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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1896
Page
4
Advertising rate card details display and classified pricing for the TEWITIWIWGS newspaper. Rates shown include column and page positions, duration options from 1 week to 1 year, and discounts for longer contracts with penalties for changes, plus special notices and legal rates. Obituaries, help wanted, and various notices priced per line with short terms. Additional policy on position refusals and invariable rates.
Classified style notice encourages submissions for obituaries and resolutions of respect. Mentions pricing per line, payment to ace company, and policy for updating addresses, urging readers to provide both old and new addresses for correspondence.
The Mess Geek and Herald states advertisers must submit all copy by Tuesday morning each week to ensure proper disposition and prompt press on Wednesday afternoons. This directive, dated October 24 1995, aims to streamline weekly advertising processes.
A collection of opinion snippets discusses minding one’s own business, a $100 million government loan oversubscription, a Chicago family murder suicide, Canada’s colonial ties, Turkish sectarian murders, India’s Mohammedans, naval defense versus fortifications, Central American unity talks in Washington, Blaine’s legacy, and high court measures to curb lynching by upholding guilt and innocence in verdicts.
A mysterious headless corpse near Fort Thomas Kentucky stirs fear as police link the body to a dozen missing wives and daughters in the area. Five people misidentified the clothing and body, deepening the puzzle while unrelated notes on farmers, the Anneke Jans case, and Cleveland’s loan overshadow the headlines.
Prof Ronorn reports a method of photographing through opaque substances using a newly termed N rays. Prohibition history is cited to illustrate higher laws beyond legislation. Asa Mane, a negro, faces murder charges in Decatur township after a preliminary hearing. Wheat price rises to eighty cents, with shortages in Argentina and India. Corn prices rise. farmers urged to hold grain. Fayette county spent 25 008 to reveal Col Colt did his duty. other counties knew earlier.
In the Minneapolis Journal account, Rev. Mr. Bagby, popular chaplain of the last house, extended morning prayers as clerks hunted for the missing house journal. The reading clerk urged him to continue to avoid starting without the book, and the prayer ended abruptly only after the volume was located.
A New Yorker visiting Binghamton joined by friends shot a bear after it approached two Italian railroad workers thawing dynamite. The bear swallowed dynamite, exploded upon impact after falling, blowing the animal to pieces and shattering nearby windows.
George du Maurier created the bubbling spring label for Apollinaris water. A close friend and major stockholder suggested the design. he volunteered to draw it, and the image has since circulated worldwide.
A newspaper housekeeper’s retriever on the Strand earns praise from the New York Sun for a clever rat-catching method. The dog barked for help after watching two rats emerge, then sat on the rat hole to block retreat until a board was laid, allowing the master to dispatch the intruders.
The office of champion of England was created during Richard II s reign. On the coronation day the sovereign rode to Westminster Hall on a White horse, proclaimed the new monarch s title, and cast down an iron glove to challenge any rival to single combat for the throne.
In the January Ladies Home Journal Edward Bok replies to a letter asking why girls often prefer worldly young men. He says truly virtuous women seek and marry men with upright lives, noting fleeting glamour of worldly pleasure fades and virtue yields the highest reward from women.
Geo T Powell argues prosperity rests on farming innovation and education. He cites the falling Chesapeake oyster output, urges use of agricultural colleges and science to boost American agriculture, and warns urban decline follows prolonged agricultural weakness. He notes city dependents grow as population shifts and calls for practical farming incentives.
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