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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1881
Page
6
A Detroit Free Press report frames a bizarre case where a man accused of harassment and deception faces a judge. A quarrel over a supposed legacy erupts into chaos as witnesses recount a boarding house dispute and a vowed life sentence.
A veteran lightning rod man recalls a dangerous 1878 job on a Central Presbyterian Church steeple at Fifty-seventh Street and Eighth Avenue. J. B. Turner climbed sixty feet inside the slim steeple, rigged a makeshift ladder, then fixed the rods despite high risk and heat in a chimney stack.
A worker crawled down a blistering wall 150 feet high and, after a long rest, attempted again. He hung over the edge with arms and head outside and legs inside for an hour before gathering strength to haul gear, descend again, and complete the task at great personal risk.
A Park guard recounts a tale of a prominent young couple seen at Green Street Park. The woman, once bright and social, grew silent and distant after a lawyer arrived. She died three weeks ago, and the guard hints the heartbreak drove the tragedy.
Health cure claims for women and cough syrup advertise products with prices and a Lynn Massachusetts address. A Utah prospectus notes TpAHN population 40 000 with 10 000 Mormons.
The Cleveland Columbus Cincinnati and Indianapolis line lists winter running times with routes via Columbus, Delaware, Buffalo, Erie, Dunkirk, Niagara Falls, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, New York, and Boston. Special trains provide palace cars to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York with multiple daily departures and Sundays service notes.
A young German woman faced the District Court at Dortmund for stealing a watch from her betrothed in the city. The lover recovered the item from a pawnbroker and urged mercy. The judge freed the accused, the couple planning marriage, amid the bridegroom's joyous aid. Additionally Saxon peasants hold annual fairs with a flag race where riders topple small trees for a prize. An Irish MP laments Ireland’s past wrongs.
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