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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1881
Page
7
In Ulster County a 24 year old woman inherits a burdensome estate and supports her family by teaching, farming, and stock raising. She clears debts, grows crops, and refuses marriage to focus on kin, farming, and aiding her destitute brother in law.
A humor piece recounts a mason and a window‑watching joiner prank ending with the mason dousing the whistle caller with mortar. The column then notes Josees Freno’s long life and farming, a caution about telegraph marriages, Chicago’s Electric Bitters hype, Pat’s speech parody, and a promotional plug for Lydia E. Pinkham’s remedies.
A column lists age records from Boyd county Kentucky to Massachusetts and Texas. Entries name Ann Collins 110, Dolly Sexton 104, Elizabeth Walker 107 and many others including Captain Henry Ward 103, Marcus Richardson 77 years in the Masonic order, and Sukey Hart aged about 140.
Egyptologist Bragsch Bey explains pyramids as tombs built by ancient rulers. He details height and base measurements of the three oldest, the construction sequence from stepped core to polished casings, and notes many pyramids once stood along the desert edge.
A Russian court acquitted a peasant who killed his children to save himself and his wife from pursuing wolves. The incident near Moscow sparked outrage as he argued self preservation justifies killing offspring, while the mother condemned the act and authorities investigated.
The Tribune argues against labeling all patent medicines as useless, citing Hop Bitters as a worthy remedy. The writer claims to have used the Bitters in a climate like Big City and found them first class and reliable, delivering what is claimed.
The Natal Mercury notes endless diamond rushes with Jagersfontein and Kimberley rising as vast, capitalist ventures. It cites last year’s diamond turn in the country at about $40,000,000, with most proceeds leaving the area as capital and profits. A personal quip about buying Dr Buil’s Cough Syrup precedes a purchase.
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