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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1903
Page
11
A lively collage of daily musings and social jests from an era’s magazine page. It notes Fourth of July celebrations, university debates and impractical sayings, praises the “man in overalls,” and teases fashion and travel while reflecting on leisure, work, and modern life. It humorously criticizes loafers, politics, and celebrity culture with a stream of anecdotal lines.
A vivid meditation on the essential role of workers in copper industry and transportation. It credits the man in overalls with energizing engines and enabling continental traffic, saying removal would halt growth, end progress, and plunge society into a new dark age.
Lon L. D. Bonebrake, state commissioner of common schools, urged expansion of normal schools at the State Teachers Association meeting in Put in Bay. He cited 450 teachers at Athens and 500 at Oxford in the summer session as proof of demand, and argued for northern and regional schools to serve the 27,000 Ohio teachers and the large state education budget. Toledo Blade.
In Barbour county near Parkersburg West Virginia a strange black rain and dark clouds produced streams so black cattle refused to drink. Horses and cattle in fields appeared black after the storm. The water on Stewart's run was obsidian and many feared Berryburg coal mine leakage. The phenomenon spanned the entire county and caused widespread fright.
The text extols Dr. King s New Life Pills claiming they convert weakness into strength and fatigue into energy, boosting health, priced at 25 cents per box and sold by W H McKee. It also notes a treasury finding of a conspiracy to ship undesirable immigrants, led by steamship firms profiting from steerage quarters. The Kaiser questions breakfast foods and pie, using German phrasing.
An advertisement touts nervous dyspepsia caused by overwork and offers Dr. A W Chase's Nerve Pills as a cure. It claims regular stomach hours aid digestion and features a testimonial from Walter Josten of Athens about relieved dizziness, nervousness, and improved digestion after using the product. Boxes are sold for 50 cents by Henderson's Drug Store with the doctor’s portrait and signature on each package.
A dense list of questions from M. M. Bryson and A. H. Dixon dated July 3, 1903. Topics span geography meteorology biology history civics alcohol reading and psychology with many subparts and student names Aaron Grady and others. The item reads like a scanned classroom assignment packet with varied subjects and dates.
When the stomach is overloaded and digestion fails, mucous membranes inflame and glands secrete mucine, a condition called Catarrh of the Stomach. J R Rhea of Coppell Texas credits Kodolee Cure after years of indigestion and failed remedies. Also a note: King Edward of England attended a wedding in a frock coat and red necktie, challenging the belief kings cannot err.
The ad claims no risk purchase of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with McKee s drug store refund if unsatisfied. It touts it as the most successful bowel remedy and the only one that never fails, adding a general note of its pleasant safe and reliable use. It also mentions a congressional library room full of people studying ancestors where occasionally someone discovers something causing them to abandon the search.
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