18 Aug 1887
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1887
Page
1
Dr C C Farquhar advertises as a physician and specialist curing deformities stiff joints paralysis lung diseases piles and many chronic ailments. He uses chemical urine analysis and claims a new painless piles method and successful treatment for diseases from secret habits to female disorders with many testimonials.
Fragmentary OCR notes show a person named Alfred Reeves in Meigs County Ohio with residence Five Points and an office address. The text is garbled but indicates a local notice context, suggesting a public or legal notice for Alfred Reeves in Ohio.
Pleasant and profitable employment awaits a wide awake salesman to meet local demand for Rand, McNally & Co.s New Reversible Map of the United States and Canada and Pictorial Map of the World 1887 Edition. The map includes a railroad and county map with Mexico, Liberty enlightening the World, Standard Railway Time, and pictorial world, Europe, Asia, North America and Mexico. Also engraved diagrams and statistical tables.
The Athens post office lists a set of uncalled for letters dated August 15 1887. Names include Ames Miss A E Bebee Sidneys Dunlap W H Foltz Miss Lizzie Frankel Mr Sol Gabriel Mrs Mary Gotschall Prof J A Iuman Mr Wm Matheny Mr Stephen Mott Mr G W Smart Mre Chloe Stricklen Mr D G Willmer Mrs Mattie Wilson Alexander.
From Aug 18 to 28 the Co W and B R R offers a one fare round trip to Coolville during the meeting. Trains 3 4 5 6 41 44 56 and 47 stop daily at Coolville with Sunday Aug 21 and 28 services. A special Athens to Coolville train departs at 7 30 a m on those Sundays.
Two story frame building with six rooms and an office, two rooms suitable for a dressmaker or millinery shop on Union Street. Offered for cash at a low price. Call or write James A. Miller, Athens Ohio.
An issue advertises a cheap excursion to Cincinnati to see the drama Rome under Nero. It mentions 697 pairs of Cassimere pants for sale at less than cost at Nelson's.
A roundup of political and social notes from 1887 including a talk of a national debt plan, possible cabinet changes, Prohibition leanings, and various crimes and local happenings from Kentucky to Ohio and Arkansas. Prominent items include the Chatsworth rail disaster, executions in Prescott and New Orleans, tornado and fire incidents, and regional political shifts.
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