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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1876
Page
8
A comparison between German battlefield losses and Christian outreach highlights wasted efforts. The piece argues ministers and teachers fire without aim, targeting distant issues or generic prayers rather than concrete souls or heart-reaching truths. It urges precise, targeted aims in sermons, prayers, and lessons.
The speaker denounces distillers who sell common spirits as poisoners of the people and warns that their wealth is earned through blood and ruin. Mrs. Tyler, widow of the late President, visits Washington, still youthful and noted for her beauty and charm.
A newly married woman from A J. Lous obtained a formal written promise from her husband that he would accompany her to Phil and reside there during the Centennial celebration. The document binds him to take part in the event in the city during the anniversary.
At Puteaux a white parcel tied to twenty or thirty toy balloons drifted down when children spotted it. Inside lay the corpse of a newborn infant. The mother, a toy maker's widow, killed her baby after her husband died and debts seized their home. She then attempted suicide, leaving a note about sending her baby to heaven. The balloons were linked to the dead husband’s stock in trade.
A Dayton reminiscence recalls C. L. Vallandigham with a Latin quotation followed by a Wyandot speech in the Ohio House. It ridicules H. B. Banning and a Steubenville Herald critique, then moves through aphorisms on hypocrisy and humility, a Lafayette Ark joke ending in a doctor’s shooting, and a Providence Journal jab about onions and a general’s death.
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