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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1896
Page
12
A 1886 issue lists display ad rates by column width and duration, rates for notices, obituary wording, and deadline rules. It also includes brief items on woman suffrage progress, weather bureaus, lynchings vs executions, Suez Canal profits, and political notes.
The piece notes chronic health fears driven by hypochondriasis insomnia and other distress, citing hypochondriasia as a form of madness from chronic dyspepsia and urging Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure. It mentions insomnia indigestion kidney rheumatic issues and a claim of improved blood and vigor. An Oklahoma ad warns no tired boy need apply. Glasgow’s chimney is cited as the world’s tallest at 468 feet.
A remedy claims to cure all forms of headache and habitual constipation by toning the bowels. The ad urges afflicted individuals to try Electric Bitters, priced fifty cents to one dollar at W. H. McKee's Drug Store. The note also mentions compressed air dusting railroad cars and New York's twenty three story skyscraper with a dome.
Yvette Guilbert popularizes long black gloves with evening dress in New York society. Mrs. Reed withdraws from society after her mother’s death last summer. Reed’s daughter, a blonde, was prominent among the season’s social set. Prince Henry of Battenberg, with Ashantee expedition ties, insured his life for 500000 to shield his family from any fate akin to the French prince imperial. Lord Salisbury’s wealth comes from Strand property and untaxed rents, plus official pay and later a cabinet pension. P T Barnum’s Venezuelan property losses yield a yearly 1400 to his estate executors via ten equal installments with interest.
A kaleidoscope of light humor from various papers. Jests on teachers and youths provoke quick quips from Dick Hicks and Edith while callers in Chicago trade city limits jokes. A French confectioner brags of short weights and parsonly matrimony gags mix with a Texas Siftme remark from a country reader.
A column offers practical tips on farm stock and husbandry. It notes honey purity boosts urban demand, lamb feed value at two dollars a bushel, English sheep pens treated with burnt clay to prevent foot rot, and clay as fertilizer. It cautions against hatching chicks in winter without warmth and warns sulphur can chill livestock and may trigger rheumatism in damp weather. It also suggests dark stalls drive cattle to endure cold outside.
Mascagni takes over directing the Liceo musicale in Pesaro and plans a break from composition. Jeanne Hugo, Victor Hugo’s granddaughter, about to wed a Paris doctor after a divorce from Alphonse Daudet's son. Jephson brothers erect brass tablet for Expedition of Emin Pasha in Kilmore church. Paris rugby praised as French clubs win. libel suits rise as priests sue Paris Journal for 20 damages each.
A collage of verse and prose notes from early columns questions whether women will take independent roles beyond domestic tasks. It contrasts the social expectation of women staying behind their husbands with glimpses of female agency, humor, and resilience across poems from N Y Sun and N Y Tribune. The pieces mix romantic praise with social observation and light editorial humor.
A compilation of scientific and folkloric notes. It discusses Herschel's icicle hypothetical melting in a minute, skin color changes in cold, sun radiation differences between blue skies, and the jackal as the lion's scavenger in hunter lore.
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