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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1919
Page
6
A Kentucky druggist touts Mentholized Arcine as an 81 percent effective remedy for hay fever and rose fever. He claims a pint of hot water gargle and nasal spray can prevent or reduce attacks, advising customers to consult a pharmacist for the preparation.
Advertises Bio-Feven tablets as a cure for nervousness weakness and fatigue. Claims rapid results with seven days of dosing then tapering, promising doubled energy and sharper thinking. Guarantees purchase price refund if goals aren’t met.
Annie witnesses a ghetto confrontation as a pot of anger over high costs boils. A peddler quarrel over seven cent bread and fourteen cent milk ignites a streetside eruption as women rally, threaten, and rally others in a crowd that halts traffic.
A letter from a 25 year old laborer seeking marriage guidance about finances and furnished rooms after army discharge. The columnist cautions patience and self sufficiency before marrying, emphasizing genuine love over material goods. Other readers ask about faith differences affecting courtship and parental approval for a Jewish girl dating a Gentile. The adviser urges personal choice and faith in outcomes, noting the couple’s youth and uncertainty.
A fragment reflects concerns about a couple's future, noting that finances strain belief in lasting love and that proving affection is futile. Time will prove the strength of their bond as spring approaches.
Farmers of Rome and Carthage townships meet at the I O O F hall in Stewart on Tuesday evening September 30 to organize a Grange. All other classes are organized and organizers urge attendance to ensure the group forms or dissolves. Carl W. Hayes Stewart Ohio 9 27 2.
J W Selby, shoe repairer at 68 E State St in Athens, reports kidney pains lumbago and bladder inflammation eased after using Dean's Kidney Pills bought at Conner's Drug Store. He says multiple boxes cured back pains and restored kidney function. 60 cents at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
An advertisement cites Milton and medical texts to endorse Number 40 For The Blood, a tonic claimed to treat glandular disease blood troubles mercurial and lead poisoning rheumatism catarrh liver kidney and spleen ailments with eruptions ulcers and scrofulous enlargements said to disappear. It promotes J. C. Mendenhall of Evansville Indiana as the forty year druggist producer and McKee Drug Co as seller.
Senate treaty supporters see President Wilson's return to Washington as an opening to sway wavering senators and reservationists. They urge a private pledge that he will refuse ratification with international reservations requiring other nations' action, hoping to convert reservations into mere interpretations. A Pennsylvanian designs serpentine corrugated metal roofing to prevent roof snow slides.
J Aspinall McCuaig, famed lecturer on Home Standards and Eugenics, will address the Copeland Class at 9 AM tomorrow in Athens. The lecture is free and open to all men. Tomorrow also marks the election of officers for next year’s program.
J Aspinall McCuaig of New York lectures in Athens on social reconstruction after war. He speaks Sunday at First M E church on Gods Need of Men and conducts a mass meeting at 3 00 pm at the Presbyterian church on War Babies illegitimate children and marriage changes. A union church meeting closes the day at 7 30 pm at First M E church. Lectures continue Monday Tuesday and Wednesday with separate womens sessions at 3 00 pm in the Christian church and mixed sessions in the First M E church.
The Fish and Game Protective and Distributive Association completed plans for opening a 1200 acre game preserve on the plains south of Bucyrus Ohio. One hundred pheasants were liberated on the tract to start the project.
A Sept 29 dispatch from New York notes warnings about contamination in the food trade. It urges sending back tainted dishes and states that those with contagious diseases should not work in food service.
Dr. Royal 8 Copeland, NYC commissioner of health, urges a nationwide law requiring medical exams for all food handlers. He notes NYC already enforces exams for waiters and grocers, with cards issued by city physicians. He stresses clean hands and toilet facilities and says diseased workers must not touch food.
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