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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1883
Page
4
The text shows garbled lines about meetings, weddings, taxis, and a farmer, interwoven with an oration about communal times and triumphs. It ends with a vision of editors and assistants marching from the page toward a distant city gate in a hopeful, ceremonial tone.
Two Chicago men recount a newly married couple starting life in a cramped home. The husband recalls a warm breakfast by the stove and buckwheat pancakes, while his wife faced frost and a simple bed. He contrasts breakfast joy with later wealth and warns about pride in rising fortunes.
A dignified old gentleman visits a cluttered store to see if he will buy Lightning Moth destroyer. A rookie salesman pesters him with samples, ends with a scuffle and the gentleman being dragged out, garments torn, amid a comic scene. The tale mocks market hustle and gullible advertising.
The Naples visit of the famed composer produced a hair trimming tale as fans sought his prized tresses. A barber was robbed of the cut hair profits when Madame Wagner had promised the locks to a friend, but a meat supplier’s similar hair was used instead freeing the barber to appease the collectors.
The passage recalls slave auctions near the Capitol and a boot thief tale, Washington labor by enslaved people, and a tale of boot loss and flight. It includes memories from John Wentworth and Sam Werran about Civil War times, Lincoln’s occupation period, and a witty rejoinder by Justice Story about social life in Washington.
A bold man confronts the editor with a baseball bat over a false newspaper notice. He admits whipping his wife but protests the weekly tally and demands the notice be corrected to three times a week or face consequences.
The article compares Wordsworth, Mozart, and mathematicians, noting that focused attention followed by letting the mind rest leads to spontaneous creative results. It emphasizes memory as the most instructive mechanism, where after fixing attention and recalling details, stepping away allows a missing fact to suddenly reemerge.
A drummer returns from a Baltimore engagement to an office where the expense account is praised as twice the size of a predecessor. He jokes that future digs will dodge raffles, turkeys, and hog-weight guesses, noting prior stops included dances picnics horse races dog fights and church bell subscriptions.
Surviving soldiers report a grim battlefield with fallen generals Cleburne Adams Stahl Gist and Granberry among thousands dead or wounded. Henry M Stanley faces Congo river perils as his French gunboat crew abandons ship. An Ohio reader praises Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup for family use.
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