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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
7
A narrator recounts a far flung voyage from Kentucky through the deep south to Louisiana and Cuba, detailing New Orleans cemeteries Havana palatial streets and the Florida Keys. The piece blends travel marvels with local notices and personal city news from Ohio reflecting a wide geographic panorama.
From Wednesday's Daily a Mrs. H. H. Wickham have as their guests their niece and nephew Miss Elsie Wickham of Columbus and Mr. Erwin Wickham of Nandon North Dakota Miss Emma Blackwood is spending the week in Middleport with Mr. and Mrs. Cam Blackwood Mrs Nellie Chambera and Mrs Laura Kiggans left this morning for Athens to visit.
Prof Frederick Treadley and H E Cromer attended the Ohio biennial Y M C A state convention in Delaware. The event opened Friday and closed Monday with a banquet. About 285 representatives from city and college groups participated.
The speaker backs a Commission report calling for decisive inland waterway development. Emphasis on preventing perpetual water rights for corporations, funding, and a national plan aligned with forest conservation to boost navigation, power, refrigeration, and public water supplies. Mississippi loop focus and Atlantic Gulf-Pacific links noted. Continuous progress required with accountable leadership.
Whitman on reading urges open air over indoors by a hot register and notes many trips with a book that often goes unused until a crucial tenth moment. He cites Timber Creek walks and Horace Traubel's daily record as context for his view on sustaining reading through nature and persistence.
A meditation on criticism contrasts painting and music. The piece argues critics often attack visual art for endurance, while music provokes lasting debate after performance. It notes bias toward judgments about faces and limbs, suggesting even Rembrandt could crumble under critique.
The passage reflects on the word ale as a link to ancient English banquets and language. It cites terms like alebush and ale conner from old courts, discusses ale cost and its flavors, and traces etymology to kostos and other Greek-derived words, describing forgotten speech in a Cornhill Magazine context.
A writer comments on Wellington and Waterloo describing luck and fortune. The piece contrasts Wellington with Napoleon and claims greatness arises from a clash of fortune and talent, noting the unexpected convergence of names and events in history.
A brief, dialogue flavored note shows Mrs Dunsleigh remarking her mother calls when she is away and Little flossie Dippieton observing they can see from their front window whenever someone leaves or goes by, hinting at neighbourhood familiarity.
The readable text discusses flags as confluxes of past and future influences, posing a philosophical question about lines of influence and their intersection across time. No concrete event, person, or place is clearly stated.
A California grower describes a safe, compact orchard ladder mounted on discarded buggy wheels. The design rests on a front platform improving usability and stability for fruit pickers, and is praised for easy transport and low cost per construction.
A guide from the Oregon Experiment Station outlines best practices for storing fruit. It stresses selecting only undamaged fruit, gradual cooling before storage, shallow bins or boxes, thorough grading, and avoiding heating during storage. It details ventilation, temperature, and moisture control, including double wall construction and night ventilation to keep fruit properly chilled.
Plants die from frost and grit as winter approaches. Withhold water in fall to ripen summer growth and prevent unripe wood winter kill. If growth risk has passed, thorough watering helps carry plants and lawns through winter. Straw or leaves mulching around shrubs reduces alternate freezing and thawing.
The text describes selecting shrubbery groups to carry foliage from the gap toward the greensward, balancing the display with the lawn. It emphasizes foliage continuity between shrub and lawn and avoiding excessive stalks or gaps.
In a grim domestic incident, a man killed his mother in law and her husband before throwing himself onto a train. The fatal act followed by family feuds and reported duties ending in a double death. Authorities note tangled family trouble as the motive behind the tragedy.
A tired feeling is targeted by a Beef Wine and Jerom bottle advertised by Henderson-Crider Drug Co. The brief item notes a product release dated February 26 and promotes a tonic for renewed vigor.
Hogs receipts reach 2,500 with Prime Yorkers at 4.65 to 4.75 and common rough at 3.00 to 4.10. Sheep and lambs receipts about 5 with Good to prime lambs at 4.90 to 6.00 and fair to choice lambs at 5.00 to 7.35. Cattle prices show veal at 3.25 to 5.50 and prime to extra 5.80, with other ranges noted.
Old blend of market terms shows producer prices for eggs per dozen, country butter, chickens and roosters, ducks, potatoes and hay. The fragment lists various per unit costs and market items with missing or garbled details, reflecting a whited entry from a retail Grocers' Prices page. The readable items include eggs per dozen and several poultry and produce items though exact figures are unclear.
Athens directory lists C. L Newsom as embalmer and undertaker at 16 West Union Street with two phones. Established in Athens in 1889.
Keasy & Bombardiers Grocery and Cuffee Casa Grocery promote savings on staples with cans, vegetables, and bulk items. Special offer on rendered lard with 10 pound pails for a dollar appears alongside contact details and neighborhood shop names.
Call and see Mrs. Chappelear for up-to-date millinery at greatly reduced prices. Located at 16 South Court Street.
A local service ad offers cleaning and repair work at Jon Johns Press near Fulton’s grocery store, inviting customers to drop off attire for cleaning or repairs.
Hastings handles Standard Furniture and Globe Wernicke Book Case. Both phones.
An advertisement from Wise Studio Gage Photo Co promotes first-class pictures at reasonable prices. It suggests taking photos while children are home for holidays and lists 14 West Union Street as the contact point with pricing like very good photos at 1 per dozen.
An advertisement extols Vv C Loos as a trusted jeweler offering quality jewelry at fair prices. The copy emphasizes reliable service and a reputation for good gemstones and craftsmanship in the local market.
An ad highlights the Petaluma incubator sold at Hardware showing advantages and inviting customers to visit the store or request more information by mail.
The readable fragments do not present a clear event, person, or organization. The snippet appears as a failed draft with incomplete sentences and ambiguous meaning, offering no verifiable facts or names to summarize.
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