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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1919
Page
6
Fragmentary note extols building a town through local buying and home deals. It praises community spirit and suggests better treatment and outcomes when residents purchase locally, mentioning the Woolson.
An old advertisement extols a malfied cocoanut oil shampoo as superior to soaps and prepared shampoos. It claims the product is greaseless and gentle, creates rich lather with a small amount, cleanses scalp and hair, and leaves hair silky and manageable. It notes availability at drug stores and low cost for family use.
A Kentucky druggist touts Mentholized Arcine as a 99 cent hay fever remedy. He claims gargling, snuffing, and spraying nostrils can prevent or lessen attacks, and that dispensing pharmacists back the product for use over several days. Go to a local druggist to prepare a pint.
Annie helps neighbors in a lean street in the Sixteenth Street days. She lends to a mother under a tailor strike and shares kindness with a family of four in need. The piece contrasts poverty, neighborly ethics, and life in a lower East Side ghetto, ending with a note of continuing story.
A reader asks how to cope with an unhappy marriage amid hostile behavior and profanity while raising children. The columnist urges resilience, self reliance, and avoiding airing faults to children, promoting love and respect and offering steps to preserve the home for the sake of the kids.
A Dupuyer Montana hotel man named F H Dear recalls using Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy four years ago with wonderful results. He now recommends it to friends.
The Ohio Association of Teachers of Dancing closed its session in Cleveland with approval of state legislation to regulate dancing and a resolution urging a state board of examiners to review dancing teachers. Another measure urged the Methodist Episcopal Church to lift its ban on dancing. The group praised dancing as a form of musical expression while condemning jazz as degrading.
Miss Bertha Bridgeman organizes countywide back-to-school movement naming chairmen. Most workers are teachers and school officials. The effort targets legally out-of-school children with notices to parents and possible legal action. D'Annunzio seizure plan tied to Venice reports. Fiume isolation noted. Toothpaste tube holder invented to draw contents from the opening downward.
Raymond Featherstone aged about three, son of Mr and Mrs Clyde Featherstone, drowned Tuesday evening in a cistern behind their East State street home in Athens. The lid was left inverted, the boy fell in while playing, and despite the father’s efforts with a rake the child could not be revived. The family recently moved from Stewart and works as a mechanic. Funeral arrangements had not been made.
The Athens Post of the American Legion urges enlistment to reach two hundred members by October first. A campaign runs through September and October nationwide to reach one million members by Armistice Day. The adjutant will visit southern Athens county towns next week to explain the Legion and its benefits.
Registration at Ohio University reached 920 today said the registrar. Enrollments are expected to rise to about 1000 by late comers and those signing up for special work during the semester.
Mr and Mrs H W Cotner have word from their son Robert in London that he plans to sail home soon. The former 37th Division soldier served with the Hoover Commission in Europe and will head the commission files upon his return. A Pan Pacific engineering congress will be held in Java in May with engineers from Pacific Rim nations.
An old advertisement extols S S S blood remedy as purely vegetable and safe, claiming it cleanses blood, builds strength, and improves circulation. It urges health aware readers to seek more information from Swift Specific Co in Atlanta, Georgia.
O Bleness, Cashier of The Security Savings Bank states the capital stock paid in undivided profits less expenses interest and taxes paid and deposits including individual deposits demand certificates of deposit cashiers checks time certificates and savings deposits. Subscribed sworn before me on September 12 by Chas. E. Cameron Notary Public in Athens Ohio.
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