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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1902
Page
2
A cluster of humorous anecdotes and maxims on life, humor, and social manners appears alongside grave reflections on Cecil Rhodes and Boer War era ethics. The piece blends playful quips about housekeeping, travel, and weather with stark moral judgments on self-interest and mortality, anchored by Rhodes’s controversial legacy.
A critical portrait of Corll Rhodes, once famed and wealthy, whose life soured by opposition and controversy. The piece critiques Rhodes as a self serving patriot and claims his role in aiding English imperial schemes and the Jameson Raid, ending with his hidden scheming during tension with the Boers.
The excerpt notes how railroading terms vary across the Atlantic. It explains British usage for train cars, stations, and personnel, and contrasts with American terms. It also mentions vocabulary shifts such as booking offices and chimney for locomotive stacks, highlighting a translator-like challenge for cross country rail workers.
A naturalist notes chameleons rarely draw blood even when provoked. He recounts an instance where a chameleon clamped firmly on his finger between tender skin near the tiger area, resisting release until forced open. The bite left red, triangular tooth impressions but no puncture.
A worker warns that employers know employees thoroughly and may choose a foreman or superintendent based on hidden insights. The writer notes employers track workers from herdsman to laborers and judge them by the details of work and behavior.
A brief historical note from the Ohio State Journal quotes a new preacher asking a deacon if TI preached a poor sermon. The deacon agrees, suggesting he has heard worse, musing over whether the sermon reached its lecturer.
A letter section complains that theatres should be restrained from printing messy jokes in their programmes. A reader laments being forced to listen to someone behind them reading and explaining such jokes. The exchange appears in Catholic Standard and Times.
A Washington Star excerpt shows a neighbor chiding Tam for lacking resolve, while Farmer Cerntossel counters with blunt remarks about Josh’s unwavering stubbornness and work ethic. The rustic dialogue highlights themes of grit and social expectation.
A vintage testimonial extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as the sole blood purifier tonic. It claims radical cures for scrofula and marred eyesight, asserting the remedy rebuilt health at low cost after consuming two to eight bottles.
Lordon County council proposes building 10,000 workers housing to relieve urban crowding. The plan targets housing for laborers and aims to ease housing shortages amid growing employment growth this year.
The Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia is cited as a malaria breeding ground with wet ground fostering fever weakness aches. Bart Electric Bitters are claimed to destroy them and prevent typhoid, while public assemblies are being prohibited in Taorkes as dangerous. A planned hall by a Christian official was barred after some guests arrived.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad announces round trip tickets from Cincinnati to Dallas for the Confederate Veterans Reunion in Dallas Texas on April 2 with sales April 13 19 and 20 and a May 2 return limit deposit by May 15. Through coaches and a Pullman Sleeping Car will be used with daily service. For details contact F L Bush division passenger agent Cincinnati Ohio. Also notes irrigation plans for the upper Nile district funded by a land tax increase.
Two methods of preparing tea in Kashmir are described with detailed steps including boiling times milk salt and butter. The Emeralds Power section discusses various stones from India and Persia their reputed qualities and mythical associations. It notes iron and copper as essential to modern life and electricity.
A fragmentary transcript shows a judge questioning whether consent was given and whether a child should be left with a parent. The dialog mentions a father, mother, and a child with phrases implying duty, use, and care decisions in a courtroom setting.
Sian at Tradition and Dorothy-Whart clash over a homemade shirt design. The dispute centers on who should wear the band’s attire, with tensions rising between family members and a mother-in-law.
A fragment from a dialectal scene features a coachman asking an elderly driver to hold the horses while he runs after a mate or alternatively to chase after the friend behind. The dialogue reflects rural speech patterns and a moment of hesitation on a lonely road.
A Brooklyn grammar school teacher recalls how bright students reveal errors in language lessons. She cites three stories from her experience, including a student misspelling a calendar year, another misreading a distance, and a Dutch settlers joke about washing at the Hudson River reported by the New York Tribune.
A warning from the Lalismore Sun discusses the dangers of smoking. It notes nicotine and empyreumatic oils as poisons, warns even small amounts can be harmful, and describes effects on the nervous system and heart. The piece emphasizes that excess tobacco use can lead to deadly outcomes.
A fragment discusses Fanar Langacise and Sames 3 entries from a native dictionary. It presents sample definitions showing broad meanings for words like iapossi bility widow mean ness ta and notes the difficulty for a stranger. The Century reference anchors the content.
The shore yields many shells at low tide many are carried by seaweed. Some shells are valued as food some yield pearls in warmer climates. A dark brown shell with red and white markings is noted and the razor shell is found deep in mud and sand. Also worms are hunted by saltwater beetles below the shallows and Green Seal is described as a pure paint.
Edw Mehler of Union Bottling Works testifies that Kodol Dyspepsia Cure relieved his lifelong stomach troubles after trying many remedies and doctors. The ad claims the cure digests what you eat and negates dieting, via Cline's Pharmacy. A Breslau professor notes German students have high rates of shortsightedness.
Mir B Smith of Butternut Michigan reports DeWitts Little Early Risers are the most satisfactory pills he ever took. He warns that neglecting biliousness and constipation leads to permanent health decline and endorses the remedy as free from giddiness or nausea.
A New York Times report cites a Senate subscription started after a new session opened to buy a wedding present for Anson G. McCook then secretary of the Senate. Senator X asked a new member for 25 dollars, sparking remarks about cheeky behavior and the tone of the collection effort.
An older sketch recounts a French visitor in St Petersburg who jokes with a Russian officer over a cigar, praising Toulouse, then discovers the officer is the emperor’s son, in a tale of wry wit. Fos’s Wit follows, detailing Charles James Fox and the anecdote of a pair of men watching his house who are teased by Fox’s joke about Fos binthijs.
Reported in a cryptic dispatch, snake charmers from Deep and Ahy stage a silent act to tame rattling serpents. Egyptian interpreters claim prophecies may shift the serpent rot, with experts weighing how the rite could influence public perception and cultural signals amid a quiet, speculative review.
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