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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1895
Page
7
The text discusses spring planting of peaches, soil preferences, and lime as a key fertilizer, noting wood ashes as a lime source. It endorses Hood s Sarsaparilla and Mood s Pills for health, lists school teacher counts in Pennsylvania with gender pay gaps, and ends with remarks on the colors of ocean water due to marine life.
A fragmentary page shows health cure claims for Plorme’s Favorite Prescription with testimonial from Mayzsl Jackson of Barbreck La and notes on religious language use in European Christianity, Hebrew for Jews, Sanskrit for Chinese, plus a colonial missionary story and odd household tips.
A British Central Africa Gazette correspondent describes, near Mount Mlanje and Fort Lister, the emergence of an Indo African language mixing Hindustani Swahili Yao and Chinyanja. The Sikhs’ presence alters native dress and manners, with boots turbans trousers coats and a renewed military salute becoming common among locals.
The Vienna building department tested iron supports for fire safety by surrounding a twelve foot wrought iron column with brick and a five clay mortar wall. Fusible plugs indicated a temperature of 149 degrees, while brick walls largely withstood the heat though plaster and terra cotta suffered.
A London talk at Jamrachs recounts Japanese tricks in animal and plant breeding. Mermaids once sold for four pounds, now one. The telescope fish, white lava sparrows, and meticulously trained long-tailed birds illustrate patient artificial selection. Dwarf fifty year old trees reach only an inch high through similar methods.
The imperial war treasure of Germany holds the world’s largest permanent coin store. A portion from the one billion dollars France paid after the Franco Prussian War is kept in the Julius tower at Spandau fortress, amounting to about thirty million dollars.
A roundup notes an express locomotive built at Rochester for the Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh line with an electric headlamp powered by a rear motor. It mentions the 2500 horsepower BEP Allis plant at Kansas City for the Exposition power building, and rail shipments in 1894 totaling 722,600 tons with Colorado mill output. It reports the Atchison bridge erosion, a new canal one mile long. It forecasts Trans Siberian railway openings in 1901 and Lake Baikal completion by 1898, plus NY Central pay scales for 1904. Contains humor clippings from Detroit Tribune and others.
Princess of Wales and her daughter have begun wood carving for pleasant occupation. Mrs Humphry Ward's physicians order her to stop literary work for a long period. Mrs Dopor Anna G Peabody formerly of Newburyport Mass serves on Hawaiian board of education. Mrs Maria Lawrence of Palmer Mass joins Palmer fire department. Mrs M N Evans of Wattsville Va has driven mail eighteen miles between Wattsville and Temperanceville for six years. Agnes Livingstone dies aged seventy one. sister Jin Livingstone was a missionary in Africa for many years.
A collage of scientific musings and wry quotes. Notes on ocean salinity and current travel times mix with observations on wind, light, and the human condition. The prose pairs playful jests about salary, intelligence, and literature with a tongue in cheek view of history and truth.
Rost pink leads the season for girls evening dresses with silk petticoats lined in horsehair to hold skirts. Red perforated cape cloaks, Dresden china decorations with violets, and cuirFoON corsages top slender figures. Tiny winter bonnets versus very large hats frame blue serge frocks with pearl buttons and velvet bottom cords.
Protestant churches in Japan report an adult membership of 57,595 at 1893 year end, up 1,854. Turkish Protestants raised 57,000 for churches and schools. several clergy changes and notes on church leadership across Europe and Russia. The czar instructs Warsaw Wilna and Kiev state offices not to dismiss state workers for race or religion.
Gov Upnam of Wisconsin reportedly robbed of a diamond at a first official reception. Con Joan Cookenit to Japan for two years with New York Herald. to receive twenty thousand dollars plus expenses. Carne, a Manxman, aims to write a life of Chri Prestpgnt Guicuana. Suez canal board member proposes renaming the canal after de Lesseps. Julius RoacEns of Marshall county grows from tiny baby to six feet five inches and 352 pounds.
A compact montage quotes Kenyon Cox on art for its own sake and recalls three regrets from home lost hours. It weaves poems by Sydney Dayre and William H. Hayne about love, money, and time, ending with a jab at modern business praise of advertising.
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