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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1899
Page
3
Local column lists guests visiting Athens from Columbus Charleston Beebe and other towns. It mentions commencements weekly visitors from Nelsonville Urbana Somer set and Frost, and explanations of transit to Tranton. The piece also notes a stray public notice in the opera house and water works progress on High Street with planned grading and paving plans.
The article lists excursion ticket schemes by the B and O lines for dates in March June and August to destinations including Marietta Nenia Columbus Mountain Lake Park Los Angeles Pittsburg and more with Athens as the origin and varied return windows and fares. It also notes local social visits including D D Tullis and Mrs Pickering guests and a Sedalia visitor Harrett Gold.
G H Willsox of Burgensium Washington Co Pa reports severe stomach pains last night. Miller McCurdy drug store recommended Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy which he says cured him after one dose. He will not be without it at home. For sale by W and McKee. Sharkey declares six week readiness to fight Jeffries in a 24 foot ring. Western Australia enforces English writing requirement to land.
J W Gardner of Idaville Indiana credits Electric Bitters with restoring his strength and appetite after stomach liver and kidney troubles and general malaise. He says the tonic gives energy and a new lease on life. Available at W H McKee drug store for 50 cents per bottle with guarantee.
A girl on a country road asks her father about sheep in a meadow. The sentence reads Ts them sheeps gourn. The article notes the children’s garbled speech as humorous record of mispronunciation.
A jumble of claims cites Tooth's Sarsaparilla to cure eruptions and pimples, while warnings about impure blood abound. Immigration rules from Cuba sparingly affect Canadian and Mexican laborers. A severe snow storm hits from summit to Lake Bennett. A Montana woman suffocated in a tight necktie while trying on clothes, and a cave discovery near Wellington New Zealand dwarfs Mammoth Cave.
A man recalls glimpsing his middle aged reflection in an elevator mirror. He notes gray hair crow’s feet and a resemblance to his own current appearance, then resolves he will stay his age and not chase youth despite comments.
Mrs S Dory of Des Moines Iowa thanks the Chamberlain Cough Remedy makers for help through fifty cough cases including long coughing and whooping cough. She states the remedy always gives perfect satisfaction and sends hearty thanks. Sold by W H McKee.
The San Jose scale spreads widely and harms peach trees. Kerosene sprays are the only effective method found, as whale oil soap emulsion fails to reach all insects. A new spray pump promises safer mixing in the nozzle to apply a light kerosene coat, best on bright winter days when buds are dormant.
The Dr King’s New Discovery proprietors have given away over ten million trial bottles and claim it cures asthma bronchitis hoarseness and lung diseases. W H McKee’s drugstore offers a free trial bottle with prices 5c and 1.00 guaranteed or money back. A London Times note tells of Commander Slackburn rescuing a gazelle overboard in dark seas at Chatham. Other brief items: Italian apartments advertised with a white cloth placard. Australian Metia Island reportedly disappeared. Earl Beauchamp, 27, named colonial governor. Russia has over ten thousand villages without schools. a Freeport Missouri girl teaches grandmother to ride a bike. a Elizabeth New Jersey resident fortifies property with cannon and dynamite for defense.
A Washington Post account describes a dignified woman of about 30 telling a stranger aboard a 14th Street car how tobacco comforts her while her husband, an army officer, has spent a year in the Philippines. She lights a cigar to feel his presence, hoping the scent reaches him, and reveals a quiet longing for home and his return.
The Western Electrician recounts how Thomas L. Willson of St Catharines Ontario, while smelting metallurgical stock, noticed a gray slag when using rock salt and limestone. Dumped slag into a stream, it flashed into blue flames, then a white flame when water was added. The observations led to the acetylene gas discovery.
The Saturday Review contrasts the Seine’s Left and Right Banks, praising the Left Bank’s lively arts scene and social bustle while condemning it as blasé, bourgeois. It lauds the Right Bank for youth, theater, cabarets, and festive street life, noting fashion, dancing, music, and late nights over study.
An American traveler in Persia recalls a village soldier asking about dog worshipers in Teheran and foreigners feeding them. In England a bishop preaches a mission sermon as a woman donates half a crown and jokes she would have brought more if she knew the preacher was a Wabop.
A mixed item notes a War Album promotional offer from the Big Four Route with vivid wartime scenes and a sugar crystallization demonstration at a British association meeting. It describes the album’s contents and ordering details, plus an explanation of a glow observed on rotating sugar disks and its potential lighting implications.
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