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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1886
Page
7
C A Arnold of Arnold Maine credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with curing scrofulous sores and debility after seven years of illness. E S Phelps of Rochester declares it unmatched for purification of blood. The ad notes price six bottles for five dollars and sale by Hood & Co of Lowell Massachusetts.
The article notes vast gas supplies in Western Pennsylvania and how some companies control town supplies. It highlights a 25 percent annual stock return, large reserves, and growing waste from 30 mile pipe mains. It cites 264 million cubic feet wasted daily, equivalent to 264000 bushels of coal and work for 3800 miners, as towns extend gas mains and friction rises pressure.
Mary A Dailey of Tunkhannock Pennsylvania suffered six years from asthma and bronchitis before Dr King s New Discovery brought immediate relief and a cure after using it for a short time She gained 50 pounds in a few months Free trial bottles available at Henderson Mi a drug store Large bottles priced at 1 00 The piece also reflects on labor and destiny with a quoted Springfield Republican passage.
A long list of anecdotes shows women in many roles from editors and shopkeepers to fruit growers and a newspaper founder. Examples include Mrs Gordon admitted to California Supreme Court practice, a Henderson DC woman starting a newspaper allowing Southern women contributors, Mary D Hutchins a Springfield instrument dealer, and a San Jose woman earning fortunes from fruit trees. The article notes multiple other women achieving success and recounts various domestic and legal anecdotes, concluding with reflections on women’s progress and a broader moral about heroines in everyday life.
An 19th century advertisement touts a universal salve with refunds if unsatisfied, priced at 25 cents, alongside a sermon note by TALMAGE joking about honeymoon finances. It also promotes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil for burns and pain and cites foreign entry policy discussed by the President to Congress.
An ad extols Ely s Cream Balm as a safe certain cure for colds and catarrh. In the police court five young boys faced charges for throwing stones at pedestrians on Mt Auburn Prospect Hill residents petitioned. Judge Fitzgerald told parents to thrash their children to avoid the House of Refuge, with a report due April 24.
A Ga. Herald item notes a peculiar tree on J. Duggan's plantation. It measures about 3 inches in diameter near the ground and rises in a zigzag profile of roughly seventy feet. The first section angles up sixty degrees, then lies horizontal, rises again, and ends at a top reachable from the ground. A child could reach the upper boughs, and a person can walk forty feet along the trunk and jump to the ground without issue.
Finish walls and ceilings with Alabastine in 12 tints. Cheaper and better than paint, disinfects against disease. Free sample card offered by druggists hardware and paint dealers. ALABASTINE Co Nol0ws Grand Rapids Mich. Also notes House action defeating free coinage bill 126 to 161 days. Senate opposed to free coinage.
A 16 year old Reading Pennsylvania boy suffered convulsions and paralysis after swallowing a jackstone. Doctors suspect the toy pressed a nerve. meanwhile an advert hypes St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism and claims the American Opera Company will tour with about 300 people in a long procession.
An old physician who once practiced medicine claims to possess a simple vegetable remedy for consumption bronchitis and other throat and lung ailments plus nervous complaints. He offers to mail the remedy free of charge with instructions in German French or English to any requester by sending a stamped reply to W A Nevis 14 Power Block Rochester TM.
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