress and bobbed hair. Bob Ford 23 is also detained, linked to a spate of hold ups. Earlier confessions by Bryant Thompson 18 and Job Imsbuck 18 from Cleveland identify the group.
A recipe claims mix juice from two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White to create a quarter pint of freckle and tan lotion. The ad urges regular massaging on face, neck, arms, and hands to remove sunburn windburn and tan at low cost.
After a busy session the council adjourned to next Monday to act on Byard street paving. A Race street delegation pressed for grade reduction on University Terrace hill and repaving. a committee was named to study options. Two ordinances passed. brick quality concerns surfaced for Fast State street paving. an estimate of 5409 was approved for Beckler's work.
Rome reports that the Fiume crisis grows more serious after Gabrielle D Annunzio's force enters the city. Premier Nitti told the chamber the situation humbling as sedition enters the Italian army and warns the incident may jeopardize Italy's Adriatic aims and appeal to allies.
Fifteen survivors of the steamer Barnstable arrived in Savannah after a northeast gale off the Georgia coast. Twelve crew members are missing. Survivors, including Geo G. Bruch Bert Williams W N Trencker and W J Purdy, reached St Catharines Island after twenty four hours at sea with mountainous waves. The Barnstable sprang a leak Saturday afternoon and was abandoned at midnight.
Six persons were injured in a rear end collision between two B. and O. freight trains a mile south of Willoughby Ohio. No fatalities reported. Physicians at a Cleveland hospital treated the injured who were all in the cab of the leading train. A sharp curve prevented the second train’s engineer from seeing the other in time to stop.
Property owners along the line of the Northern Ohio Traction Company have served notice on prosecuting attorney Walter S. Ruff demanding a suit to block the Canton Massillon road franchise granted last week for 25 years.
At Camp Merritt New Jersey on September 16 the army denied a rumor of an officer duel. Captain J D Cobb of Company L Sixteenth Infantry was accidentally wounded in the head by a hunter’s shot while riding in an automobile with other officers.
In Palestine the open warfare between Turks and Allies injures countless children daily from scattered shells. At the Red Cross surgical hospital in Jerusalem a large share of bomb cases are treated. Over seven months the hospital cared for 668 patients and, with its clinics, treated 24 000 men 46 000 women and 70 000 children in 11 months. The facility is now handed to the city health department.
About 20,000 Baltimore residents, largely foreign born, prepare to emigrate back to their birth countries as steamship agencies report rising inquiries. An East Baltimore agent notes over 1000 people sought information in the last month on passenger travel to Europe, with around 2090 radical Russians ready to return under Bolshevik rule.
John A. Tennyson of Wheeling sues Riley Briggs a former police officer for 5000 dollars alleging a firm handshake caused a broken bone leaving him crippled for life. The filing targets the circuit court seeking compensation for lifelong injury.
William Carrol of Portland Oregon says his wife held him prisoner for four years aided by their son after an accident left him temporarily invalid. A lodge investigated and freed him, then he obtained a divorce and was later declared competent at a sanity hearing before the divorce trial.
One hundred gobs touring the central navy division will arrive in Columbus on the navy train today. The Great Lakes naval training station band the all Navy baseball team champions of the United States a jazz orchestra and the Great Lakes Glee Club will be on the train.
Athens resident Mrs. Wm. French testified on October 6 1914 that kidney trouble caused swelling dizziness back pain and eye floaters but after five boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills from McKee Drug Co. her symptoms vanished and by July 6 1917 she enjoyed good health and highly recommends the remedy. 60c at all dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
A Dover township gathering hosted by Mrs. Mary Wolfe Howard drew about eighty to one hundred attendees, matching a 10 year ago turnout. The difference was transport. none arrived by horse drawn vehicle this time, all came by motor cars.
Mrs Abe Burdett and two children and Max Chapman return home from Spencer West Virginia after a week’s visit. Funeral of Mike Cottle held at Carthage led by Rev Woodard. Attendees include Mrs Foucy and nephews Homer and Paul Cottle from Spencer. Various local visits and gatherings noted through week.
The government will establish experiment stations to advance scientific improvements across several industries.
State Geologist Dr. Israel C. White argues gas depletion is severe across West Virginia fields. He urges gradual price increases to push domestic use toward manufactured gas costs, conserve remaining supply, and extend field life while enabling safer, more efficient consumption and industry adjustment.
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