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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1886
Page
6
A photographer in the jungle photographed a tiger leaping at a buffalo about thirty feet away as the animal struck with a brow. The operator flashed the shutter and escaped, the plate showing the tiger’s attempt to dislocate the neck, supporting the view of the tiger’s knock down blow.
A long tale from the Youth's Companion frames an aging Vermont town funeral and a man named Stephen whose single fault temperance leads to repeated misjudgments, political and religious fallout, economic ruin, and final destitution in the poor house. The piece contrasts moral zealots with the cost to families and society.
In a sermon Rev. D R Heber Newton argues interment harms living and delays natural decay urging cremation as a sanitary alternative while defending duty to the dead as compatible with humane practice. The piece also notes anecdotes on pensions and social shifts including language use in Mexico and public figures.
A Louisville paper describes two ladies kissing a friend on a streetcar and causing a driver to stop, then rushing back to gossip, while meanwhile the ad extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a timely cure for consumption in early stages and a world leading alterative.
Four months my daughter suffered severe facial pain from neus ralgia. After taking half a bottle of Athlophoros she recovered enough to get up and her cure was wonderful, written by Wm. W. Rockfield of Dayton, Ohio.
Mrs Whitney aged 101 lives in Watertown Massachusetts and recently walked to breakfast alone declaring she is old enough to go downstairs by herself. The item also mentions Burdock Blood Bitters endorsements and a Virginia Military Institute Sunday school for colored children and a monument fund for Stonewall Jackson.
The advertisement claims Halul's Hair Renewer cleanses, brightens, and invigorates hair while restoring faded or gray strands to a youthful hue. It urges gray-haired people to use the product to hide aging. The quoted dialogue follows, mentioning Daringer Bromley and a farm incident involving Farmer Watson's bull.
Blondin, 62, seeks another U S tour to repeat his Niagara performance but worries a legal requirement for a safety net would lessen the act's appeal. He currently resides in London.
A note reports B Durney of the steamer Arizona injured with a badly jammed foot then cured by Thomas Eclectric Oil. Another item has a photographer advising a red headed boy to use a light background to avoid a halo effect.
A dying man in Erie Pa. clung to commerce asking the physician to notify him of second hand clothing, promising to pay well for any coats vests pants hats socks and more. The Globe Democrat notes a patient who voted for Jackson died recently with a grim fate.
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