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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1904
Page
7
Ohio brief items report multiple incidents across cities. Fatal burns from coal oil in Orville, a hayloft fall in Homer, a suicide in Creed Smith, and a lynching scare in Wilmington. Also listed are political races, school counts, a burglary capture, and local celebrations.
The last of eight valuable dogs owned by A. R. Bell died last week at his farm one mile west of Athens after a stray dog bit his kennel. The disease spread among the dogs, forcing the killing of many as a mother dog in frenzy crushed a pup, and the kennel was attacked in a gruesome scene.
Capitol Was Easy. The Capitol university baseball team of Columbus was defeated in an auninteresting game Monday afternoon by the Ohio university nine, by the score of 19 to 7.
In Fredricksburg Indiana on June 6 Rev Enoch P Stevens extols Dodd's Kidney Pills claiming they cured his kidney issues after two boxes. He says he has recommended them widely with no failures and calls them essential for kidney disease and rheumatism. The notice also mentions future Houston franchise referendums and promotes Dr Boschee German Syrup for lung ailments with trial sizes offered.
City officials confirm a daily leakage of 44 million gallons from the water system. Engineers plan repairs and monitoring to reduce loss and safeguard supply reliability.
Ohio visitors going to the Worlds Fair are advised to ride westbound trains marked Direct to the World's Fair and proceed to the Ohio building near the southeast entrance. There they may register check parcels use resting rooms toilets telephones and the information bureau.
The article describes how a soap bubble under gravity forms a thin top and a thicker bottom wall. A black spot appears on the top, followed by red and blue color bands as thickness varies. The first moving blue band expands from the top as water subsides, named the blue of the first order.
St Nicholas reports blue jays in a lawn evergreen tree erupting in screeches and whistles as neighbors gather to watch a meek cat near a spruce. No nest found and no attack observed, but the scene drew an astonished, noisy crowd.
Instructions to clean leather bindings by washing with warm water and a pinch of soda, then rinsing and drying. A glair made from gum arabic and egg white is applied with a sponge, dabbed to subside froth, and allowed to dry.
The Ladies' Field notes that a wife must prune her husband's male circle. About half can be dismissed immediately for poor manners or wrong collars, ten percent disliked by the wife, and most others drift away gradually, explaining farewell bachelor dinners brides may not realize.
The Ohio Central Lines and the L and N W Auy offer new sleeping car service for delegates traveling to Chicago for the Republican National Convention. Low rate excursion tickets go on sale June 16 to 20 and are valid for return until June 29, 1904.
Union Pacific offers daily Colorado round trips from June 1 to September 80 with a final return by October 31, 1904. Prices include 825.00 from St. Louis and 30.00 to Chicago with lower rates from other points. Inquiries to W. H. Conor at 53 East Fourth St Cincinnati Ohio.
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