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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1895
Page
3
Obituaries and resolutions are noted with emphasis on personal news. The message urges readers to send changes of address with old and new details, and promotes the newspaper as a channel for communication between old friends across regions.
A promotional summary of a 224 page law handbook for farmers landlords tenants and village businesses. It covers Chapters on contracts, property, landlord tenant, mortgages, wills, liens, offenses against property, drainage fence and game laws, excise on education, and a full set of legal forms with current state law and Supreme Court decisions. The book is priced at 1.00 and printed in large type with a wine colored cloth binding.
The piece notes fiscal deficits, political futures for Brice and Garfield, and upcoming state elections in Iowa Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts Mississippi New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania and Virginia. It mentions Niagara Falls energy estimates and a looming coal operators monopoly, with commentary on party strategy and journalism moves.
A Washington Fourth of July visit by Chinatown residents led to an extravagant firecracker and Roman candle show in the street near Chinatown. Hundreds gathered as baskets of explosives, giant rockets, and moon-like flames lit the evening. The spectacle drew praise for its scale and novelty, with observers noting the dancers and firework masters among the laundry workers.
A Lewiston man recalls a startling Maine fishing tale. Four years ago near Lake Auburn he hooked a monster salmon on a self-made hook, the line breaking under the boat keel. Last week he again fished near the island and landed another salmon, pulling it in with a scoop net. the old handmade hook remained embedded in its lower jaw.
The article notes Chinese eggs gain esteem with age turning thirty to forty years into a delicacy and a hundred years into a dish fit for a king. It describes burying eggs, a thirty day to ten day pickling window for edibility, and very old eggs turning black as ink. It mentions red clay jars and salt as preservation methods for eggs served to invalids.
Sporting matters report a Camden Maine event with two 95-year-old locals agreeing to a walking match from Camden to Boston to decide who is the survivor. Nearby Eastport reveals odd local claims of youth and age in sports while wider European golf news, Irish lawn tennis titles, and Scottish links openings are noted. A Wisconsin governor catches a 37 pound muskellunge after a long battle.
Sailors in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic regions amuse themselves by capturing boa snakes and tattoing their bodies with letters and designs. One tattooed specimen was shown at Egyptian Hall in London. Thousands are disposed of at Rio de Janeiro where buyers often sit in the snakes or preserve them in alcohol. Collectors in Europe and North America prize these curiosities.
An article notes the sale of the kingdom of Matupla in Hamburg to a Mambury firm for twelve thousand mars, less than three thousand dollars. The purchasers plan plantations and to pension the king on a daily wage of twenty five cents. The piece also mentions novelty paint trends and a testimonial about Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for female health, touting its curative claims.
The York World reports a Munich physician Herr Seitz found vast microbes in worn wool and cotton cloth. One eighth inch pieces yielded about 896 microbes in wool and 1200 in cotton. Fresh fabric showed many more, suggesting clothing can carry bacteria including typhoid fever for up to twenty five days, signaling new public health risks.
Miss Many Rose Santonis daughter of Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris suffers from a bicycle accident. Rev Anna Suaw named a Yosemite Valley tree Susan B Anthony. Miss Maria M Loyz of Buffalo W C T U said girls who learn cook sew keep house tidy reduce masculine drinking. Miss Powperry American secretary to Lady Henry Somerset a New England college educated linguist musician stenographer and penman.
A speculative Ged scenario suggests if the ocean floor were emptied the tidal rivers of the world would require forty four thousand years to refill it, highlighting vast planetary water movement.
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