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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1894
Page
2
Poetic meditation on moving toward clearer shores and brighter days. The speaker imagines a hopeful voyage where names spoken in prayer become clearer as time passes. The imagery centers on tide streams, sunny skies, and peaceful isles as joy and youth awaken.
Miss Barbara Brown longs for a romance on a sunny September day. Peter Perriman, a shy bachelor, brings apples and a pie triggers a proposal. Barbara bakes a masterful pie, and Perriman declares his plan to marry, concluding with a cheerful romance born from shared cooking and neighborly gestures.
A sunburned man recalls a vivid Arkansas river tale about moccasins and rattlesnakes amid dugouts and fishing. He recounts Dock the Blackfish Bayou worker’s thumb bite, a six foot rattler confrontation, and a tense near-drowning rescue, with casual humor and local lore throughout.
In Carlisle county Kentucky the Buckeye Route offers Christmas and New Year excursions for December 24 25 and 31 and January 1 4 with return to January 2 at one and one third fare. Tickets valid on C H V T R lines with connections via Columbus Ohio and Marietta, continuous service details available from agents or W H Fisher G P L T A Columbus.
Remember the chain car on the noon Buckeye Route train to Columbus. Tickets priced at 25 cents appealing to holiday travelers.
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