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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1888
Page
7
Ter from voracious journal in Eustis reports Bettie the rean hen peddling bugs to other fowls at four grains of corn each. Rooster Jim watched as Bettie counted with toe marks, then dispensed bugs. two bugs remained as Jack arrived, the corn would have filled a pint cup.
An advertisement claims a blood purifying remedy can cure many diseases by strengthening urinary and digestive organs. Sold by E R Lash. A humorous school scene follows about a mother and daughter debating a math problem as the grandmother jokes about head pain after leaving school.
Do not fall for cheap imitations for consumption coughs and colds. Demand the genuine Dr King's New Discovery which relieves toront sun and chest affections. Trial bottles free at H. K. Dorr's Drug Store.
The colonel asserts that a true soldier obeys superior orders promptly and without question. His statement is interrupted by his son announcing that his mother wants him to come home. The colonel bids the gentlemen good day as he exits.
An issue invites Athens readers to obtain a free trial bottle of Kemp’s Balsam for throat and lung relief with guaranteed results for coughs asthma bronchitis and consumption. The Arcola Record narrates a cartoon joke about photography catching a scolding tongue and the artist husband who may have caught it more than once.
An old trade text promotes Kemp's Balsam as a guaranteed cure for lingering coughs with a 50 cent to 1 dollar price and a free trial size. A humorous anecdote contrasts medical misspellings and misdiagnoses highlighting skepticism about remedies.
A legal opinion from E Bainbridge Monday of Clay County Texas cites successful use of Electric Bitters in malaria fever jaundice and general health recovery. D I Wilcoxson of Horse Cave Kentucky adds a testimony claiming lifesaving effects from the remedy. The ad touts malaria kidney liver and stomach benefits with a price of 50 cents and 1 dollar.
A girl shows a card to her mother, the matron sees through it, and the girl ends by crying upstairs after a quip about misery loving company. The scene has a domestic, humorous tone with a brief moment of tension and tenderness.
An inventor in the Senate demonstrates a method to measure the time to perceive light, a picture, a letter, or a word, and to recall names. He notes sensation travels to the brain at about a mile per minute and discusses memory testing amid a scene with Senator Palmer of Michigan. Also recalls catarrh cure with Ely's Cream Balm and a farmer’s jailhouse joke.
A Sally Lake Judge predicts polyga my would be extinct in ten years in Utah Territory. The piece notes it recalls Brigham Young’s death when many expected polygamy to vanish within five years, a forecast soon proven false.
Medical note explains congestive headache stems from excess brain blood, lists high livers robust people and young women as liable, and promotes Laxador to regulate the bowels and divert blood from the brain. Price 25 cents.
A shrewd crane in Honesdale creates a water bug lure to attract fish. The bird dips its bill, holds the bug underwater, then a pickerel or other fish bites and is snared. Observers report the crane catching several fish in this method last week.
The last note from Louisa May Alcott, after describing her many demands, ends with the line Shall I ever find time to die and two days later the question was answered.
Advert describes Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets claiming cure for dyspepsia indigestion and constipation. Sold with a positive guarantee at 25 and 50 cents by C. B. Henderson.
Nostalgic advice urges readers to listen to others as a social asset and a practical preparation for marriage. It emphasizes listening as essential to being valued in community life and in personal relationships.
Anastasia Parsels marked her 102nd birthday at Pamrapo New Jersey on Saturday with a large gathering of descendants relatives and friends.
An advertisement offers Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets as a cure for pepsia flatulence and constipation. Pricing listed as 26 and 50 cents, sold by C. B Henderson.
A professional beauty has been photographed in 150 different positions. The only person who might surpass her for variety is a boy ordered to sit on a chair.
A Washington paper reports cod liver oil is adulterated with petroleum. The note adds that disguising taste is permissible, implying concern over quality and consumer deception.
Experience shows Dr Bull's Baby Syrup eases colic diarrhoea teething and other infant troubles priced at 25 cents A Goop piano player learns the typewriter after six months of practice yet cannot play a tune on the piano and uses phrases like dear sire yours truly instead of notes.
Fragmentary text advises not to take Searcher immediately for ailments including cctofula sore eyes mercurial Lindsey Dr diseases and Blood. No clear event or subject identified.
In a family scene amid a looming siege Neely, now claiming manhood, quips about a past storm while his sister Mary counters that the present one is the storm they face. The exchange highlights generational tone and tension within a crisis moment.
A man who moved from Arkansas to Colorado ten years ago, poor and ill, won $100 playing poker and invested in a mine, becoming worth millions. The tale argues poker skill can beat a college education.
A Sunday school superintendent teaches boys to resemble a train with the scholar as engine and his converts as carriages. Next Sunday a boy bursts in making engine noises and announces, I’m the engine, and them’s the carriages, to the superintendent’s surprised amusement.
A long standing offer from the Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy proprietors promises a $500 reward for any case of nasal catarrh they cannot cure. The program has run in many newspapers and is presented as a good faith, financially responsible incentive.
A cyclone leveled the village of Ninnescah Kansas on Saturday March 24. The town was small and damage measured in dollars and cents, yet residents felt the impact as sharply as if far more people were affected, and aid is urgently needed despite the modest financial losses.
A resident contrasts a boiler factory next door with a prior home beside a public school. The exchange hints at seeking peace and quiet despite nearby industrial noise. The dialogue captures tensions between living near institutions and industry.
A playful exchange unfolds with banter about finger bowls and sherbets. The guests joke about washing hands in sherbet made from forty year old wine, delivering a lighthearted scene with quirky wordplay.
In a humorous exchange, John Totter tells his wife she will be 92 tomorrow, but she corrects him saying she will only be 91 and scolds him for oversharing. The wife urges cheerfulness despite the mix up.
An 19th century style promotional note urges readers to try Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup for a quick relief from a harsh cough. The copy promises prompt relief and a low price of twenty five cents per bottle, framed as a moral appeal to health.
A fragment notes individuals described as Rich Chinamen from San Francisco carrying revolvers adorned with jewels. No further details or context are provided.
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