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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1903
Page
6
A historical note advocates modest power for both capital and labor to avoid conflict. It praises unions for elevating labor and aiding business by preventing oppression, urging support for measures that improve the country. Clarence Matheny Beaumont O.
Brown camel hair and Corticelli silk create a novel loose cut street gown with overlapping jacket sections, tapestry embroidery, and tassels. Sleeves flare into full puffs with braecit, back gores and front tuck clusters shape the skirt. Trimmings include braids and cord loops, with cord buttons and epaulette style shoulder detailing.
A defender of labor organizations argues they protect workers from capitalist oppression. He asserts interdependence between capital and labor and warns that without unions the country would falter. The piece emphasizes unions enable workers to secure rightful rights and access necessities of life.
A treatise argues against labeling children as naughty and urges patient, reasoned discipline. It stresses not scolding before company, explaining punishments, and maintaining consistency to preserve spirit, pride, and trust. Strong emphasis on parental self-restraint and fair, calm guidance.
Peoria resident F J Graham recalls paralysis and numbness before using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He credits six boxes with restoring health seven years ago. Claims pills renew blood and nerves and list ailments treated. Pills sold by mail or dealers at fifty cents a box.
The Chicago News warns that coal supplies will deplete if current consumption continues. It argues the rate will rise under present conditions and predicts exhaustion within a few generations, urging contemplation of a future without coal and the consequences of scarcity.
A Pennsylvania church marks the thousand millionth minute since Christ’s coming. The Cosmopolitan article cites John Brisben Walker noting Rockefeller’s supposed control of one thousand million dollars and that such funds could represent ten thousand workers’ labor since Christ’s era. The same issue discusses what the thousand million could achieve under a highly ambitious individual.
Field marshal Viscount Wolseley begins a four part series in the January Cosmopolitan on The Young Nap leon and his military career. The issue also features Russell Sage, Daniel Gray Reid and Rock Island Railroad finance, plus a Brownlow piece on a plan to build 100 million dollars in good roads annually with one third funded by the government.
I have just arrived from Kansas City Missouri with a car load of pit mules, extra good, heavy and blocky, smooth and broke to work. They range from 46 to 58 inches high, ages 4 to 6 years, weights 600 to 1000 pounds. Contact W. B. Eblen Wellston Ohio 47 we.
Real estate transfers over the past two weeks span Ames Township Lodi Troy Trimble Waterloo and Nelsonville City. Listings include Ohio State to Pierce & Creamer 36.42 acres for 125 dollars and Pierce & Creamer to A D Jordan 36.42 acres for 125 dollars. Other notable deeds include S B Blake by heirs to J C Blake 77.59 acres for 560 dollars and 80 acres for 980 dollars. Various mineral and lot transfers occur in Ames and Lodi townships, with prices ranging from 25 to 445 dollars and multiple parcels including Albany lots and 48.70 acres for 320 dollars in Troy Township. Minor transfers include Hattie Gilkey to Leroy Williams five acres for 275 dollars and H E Young to J C Hewett ninety acres for 450 dollars. In Nelsonville City, Edwin Brooks to M F E and M L Stratton in lot 1215 for 35 dollars and John E Stokes to John Stokes in lot 852 for 85 dollars.
James Hammond born December 1 1826 in Smithfield Jefferson County Ohio died January 8 1903 at home near Lottridge Athens County Ohio aged 76 married April 6 1864 to Susan Parsons no children joined Carthage Presbyterian Church March 2 1874. He leaves a wife a brother Seth Hammond of Illinois sister Margaret Stewart of Columbus and other relatives mourners.
The baseball conflict winds down as contracts lie in tatters and ethics are questioned, though the sport shrugs off moral concerns and presses on.
Examinations will be held on the first Saturday of September October January February April May une and July and on the first and third Saturdays of August Primary tests in May and August Boxwell tests on the third Saturday of April and second Saturday of May By order of the board of examiners H Bryson clerk no Jaw 52
Probate records list first and final accounts for Susan Jones estate executor Jerome B. Stoffer and guardianships for George Werehime, F Mable Gibson, Polk Staubus, Pearl Tedrow, Joshua E Weidman, Marvey J Shaw, Orland E Shaw, Lolo Alderma, Helen Tedrow, Ernett L Koons, and others. Hearings set for Saturday February 7, 1908 before A B Bethel, Probate Judge. The piece also notes the death in Rochester of Frederick A Jockey, inventor of the marshmallow candy, born in Alsace Lorraine 67 years ago.
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