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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1883
Page
7
A tale from a restaurant humor section recounts Ed and Charley dining in a refined eatery. Ed orders a full meal, Charley selects baked beans, and both are charged a surprising 1.25 dollars. Charley discovers the price after the fact and learns a lesson about costly fare in a high end restaurant.
The Springfield Reptilian recounts a man wheeling a pair of solitaires from his pocket after dinner and gifting them to his wife. She mocks a prize package and the story shifts to a son. later the wife questions the expensive earrings bought with a tale of a stranger offering them at a store for 950 dollars.
Natives of Markstadt Gelbschnabel and Faselhans travel to Hamburg to emigrate to America. They buy fake American money at a discount from a slick dealer. On arrival in New York they discover the bogus bills imitate United States currency. Officials note such advertising cards are widely accepted by immigrants. A new law bans imitation currency in any form.
A county man greets Governor Stephens as Henry Grady exits, praising the Governor’s brain while voicing doubt about a leader carried as if a bundle of clothes. The scene unfolds as spectators react to the visit and the idea of Georgia leadership.
The story tells how Victor Hugo, upon meeting Pierre Jupont at Paris doors, refused aid at first but then read a tiny poem in which Jupont compared himself to a thirsty flower and a starving swallow. Hugo sent a messenger back, apologized, and offered work, saying you are one of us and you may lean on me as an elder brother. His kindness endears him to his compatriots.
A chaotic frontier scene unfolds with a rat a cat a dog and a boy in a yard on Franklin street as a chicken is threatened, a dog dies, the rat perishes and the dog’s owner seeks vengeance while the tale shifts to a rebel era orphan raised by Jubal Early and Ida Henry in Wheeling and then to a moral about grindstone tricks told by Peck’s Sun narrator revealing grown men as hollow and deceitful.
An editorial excerpt attacks extravagant hotel and restaurant pricing fueled by patrons ordering excessive amounts of food. It denounces wastage as morally wrong, costly to others, and compares it to gluttony, urging self restraint and respect for those in need.
The article advises immediate use of Peruna at first indicators of mind impairment from nervous exhaustion or forebodings of evil. Early symptoms include loss of strength, muscle softness, dim sight, facial expressions, coated tongue, and impaired digestion, with some powers lost despite good health otherwise.
A young man arrives home from college wearing his diploma, or sheepskin, while the old man replies with grim practicality noting the young man’s future will ride on earned bones. The Burlington Hawkeye captures a scene of pride tempered by hard realism.
Pror. Harris of the Concord School of Philosophy argues that a practice may continue only through its surroundings and could become finite if it found a different environment. The Hartford Post notes the telegraph operators struck in response to this statement.
Two Philadelphia lawyers clashed in a street altercation with threats of shooting if armed. Spectators offered pistols to both men, but once the crowd showed willingness to see them remove each other, the rivals pledged friendship and vowed to live forever to spite the town. Mrs. Hommeseun laments children called the rising generation amid daily morning turmoil.
The fragment comments on Aspasia and dissimulation as feminine virtue, cites Landor and the Black Crook as a successful stage piece with more legs than rivals, reflecting theater culture and critique. It notes New Orleans Picayune as the source praising the show’s appeal.
The item notes the marriage of a striking Chinese woman to a British man in San Francisco and adds a sharp aside about Sullivan's head on a stamp, implying a political jab or joke of the era.
Dr. G P Holman of Christiansburg Virginia reports success with Benson's Celery and Chamo mile Pills for neuralgia. The remedy is priced at 60 cents and sold at druggists.
A large forenoon crowd gathered outside the Western Union Telegraph office in Detroit seeking news on a strike. A bemused man asked about higher wages and whether telegraph wires had been torn down. Reportedly all operators struck for higher pay. the company reportedly refused. The man left convinced the papers had reported the event, while noting the confusion he encountered.
A historical writ issued by Judge Francis Dunlavy in 1506 commands the sheriff to seize Simeon Kenton and Philip Jarbee in the county, keeping them in custody to appear before the Court of Common Pleas in Springfield for a debt case involving James Dermit and the State of Ohio. The sheriff reports the defendants were not found but will not be arrested.
A Texas Siftings fragment recounts Johnny Fizzletop visiting Colonel Percy Yerger. Major Fiz zletop questions the boy about the visit, and Johnny explains he smelled cabbage dinner, prompting a reprimand about not repeating what is heard at others homes.
Mrs Henry Ells of 502 Scott Street Milwaukee Wisconsin writes she suffered long with distressing diseases and was bedridden before trying PERMNA. After three months she was completely cured with no appliances. She urges others to ask their druggist for the pamphlet Ills of Life and to find her certificate on page 351.
An editorial reprints Hood & Co. claims that Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Tooth Powder are widely used and highly regarded. The Sarsaparilla is said to have effected wonderful cures in this city and across New England, according to Ed Dowell Daily Citizen.
The Norristown Herald notes several bright minds work long hours to coin new names for old dress colors for next season. One man after two weeks sixteen hours daily created new tint names such as toper's nose and kicked dog, the latter being a shade of yellow.
Advertising notice offering free trials of Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs colds asthma bronchitis and throat chest illnesses from H K Dorr’s drug store. Encourages early call to obtain a regular bottle and prove its merits.
In Her Springs Arkansas a performer billed as the smallest man stands two feet seven inches tall. He is described as aged like the oldest of the smallest while stepping into the spotlight to claim a world title.
A printed guarantee on every bottle claims it cures dyspepsia and liver complaint. Sold by KE and R. Lash.
The Colorado potato bug once terrified farmers is said to be dying out, but a harsher menace has appeared to challenge growers, described by the Colorado statesman as the new worst pest.
An advertisement touts Shiloi’s Cure as an immediate relief for croup whooping cough and bronchitis sold by E. R. Lash. The claim emphasizes rapid action and targeted respiratory illnesses with a single vendor.
A New York Times excerpt condemns a hunter for shooting an eagle and praises the bird as a free emblem. It contrasts contempt for the hunter with gratitude for freedom. The piece shifts to New York state pauper relief costs, noting 9.82 million expended in a year and charitable gifts. It also marks Simeon Cameron as Lincoln's last living War Cabinet member after Montgomery Blair's death.
An 1851 Brooklyn advertisement touts Allcock's PoRous Plasters as cures for rheumatism kidney complaints bronchitis neuralgia lumbago and more. Testimonial claims instant relief and calls them a blessing for wives and mothers, especially with Brandreth pills for restoration to health.
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