Athens in poetry and local shops by Cornwell Pickering Newsom
A Victorian style catalog piece highlights D C Cornwell Jeweler on Main Street offering fine watches karat jewelry and bridal gifts plus repairs. It also promotes A B Pickering Restaurant on Marin Street for affordable meals, Newsom’s Furniture for drawing room parlor and undertaker services, praising quality, prices, and courteous service.
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Main St
D. C. Cornwell
Cornwell
Newsom
Mars
Sloane's China Palace Surprises with Fine Crockery
China Palace on Main Street showcases Sloane's beautiful store with a wide range of chinaware glassware and bric-a-brac. It highlights lamps, table cutlery, wedding presents, decorated mugs and vases, and porcelain boarding house and student service. Sloane promises large orders and delivery with low prices.
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A.V. Sloane
A. O. Sloane
Sloane
Athens Steam Laundry Promises Prompt, Thorough Service
S. KE. Hedges leads the Athens Steam Laundry on North Main Street in a lively note that praises fast, careful work. They charge ten cents for shirts and offer two and three cent rates on various items, handling cuffs collars underwear and family garments with steady bustle.
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S. Bk. Hedges
North Main Street
Athens
S. KE. Hedges
Davis and Davis Goods and McKee Drug Store Ad
J P Davis manager of Hoots and Shoes offers extensive stock of all kinds of footwear for all ages at low prices. J F Davis boasts better goods or cheaper prices nationwide. McKee's Drug Store on Main Street offers pure chemicals and a wide range of medicines with careful compounding and a large assortment of novelties.
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J.P. Davis
F. Davis
J. F. Davis
McKee
W. HH. McKee
Millinery on Main Street Wins Local Praise
On Main Street ladies pause in quiet order to admire a pretty home and dainty treasure. The ad praises Topis Cook's millinery for latest fashion hats and dresses, noting reliable dealer trust, inexpensive goods, and skilled trimming to attract buyers.
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Main Street
Topis Cook
Eurther
Cannon Frooks
G. KR. Walker's Books and Stationery Store Ad
G KR Walker offers a wide stock of books for children school and college, novels science histories and political works, plus fine stationery, instruments magazines pictures frames and gifts. Holiday goods, games dolls and toys fill shelves. admired for cheap prices in the business block.
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G. KR. Walker
Court House
Han
G. RK. Walker
Warden's Vine Groceries and Confectionery Ad
Promotion for B Warden's store praising pure candies and cigars. Highlights include fine Malaga grapes oranges pears nuts and a wide fruit selection with both foreign and home produce. Emphasizes freshness and luxury sweets for maidens and pets with motto sweets to the sweets.
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T. B. Warden
Warden
Tie
Malaga
B. Warden
O B Sloane Dry Goods and Carpets Display
O B Sloane advertises a grand display of dry goods, fabrics, carpets, moquettes, Brussels, linens, and cottons. It highlights imported silks, wraps, cloaks, embroideries, velvets, ribbons, lace, novelties, and hosiery with a pledge of low prices and vast stock to please customers.
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Sloane
Orient
O. B. Sloane
Local Tradesmen Advertise Plumbing and Hardware Shop
B F Witman offers plumbing gas steam fitting tin and slate roofing on Main St opposite the monument with a full stock of pipes valves fittings and pumps plus baths water closets and gas lighting. G W Ullom Hardware Cutlery Stoves Tinware hawks tools knives and hardware goods while advertising Shooting supplies and stoves including The Radiator and The Climax cooking stove.
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B. FF. Witman
Main St
Athens
B. F. Witman
Witman
W. Ullom
Sporsas
Clas
G. W. Uliom
Premont Ruth's Meat Market on State Street
A local meat market advertisement describes fresh steaks chops and cutlets plus beef veal roasts and poultry. The shop emphasizes neatness and ice vaults, buys top stock from country yards, and offers courteous service to all customers. The piece ends with a note about Fremont Ruth’s leadership and a county hospital quota figures for Athens.
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Premont Iuth
Fremont Ruth
Court records in Common Pleas proceedings
The Athens Common Pleas docket includes approval of church notes and mortgage for Athens Christian church real estate. Elizabeth Whitmore vs Nehemiah Whitmore. alimony pendente lite granted and case continued on defendant's motion. E M Lowry pled guilty to gambling with $5 fine. Reid L Selfridge found guilty of adultery with Nora Snowball. $100 fine and four months in Zanesville workhouse. Frank Linton pled guilty to assault and battery. $10 fine and 30 days in workhouse. Charles and Henry Stewart convicted of barn burglary in Rome township. about $10 worth of wool stolen and sold in Athens. Henry sentenced to three years. Charles to fifteen months in penitentiary.
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Athens Christian Church
Elizabeth Whitmore
Nehemiah O. Whitmore
E. M. Lowry
Reid L. Selfridge
Nora Snowball
Zanesville
Frank Linton
Charles
Henry Stewart
James A. Frost
Rome Township
Athens
Henry
Athens Township Teachers Reading Circle Meeting Recap
The Athens township Teachers Reading Circle met Saturday afternoon November 17 with nine members in attendance. The next gathering is set for December 15 from 1 to 8 pm, featuring discussions on White's School Management, Webster's Bunker Hill Oration, Emerson's American Scholar, and The Week's Current. Copies of Emerson's American Scholar are available from Supt. Wheaton.
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Athens ‘Township
Reading Circle
White
L. G. Bean
Chautauqua Circle Meeting and Court Report Highlights
The Chautauqua Circle will meet Saturday at 2:30 PM with Mrs. Frame. Program includes quotations from English authors, readings from Stopford Brooks and McCarthy, and current events. The term reports show 16 convictions or guilty pleas, 1 acquittal, and 1 hung jury. Prosecutor Wood praised. local trades advertise painting, paper hanging, and wagon company stock sale. Messenger and Herald ad touts value and low rates.
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Stopford Brooks
Justin McCarthy
Frame
Mary Wilkins
Needham
Alexander
Dryden
Harris
Prosecutor Wood
Wood
Athens County Sheriff Sale Notice for Lot 74 in Trimble
Athens County Court orders sale of real estate Lot 74 in Johnson Antle and Wolf Addition Trimble. Auction at courthouse front steps December 29, 1894 at 1 p.m. Cash in hand. Sheriff M. M. Riley announces. Deputy H Epwakps assists. P. J. Jewsrrr, P’d Att’y listed.
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Court of Common Pleas
Athens
Court House
Johnson, Antle and Wolf
Trimble
M. M. Riley
H. Epwakps
J. M. Jewsrrr
Nodswih
Administrators Notice for James Ashton Estate in Athens County
John B. Phillips announces appointment as administrator of the estate of James Ashton, late of Athens County, Ohio, and announces qualification and date of filing.
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James Ashton
Athens County
Oho
John B. Phillips
Lo Dee
Nots-Wa
Also Mentioned on This Page
D.C. Cornwell
S. B. Pickkering
Marin St
Pickering’s
China Palace
THE
Athens Steam Laundry
Oo. B. Sloane
G. W.ullom
Ruth
Meat Market
State Street
Sheldon's
Crocery
Athens State Hospital
Common Pleas Proceedings
Chautauqua Circle
Sata Novy
Geo. RK. Walker's
A. L. Roach & Sons
Pascan TraGuio
Crippen Wagon Co
C. W. Lawrence
Tar Messenger and
Heraup
Sheriff’s Sale
Apollo Brown
James Wells
Et al
of Sale
Athens County Court Common Pleas
Boyd
Bessemer
Champion Chemical CO
Springfield
Ohio
U. S. Army
Barnum and
Queshio
Sam
Dress Goods Department
Saxony
Clothing Department
Moore-Russell Building
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