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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 23, 1874

Page

4

Ohio papers and lives marked by war and reform

Athens region reports the Obse Brate Editorial Association prepares its annual convention in Columbus on May 25. The Delaware Cazette reaches its fifty first year and expands to ten columns. Feaxburn Garr, veteran journalist and former Ohio Statesman editor, dies in Columbus. State Legislature adjourns after partisan shifts. New spates of crime include a Breckinridge killing in Lebanon, Kentucky, amid drunkenness. Prohibition debate shapes Ohio and New Hampshire outcomes, with GOP gains and calls to sustain temperance laws amidst shifting voter alignments.

Feaxburn Garr Columbus Ohio Statesman New Hampshire Ohio Jo Short Friends of Temperance Proebate Court Athens County Athens Marshfield Howber Marstuidd Nudber Aix Aileen Uo James As Bach Mies

Journalistic careers and Washburne lineage outlined.

A historical column discusses Me Joo Scamman’s failed bet on journalism, remarks on editors' apprenticeship, and contrasts laypeople with trained journalists. It then profiles Hon William B. Washburn, detailing his Massachusetts birth in 1820, Yale education, business ties, and long service in Congress and as Governor, noting his integrity and plain speaking.

Me Joo Scamman Chicago Hon Actman Pallas America Louis Globe William BB. Washburn United States Senate Summer Bo Washburne Hingis France Charles A. Washburn California Paraguay Cadwalader CC. Washburn Wisconsin Congress Winehendon Massachusetts Yale College Greenfelid Bank House Committee On B. F. Butler

Hat fashion and goods urged by Selig store

A local column extols hats as a measure of character and promotes M. Selig & Co as offering a complete line of fashionable hats. It notes Harvey Roach expanding groceries, D Zenner & Co dry goods, and Pickerings sugar value. It also criticizes G Wright over Singer machines and advertises Stover information. Patent medicine De Bosehe’s German Syrup is touted with free samples. Sept. 4, 1876.

Moe Mammoth New M. Selig & Co D. Zenner & Co Athens de. Bosehee United States

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