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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1883
Page
4
In this Brooklyn Eagle fragment the crew led by Hatteras battles endless ice while rationing roast turkey and applejack. An American promises Jersey City supplies to rescue the frozen expedition, as dangers and monotony test morale near the pole.
A collection of light, humorous clippings. A three year old ponders a cricket joke while a crusty elder muses on griffins and dragons in embroidery. A Sunday school question gets a reply about boots debts. A lawyer misses a wedding, protests at the ceremony, and the bride ends the match.
A 35 year old reminiscence recalls a Pennsylvania Dutch maid Katie in a Philadelphia home. Her rustic beau from Kutztown visits every two months, his awkward charm, and the family reaction capture a slice of midcentury domestic life in the Metropolis.
A stranger seeks business guidance after a purchase at a Chatham Street second hand shop. Moses laments honesty but jokes that truth tells cost while selling slips away, asking how an honest man can make a living in New York. The exchange ends with a quip about becoming a partner and the odd profit tale.
The Rockland Courier Gazette notes humorously that the comet has supposedly shed its envelope, joking that without a stamped and addressed envelope with a ten days not called for note, the celestial traveler could not travel a Star Route.
Amelia Graham, a young Irish immigrant in Baltimore, becomes engaged to John Ritchie. Their wedding plans falter over church differences, engagement breaks, and her return to Ireland. Ritchie later dies by suicide. She returns to America and is announced to marry a Boston manufacturer in a few days.
A Montreal clergyman investigates why his church remained unkept and discovers the cleaner, a woman who died of starvation, highlighting hardship behind a neglected space.
A Chinese woman in Boston sought a physician after claiming a strange sensation on her head. The doctor found nothing on her scalp, but when she wore her hat again a live mouse was discovered inside. The Boston Herald cites the tale as true.
A Washington letter recalls Hayden describing Sumner's final moments in the Senate chamber. Sumner paused, gazed around, pressed his breast, and collapsed, dying two days later. The account includes vivid detail of his last expressions and movements.
Melancthon proposes a plan to reduce panics by giving girls mice as pets to make them braver. His father doubts bravery can be taught, but the boy insists the idea is simple and promising.
A June Drawer story tells of a husband who returns from town to discover he has forgotten his wife, a miscue likened to a Philadelphia wife who sent six commissions to New York. He reports five done and the last missing, only to be told the illuminated sentence for a Sunday school room read unto us this day a child is born two feet wide and nine feet long.
A contemporary columnist urges men to choose a wife who will not fade, asking if she paints or will wash. The note ends with an advertisement for Dr Benson's Celery and Chamomile Pills claiming no opium or quinine and recommending them for headache neuralgia and nervousness at 5 cents.
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