21 Apr 1870
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1870
Page
1
A compact reflection warns that one watchful action can mislead a whole neighborhood while a single misstep can set a harmful example for others around us. The piece urges careful personal conduct and responsibility in communal life.
The Hon. Henry Wilson praises temperance gains noting reduced liquor presence in the Capitol, six thousand pledged temperance men in Washington, and a sober administration including the President and Treasury Secretary. He recalls higher Congress drinking when he began fourteen years ago and credits policy shifts with improved revenue conditions.
The Cleveland and Western Reserve papers accuse each other of bitterness over the State Fair moving to Springfield. Editors urge restraint and recall that Ohio’s unity matters beyond local pride. They warn that minority rebellion harms the state’s harmony.
The text advises starting a cash business with solid capital and no credit, buying materials for cash, avoiding overstocking, and aligning with honest partners. It stresses one price with small profit, ethical conduct, learning from losses, and allocating funds for printing and advertising to stay visible and attract cash customers. It ends promising that, with intelligent, diligent effort, a fortune will follow.
A California newspaper describes the Butaiouse Salt Mine near Austin Nevada as looking like a frozen lake. The crystal salt spans about twenty by twelve miles with a six to seven inch crust, mud beneath, and a deep pure salt layer. The deposit contains about ninety five percent salt and five percent soda, unusually pure.
Writings argue nine-tenths of urban poor are destitute due to preferring crowded cities over rural areas where work and cheap living exist. Anecdotes contrast poverty with opportunity, and include jests about bankers and princes, plus a note that an editor cancels a paper for his wife’s clipping.
A fragment from an 1860s Ohio education notice urges April reforms in school boards. It calls for public school visits and reports by mixed committees, standard text books, and clear discipline rules including suspension for insubordination.
The Manchester Republican refutes a recent Gazette telegraph tale from Adams County calling it a hoax. It states Charcette was slandered, Mr. Sluff is a sober citizen, Connell unwed, Rhinehart peaceful, and condemns the hoax while advising victims to ignore the unverified report.
The debate over the bill to end imprisonment for debt in Rhode Island drew fierce opposition and dramatic portrayals of poverty punished by law. The Providence Press supports reform, arguing the old law is a relic of barbarism and will no longer criminalize poverty.
In Zanesville Ohio male citizens petition for granting women full citizenship duties including military jury and road service and joint debts while enforcing alimony to husbands upon divorce. In Albany Senator Genet opposes restriction on liquor sales and favors unrestricted daily availability. Jack Reynolds on eve of execution comments on alcohol.
In a Western County Ireland tale Cornelius O Dowd recalls a grand jury voting to erect a new county jail using old jail materials while the old building remains for holding prisoners until the new jail is ready.
A devotional piece compares real snakes to a slanderous person. It warns that while venom from snakes can kill, a liar’s tongue can ruin families and communities. The narrative urges vigilance against gossip and condemns the evil speaker as barren of heavenly inheritance. Ray.
The Hoепopath founder Samuel Hahnemann counseled a wealthy English lord who claimed a statement from the patient. The doctor opened a small vial and held the lord's nose, saying Smelt Well, po cured. The lord offered payment in francs before the vial was returned.
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