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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1900
Page
6
Notices of residents and visitors across Amesville Coolville and surrounding areas recount weddings, illnesses, church events, travels, and school terms. Alderman Mathena plans winter term attendance. Otis Bidell and others return from travels. many host relatives and attend meetings, parades, and a box supper fundraiser for M E church lamps.
Religious services were held at the W.13 church Sunday led by Rev. Webb. An oyster supper at the S. W. Hall will benefit the Order. The "Happy Bob Robinson" show visited the town, giving an ably entertaining performance enjoyed by local theatergoers.
Mason of Ames township hosted Trimble visitor Wo, with Cratty planning departure Thursday to visit New Lexington. Inauguration attendees included HL Petit WIL Wilson and Guy Fierce. Mrs. Lewis' sister died near Chesterhill last Thursday. Ben Eddy travels to Michigan for coal machinery. Mrs M Anos of Glouster visited her parents. H C Heald moved into his own house and Wo Johnson moved in with Sol. Johnson of Amesville. John Eddy returned to Thurmond West Virginia to set a compressor for W B Read at a coal mine. M L Goble and family moved to Glouster and will peddle in surrounding towns.
Pl ant sv i lle citizens report visitors and trips to Marietta and Parkersburg while noting births and deaths. The community shares sickness, oil drilling prospects, land leasing, and social visits including Mollie Stone’s 43rd birthday dinner with local residents and ministers. Oscar Morrow died in New York en route to the Philippines after illness.
Notes describe customs in China and Japan from meals and travel to childcare and fish hatching. It mentions funeral traditions, fault lines in social cards, responses to fire, and a farm economics note on butter profits. It ends with eye opening statistics claiming eyelids blink about 4,000,000 times a year.
A young South Sea islander named Cutty Sark captivates a native audience with an improvised bold dance. She treats a captain’s gold-laced uniform cap as a prop, culminating in a rapid pas de trois before retreating shyly behind her hands.
A Boston Herald account recalls Edward Everett ending a congress speech with Tacitus while a frontier member retorted in Choctaw. The scene, deemed comical, marked a symbolic end to classically quoted orations in Congress. A French scientist reports plants made artificially Alpine by day and night exposure, stunting leaves while enlarging and brightening flowers.
A survey of traditions at parting, from the Turk and Jap to the Sioux and Blackfeet, describing gestures such as kneeling, rubbing faces, kissing, and clasping feet. It notes rites like burying the tomahawk, shaking hands, and various native and international farewell phrases and actions.
The article discusses nail care tips using a camel hair brush and soft towels to expose the moons for health and beauty, warning against using sharp instruments that can cause infection. It also notes weekly wall clipping, washing stained areas with a soap solution and lemon juice. It mentions Utah's Great Salt Lake shrinking due to irrigation diversions from four tributary rivers per professor Trimnage.
A New York Herald report describes a jeweler displaying a clock where two aluminium hands move without connecting to the works. The setup uses soft iron magnets and hanging clock hands to pull false indices around a pastel dial, creating a convincing but hidden magnet driven mechanism.
The text describes hens employed to handle fish eggs in China. Eggs are placed in shell to rest in a shallow pool and bask in the sun until minnows become ready to be moved to a lake or river.
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