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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1899
Page
7
A chatty, instructional piece on assembling sandwiches and baking bread. It covers selecting a crust, oven temperatures, when to slice, and using a sharp knife. Tips include buttering the loaf end, keeping the crust crisp, and serving fresh bread for best flavor.
The article recalls the harsh labor of Lancashire mine workers including women and girls. It notes long shifts of 12 to 34 hours, handling coal and gear in dangerous pits. It mentions children once employed underground and the shift to schooling after reform, with women today described in rugged attire of shirt, trousers, woolen cap, and wooden shoes.
A letter from a grateful reader thanks Mrs Pinkham for relief from back ache head feelin g and painful menstruation after using Vegetable Compound Liver Pills and other products. The writer reports dramatic improvement after four bottles and a box of Liver Pills.
A historical column titled Mrs Pinknam's Advice provides medicinal guidance and domestic tips. The piece presents common remedies and health recommendations aimed at a broad female readership, reflecting era norms and medical beliefs.
An account recalls a World War I era scene where a bereaved man seeks a memento of Corporal Y, believed dead at Santiago. The speaker leads him to view the body, and a moment later the guard identifies the corpse, prompting the men to depart together after a tense farewell.
A disjointed tale recounts a beset jeweler in Fight Street facing a bothersome phonograph and a meddling crowd. A gusted customer sparked the incident prompting the health board to investigate the matter.
The account recalls Lord Russell of Killowen explaining how prisoners face risk in defending themselves. A misheard word leads the lord chief justice to quiz the prisoner on a sentence, and the prisoner answers three months. The judge later appears to overlook his own admission, in the end favoring the prisoner.
Edward Nok reports in Ladies' Home Journal that platform women faced hostility and neglect. He notes wives ignored parasitic influences, with the platform woman's power waning and her followers fading away.
A long description explains a method to protect berry beds from late frosts by shaping beds on northern slopes and using heat and shading to advance and protect blooms. It notes testing fruiting between rows, concluding this plan reduces frost damage and may yield earlier, higher fruit.
A curiously mixed column discusses Swiss cantonal restrictions on brides and the guarded access of suitors, then shifts to a Cologne workman’s comic tale about paying for a birthday gift to Prince Bismarck and ends with Lord Curzon traveling to India in plain tourist attire.
A historic note describes a simple cheap method to protect trees from injury by rats and mice. It suggests using plaster jars cut in half as a protective device, then outlines steps to implement the guard.
The article describes making a protective tree guard by weaving five to eight pies of wire at the top and bottom, joining the ends to form a secure frame. The guard stands about eighteen inches high and aims to protect young trees from animals such as sheep rabbits and deer using crude petroleum treated material.
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