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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
3
Local items list residents visiting or transacting business in Glouster Albany Utley Coolville Hebbardsville and Athens. Supts Fowler DeLong attend commencements. Miss Cooper honored by Hebbardsville party. storm delays return to Athens. Also letters from Fannie Williams praising Grain-O coffee substitute and a note on arrestees and oil company formation in Missouri.
Seven years bedridden due to kidney liver trouble and nervous exhaustion. Mrs. L Pease reports Electric Bitters restored mobility in three months, calling it a priceless blessing for headaches backache nervousness sleeplessness melancholy fainting and dizziness. Sold for 50c by W H Mckee. Also notes government to receive twenty torpedo boat destroyers and boats from contractors and Oklahoma peach growers begin shipments totaling an estimated 700 million bushels.
Does it Pay to Buy Cheap presents Chamfered medical ads praising Boschee's German Syrup as a universal cure for coughs and lung troubles. It urges warming climates if possible, claims relief, better sleep, and easy expectoration, and notes widespread dr gist recommendations and almanac references. Also reports Harry C. Barnes losing an Oklahoma second lieutenant candidacy and a Laurel Kansas troupe split over a performance program.
A tornadic event hit Terrell Texas Monday evening damaging several farm buildings and injuring crops. The notice mentions four Jell-O flavors Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry available at local grocers and invites families to try the new dessert.
In a Chicago Chronicle tale, a fatigued newspaper writer, after composing headlines of 23 letters and spaces for eight hours, suffers a transient condition misread as delirium tremens. A bystander and the writer explain the phenomenon as relentless wordcraft leaving the mind restless, craving rest.
Harvard library houses Milton memorabilia including an autographed album page and a copy of Pindar annotated in Milton's hand with marginal Greek and Latin notes. Bequeathed by Charles Sumner, the items include Milton's signature dated January 10 1639 and a marginal motto from his Cotmus. A key manuscript from Trinity College Cambridge also reportedly resides at Harvard.
In a humorous exchange Lot 2 Barenin asks the squire how much for tying the knot. The justice of the peace cites a $2 fee under law while the bride proposes paying $1.08 elsewhere, highlighting a quirky wedding cost moment from a Chicago Tribune clipping.
A Baltimore American writer recalls the circus with Mr. Henry Peek remarking that viewing daring acts, especially riders and their horses, makes one admire the spectacle despite danger. The anecdote highlights the ringmaster’s whip as part of the show’s perilous charm.
A Detroit Free Press snippet contrasts a daughter's piano with a son's poetry, noting that sound travels far. It then references Sahsra's vast desert spanning 2,500,000 square miles between the Atlantic and Nile Valley, and a timeline remark claiming Romans built London around 50 A.D. but Londos tall was not Dullunt 806 A.D.
A New Way of Greicy Tobacco covers large Florida fields with cheesecloth to keep worms out and boost growth. Canopies, nine feet high, raise field temps by 15 to 20 degrees, with irrigation sometimes lowering heat. A major grower orders over 1 million yards of cloth for about 200 acres, aiming to export finer wrappers and challenge Sumatra Havana and Mexican tobaccos.
The article compares doctor payment by keeping patients well in Chinese practice with a Western variation where pay continues regardless of illness. It argues physicians should study each family member and aim to keep them healthy, citing cultural insights and medical environment. It also recounts Oliver Ladoucer’s near fatal electrocution while testing a high tension wire, a dramatic escape that spared him only because the streetcar feed wire kept him aloft.
The largest council of the order is New York of New York with a membership of 2,053. The St. Louis councils contest has added over 500 new members to the order. Undine Connell of Brooklyn paid 800 into the W and O TG fund since its institution.
A caller claims an English Brown ancestry and a vast fortune, offering up to fifty thousand and promising a share of a supposed half a million. The wary farmer refuses, the scammer bolts, and the tale ends with the would-be fraudster fleeing on his horse while muttering about papers.
The Brooklyn Lite reports a lively exchange as Tacticiana and Ryan clash over a parliamentary dispute. Dialogue centers on Olrish members, a proposed fight in the British House, and calls to rally supporters.
In Mrs T's sitting room Bridget stands before a picture and Mrs I recalls the photo taken when she was two. A curious exchange follows about which image shows herself and her mother as Leulle'a Weekly notes the moment with puzzled humor.
A village exchange echoes a lawyer’s blunt tip to get a larger guard dog after a neighbor’s fear of a big dog. The scene hints at practical steps and a wary mood without sensational detail.
In Colina New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma emerge as territorial candidates for statehood after an altercation in Miga between H. D. Larrey and an elderly man named Davis results in both deaths. The report notes the evolving status of the three territories as potential future states.
A Gypsy fortune teller was arrested in Wyoming and found with bank notes totaling £300 in a belt about her waist. The Philadelphia Academy of Sciences possesses a rack of heads from each US president.
A gasoline stove accident burns a woman here. N B Palmer notes doctors could not hear a running sore, but Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured it. Also mentions corns and skin diseases. Heavy snows in Bavarian Tyrolean Alps. Oklahoma millers plan Beaumont oil for fuel.
A Ruston man finds happiness after a sickly wife recovers through Dr King’s New Life Pills. The ad-like snippet claims curing jaundice malaria fever and stomach troubles with gentle effectiveness. Mentions Riverside California orange orchard area spanning about thirty square miles and 1.2 acres with 1,400,184 trees.
One-way settlers tickets will be sold by Ohio Central Lines agents to Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Mississippi North and South Carolina Tennessee and Virginia on the flat and third Tuesday of each month. For fall particulars contact agents John Moores T. J. in Findlay S. G. Harvey in Toledo D. J. Cargo in Toledo W. A. Peters in Columbus EK Heiner in Charleston W Va.
Special summer excursion tickets go on sale June 14 and continue daily through September 16 to Colorado Utah South Dakota and Minnesota. Tickets valid for return until October 31. Inquire with Ohio Central Lines agents for rates and complete details.
The Ohio Central Lines offer a round trip excursion at one fare with return by July 5. Tickets go on sale Wednesday and Thursday July 1 and 4 with return until July 5, and include connections within 200 miles on routes in the system.
Music teachers national association meeting prompts Ohio Central Lines to sell excursion tickets to Put-in Bay Lake Erie with round trip fare from all stations. Tickets on sale June 0 July 2, good returning until July 8.
Ohio Central Lines announce special low rate excursion tickets to Buffalo for the Exposition with return options. Contact local agents for full details on sale dates limits routes and through tickets to points east of Buffalo. Ten day stopover allowed at the Exposition for eastbound travel. If traveling east, go via Buffalo.
Low rates announced for C M V Railroad excursions with tickets selling July 5 to 12 and return by August 8. Stopover options available at intermediate points. Also tickets sold daily May 1 to November 1 to Buffalo Pan American Exposition.
Round trip excursions advertised for July from an unspecified origin to San Francisco July 1 to 12 and to Louisville August 24 to 27 with return by September 2, tied to LuVpworth League Convention and Knights of Pythias Triennial Conclave. Rates and details via B. and O. and W. railroad agent J. I. Larrabee, Chillicothe.
The Hocking Valley Ry offers round trip tickets to Buffalo at very low May rates. The Pan-American Exposition promises unmatched features and dazzling Niagara Falls powered electrical displays. Citizens urged to visit and witness ten years of progress.
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