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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1883
Page
2
A storefront dialogue unfolds as a shopkeeper stalls a direct price question about an overcoat. The vendor admits higher stock at $6 and hints at dropping to $4 only if unable to move stock at $8, signaling price negotiation tactics.
The piece warns that nervous exhaustion and forebodings of evil require immediate treatment with Peruna and Manalin. It lists early symptoms such as weakness, muscle softness, blurred sight, facial changes, coated tongue, and impaired digestion, urging prompt use before insanity or severe decline. A joke about tariff talk provides a humorous aside.
An advertising patchwork cites Hop Bitters transforming a pale girl to a lively healthful youth. It portrays a boy craving a giraffe neck to reach fruit, then jokes about sore throat. It extols Sidney-Wort for dyspepsia and kidney liver remedies and cites Col Ing ersoll on Reconstruction and attire as markers of civilization.
An advertisement touts Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a medicine to build strength, purify blood, and energize the body, claiming it reaches every part through the blood. It sells at $1 a bottle or six for $5 amid a political note asking who will be Ohio’s next Republican governor nominee.
An advert promises Electric Bitters cures for mood loss appetite and general weakness, claiming rapid improvement and renewed vitality. Also notes a Brooklyn Eagle anecdote about a man seeking to set up a soap factory and reports a man found dead in Frankfort Kentucky from gas. Mentions political harmony splits in Maryland.
A Chicago plumber reportedly died by his own hand, described as a historic event. The document records opinions from figures such as Jay Gould Cyrus Field Herbert Spencer Stephen B French Henry George William Evarts Edson H Butler Most Brewster Twain Sherman Grant Proctor plus others. The piece also notes social reactions and mentions other unrelated items including medical remedies and a mock dialogue about public figures.
An old column notes various medical patent cures and tips. Dr Bige low’s Positive Cure is touted for coughs and lung troubles. Dr Lash offers trial bottles. The Philadelphia Ledger mentions shoe carpet aids on ice. Wells’ Health Renewer is advertised as a broad vitality tonic. Also listed are Ohio Depot and John D. Park & Sons of Cincinnati. A California machine counts sheep by registering each animal as it passes a fence opening.
Fragments describe a pompous politician whose red features and heated boasts provoke mockery from a friend. A humorous aside promotes Swayne's Ointment as a cure for vanity, with references to a statue of Washington and a note on Dr Benson's Celery and Chamomile Pills.
A damaged OCR text fragment mentions a bug issue and several names Beea and Snsecie with unclear roles. The item lacks clear action, date, location, or outcomes.
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