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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1899
Page
2
A stream of reflective fragments covers topics from love and fate to energy waste and systems, urging mindful labor and efficiency. It blends poems on seasons with essays on life’s rhythms, appetite, and the human struggle to eat and endure. Strong hints of moral lessons and pastoral imagery thread through the prose.
The piece suggests 1898 style candidates may reappear with a possible dark horse. It emphasizes popularity shaping politics and medicine, praising Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for stomach liver and kidney issues. It cites Civil War diarrhoea as a problem and endorses Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy via W. A McKee.
A letter from Mrs R Baden of Detroit and others touts Pe-ru-na as a cure for catarrhs and digestive ailments. Dr Hartman will advise fifty thousand women this year free of charge and promote his book Wealth and Beauty. Drug stores sell Pe-ru-na nationwide.
An English company proposes a new inkless printing process using a chemically dampened fabric plate to transfer impressions. The Philadelphia Record says it rivals copperplate or litho in clarity, allows ordinary type blocks as surfaces, and can reproduce drawings and engravings directly from art or sketches with cheaper sensitizing solution and faster speed.
In Dbuda Pesth a group of three Americans sparked a scene when a waiter’s math error led to protest. The crowd intervened as a guard and manager urged calm, ending with the Americans leaving quietly after a wild miscalculation about three times three.
Mrs Ana Ifart of Groton South Dakota writes of a severe cold that progressed to consumption. She credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Coughs and Colds, taking eight bottles to recover. Trial bottles offered free at W B McKee’s drugstore with regular sizes priced at 50 cents and one dollar, guaranteed or money back.
Boards in the Philippines Cuba and Porto Rico urge limited changes to army rations. Manila proposes dried fruits, but General Weston notes prior shipments of thin fruit. Sugar rations likely to rise as tropical troops seek more sweets. Dr Wiles’ Pots Pilly referenced.
An English traveler recalls a brutal camel bout at an Indian prince's grounds. Two male fighting camels, kept separate from others, were released and clashed in a ferocious fencing match. One seized the other by the leg, blood flowed, and the long-haired camel dragged his foe while others restrained the fighters. The prince ordered separation after a dozen men intervened. the crippled animal was likely to be out of action for months.
A San Francisco item cites Hervey Laney in Scientific American describing hornets defense strategies. Sentinels guard the nest entrance and stones provoke a stunned forehead blow. hornets attack with great speed and die head and tail together. If hidden behind shelter, attackers may escape. Lessons include hornets marking missile direction.
A Chicago anecdote recalls a trio of bookmakers who hid a cash bundle in a hotel and demanded delivery only in all three’s presence. The clerk unwittingly paid, the partners sued, a clever young lawyer exposed the ruse, and the bundle proved to be only old pants. Birds’ sounds are often produced without opening beaks, as ventriloquism-like resonances in the throat.
Sparrows nested on the town clock face, filling the mechanism with sticks and straw and stopping the tolling. A long pole removed the nest, restoring the clock to its accustomed tick. In Washington, a new law requires horseshoers to pass an exam and obtain a license.
A cryptic local fragment recalls a troubled household in H- with a domes tic servant and a minor earthquake. Disjoint notes reference Mary Ann and a French experimenter grafting tomatoes onto potatoes producing underground tubers and above ground tomatoes.
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