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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1882
Page
9
Poem by John S Adams describes a boy imagining life as a grown man. He vows to work hard, shun vices, and set a good example, detailing wealth, fine clothes, a stately home, a smart dog, and a horse as symbols of maturity.
Ada Neyl recalls a children’s tale of a sick father and a dentist who gives money for teeth, inspiring Kitty White and Johnny to try to help their father. They borrow a penny, visit a dentist, lose two teeth, receive a letter instead of payment, and return home to a scolding for debt not consented to by their parents.
Two newly married swallows in Newark New Jersey begin a nest inside a church clock face. They repair damage and relocate, but a clock worker eventually clears the nest, stopping the clock and forcing the birds to abandon the interior nest for a new site.
The speaker recalls four aged lines from Daniel Webster written about four years before his death. The guidance emphasizes self effort, moral character, reverence for God in youth, and filial duties. It urges thorough personal discipline, honesty, kindness, and readiness for manhood while shedding frivolous pursuits.
The Hermod endured a heavy snow storm and ice fields on a Havre to New York run. Large icebergs were sighted, leaks formed in the forehold, water filled the fore compartment, and the ship sailed 1,100 miles with boats ready for immediate abandonment should the main hold flood.
Instructor asks about Ceres as goddess of marriage and Miss B insists she is goddess of marriage. The instructor corrects with agriculture and Miss B replies her book calls her the wad dess of husbandry. Our Continent.
A patchwork of 19th century notices covers missions in India and Nort India converts, missionary education in Minneapolis and New York, new art gifts to Rochester University, civil government teaching methods at Rochester Free Academy, and a curious note on paper money being more valuable than coin due to its compounding value.
A collage of jokes and excerpts from periodicals and notices. It weaves quips about marriage, insanity, indictments, finance, and social manners with street gossip and immigrant anecdotes. The tone mirrors late 1800s newspaper quirks and humor columns.
A collage of advertisements and quips touts Dr. Swayne's Ointment for itching piles and mentions of health products. It references a mummy in Egypt, Kidney-Wort, Hop Bitters, and Rough on Rats as assorted remedies and curiosities with a satirical tone.
An advertisement extols Hop Bitters as a universal cure for stomach and bowel ailments, nervousness, kidney disease, malarial and other fevers, and skin issues. It claims $500 payable for an uncured case and urges readers to relieve bedridden relatives with a few bottles at a trifling cost.
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