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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1882
Page
4
A poem recalling a distant childhood scene and a young couple’s memories seen across a garden wall. The speaker remembers a girl of five playing ball, chapbooks of innocence, and the enduring reminder of first love tied to a shared border between yards.
Two well dressed men rent a post inn near Bath and steal a prized horse and silver harness. Their plan collapses when the horse proves to be the owners’, and the recovered loot ultimately returns to the inn after a dawn mix up. The tale, recounted with tongue in cheek, lampoons highwaymen of old.
A Philadelphia Press excerpt describes a marble cutter reflecting on odd demand for grave markers. A widow orders a headstone for her dead husband, initially seeking cheap options and a ready-made angel, but contends with the cutter over style and cost. He notes many families delay marking graves, often settling for a five-foot headstone with a lamb or angel.
A wealthy deceased bachelor left Dash the shepherd dog a life rent house and rent proceeds for Dash's care. After the master's death his widow, acting as guardian, arranged Dash funerary rites in St Louis with a costly coffin and two monuments marking the graves of master and dog at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
A Cincinnati firm proposes Mrs. Samuels receive 10000 dollars and share exhibition proceeds from her son the outlaw Jease James. The firm estimates total exhibition proceeds near one thousand.
A fragment reports a sale of 2,200 tons of ice at Banger te parties in Liverpe with unclear context and garbled wording suggesting Norwegian involvement.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt urges readers to study a man’s core traits, calling attention to human nature, beliefs, and social behavior. It uses dialect to illustrate how perception, speech, and actions reveal character, advising cautious judgment and thoughtful engagement.
The Census Bureau bulletin outlines native born and foreign born populations by state. Connecticut shows 391,087 native born in state with others from New York and Massachusetts. Ireland dominates foreign-born figures. New Hampshire natives largely stay in state while Canada and Ireland lead foreign-born. Dakota, Idaho, Nevada, Arkansas, Colorado, and South Carolina show varied origins with Ireland, Germany, England, Canada, and China among top foreign sources.
A man claiming to own a plantation near New Orleans describes floods that wrecked his family, months-long shelter on a roof, and reliance on moss for sustenance. He travels north to raise funds as part of a relief committee, seeking newspaper help before approaching churches and other groups.
A cast iron tree named the Iron Palmetto stands in the South Carolina State House yard. Its brass tablets honor dead Confederates with raised inscriptions. The exhibit mirrors a living palmetto, with flexible, hairlike leaves that sway in the breeze, symbolizing sorrow over the lost cause and war’s memory in Columbia.
The Chicago News traces the Illinois name to its principal river and the Illinois Confederacy. It cites Gallatin and notes the word’s Native roots meaning real or superior men, with the French ending kept as the local inflection.
The article notes Senator Ben Hill has lost his brother, sister, and two aunts to cancer. It describes the disease as taking a heavy toll on his family and his own health.
A Pittsburg youth faced total paralysis with a grave illness but doctors warned of no recovery hopes. Treatment with 7% rw led to six weeks of rest, after which Lincoln Curts returned to work and resumed life as a lawn tennis player praised by readers.
RHEUMATISM and disordered blood are claimed to be cured by Brown's Iron Bitters. The ad asserts general debility and many chronic diseases respond to the tonic, presenting it as a remedy.
A public address counsels restraint and fairness after defeats. The speaker emphasizes avoiding harm to opponents who are already disadvantaged and calls for ethical conduct in the aftermath.
New quick complete cure in four days for urinary affections smarting frequent or difficult urination kidney diseases. Priced at $1 at druggists. Ohio Depot MO D PARK & SONS Cincinnati O.
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