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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1888
Page
8
A long tribute recalls Roscoe Conkling’s public career during the Civil War and Reconstruction era. It praises his integrity, leadership, and defense of emancipation, national credit, black suffrage, and honest politics, while noting party unity has since overshadowed past divisions.
A San Francisco woman shows a diamond ring containing three opaque bluish stones. The husband explains those stones are the first teeth cut by their three children, saved one by one for the jewel.
A collage of remarks touches politics and society from the era. It notes Sherman’s friends may hinder him, Ohio fears, marriage procreation excuses, wealth in St Paul, Lick telescope magnification, a jab at Democratic conventions, Georgia’s only woman lawyer, a leap year tennis trope, and four thousand women employed by the U S government.
An advertisement promotes Acker's psia Tablets for dyspepsia and constipation endorsed by users. Sold for 25 to 50 cents by C B Henderson. A stray crime quip about a burglar and safe cracking appears alongside.
English chemists report fluorine as a universal solvent that combines with all metals heating them to redness. Metals such as iron and marungane ignite, noble metals yield, glass is dissolved, and water is split with hydrogen forming hydrofluoric acid and ozone.
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