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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 29, 1901

Page

3

Pan American trip and regional visits noted

Tay Lasu and B G Jallett returned from a ten day Pan American position trip. Mr and Mrs A P Osborne arrived from Columbus and stay with relatives. Charles Potter family to Buffalo exposition next week. F L Woodworth arrived from Marion Indiana to visit his wife. C V Harris returned from Gallipolis after a hospital trustees meeting. September board meeting to elect steward and storekeeper.

T. Tay Lasu B. G. Jallett Charles Potter Lida Florence Buffalo Exposition C. V. Harris Gallipolis Epileptic Hospital

Bucklen Arnica Salve cited for quick facial healing

Mrs. Nannie Galleger of La Grange Ga applies Bucklen's Arnica Salve to her head and face after frightful disfigurement. The note claims rapid cure and warns of uses for sores bruises skin eruptions burns scalds and piles. Also mentions apples as a sedentary diet suggestion and notes Ledger Monthly.

Nannie Galleger la Grange Bucklen W.H. McKee

National Glass Company's Pan-American Exposition Exhibit

National Glass Company operating twenty-one plants with its Pittsburgh main office occupies a full Pan-American grounds factory. It demonstrates glass manufacture from raw material to finished products, including cutting, engraving, etching, decorating, spin weaving, and glasscloth furniture. A full size Miss Maxine Elliott figure draped in dress woven from glass and glasscloth furniture also on display. The exhibit is the only manufacturing feature on the grounds and a top Pan-American educational attraction.

National Glass Company Pittsburgh Maxine Elliott Nisw2

Makes Metter Mothers Advocate College Education For Women

Mrs. Charles I Gardiner longtime New York educator supports college education for women saying it strengthens domestic life. She cites her Troy Female Seminary background and argues a degree helps women assist husbands and raise children more intelligently.

Charles i. Gardiner New York Professor Gardiner Troy Female Seminary

Question Answered Yes August Flower still dominates sales

August Flower remains the top selling medicine in the civilized world. Mothers and grandmothers used it for indigestion and biliousness. It was said doctors were scarce and conditions like Appendicitis and Heart failure were uncommon, with the remedy claimed to cleanse the system and stimulate liver and nervous action.

Green Henderson

Nettles Used As Rural Remedy Across Centuries

A rustic compendium traces nettles as a cure all from Culpepper listing 42 diseases treated by nettle potions to remedies praised in Arran and Scotland. It notes numbness from use, mentions juice to settle the palate, and cites ancient authorities like Dioscorides and Gerard with wary curiosity.

Culpepper Hamlet Gerard Dioscorides Lonzman

When Pine Were New Open Shop Pine History

In early pine history a code limited sales to January 1 and 2 each year due to high demand. Court ladies and city dames flocked to depots, turning those days into festivals.

The Lemon as Preventive and Remedy Across Ailments

The London Chronicle notes lemons contain acids including citrate of potash that help form carbonate salts in blood, suggesting lemon intake may prevent scurvy and aid rheumatism by keeping blood alkaline. It argues a healthy person needs no extra lemons for basic nutrition and cautions against claims about liver benefits.

London Chronicle

Arundel Castle and the Earl of Arundel Title

The piece notes Arundel Castle’s link to the Earl of Arundel by ownership. It discusses the potential for a future sale to a millionaire and asserts no legal barrier would stop such an owner from taking a seat in the Lords if the Howards faced hard times.

Arundel Castile Arundel Castle Earl of Arundel England House of Howard House of Lords Bulwer Lytton Samuel Tuke Macaully

Locusts Sailor Yarn About Canvas Trousers Tale

An old sailor recounts a tale from the Pactuec voyage when a swarm of locusts allegedly ate sails and later appeared in the next port with every one wearing a pair of canvas trousers. The anecdote blends humor with sea lore and local color.

Tadustriogs Pactuec

Diverent From the Reet Marital Tales Benefit

A humorous exchange unfolds as men recount why they married. One jokes I married my wife because she was so different from any woman he had met. The punchline: she was the only woman who would have him.

Reet

Palm reader tale from a New York Times brief

A humorous card-like snippet describes Word Character and He-TI visiting a palmist last week. She-yes asks what he learned, but he did not get reading, instead he coughs, returns the fee, and leaves with money restored.

Palmist New York Times

Men Who Handle Milltona in Treasury Trust

An excerpt discusses treasury money handling, the high risk of peculation, and the reliance on honesty. It notes daily cash flow in the United States treasury and the need for spotters, while asserting trust in individuals to safeguard funds despite temptations.

United States Treasury S. H. Adams Aluslee

Precocious Baby Dines With Gentleman at Luncheon

A four year old girl, an only child and greatly spoiled by her parents, dines with a young man friend of her father. She orders confidently, requests meat and potatoes, then ice cream, and finally flowers to end the meal. The scene, described in the New York Times, portrays grown up poise in a child.

New York New York Times

Hypnotic influence and strange forest growth noted

The text describes hypnotic influence during horse driving and questions of trickery, followed by observations of weather beaten boulders that are actually trees. It notes unusual forest growth, wind exposure shaping forms, and peculiar stone tree hybrids called fly ing stones that lack grain and are hard to utilize for fuel.

Brent Sulengun Nerure Bag

Wanted Man Advertised for Harsh Labor Conditions

A fragment from Pick-Me Up describes an advertisement promising paid work and humane conditions, prompting concern from a wife who suspects the offer may be too good to be true. The notice hints at recruitment in questionable terms and raises doubts about the employer’s intent.

Mars effectious Slater and the neighbor’s grim outlook

A fragmentary exchange among neighbors notes Mars effectious Slater and Myer Yerho Kyet rumored for a gloomiest temperament. The brief item hints at local personalities viewing dark prospects with suspicion.

Mars Slater

Quoted Lines on Women and Desire from 18th-century Authors

Curious garbled excerpts reveal a string of period quotes on women and love. The fragment hints at male gaze and social attitudes toward women, beauty, and desire, paired with occasional misprints or OCR errors.

Do You Suffer From Coughs and Lung Troubles

An ad pitch promotes Doschee's German Syrup as a universal remedy for throat and lung ailments. Claims include tissue healing, easier phlegm, better sleep, and rapid relief, urging one bottle for relief. Nearby notes mention a 763 pound watermelon at Camden Arkansas exhibit and local oil-field investments in Texas.

Doschee C. B. Henderson

What Shall We Have for Dessert Jell O Suggestion

Question of dessert arises in the family with a quick answer Jell O prepared in two minutes no baking just add hot water and cool flavors lemon orange raspberry and strawberry offered at grocers. APROOPNS notes the White House has just been painted again and never scraped revealing the original coat beneath century additions.

White House

Krause Headache Capsules Offer Safer Relief

An ad cites Krause's Headache Capsules as a safe remedy free of antipyrine chloral morphine or harmful ingredients. They claim rapid relief and clear heads, priced at 25 cents and sold at Cline's Pharmacy. Also mentions Krause Cold Cures for colds and a new electric car brake that drops to rails on impact.

Krause Cline

Plans for an electric railway across New York State

The article notes plans underway to build an uninterrupted electric railway across New York. It mentions Laney oil predictions shifting toward California oil and describes oil as fuel drawn from the ground and used as energy.

State of New York Laney Oil California

Shorts In Corser and a Stock Market Ditty

A fragment from the Dittyburg Commercial Gazette recalls a curious exchange about shorts in stock trading. A demure maid muses on becoming a speculator and being short, while a remark from the Atchison Globe jokes that a man treated well at home prefers home comforts.

Lane Adolphus Dittyburg Commercial Gazette Atchison Globe

Mackinac Island and Detroit Excursion via Ohio Central Lines

The Ohio Central Lines announce a Mackinac Island and Detroit excursion on Thursday September 5. A special train will connect with the steamer City of Alpena leaving Toledo at 4 00 pm. Tickets cover round trip from multiple stations with Detroit stopovers and baggage checked through. Details available from local agents.

Ohio Central Lines City of Alpena Toledo Ohio Central Mackinac Detroit W. A Mackinac Island Mackenac D&c. Navigation Co Altenat Stackitac Ohio Central Lites D. & C. Navigation Co

Excursions via Hocking Valley Bays to Cleveland

Travelers may buy return tickets September 8 to 12 for one cent fare from Athens at 1.00, valid returning until September 15. Tickets kept until October with a 50 cent deposit paid to Cleveland agent, via Hocking Valley, for Grand Fair of Republic in Cleveland.

Hocking Valley

One Way Settlers Hates Through Ohio Central Lines

Special low rate one way settlers tickets are sold on the first and third Tuesday of each month by Ohio Central Lines agents to Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Mississippi North and South Carolina Tennessee and Virginia. For rates and details contact any agent or the nearest passenger representative John Moores Findlay S G Harvey Toledo D J Cargo Toledo W A Peters Columbus FE E feiner Charleston W Va

Ohio Central Ohio Central Lines Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Mississsppi North South Carolina Tennessee Virginia John Moores Findlay S. G. Harvey Toledo D. J. Cargo W. A. Peters Columbus E. Feiner Charleston W. Va

Special Summer Excursions on Ohio Central Lines

Agents offer special low rate excursion tickets commencing June 18 and running daily through September 10 to Colorado Utah South Dakota and Minnesota. Returns allowed until October 32. Inquire at Ohio Central Lines agents for rates and full particulars.

Ohio Central Lines Colorado Utah South Dakota Minnesota

Ohio Central Lines Promote Special Low Rate Tickets

Ohio Central Lines offer special low rate excursion tickets to Buffalo and return. For full details on sale dates routes and conditions contact agents. Through tickets to prints east of Buffalo allow a ten day stopover at the position. If traveling east go via Buffalo.

Ohio Central Beffzlo Ohio Central Lines Buffalo

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