Athens Brevities List Of Visitors And Local News
Local brief mentions include Editor McKay in town on business, Supt Henderson Glouster visiting Athens, families visiting Logan Champaign and Marietta, new twin birth, suffrage society meeting, and upcoming Knights Templar reception and Ohio Oil Company activity in the region.
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Board of the
Ohio Teachers’ Reading Circle
Columbus
F. 8. Coultrap
Ellis
H. G. Williams
Frederick Treadly
Chrisman
Mills
Dean
Manuel Evans
Richwood
A. L. Evans
Hebbardsville
Mr. Evans
Athens
Out of Town News Brings Relatives Home for Christmas
Will Coe and sister Mrs Flora Watson and child visit parents Owen Jordan. Athens guests attend Cliff Vorhes funeral. Mrs A L Carsey and daughter travel to Charleston then return. P G Coe and wife visit J P Coe and Geo B Allen families. Gas Coe leaves for Quincy W Va for work. Families from Athens and Columbus share Christmas at various homes.
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Will Coe
Flora Watson
Center Belpre
Owen Jordan
Athens
Cliff Workes
A. L. Carsey
Charleston
Ross
P. Robinett
Corning
Ira Robbinnett
Cliff Vorhes
Jesse Vorhes
Howard Figley
Columbus
P. G. Coe
Center
Belpre
J. P. Coe
Geo. B. Allen
Lute Angell
Gas Coe
Quincey
W. Va
Kyle
W. G. Shaffer
A. L. Evans
Lenora Masheter
D. Zenner
Abe Jordan
Charley Whaley
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ads Claim Blood Purifier Tone
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications, must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is said to act on blood and mucous surfaces and is a regular prescription by a top physician. It combines tonics with blood purifiers and promises remarkable results with testimonials available on request.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Ae i
Akerstrom Comedy Company Opens Three Night Run
The Akerstrom Comedy Company launches a three night engagement at the opera house starting Monday evening January 5 with My Oriental Friend. The group, a leading act in its field, promises top quality laughs and full houses. Ladies’ tickets will be exchanged at the usual place Saturday January 3.
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Akerstrom
Comany
Opera
German Officials Survey Canadian Trees for German Reforestation
A German government representative travels to Canada to evaluate which trees can be profitably transplanted to Germany. He has selected White pine cherry spruce and black walnut as promising species for experiments and future cultivation in German soils.
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Canada
Germany
I J Linscott Visits Athens on Business
I J Linscott of Linscott was in Athens Wednesday on business.
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I. J. Linscott
Linscott
Athens
Giant jennet displayed by Micheal Murray at St Louis fair
The largest male jennet, owned by Micheal Murray of Hereford Missouri, will be shown at the World’s Fair in St Louis. The animal stands 18 hands high, about six feet at the shoulder, and weighs 1705 pounds.
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Jinnet
Micheal Murray
Hereford
St. Louis
Two Women Elected as Justices of the Peace in Wyoming
Mrs. Maggie H. Gillespie of Lookout Station has been elected as Justice of the Peace in Albany County on the Democratic ticket. She will assume office January 1.
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Wyoming
Maggie H. Gillespie
Lookout Station
Albany County
inventor’s lifebuoy resembles pocketbook in size
The life preserver of a Hamburg engineer weighs about 8 1/2 ounces and inflates with gas to support 200 pounds for three days when wet. Dr Hoyt of Detroit, after studying statistics of existing conditions, predicts that in 260 years everyone in the United States will be insane.
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Hamburg
Hoyt
Detroit
United States
Fireflies Save Santo Domingo City from Pirate Raid
A buccaneer fleet led by Thomas Cavendish planned a massacre and theft in Santo Domingo. As they neared shore, countless fireflies glowed along the bayou, prompting fear of Spaniard scouts and causing the pirates to retreat and abandon landing.
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West Indian Islands
Santo Domingo
Thomas Cavendish
Mourning Colors Through Europe and Beyond
The text traces historical mourning colors across regions. It notes red as the dominant hue in medieval Europe, with a gradual shift to black by the fifteenth century though red garments persisted under cloaks. It adds Abyssinia favors red brown, Turkey violet, and among Maori in New Zealand red signals sorrow.
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Europe
Abyssinia
Turkey
New Zealand
Safety in numbers joke on curates and Exodus
An Irish clergyman on his first curacy found the parish ladies too helpful. He left, then met his successor who asked about the ladies. The new curate replied that there is safety in numbers, and the other retorted that he found it in Exodus.
Art and Nature in the Age of Methodical Change
The Kansas City Star notes how methodical development has touched art and nature. Breeding and training have altered animals and birds, flowers gain sophistication yet retain charm, and familiar scents like American Beauty and carnations evoke memories of romantic country scenes.
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Kansas City Star
Closefisted Builder Turns Revolving Doors Into Power
A native recalls an old man who owns a large building and left revolving doors in place all summer to save cost. He argues the doors power the elevators, keeping tenants busy and money saved. The man is depicted as extraordinarily frugal, even counting on not losing heat by anger in winter.
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Chicago Post
Muchlage Betrayal Revealed in Registered Mail Theft
A New York registered package containing a large sum of cash arrived intact but yielded only waste paper. Investigators traced an odor from glue at multiple post offices to a gluepot on a counter near the destination. A watch was set on local clerks and the culprit was finally caught spending part of his ill gotten gains.
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Muchlage
New York
Lighthouse Without a Light on Amish Rock Stornoway
A strange lighthouse on Amish rock near Stornoway uses a light reflected from a mirror at the summit to project a beam from Lewis island. The illusion creates a lighthouse that has no lantern or keeper.
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Stornoway Bay
Island of Lewis
After the Discount
A Georgia darky asks the clerk how much for a marriage license and a divorce document. The reply notes the combined cost at seven dollars, with the man humorously claiming the pair would be cheaper if obtained together. The exchange reflects Jim Crow era pricing and social attitudes.
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Georgia Darky
Atlanta Constitution
Women’s speech at convention mocked by modesty remark
Mrs. Stantons Retorts recalls a fashionable New Port woman who feared public speaking. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s calm reply compared a suffrage convention to a ball, noting modest attire versus exposing arms at a dance with a stranger.
Gambling Defined from a Washington Star Exchange
A brief dialogue contrasts gambling with betting and losing money. Mrs. Torkins asks Charley to promise against gambling, and he defines gambling as wagering money and losing it. The exchange reflects attitudes toward risk and chance in a Washington Star quotation.
Museum Critique Sparks Bonaparte Skull Debate
In a tersely humorous remark, Jinks dismisses the local museum for lacking Napoleon Bonaparte's skull, claiming a skull in an exhibit in New York has two. The Baltimore American records the quip as a facet of museum display chatter.
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Jinks
Napoleon Bonaparte
New York
Baltimore
Wheat and the Boy
A Philadelphia Press excerpt records a dialogue where Wille asks about the phrase good as wheat and Pa scolds him, promising trouble if questions continue. The exchange centers on a rural rustic saying and parental admonition.
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Willie
Wille
Philadelphia Press
Lucky Man In the Cree Marriage Shocker
The Chicago News quotes a playful exchange about Mies May's bad temper and an unexpected marriage. Fred is named as the lucky man, contrasting with May having once discarded him in a witty regional remark.
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Mies May
Fred
Cbricago News
Fragmentary Globe Quip Hits Four of Five Bills
A garbled line from the Atcuison Globe notes that four of five bills are described as cooked and that a full band seldom loses, hinting at a satirical editorial snip about legislative outcomes.
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Atcuison Globe
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F. M. McKay
Logan
J. F. Henderson
Glouster
J. E. Bush of
McConnelsville
F. W. Bush
Harry Brown
Piqua
Attorney Car
Frame
Fairmont
A. J. Farme
Bert Gabriel
Champaign
Ill
A. J. Kessinger
Lancaster
James Ballard
C.L. Jones
J. W. Schrantz
Cincinnati
T. L. Schrantz
J. W. McLaren
Marietta
Tuuedsay
College Friends
Dr. O
P. L. Dew
Portsmouth
Silas Dew
C. W. Super
Pittsburg
Florence Lash
Cleveland
Mrs. E. R. Lash
Henry Logan
Hamden
D.G. Tewksbury
Harry Naley
Foxboro
Musgrave
Clem Lesser
A. B. Scott
Pascal Traglio
North
Congress Street
Eliphus Gabriel
M. E. Batchelder
Latrobe
J. R. Conner
W. H. Haskins
The
Ohio Mine Workers
H. E. White
Lil
George Reynolds
Sunny Side
James White
Mollie
Chauncey
Sarah Birge
Clyde Brown
Kenmore Place, Brooklyn
Helen Schwefel Brown
Athens Suffrage Society
Hattie Davis
Canaanville
A. M. McCanaghey
Amy Herrold
Charles G. O’bleness
Findlay
Henry O' Bleness
Gyp Mannering
Mannington
Hotel
Berry
John Gaittean
W. T. Buell
John McLeod
New Lexington
W. E. LeFavor
Charles Cameron
D. Y. Murdoch
London
Howard Charter
Marion
Ind
Miss Olive Charter
Ian Frank Tate
Bainbridge
Anna R. H. Cooley
Coolville
Blanche Howe
E. W. Howe
P. W. Perry
Western Springs
Chicago
College Springs
Sewa
W. E. Peters
H. L. Clark
Peters & Clark
National Bank
F.L. Preston Company
W. R. Phillips
Athens County
East Liverpool
Ohio Valley Business College
D. L. Ogg
Helen
Harriett Davis
Ironton
E. C. Curtis
Edwin
Amesville
D. D. Fuller
A. T. Lawhead
S. D. Thompson
W. K. Scott
Thompson & Scott
Lawrence- Worstell Building
Gen
Mr. Grievenor
P. C. Leete
Constance
Washington
Congress
University Terrace
Knights Templar
Masonic Temple
F. L. Stewart
Ohio Oil Company
Mineral
Waterloo Township
Bolin Mills
Hocking
Vinton
OUT OF Town News
Akerstrom Comedy Company
ART
Nelson
Katharmon Chemical Co
Mao
First National Bank of
Ohio
BH. Moore
Stockholders Meeting
Athens Gas Light & Electric Co
S. A. Wheeler
R. P. Miller
Alto Gold Mining Company
Washington Street
Geo. B. Parker
Sec'v
Dee
Thurston
Evans Agency
Thurston, O
Hotel Berry
E. W. Grove
W. Hi. Brown Shoe Company
Court Street
D. Zenner & Company
Cline’s Pharmacy
Athens Opera House
Opera House
Doctors
Priges
Cline’s
Haring
Pautuscaser
Phila, A, Nl
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