Athens HI Football Prospects Bright for Fall
Athens High School eyes a strong football season with almost the entire last year’s backfield returning. Captain Lockhart leads a capable group including Collins Littler Mammyld and others while new talent from Charleston WVa joins training under Coach Grove F as practice continues. Manager Carl Wileon coordinates preparations with hopes for a crackerjack team and a possible early game.
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Athens High School
Ita
Grove F
Lockhart
Ohio
Athena Hi
Pete Collins
Littler
Mammyld
Jackeon Hi
Charleston
W. Va
University ii
Earl Cousins
Spriggs
West Virginia
Red Cross Enables Restricted Wartime Communications
The Athens County Red Cross Chapter announces a triage mail service for residents of enemy countries. Messages must be triplicate and approved by the secretary, translated if needed, and forwarded via neutral intermediaries. Only personal family messages are allowed. financial or public-interest topics are excluded.
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American Red
Germany
Athens County
Red Cross Chapter
Bureau of Communication
Esy
Austria-Hungary
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Gains Modern Shelf Presence
Old fashioned remedies from medical roots and herbs move from grandmother cures to store shelves as popular modern medicines. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound stands out as a famous root and herb remedy long trusted by American women for decades.
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Lydia FE. Pinkham
America
Lenses Offer Toric Curved Lenses and Invisible Bifocals
The advert markets toric or curved lenses for wider vision and invisible bifocals combining far and near sight in one pair. Lenses appear like ordinary single lenses and are sold by a specialist provider.
Americans Have Strong Nerves Nerve Food Ad Claims Cure
An old nerve specialist warns nerves drain from stress and overwork. Phosphated Iron touted as a fast absorbing nerve food and blood builder in capsules, claimed to strengthen tired nerves and improve health in weeks. McKee Drug Co and leading druggists sell the product with assurances of genuineness.
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McKee Drug Co
Victory List Names of Many Donors and Stamps Purchasers
A partial Victory List lists numerous individuals including Cubbison Walden Welch Poston Sayre Osborn Ellis Larrick Merwin White Slater Williams Copeland Sprague May Parker Henry Wilson Tedrow Marshall Townsend Bolin Channell Byrne Brooks Blackwood Cowan Sprague Clancy Totman Seckinger Williams Jewell Pidcock Cooley Morris and others who bought or pledged stamps. It notes more names exist and directs those who purchased $1000 in stamps to notify W S Headquarters at Chamber of Commerce.
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Lodeélie Cubbison
Howard Walden
C. H. Welch
OQ. Moore
C. O. Moore
Darrel Moore
Alma Moore Tompkina
L. Poston
Joe Marshall
Augustus D. Townsend
Sid Bolin
Carrie Channell
Robert Byrne
Edward Brooks
Wim. Blackwood
Elina Cowan Michael
Tipple Thomas Agan
Wiley T. Sprague
F. D. King
P. J. Clancy
W. W. Totman
John Seckinger
G. H. Williams
J. F
Medical Students Enter the SAT and Serve as A T C Members
The Medical Reserve Corps members are transferred to the Army Transport Command and will continue medical study while on pay. Notable students Alex Hoffmeister Harold Copeland and Monroe Higgins in medical colleges are affected by the order. They receive federal exemption from the draft to complete their courses, then may be called when needed.
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United States
Medical Reserve Corps
Athens
Alex Hoffmeister
Harold Copeland
Monroe Higgins
Uncle Sam
Mrs William Pell Praises Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy
A Logansport Indiana resident writes to credit Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy with relief from a severe diarrhoea attack three years ago. She states it was the only medicine that helped her.
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William Pell
Logansport
Ind
Training program for boys under 18 in work and schooling
Washington on September 19 conference of federal state directors of the United States Boys Working Reserve will discuss enrollment of boys under 18 in industrial and agricultural occupations combining schooling with work. Wm. E. Hall, director, says many prominent industrial leaders will attend to help develop the project.
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Washington
United States Boys Working Reserve
Wm. E. Hall
Boys Working Reserve
Local Visitors and Family Gatherings Across Communities
The Plains notes visits from the Carpenter family of Trimbie to Ed Micheals and relatives in Athens. Clarence Matheney and family from West Alexandria stayed with their mother and kin here and in Athens. Several local residents hosted guests including Elza McGraynor and Mrs. Hawk in Athens, Will Davis and his mother for Sunday dinner, and Roscoe Shields with Fletch Hawk and families on a Nelsonville motor trip. Alfred Hawk and Mrs. Roscoe Shielda hosted John’s family in Salem, and a group including Whitlatch Bricker Scurlock and Thompson drove to Creole reporting road conditions near impassable. J. K. Brown of Athens bought Ed Shipleys property.
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Joe Carpenter
Trimbie
Ed. Micheals
Clarence Matheney
West Alexandria
Athens
Elza McGraynor
Harry Hawk
Will Davis
Roy Hawk
Roscoe Shields
Fletch Hawk
Nelsonville
Alfred Hawk
Roscoe Shielda
Salem
John
Will Whitlatch
Dave Scurlock
Earl Thompson
J. K. Brown
Ed Shipleys
Slacker Marriages Startling Figures From Chicago Bureau
Chicago September 19 More than 26 percent of marriage licenses issued in the last two days were taken by boys aged seventeen to twenty one. The remainder mostly went to men over thirty one according to the marriage license bureau.
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Chicago
Red Cross Social Saturday at Moonville
Ice cream supper hosted by Ralph Arnolds one mile south of Moonville draws locals to a Red Cross fundraiser. Everyone invited to attend and support the charity.
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Red Cross
Ralph Arnold
Moonville
Famous Wrestler Set to Visit Next Week at Opera House
Next Wednesday evening at the Opera House Dr. B. F. Roller, a renowned world wrestling figure, appears for an exhibition match against Cleon and another wrestler and will deliver a lecture on physical education. Roller, former American champion for three years, trained Hackenschmidt and toured with Gotch, stands over six feet and weighs 220 pounds.
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Opera House
B. F. Roller
Cleon
French Inventor Unveils Multi Purpose Hammer Tool
A new combination tool from a French inventor blends a hammer head with pliers and a vise. The device allows hammering, cutting, and clamping in a single hand tool design.
Read What Miss Agnes Turner Says About Indigestion Relief
Chicago woman Agnes Turner describes overwork and irregular meals leading to headaches, poor digestion, constipation, and sleeplessness. After two months on Chamberlain's Tablets she reports a cleansed stomach and renewed appetite and sleep, now entirely well.
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Agnes Turner
Chicago
Chamberlain
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Ieweler Optometrist
SAT
Plains
Regus
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Yteen
Alors
Cash Shoe
Sam Sommer
Capitol
Thomas G.plant
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