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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1886
Page
2
The piece argues newspapers outrun magazines in imagination. It cites Galveston News reporting a maple tree grown to a live toad core and Flushing Journal noting a codfish from an melted anvil, mocking claims of superior literary skill by novelists and magazine writers.
A Denver man killed another for calling him opprobrious names, but the jury acquitted, asserting that “any man who called another such names deserved killing.” The editorial notes this as a dangerous shift and warns of a murder surge if allowed to stand.
A draft portrait of working women in London shows wages barely cover lodging and food. Many live in shared rooms paying 23 to 26d weekly for space while others rely on club kitchens offering cheap dinners. discipline and aspiration persist among dressmakers and milliners despite hardship.
The President sternly notes the two dollars and a quarter cost of a straw hat after Hector the poodle trotted into the President's room with the hat draped around him. Daniel responds promptly as the hat’s purchase is confirmed. The dialogue pokes fun at naming the dog Bill and references political vetoes.
A long column urges readers not to trust cheap imitations of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and lung ailments. It touts trial bottles at Henderson and Minear’s Drug Store and warns against deceptive claims. The page also notes 1886 Grand Army Department finances and a Paris Pasteur controversy, plus local political rumors and odd society quips.
A collage of brief items notes a feeble old man disputing a fare on a New Haven streetcar, two meteorological wonders near Acapulco, hollow porcelain eggs concealing whisky in Boston, counterfeit currency concerns, Beecher’s oratory in London, a Philadelphia girl’s breakup over a drugstore visit, German Socialists in America, Dr Sage’s remedy for catarrh, political accusations around Payne, and the first female Treasury clerk Jennie Douglas in 1862.
Readers are told of a Bangor effort to organize a Prohibition party in a state long dominated by prohibition. The piece notes disappointed politicians migrate to temperance causes, while debate questions if prohibition truly prohibits. It also touches on bees and Plato, embezzlement trends, a giant diamond find, and a meditation on death.
The column argues the Mirror cannot flatter and ridicules a respectable embezzler. Murat Halstead is cited as having insured his life for 25000 dollars, suggesting his belief he will be killed. It emphasizes that a “good man gone wrong” is still a bad man exposed.
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