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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1902
Page
2
A collection of quirky musings and observations featuring reflections on reading material, nature, manners, and social quirks. The piece jumps between poems, jokes, and aphorisms, noting everyday curiosities from Athens Ohio and local life, including references to a Columbus prisoner and a cyclonic campus beacon.
A contemplative piece on dyspepsia and other ailments contrasted with the ideal of rest. It discusses how rest relieves pain, renews the spirit, and motivates work across roles from laborer to businessperson. The essay extols rest as a transformative force shaping happiness and daily life.
A traveling soap fakir swindles Ohio citizens by wrapping a five dollar bill around a soap cake and selling the soap with a chance on the bill for two dollars. Spectators think they can spot the wrapped cake but end up paying and losing two dollars each. A similar Channery episode used medicine, not soap, to fleece about ten dollars.
Mr Hubbard of Wittens Ohio credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his mobility after paralysis. He cites recovery after trying standard doctors and a neighbor case in Sistersville. The ad-like report promotes the pill as a general remedy for nervous and blood related ailments. Also noting Woodrow Wilson becoming Princeton president and Chicago ex mayor Washburn seeking street tunneling for railroads.
Twelve Boxwell graduates were honored Saturday at the Athens township high school. Judge J M Wood and Principal C C Uvart ul Ray MS Coaley spoke as friends and family observed the program. Students delivered declamations essays and a grandmother story titled Banker Hill with music providing the ceremony backdrop.
Notice of a sheriff sale in Athens County arising from an order of sale in the Court of Common Pleas. Real estate described as 80 acres in Dover township with a $3,000 appraisal, cash on day of sale, to be held at the courthouse front door on June 14, 1902. Includes probate notices and bids for a Carthage Township high school project posted for June 28, 1902.
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