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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1901
Page
7
Fragmentary poem urges opening the heart to love and truth across classes and creeds. It speaks of hope, brotherhood, and the divine guidance within, ending with a plea to open the door to the heart and heed a universal message. The text mentions Boston and a transfer note in a line.
The Coomers are portrayed as pleasant, with pride in lineage yet unpretentious. The family tree on vellum frames their ancestry, including portraits, a tower musket, and heirlooms. Mrs. Coomer flaunts crests and trappings, while Crasy mocks pedigree, sparking gentle clashes over ancestral displays within Salem’s Coomer mansion.
In Chicago, Digby Creighton Coomer discovers a diary from Jan 1, 1800, hidden in a trunk once owned by the Coomer family. Entries describe purchases, crests, and plans to claim ancestral ties while noting a tense marriage and social ambitions in old New York society.
A Woman's Life feature describes Japanese babies as a funny brown creature with black eyes and a shaved head, often carried on a sister or brother’s shoulders. Babies wear a kimono and are tucked inside with a sash, peeking at the world as older siblings play.
The article notes Little Margaret Edwards, daughter of the English evangelist I. D. Edwards, aiding in Moody church revivals in Chicago. It mentions her sweet demeanor, accompanying her parents, and Mrs Edwards tending to women at meetings. It also recounts I. D. Edwards arriving in America with Margaret, aided by A. P. Fitt, Moody’s son in law. his Devonshire lineage and conversion from law to evangelism.
Mississippi schoolchildren helped pick a state flower with 25 009 votes. Magnolia won, cotton bloom was second, 42 flowers total were named. The piece notes children’s pride and the season’s contrast to spring awakening.
Contented sparrows choose odd nests. One pair built in a Great Western train letter rack on a daily 200 mile run, another pair fixed a home to a Liverpool ferryboat. Both broods thrived, totaling two offspring in each instance.
In unclear remarks a person named Wilie-Tommy James is described as striking with a forceful impact using an apple. The other speaker questions intent with on purpose and on the nose phrasing, SS7 appears as a cryptic tag.
Purported medical advertisement hawks Vinol as a scientific blood purifier and maker. It claims the product uses concentrated liver extracts from cod, skipping cod liver oil fat, to invigorate organs including the stomach and improve flesh bone and blood. Testimonial letters praise its effects on riposte and appetite with a promise of money back if results aren’t achieved.
McKee's Drug Store reports Houdini the American handcuff king visiting England to show his skills at Scotland Yard but denied an official exhibit. A skeptical London manager accompanies him as he asks about a pair of handcuffs and frees himself quickly after they are placed on. In St Paul Minnesota Houdini suspects neighbors guard him and bursts into his room to confront two detectives who reveal a captured man escaping earlier with heavy handcuffs. The narrative then shifts to a commentary on committees and a turkey recipe, noting the first savings bank in the United States established in 1810.
A doctor warns that suicide methods spread as despondent individuals imitate prior attempts. He cites a surge in self destruction by various means after articles discussed the dangers of methods like prussic acid, noting copycat risk and the ease of choosing an improvised method. He argues no one in their right mind seeks self harm, yet crisis can erode reason.
A fragment from the Atchison Globe notes Sunday habits slow the recovery to Wednesday with loafing late breakfasts and early dinners. A Philadelphia Press joke features a child asking pigs to talk. An ad promotes Dr Miles Nervine and Nerve and Liver Pills for nerves. Sovrenenn states report strong gains in cotton and woolen manufacturing.
An advertisement proclaims that Dr. King's New Life Pills keep workers alert by curing indigestion biliousness constipation headaches and stomach liver and bowel troubles. It claims easy pleasant safe and cheap at 2c a pill at W. H. McKee's drug store. A London journal notes 100000 of 700000 school age children are absent.
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