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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1909
Page
4
The Twice A Week Messenger announces editorial offices in Athens Ohio and lists editor manager contact numbers. It states a subscription rate of 1.00 per year mailed to any county address, to be paid in advance, with renewal promptly upon expiration.
A reflective meditation on human vitality facing an uncertain future. The text contrasts the draining pull of what is to come with the bearable nature of the immediate moment when freed from speculation.
A man advertises for a missing sweetheart from forty years ago and vows to move the notice to the found column if he locates her. He notes that forty years can change many things and hopes to reunite with his long-lost love.
Dr Wiley remains at his post despite faculty opposition as state chemists and the Pure Food Commissioners back his stance on benzoate of soda as a safe food preservative. The movement for untainted, undiluted purity at the table grows stronger with support for his work.
The United States Patent Office issued 32 514 patents last year and earned nearly seven million dollars for the treasury making it the only government office with net revenue. The post office loses about seventeen million annually due to lack of parcels post while foreign systems run profitable services.
The text notes members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Congress influencing an appropriation of $12,060 for automotion for the new President. It also ponders humane treatment of the President-elect and mentions Taft and the vice-president of the American Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The nation shows daily receipts about 1.5 million dollars while expenditures exceed 2 million. February 1 deficit near 80 million dollars illustrates money leaving the Treasury. Around the world cruise costs are estimated at 20 million with 5 to 6 million needed for repairs. ships arrive in two weeks.
The Chicago Daily News argues that Congress has long blocked postal savings banks and urges supporters to flood lawmakers with letters. It cites wage workers losing savings in banks and dishonesty by some bankers, noting immigrant losses and Italy in particular, with Florence Kelley warning of widespread despoilment and urging safe government savings.
General Meyer urges Congress to back the postal savings bank bill now in the Senate. The text calls on the people to pressure their senators and representatives, criticizing lawmakers for paying insufficient attention to the needs of thrifty workers.
A practical philosopher urges action over hesitation, insisting that one should not obstruct progress. The quote encourages letting others pursue opportunity and not blocking efforts.
A farm hand who operates on land taken from a pike district endures increasing hardship as mounting debts and regulatory hurdles threaten his livelihood and future closure.
Citizens urged to attend a Commercial Club meeting as Col Tutt and partners propose a new traction line linking Athens Nelsonville and Clonter. They claim a $15000 bona fide subscription proves business intent and offer a 10 percent initial payment with 10 percent monthly progress payments. If construction starts, supporters may profit. if not, they risk nothing.
The treasury deficit rose in January by nearly 16 million, pushing the fiscal year total to about 79.8 million dollars. January receipts were 47.48 million with customs 22.07 million, internal revenue 18.67 million, and miscellaneous 4.99 million, while expenditures exceeded receipts by about 15.55 million. The note cautions tighter revenue or lower spending and mentions a public building appropriation for Athens.
The weather bureau notes winter variability and argues current cold and warmth streaks are not extraordinary. Observers recall past extreme snows and chill, with locals claiming climate decay and a century of harsh seasons.
The Toledo Blade notes the season lacks vivid hardship yet records a winter with many mild days. It suggests the mean temperature may barely exceed that of the winter of 1908 by one or two degrees, leaving a memory shaped more by gentler days than drifts.
James J. Smith aged 20 a miner and Birdie Dowler aged 17 both of Nelsonville have filed parents consent in writing. The notice records their ages and residence with parental approval for formal proceedings.
Three Wells by Athens Oil, Gas & Development aims to set contracts this week for drilling three wells on its leases southwest of Athens. The first well will target the old Walah farm where an old well still produces, and a second will be drilled immediately on the Elza Armstrong farm at Hebbbardaville. The derrick is near completion.
Oscar Curran, senior at the university and former varsity football player, departed Friday for a month of treatment at Grant Hospital in Columbus for stomach ulceration. His health had worsened recently making him unable to play this season.
The case titled Doings in OIC Cincinnati Peb and The case of the government against the Union Pacific railway company EF Hi Harriman and others, filed a year ago in U S courts, to break up a claimed merger, is scheduled to be heard in Cincinnati tomorrow after recent transfer to the city.
A 600 foot freight steamer named the A. C. Dinkey was launched at the American Shipbuild company yard in Lorain. The event honored President Alya C. Dinkey of Carnegie Steel and was associated with the Pittsburgh Steamship company.
The Black Horse troop of Cleveland will act as escort to another Ohio president on March 4. J. B. Perking recently hunted Kentucky for thoroughbred black horses and the animals are now being trained by the troopers.
Jacksonville residents heard William Jennings Bryan arrived from Deland and refuted circulating claims of a serious car crash near Tarpon Springs that allegedly injured him.
In Leadwood Missouri on a February day Des Loge reports that George Ketcherside and John Hughes fought a duel in Main Street in front of Mrs. Adams widow’s home where Ketcherside lodged. Both men were killed.
Hor ace Swan in Georgetown Delaware suffered a shock from a lightning strike that burned one ear to brown, leaving him shaken but apparently unharmed aside from the injury.
Four thousand people passed through Katsas City depot in January en route to Panhandle country. Plainview in George Bethel's town features Restriction Street where no cheap buildings are allowed. A Texas paper jokes about head-winking Roosevelt but not taming him. The party visited five county seats with new courthouses and rising business blocks and homes.
A motor journey covered hundreds of miles across the central Panhandle counties revealing a continuous expanse of rich level and rolling country dotted with thrifty settlers, mainly from Ohio Indiana Illinois and Iowa.
The article notes wheat sown September to January, 25 to 30 pounds per acre, yields of 1 to 55 bushels per acre, and cites heavy roots and stools. It mentions 62 pound wheat and 42 pounds per bushel, alfalfa at $20 per ton for New Orleans, and praises millet maize and haffly corn as profitable with little cultivation, plus potential for pancake flour.
A standard bred Hereford herd sold for 500 to lead a two year old and double that for older cattle. A famed hog ranch kept about 2000 head ranging from piglets to mature stock of top bloodlines. The ranch impressed with orderly quarters and healthy stock. Stock breeding and stock raising are described as a gold mine in the region.
George Bethel and Manager Steenrod recently shipped from Nelsonville to Plainview in Hale county. Their cars were unloaded and ready to move to the ranch to begin building and improving. Bethel owns a large land section and will break it with a steam plow this winter seeking health and profits in the country.
The report recalls a single day of disagreeable weather on January 28 in the Pan Handle with a gale lifting dust. People chased hats in the street and joked about wind travel while real estate offices and stores stayed busy. By next day the temperature reached 50 degrees and the wind had already damaged areas in Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri. Ohio suffered a blizzard on arrival home.
The narrator recalls the era of the XN 1 ranch once covering about 50 sections where tens of thousands of cattle were herded for over 25 years. A weathered pair of buffalo horns is found, suggesting thirty years in the ground, amid vast changes as Indian lands and the cowboy era fade. The Swift packer ranch nearby housed 2,000 cattle on mauve grasses with limited feed, while many large Panhandle ranches have been sold and parcelled out.
Nyalg Hot Springs Blood Remedy claims to transform bad blood into good blood and prevent skin ailments. The product is sold with a guarantee for $1.40 by Hen Deron Crider Drug Co, address 2.812.
The Herald of Gospel Liberty in Portsmouth New Hampshire will mark its one hundredth birthday on September 15. The paper notes that the next oldest newspapers include the Christian Observer of 1813 and the Boston Recorder of 1816 among others in the early American press.
Lancaster Ohio February 6 1907 Kerr company drilled a gusher on Robert Kerr’s Rushville farm near the Muskingum Valley railroad, good for 200 barrels a day. The 260 acre site adjoins Holliday lease, with 10 stockholders and rapid reserve expansion with 760 acres held in leases.
Miss Birdie Dowler daughter of Mr and Mrs Sherman Dowler and Mr James J Smith both of Nelsonville were married this morning in the probate office by Mayor Hedges in a simple city ceremony.
An old advertisement promotes a de odorizing chlorides solution for home use priced at 50c a quart. The product is sold by Henderson Crier Drug Co and touts health benefits and practical household applications.
Ron Emmett Tompkins of Columbus spent Wednesday in Athens on business and visited the University. He also met with President Ellis, who is at home on South Corner Street due to a broken ankle.
Cognovit judgment rendered in the Muskingum county common pleas court last week for The Pratt Kirk company against D W Peoples and Orinda F Peoples. Amount $6 798 24 including interest. Case originated in Athens county.
Utility ad lists daily service except Sunday with operating times and contact details. It mentions F S Bean ticket agent in Athens and H C Stevenson TPA in Cincinnati for trip planning and rates.
Washington D C Inauguration fares to the capital and low round trip rates supplement winter tourist tickets to the West. One way Colonist fares cover Alberta to Wyoming with sales March 1 to April 20. Mardi Gras special to New Orleans Mobile Pensacola with round trips from February 16 to 71st, good return March 13. Home-Seekers trips listed across southern states and western provinces with February 16 dates. Contact FPS Bean or Stevenson in Athens PA Cincinnati OH for rates.
Darmstadt mathematics professor Paul Wolfske, at 2812 M, has posted a $25,000 prize to rediscover the famed Fermat theorem long believed lost for over two centuries. Meanwhile Father Johns Medicine advertises cough and cold cures in local Henderson-Caider Drug Co listings.
Lane Bros. of West Virginia will drill a new well after a prior nearby well yielded a good oil showing years ago, indicating potential for productive yields in the area.
The Papal court allows women to wear black as etiquette, with an exception for the Pope's sisters and niece who may wear white at audiences and church ceremonies. The article notes the unique privilege is reserved for close female kin of the Pope.
The Pi Delta Kappa sorority initiated Friday night at their hall in the East Wing. Introduced to the mystic rites were Misses Lena Patterson Oscie Chrisman and Anita Henke.
The article traces apple cultivation from medieval times to the present, noting the wide variety of cultivars in 1688 near London, and the development of about two thousand varieties since. It discusses the apple’s adaptability, its cultivation across regions, and its transfer from New England to distant areas as civilization expanded.
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