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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1896
Page
6
Local notes report visits from Athens, Nelsonville, Albany, and McArthur. Christmas brings guests, travels, and a scare with scarlet fever reducing church events. Oil well activity at Torch and nearby towns continues as officials plan January Christian Endeavor elections and a burglary wave prompts caution.
A San Francisco Chronicle report recounts a female narrator praising the hat pin as a tool of defense and independence. It includes anecdotes of train harassment and self protection, plus a broader chorus of hat pin safety tales and a needlework exhibit on hop vine motifs and California poppy decorative pieces.
A practical note for masculine readers on crafting a gray linen wall note holder. Describes materials like dress linen, Bristol board, silk, and Japanese gold cord, with step by step folding, decoration, and assembly details. Includes tips for patterns, cutting, bending, and sewing, and invites questions to Ida D. Bennett via Farm, Field and Fireside.
A housekeeper extols daily floor care using a flannel bag on a broom and light oil for hard woods or crude oil for painted surfaces. The article then discusses feather trims on gowns, including Vandyke-portrayed ostrich plumes and spangies, jeweled pendants, and raised velvet flowers on satin gowns.
A lonely woman asks a friend to join her for a birthday, then reveals she will donate gifts to a favored institution. She says she wants someone to be glad that she was born, calling this the noblest thought on birthdays and noting that remembering others can brighten lives even in sorrow. The text urges acts that lift others.
A sprawling update covers The Second Mre Tanqueray in Stockholm success after failures in Christiania and Copenhagen. Notes include Dr W G Grace shifting £5000 into a 15 year endowment policy, Paris forming an Automobile club to promote non-animal traction, and Russia posting agents in London Berlin Genoa Constantinople Manchuria and the U S in 1886.
The text discusses elephants tusks not being teeth and relates mouth features to digestion, vitality, and intellect. It notes that closed lips show determination, an open mouth signals stupidity, pale lips suggest disease, and the anteater has no teeth since ants need not be chewed. The upper lip curve is named Cupid's bow by poets.
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