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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1904
Page
12
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The report lists the Republican slate including L. C. Laylin for Secretary of State W. T. Spear for Supreme Court judge Horace Ankene y Greene Lawson E. Emerson Belmont R. B. Crawford Stark and presidential electors Charles P. Taft Hamilton Noah H. Swayne Lucas plus Charles H. Grosvenor for Congress and Thomas C. Cherrington for Circuit Judge with county auditing positions noted.
City officials urge pausing sale of market property to clear title while townspeople seek a warrantable claim. Lawyers doubt the record on lot, suggesting a quit claim risks. Ohio politics flash: Judson Harmon believed to be Democratic presidential candidate at St Louis convention, with Hearst and Parker dynamics shaping a compromise option amid Bryan forces.
Athens County Centennial association launches orders for a complete county atlas and history. Surveys ensure accurate township maps with four inches to a mile, top-quality photographs, and farmer verifications. E.8. Rhodes directs soliciting with James A. Palmer assisting, and landscape photographer Huffman captures formal county views.
The piece estimates student expenses at five dollars weekly, totaling about twenty five hundred dollars per week for six weeks, plus costs of faculty and staff. It notes merchants have not fully recovered from Homecoming but stores remain open daily until six.
The bosses who dictated the nomination were the people who spoke months before the convention. Athens will not recover in time for a Fourth of July celebration.
Advertisement offers a one year rental starting after August for a commodious eleven room dwelling at No 1 West Bally Street. Property described as modern with up stairs rooms above the basement and maintained by McVey.
Eight Ohio regiments of Knights of Pythias led by Brigadier General Minchell camped at the World's Fair in strong display. About 1250 uniformed Pythians from First to Eleventh regiments marched, drilled, and performed with four bands under plan to boost martial spirit. Several regiments could not attend due to rail rates.
Probate Judge Lynch issued marriage licenses on Wednesday last week for multiple couples across Athens and Perry counties. Couples include Carl Mail 22 of Buchtel with Ella Hill 17 of Lathrop and James Woods 24 of Nelsonville with Jane Harkless 17 of Carondale among others.
The summer term attendance at the state normal college reached 532 students by yesterday afternoon, not counting more than twenty music students in special instruction. It marks the highest enrollment ever for a single term in the university's history.
The Messenger and Herald reproduces parts of 1846 and 1847 editions with war reports from Taylor's Mexico campaign, tariff debates, poetry, and reprinted letters. Ads show Knowles & Grosvenor lawyers, Cincinnati notices, and rail growth data. later 1864 issue notes war news, Lincoln–Johnson ticket, and rising paper costs. Local news is scarce.
In Modoc at Continental Coal Company Mine No 282 two Hungarian emigrants named Louis Presses kici and Yargy Harris were crushed by slate from a premature explosion. Presses kici died at home near the mine, Harris likely to recover but unable to speak. Investigators believe workers were preparing a shot when the fuse burned too fast, triggering the blast.
Sealed proposals are invited by the Board of Trustees of the Athens State Hospital Ohio for constructing a Work Shop and Paint Shop and for furnishing two connected engines and generators with a switch board steam piping and breeching. Proposals must be on specified blanks and accompanied by a bond equal to 50 percent of the bid. Proposals due after June 30 1915. The right to reject bids is reserved.
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An old classified-style ad touts Green's August Flower as a digestion remedy. It claims improved digestion, liver stimulation, regular stomach function, and relief from constipation with trial and large bottle sizes priced at 25 and 75 cents.
The Chicago Glee Club performed Tuesday evening to enthusiastic crowds at the Columbus college auditorium. Renowned for refined harmony the group delivered Remember Thy Creator and Ole King Cole with faultless blending. The audience lingered for an encore of I'm a Pilgrim. Miss Elma B. Smith will assist July 4 at the college auditorium. The chart is now open at Cline's.
Ohio visitors are urged to take westbound Direct to the World's Fair cars to reach the southeast entrance near the Ohio p building. At the Ohio building they may register, check parcels, access rest rooms, toilets, a telephone, an Information Bureau, and mail service. An Information Clerk can provide details on lodging, hotels, and rooming houses. inquiries may be sent with a stamped return.
Notice from Athens County Ohio dated June 11 1904 informs petitioners seek to organize a village in Waterloo township. It lists the described territory to form Marshfield along with proposed population village status agent Edwin D Sarre and hearing set August 13 1904 at 1 pm in the Auditor's office Athens Ohio.
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In pursuance to an order of the Probate Court of Athens County Ohio the undersigned will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder on a date to be announced. The sale involves property held by the estate and will be conducted by the administrator with potential bidders invited to attend and submit bids.
The Probate Judge for Athens County Ohio suspends first and final accounts for Catherine Terril Isaac Fierce Mary J. Snyder Samuel McClelland M Rossetter Howard L Goodwin Eleanor Adair Wm A Adair James Totman and James Parker until Saturday July 9 1904 at 10 oclock a m. A W Lynch Probate Judge. June 23 1913.
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