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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1918
Page
6
The notice claims ECEM ALTERATIVE stanches coughing and acts as a tonic for weak lungs. It sells bottles at 80c and 1550, touts twenty years of use, and advertises through Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia. It also mentions pivoted window sections by a French inventor moving with a pull chain.
Merwin and Mabel Mansfield and family express gratitude for neighbors and friends’ sympathy during the illness and death of their mother and for the beautiful floral offerings.
An advertisement touts arrow root or liquid arvon as a cure for dandruff. It claims rubbing four ounces at night moisturizes the scalp, clears dandruff by morning, and stops itching, promising thicker, glossy hair and healthier appearance.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. The remedy claims to act through the blood on mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is advertised as an internal tonic produced by Hall and Co of Toledo Ohio.
Slain Kinman's killer H. Smith, age 20, was to begin a life term in Ashland Kentucky but escaped from jail and remains at large as a special agent searches for him.
Mrs W Cogswell of Andrews Indiana praises Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as the best medicine for diarrhoea and bowel trouble. Her mother used it for years and keeps it in the house. A Rio de Janeiro firm forms to manufacture ethyl gas as a gasoline substitute from a Brazilian patented process.
Reported device uses springs hidden under a Pennsylvanian inventor’s rocking chair seat to drive a washing machine. When the chair rocks the motion powers the machine, enabling hands free operation for the sitter.
Ferrol and Edith celebrate a wedding anniversary and discuss money. Edith asks for a regular allowance, arguing partnership and trust, while Ferrol contemplates finances and family welfare before agreeing to twenty dollars a week. The scene unfolds with creature comforts as a backdrop.
A reader describes choosing between two suitors and the balance of money and happiness. Mrs. Thompson favors the liberal, intelligent partner if money is spent within limits. Additional letters cover child discipline, family finances, and party invitation etiquette with practical guidance.
Miss Garnet and Magette Hatch spent Sunday with Miss Mildred Dowler while Miss Nelle Hubler traveled to Camp Taylor Kentucky on Friday to visit friends. Many local families hosted weekend guests including Mr. and Mrs. Dowler, Mansfield of Willow Creek, Clint Bennett, Sprague family, Smiths with O Neals and Vergene, Irene Linscott and Frank Dowler, and others at Sugar Creek and with the Burchfields. Mrs An Burchfield suffered a fall two weeks ago and has been unable to walk since, with a sprained ankle. Harold Junod visited Charles Cone this past week, and Will Miller and Ben Gillett hosted visitors Sunday.
A letter from Orin B. Graham of Buchiel Ohio to his sister Mable Graham recounts being alive and well in Tours France note on Sunday. He mentions a 4 to a loss baseball game and learning railroad signaling with optimism for future competition and improved play.
An older notice urges readers to save money with Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps and to start saving through The Buckeye State Building and Loan Company in Columbus Ohio. It highlights 5 percent interest on time deposits and notes assets of 14 800 000.
A handwritten World War I narrative describes troop movements and camp life in France, a prison camp, and thoughts on the front. It includes a local connection with Ralph Woods of Buchtel, mentions of a large Y M C A building, and exchanged letters with home. An obituary for Linda J. Tucker recalls a life of teaching, marriage, faith, and family near Guysville Ohio.
A soldier reports enduring bayonet, machine gun, and artillery fire but calls opponents cowards in hand to hand fighting. He expresses gratitude for a Messenger package from home and optimism about overcoming the Kaiser soon.
Owingaville Ky John R Peters 70 while asking the blessing at his supper table was suddenly stricken with paralysis and is in a serious condition. He is a Confederate veteran and was under John Morgan.
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