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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1896
Page
2
Andy Rosinson writes from the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in Sanovusky noting 1085 veterans, aged about sixty, some ill, some on furlough, with a new hospital under construction. The piece mixes local notices, real estate transfers, and ads for Dr. Wheeler's Nerve Vitalizer and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, reflecting frontier-era concerns and community life.
Gen Charles E Buzzell of Lakeport G A R Department Commander lauds Dr Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. He says it cured his severe nerves backache and insomnia after overwork and urges others to use it, claiming renewed health and energy and recommending free consultation with Dr Greene at 35 West 14th Street New York City.
Notices offer Virginia to North Carolina trips February 11 with 30 day return limit and Southwest trips February 10 and 11 with a $4 surcharge and 20 day return limit. Agents listed for Ohio Central Lines provide details alongside other local ads for medicines, shipped items, time changes, and a shop sale.
Are You Going to Califoorn Probably you know all about Califor nia and the glorious climate of which everyone speaks who has visted the Pacific coast. California is the only place where you can escape the wet blustering months of February and March and where life is really worth living. You can live cheaper in Cali fornia than anywhere else in the world and you can reach this country in less time via the Buckeye Route in connec tion with the Santa Fe than via any other line. The time consumed from Southern Ohio points is four days, fast trains carrying elegant parlor cars, Pullman sleepers and first-class coaches make direct connection in the same depot in Chicago with trains of the Santa Fe Route, composed of palatial Pullman Buffet sleeping, dining and paler reclining chair cars, through to Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, also with trains composed of elegant coaches, free chair cars and tonet sleeping cars. If you want to know all about California, time of trains, price of sleeping cars berths and other information on this subject you will save money and make your journey one of pleasure and profit by writing any agent C., H. V. & J. & Ry or W. H. Fisher, G. P. & T.A., Columbus, Ohio. Tourist tickets at exceedingly low rates of fare going one way and returning another are on sale during the entire year. 4ws J. W. Pierce, Republic, la., says: 'I have used One Minute Cough Care in my family and for myself, with results so satisfactory that I can hardly find words to express myself as to its merit, I will never fail to recommend it to others on every occasion that presents itself.
Special Savanne Ontario letter recounts a winter visit to a Canadian Pacific railway halt between Tat Vortage and Port Arthur. It portrays Sir Garnet Wolseley’s northern campaigns, the Metis, old Allan Grant and family, a log-house hotel, sled dogs, and a perilous but comic misadventure toward Lake Kapisi ka pigamak with Windigood leading a troubled dog team.
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