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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1895
Page
7
A period piece advises girls on hair care including brushing, monthly trim, and simple cleansing routines. It praises neatness, simple styles, and orderly dressing furniture while cautioning against oils and bangs and noting spring fashion changes and cape garments. It closes with miscellaneous brief items and reader letters about medicines and public notices.
When Baby was sick we gave her Castoria. When she was a child she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss she clung to Castoria. When she had Children she gave them Castoria. Statistics show that divorced men remarry to a greater extent than divorced women. The ages of the three oldest citizens of Campbell county Tenn aggregate 808 years.
An article fragment discusses kissing between women as mostly formal and often deceitful with rare moments of genuine affection. It notes social pressure to kiss visitors and questions future bans. The piece then shifts to a Port Huron Edison anecdote where a boy Edison uses a steam whistle to telegraph across the ice.
A Chicago Tribune note explains peanuts are not first class in this country and recounts their global journey from Central and South America to Africa and Virginia. It covers uses in oil, meal, and food, yields, and trade, plus Germany’s influence on edible peanut qualities and U S production figures. It also mentions a New York Museum of Natural History yucca bloom and its site attractions.
The veteran chess master Herr Steinitz, upon sensing inevitable defeat in his final game against Emmanuel Lasker, stood and proclaimed in a loud voice that the new champion would live long.
A historical note describes Queen Victoria gradually allowing photographs and revealing favorite jewels and lace. It covers royal finances, Coutts bankers, and annual wedding paintings with details of the curtana, altar candles, and the display of royal regalia in the dining room and Chapel Royal at St James's.
The Washington Post notes many congress members share surnames across states. Examples include Arnold from Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, Bakers from Kansas Maryland and New Hampshire, and four Wilsons from Idaho New York Ohio and South Carolina, among numerous duplicates in the body.
A novel manufacturing method for glass pipes promises to transform the industry by pouring molten glass into a mold with a movable piston. The piston, slightly smaller than the mold, allows a uniform wall and continuous length. Sections six feet long are produced for sewer and water pipes.
The Texas Central claims the best track and roadbed in Texas. Work is planned to dig out the buried Silverton railroad in California. Conductors and porters at Wagner Car company will wear service stripes.
Persistent poor digestion causes nervousness and chronic dyspepsia, with great misery. The advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best remedy to restore digestion and relieve distress, framed in a 19th century patent medicine tone.
The article argues big game like buffalo, elk, and moose breed in localized centers within the West. It notes animals settle onto specific seasonal ranges, with daily movements limited, and cites personal observations of mule deer, antelope, mountain sheep, and white goats. It estimates two thousand buffaloes and fifteen thousand to twenty thousand elk in a National park, plus hundreds of antelope, suggesting more breeding centers could greatly boost population.
A dinner in a southern city honored a northern guest. The host began with sectional jokes, but the visitor turned to a unifying message. He urged using the word American abroad and at home, inspiring applause and a shared patriotic finale with songs.
A Boston Herald correspondent recalls Mexican women calmly facing the earthquake aftershocks in Mexico City. At church in the north they felt the roof crack hear mortars falling and chandeliers swinging. They did not flee, but prayed and trusted their fate as the city endured the disaster.
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