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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1895
Page
4
Local newspaper notice invites obituaries and resolutions of respect. The page explains pricing and ad format details including seven words per line and a line rate, and requests old and new addresses for address changes. It also promotes reader correspondence from distant regions and emphasizes using The Messenger and Herald as a communication medium.
A detailed list of chapters in Ohio Farm Laws and Legal Forms covering animals, mortgages, contracts, property, dower, drainage, fence and game laws, mills and warehouses, landlord tenant, liens, offenses, wills, education, and many forms. The 236 page volume promises plain, up-to-date law with repeals removed and amendments added, bound in wine colored cloth, priced at $1.00.
A public school column argues for vigorous English education stressing spirit and effort. It urges teachers to model strong English, correct bad grammar kindly, and insist on clear, well spoken answers. Composition work is essential, guiding thought, habit, and knowledge through writing.
The text argues education must translate into practiced use of knowledge, urging vigorous English training, careful reading of strong literature, and a culture of clear, forceful expression. It cites Hamerton on reading shaping style and calls for elocution training to improve language and sentence construction. It recounts Gov McKinley addressing veterans on pension policy.
Masev Haryes sues Lyman Crandall proprietor of the Hotel Normandie in Chicago for 50 000 claiming a folding bed caused injuries that forced her to abandon her career. Jonx Westox of Sharon Pa drowns after slipping into a muddy trough. Mary Hartnett fined then drinks whisky in court. In Stockton Kan flood a mare swims Dibble creek with her colt to reach high ground.
A minister testifies that Dr. Pierce s Favorite Prescription cured his wife after 17 months of invalidism and costly failed remedies. Testimonials from a Oklahoma minister and Mrs Frank Camprech praise the medicine s health benefits for women. A Camden Me note mentions pickle crops yielding $100 to $150 per acre on 160 acres.
A Sunday Advertiser piece highlights the thirteen year old as a future woman and urges care for rapid growth. It links nutrition rest and daily outdoor activity to sturdier posture, mental balance, and avoidance of overtaxing study and sensational reading.
A handy parasol case designed for wall display or travel use. Linen foundation with a 36 inch back and 1 inch width, front 25 by 29 inches, two box plaits forming pockets, embroidered stripes, borders of leaves, and ribbon rosettes at upper corners. For hanging, loops sewn under rosettes. when traveling, case rolls and ties with ribbon. St. Louis Republic.
The article surveys the bicycle fashion debate among women, noting married women favor long skirts while others push for abbreviated styles. It discusses vanity, comfort, symmetry, and the role of padding, urging freedom in dress for healthful cycling and citing royal and English models as examples of fashionable wheels.
A pair of home cooking recipes from the St Louis Republic and New York Tribune feature a piquant pea soup using green peas tomato and garlic with butter cloves bay leaf and bread cubes. Also included is a new bread pudding recipe with cocoa eggs milk sugar and vanilla served with whipped cream or vanilla sauce.
Crnes, the first asteroid discovered, was found on the century’s first day with a mean sun distance near 257 million miles. Dr Hirscurenp, a German arch-an archaeologist at Olympia, died at Weisbaden aged forty eight. An astronomer weighs Mars canals as possibly artificial, implying two hundred million workers over a millennium. Ice to water at freezing requires 142 heat units per pound.
Lady Win is said to die of a broken heart and may never see her son again. Lady Sourton plans to remarry a curate after Sir Richard Sutton’s widowhood and Genesta’s America's Cup bid. The empress of Japan gives lavish alms, the chancellor of the exchequer would curb such aid. The prince of Wales and royal family suffer indigestion, while Queen Victoria attributes hers to frugal meals and whisky at table.
The passage notes landmark dates and people from history including 1652 ads, John Adams as first president, hand spinning before 1776, John Walker’s lucifer matches in 1827, Henry VIII’s respect for his mother, and Lieut. Lockwood’s 1892 near north pole approach.
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