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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1883
Page
8
The era's dress sense shifts toward courage and originality with women choosing styles that reflect personal inspiration from art and cinema. A wealthy middle aged observer notes she dresses for others and enjoys memories of fabrics from her youth, while many women now define fashion rather than follow it.
A living writer praises a husband from a family guided by a heroic mother who put girls first. He credits this upbringing with shaping gentlemen who protect women, value courtesy, and resist coercion, forming a standard of honest manhood and brave respect.
After trying top doctors in Western Pennsylvania and New York and spending over $1000 without improvement, a patient suffered severe deformities and near death. She reportedly recovered entirely after taking Peruna, with results noted in Dr Hartman’s Ills of Life on page 24.
A 70 year old Cincinnati ragpicker Charles Doehring died in a city hospital. His body bore signs of long hardship but $570 was found on him and $701.15 stashed in his attic. A will left all for the German Protestant Orphan Asylum at Mt. Auburn.
The item mentions Attorney W. C. Browning of Judsonia Ark asserting a hopeless case and a claimed cure by Samaritan Nervine. It also notes Samuel Howakip of Mount Sterling Ky discovering a second tree within a hollow locust. Advertisements promote Hoon's Sarsaparilia with vitality claims and Dr Benson's Celery and Chamomile Pills. SHILOH'S CATARRH REMEDY is offered by E. R. Lash.
The Munich scholar Prof Sattler claims evidence from Roman coins and gospel texts shows the Christian era should be moved back five years. He asserts Jesus was baptized around age 30 in 749 AUC, placing the present year as 1555 rather than 1880s, challenging established chronology.
A promotional note extols Electric Bitters as a cure for biliousness fever and ague and various stomach liver and kidney complaints. The medicine is advertised at fifty cents a bottle by druggists in a testimonial style claim. Also mentions President Willard promising to open the Northern Pacific by September 1 and progress on rail laying.
As outdoor sports begin, hay fever sufferers endure months of sneezing and watery eyes. Ely's Cream Balm is advertised as a positive, cheap remedy that eases symptoms and offers respite from rose cold and related catarrh.
A learned Christian, Rev. Dr. Samuel Kellogg of the Western Theological Seminary, assures Jews of a liberal realization of their promise to return to the ancient land. The Blizzard notes this may worry many Hebrew brethren as the Philistines have left the land and Bedouins do not wear pants, reducing clothing sales.
A colonial ad proclaims Dr Bigelow’s Positive Cure superior for coughs and lung troubles with free trial bottles from E R Lash. It also describes Northwest explorers’ ortolan of the sea the oolachan, a fatty fish whose dried head can burn as a smokeless light.
The piece extols a devoted wife and mother as always caring for family and cites electric Bitters as the sole remedy for dis ease, promising cleansing of the stomach and bowels and blood purification at fifty cents. It also notes Shiloh’s Vitalizer and other remedies sold locally with guarantees, plus an agricultural claim about an egg consuming factory and a testimonial about Drison’s Shin Cure.
The ad touts Brown's Iron Bitters as a universal tonic to restore strength for work study and household duties. It cites a Baltimore reader, G. Decker, injured in war, who recovered from long indigestion and paralysis after two bottles, enabling him to move again.
A Providence woman, Mrs. A. O. Rockwell, testifies Hunt's Remedy greatly aided her long heart and kidney illness. She says prior medical treatment failed, but the remedy improved breathing, strength, and ability to work at home. The letter promotes Hunt's Remedy for Bright's disease dropsy kidney bladder and other ailments.
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