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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1895
Page
3
In a Boise office a veteran driver recounts hijinks of the overland stages, sheriff vigilante lore, and a dramatic jailbreak near Kuna. A young man faces execution but reads a mother's letter from Georgia, prompting mercy and a silent departure. The memory caps a vanished frontier era.
ProF Pickering cites forty small Martian lakes and seven miles up no air. Subcutaneous salt injections aid some insanity forms. Brick dust mortar can replace hydraulic cement where unavailable. Sunlight through a opening reveals dust in air. Nordenskjöld to lead Swedish Antarctic expedition from Stockholm in July. Drops per cubic centimeter vary by liquid. Japanese silk worm breeding linked to future mother in law. Karat gold compositions explained.
Dr Miles Heart Cure is offered with a positive guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. Drug gists sell it at 81.6 bottles for $5 or it will be sent prepaid on receipt of price by the Dr Miles Medical Co Elkhart Ind.
A concise survey notes Grant’s June 2 1865 disbandment order from Washington. It cites Barnet 1471 as a pivotal end to baron rule, Gettysburg losses 25101 Union 37000 Confederate, Bosworth 1485 Richard III, Inkermann 1854 battle name, Civil War draft 1863, Marengo 58000 participants with 13000 killed or wounded, and Napoleon’s Marengo victory and his lifelong worn uniform.
No more than eighty six plans have been received for Cairo's new Egyptian museum with premiums soon to be awarded. Masacagni has written an opera Silvano to open in Milan featuring three characters. Signor de Luicia will sing the tenor part. Miss Sipyt SANDERSON, a renowned prima donna, departs for France for rest then vows to seek Opera again next season. Paper Rowsk!, knighted in Saxony, performs in Paris Lamoreux concerts and works on a Polish opera. James Voorhees, son of Senator Voorhees, is commissioned to sculpt a bust of Col. Richard M Johnston, late VP from 1887 to 1841, reputed to have killed Tecumseh at Tippecanoe.
A Trilby foot pin is noted as appearing and judged unremarkable. Miss Brice, daughter of an Ohio senator, is said to be engaged to Henry Outram BaxIronsides, second secretary at the British embassy. The Natchez steamer’s crew includes women led by Captain Mrs Tom Leathers. Mrs Greeper, editor’s wife, avoids formal calls despite heavy entertaining. A world ocean captain asserts women show calm heroism in disasters. Mrs L B Cast of Callender Iowa qualifies as justice of the peace. her husband’s store led to ballots listing her initials. Sworn in since no law barred a woman performing justice.
A collage of observations notes rising use of naphtha residues as fuel in Russia, Thuringia leading glass eye production, China offering the cheapest coat prices while South Africa is the dearest, and fiber from cotton stalks potentially usable. Ireland reports 35000 emigrants in 1804, a 12257 drop from the prior year, the smallest since 1851. Joseph Jefferson may strike it rich if salt on his Louisiana land proves real, as local deposits rank among the nation’s richest.
From November 25 the Ohio Central schedules shift. Northbound trains depart Athens & Toledo at 6:00 a m, Charleston & Toledo at 11:22 a m, and Gauley & Columbus at 5:00 p m. Southbound runs include Columbus & Gauley at 10:46 a m, Toledo & Charleston at 6:86 p m, and Col. & Athens Arr at 8:10 p m. Trains 1 and 2 run daily, others except Sunday. all trains run solid to Columbus and Gallipolis.
Train times for the Athens O S W line are changed with west and east bound arrivals listed for Nos 1 34 5 4 3 6 83 2. Return connections from train 84 at 8 17 a m offer eight hours in Marietta. Buckeye Route excursion tickets on specific dates to Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee and Virginia. Also Michigan excursion May 7 via Buckeye Route. Oho Central parlor cars on trains 1 and 2 now refreshed. fare to Columbus 25 cents.
Ohio Central Lines offer one fare round trip to points in Michigan on May 7 for 20 day return. 500 mile books cover Toledo Ohio to Gauley serge West Virginia, valid one year from sale, price ten dollars. Fr H Hysrun, agent.
The Buckeye Flyer is the business man's train for Chicago leaving Columbus nightly and running through without car changes. It features elegance with day coaches Parlor Cars and Pullman Sleeping Cars on all trains between Columbus and gillland Onto River points. Ticket agents offer full information or contact W. D. Fister General Passenger and Ticket Agent Columbus Ohio.
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