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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1876
Page
3
A vintage reflection urges youths to follow strict health laws, arguing constant practice prevents illness. It contrasts never doing harmful habits with occasional slips, stressing a fixed self discipline creates a smooth life and guards against disease.
Friends in Lowell Massachusetts honored General Butler with praise for his election to Congress on Thursday evening. He cited the pivotal role of Louisiana Florida and South Carolina in the voting outcome and urged reliance on the freedmen’s vote as decisive for the nation’s future. He invoked Lincoln and the emancipation era to frame the peril and hope ahead.
The public mood is described as filled with good sense, a favorable sign for constitutional supporters and nervous citizens to observe amid current times. The remark highlights collective steadiness and civic awareness as a positive trend.
A narrator describes how slave girls in a Khanum Effendi’s harem mask emotions under strict etiquette, with true feelings spilling out off duty. Ahmed Wefik Effendi, a learned Turkish governor, is praised for probity and kindness and once uses public auction to settle a debt with a Pasha to enforce justice.
A basement card game on Washington street ended suddenly when a man appeared at the head of the stairs and swung a club. One boy showed a diamond while the other boy waited to lead, but the man played it alone and scored every point despite a neighbor’s boy attempting to cut in.
Harper and Brothers in New York advertises subscriptions for Harper's Magazine Weekly and Bazar with postage prepaid. Offers include full annual rates, club discounts, extra copies for five or six subscriber clubs, back numbers, complete sets, and an analytical index.
An advertisement styled card touts a pictorial history titled A Complete Pictorial History of the Times. The piece claims the work is the best and most affordable family paper in the union, emphasizing value and broad appeal.
The passage quotes praise from multiple publications extolling Harper's Weekly as a premier illustrated paper. It highlights its national scope, high-toned discussion, strong editorials, and abundant, excellent illustrations. The sources include Commercial Bulletin Boston, Brooklyn Eagle, Examiner and Chronicle NY, and Christian Advocate NY.
Postage free to all Subterthens in the United Harper's Weekly one year by the publishers AY and Bozar to one address for one year $1000 or two of Harper's Periodicals to one per club of five subscribers at 400 cents each The volume of the Weekly starts with the year Annual Cloth binding volumes sent by express free of expense for 700 each A complete Set of Twenty Volumes sold at 5425 per vol with purchaser paying freight Cloth Cases 100 each Indexes to each volume sent gratis on receipt of stamp Brothers Address.
A Chicago Journal note and Saturday Evening Gazette praise Harper's Bazar for strictly household matters and dress. It highlights economical value, literary content, and illustrations, calling it the best journal of its kind in the country.
Advertises postage free subscriptions to Harper's Magazine and Harper's Bazar with annual rates for one year two copies and combined offers. Includes prices for extra copies, annual volumes, cloth bindings, and complete sets with express delivery and postpaid mailing.
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