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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1904
Page
4
The item announces Charles H. Grosvenor as a candidate for Member of Congress. Details emphasize his name and nomination on the congressional ticket without additional context or opponents.
Rain has blessed the town and residents prepare for Homecoming. The Athens board of health is praised for vigilant services that stamped out smallpox last year. Officials warn recurrence is possible but vaccination fumigation and sanitation explain the success and effort.
A judge suggested around Tuesday that insane inmates who pass examination and understand oath may testify and retain memory. He noted varied state rulings on competence, cautioning courts do not deem all mentally ill persons competent. The discussion referenced Ohio v Jones and conditions for testimony.
The report shows wide variance in tax assessments with examples such as A. Palmer listing 81 dogs in Eye precinct valued at $54 785 while H L Snow has one dog in Hudson precinct with $857 808 listed. Frank Tolliver took 42 days to enter Floodwood precinct data whereas C C Roberts posted $44 400 in Millfield in 20 days. The text urges scrutiny for fair taxation.
Several residents went fishing and caught six fish with the largest weighing about 85 pounds. Charles Britz shows partial improvement from rheumatism. Miss Bernice Ely visited her cousin Herbert of Athens. Dillinger moved to Mansfield to serve as night clerk, and is noted as a well known local teacher who will be missed.
Slogan heavy ad noting durable green paint sold by H L Wheaton. Also promotes Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea at 85 cents and line's Pharmacy advertising constipation relief with tea or tablet form.
The article traces the evolution of fashionable hand items from canes in medieval France to masks mirrors snuffboxes and purses in later eras. It notes Mie de Stael's willow twig habit and recounts how ladies in different periods used trifles like perfume bottles and veiled handkerchiefs to suit etiquette and social display across courts from Louis XIV to the French Empire and beyond.
Fresh testimony cites Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and coughs as unequaled. T J McFarland of Benterville Virginia says three years of bronchitis vanished after using the remedy. W H McKee Druggist guarantees relief for lung and throat troubles with trial bottles free.
The M C C offers one cent per mile plus 25 cents round trip from all sites to Tiffin Ohio for the State Encampment G A R. Tickets good returning to June 18 and may extend to June 20 if deposited with a ticket agent. Information from company agents or P M Seymour in Marietta Ohio.
James Rositter of Albany Ohio advertises all kinds of painting and paper hanging services with a home phone contact and a note dated Apr 14 ti.
William Dusz has filed for discharge from debts in the District Court at Columbus Ohio. A hearing is set for June 10 1904 at 9:00 a m before Judge Albert C Thompson. Creditors and interested parties may appear to show cause why the petition should not be granted. I M Foster attorney.
By order of sale in partition of the Athens County Common Pleas Court a public auction will be held at the front door of the Court House in Athens Ohio on Saturday July 2 1904.
420 acres of good land in Scipio township Meigs county Ohio offered for sale. Splendid stock farm well watered with fair improvements fruit and timber in good neighborhood five miles from Albany nearest railroad station. Sell on reasonable terms as a whole or in tracts to suit purchaser J M Wood Athens Ohio May 26 14.
The advertisement promotes Dr Weavers Syrup Purifive as a remedy claimed to purify the blood and improve the skin. It emphasizes restorative benefits and invites readers to try the cerate and enitment preparations for topical use.
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