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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Feb 08, 1883

Page

6

Little Man Dusenbery Turns Tables on Four Fort Worth Ruffians

In a Fort Worth gathering, Dusenbery confronts four fierce cowboys who mock Texans. He produces a silver watch and gives them five minutes to retract their insults or face consequences. The men depart, and Dusenbery collapses from the strain, while locals marvel at his unexpected courage.

Fort Worth Texas Dusenbery Little Musenbery Reyming Callahan Lagniappe Dus Venberg Lonesome Plain Fort Doozey

Illinois Legislature Debates Liquor Regulation Question

The Illinois Legislature weighs the liquor question amid nationwide trend toward controls. Lawmakers consider a practical approach with a night to reassess, with high license proposals likely as the outcome. The state has seen relative quiet on liquor regulation compared with Indiana and Iowa, where temperance factions split along party lines.

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Electric Bitters Promised as Remedy for Women

A promotional passage extols electric Bitters as the sole effective cure for digestive and systemic ailments in women, praising it as pure and affordable at fifty cents sold by H. K. Dorr. The second excerpt cites a New York Sun editor's remarks on Carolina conditions, noting perceived stagnation and limited progress.

H. K. Dorr

Cure Kidney Disease with Hunt's Remedy Promises

An advertisement touts Hunt's Remedy as a cure for kidney liver and urinary complaints including Bright's Disease. It urges backache relief before worse harm, claiming guaranteed results and warning of persistent kidney trouble. A related cartoon dialogue features a daughter joking with her fireman father about romance.

Hunt Bright

Hood's Sarsaparilla Promotes Revival of Appetite

A business man praises Hood's Sarsaparilla as restoring his wife's appetite after a week, saying three bottles for three dollars were the best investment. A schoolboy misreads a sentence about a lighthouse, turning it into landlord by day and deacon by night.

Hood C. L. Hood & Co Lowell Mass

Hartman praised for eye treatment and affordable care

A Wattsburg reader thanks Dr. Hartman for successful eye treatment Ferwna and urges public confidence and fair fees for the poor. The note mentions Dr. Hartman’s books on the "Tils of Life" with one gratis copy offered.

Dr. Hartman N. B E. H. Baldwin Wattsburg

Adam vs Eve Sparks Crowded Western Church

A western preacher faced a full house as he planned to discuss a family scandal next Sunday. The sermon on Adam versus Eve drew the crowd, amid broader notes on cheap postage and ice harvest estimates along the Hudson River.

Hudson River

Colorful Diamond Dyes Promise Brilliance on Cloth

A fragment notes that every color of Diamond Dyes remains perfect and the cloth dyed retains brilliancy, suggesting a uniform result across hues. The brief emphasizes matching color quality and equal brilliance in dyed fabrics.

Railway Employe Paralyzed by Injury Receives Insurance Payout

A Port Jervis railroad worker George Leppert collected weekly disability income from accident insurance policies after a fall from a flat car. He claims paralysis of both legs, while insurers contest his condition, yet he endures severe testing to prove the extent of his disability. The item also notes Mormon granite temple work in Salt Lake City and public notices on local cheer.

R Gieorge Leppert Port Jervis Salt Lake City Gentles Utah

Daughters Wives and Mothers Health Aid Ad

Dr Marchisi's Catholicon claims to cure female diseases and ovarian troubles with a money back guarantee. Prices one and one half dollars per bottle. pamphlet free by mail from Utica New York. Also Marchisi Italian Pile Ointment sold locally for internal external blind and bleeding piles at fifty six cents per box. E R Lash distributes both remedies in the county.

J. B.marchisi Utica N. X E. R. Ot

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