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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1895
Page
7
The article notes Japanese flower symbolism with names like Kosia iris Shida fern Uma plum and Sakura cherry representing victory gentleness patriotism and beauty. It then contrasts with an English town where hobnailed shoes and wooden clogs create a loud morning clatter in public spaces like railway stations.
Canon Scott Robertson delivers the twenty eighth annual summary of British foreign mission giving. The report cites £1 288 257 total contributions and voluntary offerings of £5 650 490 for the Church of England in the year ending Easter 1804, plus other income £3 550 000 and Welsh church income £186 046 with £240 645 in contributions.
The article catalogs historic orders such as the Tur Order of the Ear of Corn in Brittany founded in 1442 to promote agriculture, the Armenian Order of St Blaise from 1170, the French Order of Christian Charity from 1558, the female Order of Death's Stead established by Louisa Elizabeth in 1709, and the French star of St Denis from 1267, noting their purposes and periods of prominence.
A will leaves most of Robert S Avery's estate to the Smithsonian. Wellesley College reports 1,066 graduates. Global eye health data shows high rates of myopia in France Germany and Britain. Oxon University allows Greek Latin substitution for exams. Dr Karmann Weber donates 10000 to Royal College of Physicians for consumption cure research. Edinburgh allows native language exams. Harvard permits Chinese for Chinese for Greek substitution by Japanese students in prelims.
A New Orleans woman nears a medical degree, set to be the city’s first with Louisiana credentials. Brooklyn hosts Cinderella balls starting dances at reasonable hours to end by midnight. A Japanese decree allows a single life for women of a certain age. At Regensburg a dancing pony with rubber shoes carried favors at a royal ball. Dr Juentre M Taylor becomes the first dental missionary traveling to Africa. The “new woman” questions why Mr suits men and Mrs only married women.
The author argues that many western wild animals form small, predictable ranges by season and that observant hunters or ranch hands can locate and protect these groups. He cites mule deer, antelope, mountain sheep, and white goats as examples and notes large but uncertain numbers of buffalo, elk, and other species in a national park, urging creation of more breeding centers to boost populations.
A collection of witty and scattered observations on cuisine and eating habits. It references terrapin, vamy game, mayonnaise as art, CuramSE dishes, honey sauce ham, fruit as medicine, artichokes, Pliny on simple dinners, life insurance from scrapple, Shakespeare on meals, tenderloin, German cookery, salted peanuts, and refrigerated game as a substitute for fresh greens.
Ram's Horn essay notes oath on lips invites the devil’s door, claims the devil fears a determined man, observes women as both ally and foe, and says a churchgoing devil wears white. It argues the devil ensnares by illusion, turning sand into a rope and binding many to power.
A parade of historical figures described by facial traits. Prrrr shows a fiery face and scowl while Pour Tae Great of Macedon bears a neck mole. Hayon has a long nose and marked genius. Tasso appears regular with a wild eye. Duarves 1 sports a Vandyke beard. Vispastan features a red large face with pronounced cheekbones. Tur duke of Wellington has a Roman nose and stern look. Appison shows pleasant regular features. Cuavucer looks like a dandy. Napoleon III is dull and half asleep.
An after dinner speaker urges unity under the national label American, praising shared birthright and patriotism over regional jokes. A Boston Herald correspondent notes Mexican women calmly prayed amid Mexico City’s earthquake as plaster fell and chandeliers swayed around them.
Miss Effa Woodworth and Dr. Herman H Hartman wed at noon Wednesday in Millfield. Clergy Rev R E Tressel, with attendants Miss B Verity and Mr Arthur Bredenbek. Attendees include H D Henry Frantz Woodworth Athens Dr Anna Hill Zanesville and many Woodworths. The couple will reside in Jacksonville Ohio.
An association of medical men offers a small book warning youths about damaging habits that ruin health and future happiness. Cut out this notice, enclose it with ten cents in stamps to the World's Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo, and the book will be mailed discreetly.
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