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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1882
Page
4
A poem cautions against gossip and its harm to friends and neighbors. It urges silence or praise when discussing others, noting innocence can be damaged by careless tongues and urging defense of virtue, with a call to avoid judging unseen circumstances.
Emma relies on her brother Tom to hire a cook by ten. A mistaken belief delivers Arthur Maxwell the kitchen, revealing he can cook. Emma's nerves settle as Maxwell's charm and skill win her heart, and she vows to learn cooking. Their union follows the happy misstep.
A narrative from Chambers The Journal recounts a woman with extreme cat fear who collapses with a cat under her chair and cats appearing through a wall cupboard and a window. It also notes two episodes of mental prescience, one during the 1851 Great Exhibition when a cleric is unexpectedly encountered and another about a lost signet ring traced to a garden find twenty years earlier.
A humorous visitor from Ohio debates cosmic fate with an astronomical editor in a newsroom. The exchange covers what would happen if a comet struck the sun, vaporization, and the moonlike aftermath, ending with a light farewell and a request for cigarettes.
An Ontario farmer's will leaves the son on the farm only after the stepmother’s death, paying $50 yearly on $3,000 to the family. With the stepmother’s life expectancy doubling the delay, the heir would reach ownership at 130, a plan the Montreal Witness finds odd, suggesting fear of squander.
Donald G Mitchell once a famed Marvel now approaches sixty with gray sprinkled hair and whiskers. He occasionally leaves his Edgewood Farm near New Haven to lecture before popular assemblies per the New Haven Register.
The revived football season caused serious injuries at a match near MMI with players needing medical attention. At Sheffield a boy suffered a broken collarbone and another was badly hurt in the side. Two accidents occurred at Oldham, one resulting in death.
A playful linguistic pun questions why a single vowel remains as the sole character in a word, joking that all other letters are "im aidite" in a whimsy about alphabet quirks.
The article argues that good breeding begins at home with scrupulous politeness toward children and attentive listening. It suggests training children to respect others, balance talk and silence, and model courtesy within family and social settings. A witty girl is cited who learned table manners yet erred in speech, prompting a novel five cent fine for missteps.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt shows a club president addressing Brother White, praising teeth strength and offering a path to “champion” status. White expresses doubt as the president urges him to bite and lift for civic deeds, while dismissing other champions as criminals.
An observer at a Fifth Avenue hotel notes a prim intellectual woman in her uncertain age studying the menu and asking for stale bread and black tea since baked beans are not listed. A friend at the table whispers "Rosym" as the scene unfolds.
Aams face a taxation policy in Bismarck that targets cotton fabric imports, raising duties on the material described as a key textile item. Local merchants report impact on supply and prices, with officials defending tariff aims to protect domestic industries.
In a Baltimore drug store a witty scene unfolds as a striking young woman seeks Swarne's Ointment for skin disease, vanishing like dew under the sun. The piece wryly notes poets and spies, urging the druggist to push out a cough cure, with Dr Bull's Cough Syrup cited as lacking profit.
A compact aphorism contrasts aging men with prime chickens, noting that retirement does not guarantee stillness and that even prime poultry may meet an untimely end.
An old advertisement urges druggists to stock Rough on Rats a broad pest killer claiming to clear rats mice bedbugs roaches vermin flies ants and insects at 15e per box.
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