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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1887
Page
2
A New York City dispatch reports Knights of Labor headquarters on North Broad Street impresses visitors with opulent furnishings and grand design. Members question the expense of luxury by central officers while the order promotes practical labor ideals.
An old advertisement extols Athlophoros as a remedy for rheumatism neuralgia sick headache and related liver and kidney troubles. It cites testimonials from Mrs Smith of Washington NH and Sprineéfield Ohio praising relief after using two bottles, noting quick disease abatement and urges purchasing via The Athlophoros Co New York at $1.00 per bottle.
The excerpt notes rhetorical praise for Senator Pike’s life and death, describing his brave resignation to duty in New Hampshire and peaceful demise in autumn sunshine. It also mocks a Minnesota legislative chaplain’s prayer to reporters, suggesting their influence could secure a second term.
A collage of old ad copy and anecdotes mentions Salve for skin woes, Dr Bull’s syrups, Baltimore and Day’s Morse powders, and other patent medicines. It alludes to a miner’s tragic memoir hidden in a distant winter tale, a Milwaukee death by sneezing, lottery luck, and a bald Justice Gray.
A collage of comic anecdotes and brief notices. A streetwise tale of Johnny-Johnny the drummer and a bear using baking powder to escape, plus short quotes and items from San Francisco Chronicle and other snippets. Includes remarks on Bishop Taylor and his steamer Annie Taylor, D A Radford’s cure with Dr King’s New Discovery, and miscellaneous curiosities.
A retired physician states a missionary gave him a formula for a vegetable cure of consumption bronchitis cough asthma and all throat and lung diseases. He offers to mail the recipe free in German French or Pagileh with full directions, promising radical relief and no charge.
A collage of short items including a quarrel over a dress mishap in Omaha, a beef packing dispute with an English firm, a Vanderbilt anecdote about clairvoyance, a clerk in Louisville turning $50 into a fortune then losing it, and a call for religious tolerance from the Chinese emperor. Other notes cover a theater panic miscue, Huxley on rhetoric, a Oakland student shooting squirrels for health, a Griffin cat grieving its offspring, Lydia E. Pinkham reminders, and a man humorously questioning why a small boy is like a woman.
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