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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1886
Page
7
A Harper's Bazar snippet promotes a home remedy to mute neighborhood noise. It suggests placing spermaceti ointment in the ear as a temporary earplug to stop sounds during periods of agitation, then removing it afterward to restore normal hearing.
Mrs Mary A Dailey of Punkhanock Pennsylvania suffered six years from asthma and bronchitis. After using Dr Kings New Discovery last October she felt relief and soon was completely cured gaining 50 Jos in a few months. Free trial bottle at Henderson & Miner’s drug store. Large bottles $1.00.
An editorial argues labor must use methods aligned with personal freedom and equal rights, insisting capital recognize the right to organize and laborers the right to hire. A brief humorous aside about Gilhooly and a coffee question appears as a light domestic vignette.
A London column summarizes observations of a new solar corona called Bishop's ring seen around the sun since late 1885 and occasionally around the full moon. Researchers Von Bezold Thellon Backhouse note color shifts from blue to whitish glow near the solar disk.
A two foot long alligator was killed at Rice Creek by Brown, a local Black resident. It was skinned and stuffed. cutting it revealed eggs, logs, a chain, boat stem, a boy, an iron chest, and wood scraps. The carcass bore 351 bullet marks and fifty pounds of lead. A farmer in Henry county wore a coonskin coat on a cold day and quipped about the warm side.
An assorted page includes an ad for a multipurpose salve promising cures for skin ailments and piles with a 25 cent price. It also notes tips on making shingles fire proof, the dye for permanent hair color, a two pound newborn in Tennessee, a fined revival convert, a question on England Ireland tunneling, a rent notice, and various short items.
An automatic electrical clock that does not wind and resists atmospheric changes, claimed to sell for half the price of ordinary clocks, is announced by Mr. Hussey of Menlo Park. An army officer among the Sioux cites Carlisle training school graduates as good Indians who are intelligent and willing to work.
Advertisement text touts Magnolia Balm as an easy solution to improve skin appearance, claiming many women are beautiful except for their skin and urging readers to try the product for beauty enhancement.
Frederick Turner from Somersetshire England and William H. Bailey from Greenwich England are noted as Knights. General Grant's tomb at Riverside Park will be decorated on Memorial Day with General Logan as orator in a national affair. An Albany Georgia woman recalls wartime prices for bread tea and a dress. The widow of General Santa Anna spends her declining years in Mexico in a rocking chair smoking cigarettes.
An elderly doctor, long retired, claims to have received a vegetable remedy formula from a fast Indian missionary. He says the plan treats consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and all throat and lung diseases and offers a radical cure for nervous debility and other nervous complaints. He will mail the recipe free in German French or English with full usage directions to all who request it.
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