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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1895
Page
6
Local and personal news items from the Athers Messenger and Herald appeal to readers to send letters from the West and to notify address changes with old and new details. The paper promotes communication between old friends and offers obituary lines at five cents each.
An advertisement for the Ohio Farm Laws and Legal Forms book detailing subjects from animals and contracts to landlord tenant and wills. The 236 page volume includes repeals, amendments, Supreme Court decisions, and ready to use forms. Offered with a one year subscription combine price of 31.75, urging advance payment.
A two horse omnibus will hold the silver party with room to spare. Japan rice is shipped to Germany, milled there, and sold in the United States at lower cost than Southern planters pay. A writer urges that history favors another war, noting long peacetime since the Civil War. Cuba's sugar and tariff issues are discussed, with annexation as a path to protection and development potential for Cuba's lands and coffee. A newspaper editor reflects on spelling errors and the toll of publication work.
A Hartford horseman has designed a sulky with the driver's seat over the horse’s hips and the wheels slightly ahead. The upright frame helps propel without added draft, and a surcingle and shafts keep the sulky steady while allowing maximum freedom for the horse’s shoulders and chest. The inventor claims less need for training down weights and easier control from the rear location.
The article discusses English house boats as summer residences on the Thames, noting a likely origin in 1565 with a Bond Street merchant. It traces popularity growth, adjacent boats sharing passages, and mentions a New York company formed to build and rent house boats.
In St Paul an army officer hosted a dinner with friends including a civilian teller of improbable stories. He claimed to have ridden a cask to the Cape of Good Hope from an Indiaman and offered to deliver letters. A gray-haired colonel stood and revealed he was the man in the cask, finally thanking him for kindness on that voyage.
A note on the fading custom of using blinkers on horse bridies in England, a practice handed down through generations but rapidly declining as familiarity wanes.
A one eyed scarred mutt in Fairhaven Washington was made exempt from taxes by a unanimous city council decision. Known as Hobo he lives at the police station and is revered by residents for his restraint and courage during a labor riot in Puget Sound years ago. The tale contrasts mob justice with the dog’s loyalty and public affection.
An advertorial asserts spring vitality relies on Hood's Sarsaparilla, calling it a great blood purifier after winter indoor living. It promotes the tonic as the logical source of renewed energy, vigor, and improved blood quality.
Medicine advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a natural purifying and enriching tonic that filters into the blood to revive stamina, nerves, appetite, and overall vitality. It claims magical effects in banishing tiredness and promising cures for scrofula, salt rheum, and other ailments.
Local testimonial quotes praise Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for blood disorders. Geo A Zirkle, a Mt Horeb Tenn schoolteacher, describes scrofula and eye disease improved after less than a year and five bottles. Other readers from Iowa New York and Pennsylvania report healed sores and boosted health after taking Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Lena’r. O'Keefe recalls extreme temperatures on Pike's Peak while praising Dr. Pierve's Pleasant Pellets as a small remedy that claims to drive away blues and cure various ailments. Three Ohio counties Knox, Athens and Fairfield report certificates showing no cigarette dealers.
Loaded dice found in Herculaneum ruins and a bottomless lake near Conlee City Washington are joined by a chimney incident in Straudsburg Penn. The article notes European women live shorter lives yet many centenarians are women and describes a vast 77 by 40 foot carpet woven by Agra convicts for Queen Victoria. Georgia oat crops fail despite threefold planting. The eleventh census lists 470040 African descent among 62,622,250.
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