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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1895
Page
4
The Athens Messenger and Herald lists editorial leadership with Chas. Teitnings as Editor and General Manager.
Obituaries and resolutions aside, the piece surveys congressional actions from the Fifty-eighth congress and political forecasts for 1906. It laments extravagance, urges retrenchment, praises a strong navy, and discusses monetary reform as a leading issue. It also covers Welsh publication news and Indiana legislation tampering with statutes.
An account of the Japanese emperor’s daily life and governance. It describes his breakfast, meals with family, use of knives and chopsticks, a busy morning with ministers, censoring newspapers, tracking public opinion, translating foreign coverage, and afternoon work. It notes his horse riding, stables, hunting interests, deer and wild pig preserves, and pheasants.
Queen Isabella of Spain once deposed but living in Paris faces urgent cataract surgery amidst doubts on success. Her frail health and aged constitution raise fears, while her past as a royal prisoner and controversial marriage color current sympathy. Also notes Count Woronzoff Dadhkoff as a powerful Russian official overseeing czarist ceremonial duties and private property revenue.
A lone hulk named Fannie E. Wolston drifts over 10 000 miles across the Atlantic after being abandoned off Cape Henry on October 15, 1891. Blown by winds and battered by seas it remains afloat with seaweed covering its hull and has been sighted 46 times. The May 18 photo from the steamship Alps shows the derelict photographed by Capt. Owens and donated to the Maritime Association of New York City.
The Doebling near Vienna postal museum received a toothpick with a handwritten address on one side and a stamp on the other. The stamp back carried part of the message. Another item shows a postal card mailed without an address perforated with tiny holes around the emperor's head, then delivered to the addressee and claimed by the carrier.
Nearly a hundred schemes exist to use culm dust from coal mines. Many ideas failed, but now a plan proposes building electrical power plants at mines to burn culm as fuel and transmit the generated power by wire to nearby cities.
This 19th century style notice extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best spring medicine to purify blood and restore health. It recounts wholesome testimonies of children and elderly relatives recovering from hip disease, scrofula, and salt rheum, praising the remedy's cures and urging readers to insist on Hood's.
A clockwork cradle mechanism promises gentle rocking up to eighteen months, with a metal casing, winding key, and restart button. The article then shifts to home table lighting ideas with candles, drop-lights, and diffused illumination, plus tasteful, odorless flowers and boutonnières to enhance dinners.
A Victorian guide advises that dinner giving should be simple and well organized so extra guests cause little disruption. It warns against ostentation and vulgar wealth displays and favors minimal, tasteful lighting with candles in single holders or low candelabra, and shades optional.
A veil counter salesgirl offers guidance on choosing veils. She urges selecting a wide or double width veil, avoiding flimsy fabrics, nets with visible flaws, and edged styles. She cautions against torn veils and stresses pinning over tying for a neat look.
Gatvsna A. Grow, at three score years and ten, stands as one of the stur diest and most vigorous men in the house. Ilo shows regular attendance, rivaling Reed, and remains as present as those half his age.
A furniture salesman explains a buyers’ impulse for sold items. He describes moving sold sets to store them to preserve demand and leaving duplicates on display to drive future sales. The tactic hinges on a universal urge for what others have already claimed.
A NY Ledger excerpt describes making dainty almond macaroons by blanching four ounces almonds, mixing with rose water and stiffly beaten egg whites, sugar, and almonds, then spooning onto pans and baking slowly. It explains blanching almonds by boiling briefly for easy skin removal.
Doctors generally agree camphor is the deadliest foe to grip now known. A drop on the tongue breaks an incipient cold but burns like coal. A small lump of camphor held in the mouth dissolves slowly with less burning and seems just as effective.
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