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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1897
Page
6
A 19th century guidance piece on placing a piano in the room. It suggests avoid corner placement to keep space, and proposes back treatments such as painted canvas, drapery with fringe, tassels, or sewn sequins for sparkle. It recommends keeping tops uncluttered, using lamps and light to accent, and choosing white or polished surfaces to prevent yellowing.
A stylish bed quilt designed by the Reading church society women in a large city sold at $12 each. Uses Lonsdale cambric blocks, nine or twenty five per quilt, with figures flowers or conventional patterns. Edged with sateen strips, linen preferred, shel stitch quilting, decorative corner shells, and a border ready to be bound and finished.
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure for a range of ailments claiming relief from displacement ulcers and general suffering. It touts widespread gratitude from users from coast to coast and portrays the product as a path to happiness and usefulness.
A collage of strange health beliefs and product pitches notes raw shellfish linked typhoid, Arran ferns as tea substitute, lunatic asylum statistics, perfumes claimed to destroy microbes, and scents aiding health. It cites tea digestion delays, toothpicks, and Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs with sensational testimonial language and price hints.
An article discusses twin beds designed to push together as a luxurious double. American bedsteads are praised for carving and inlay work, with a Louis XV style enameled cherry design valued at $3,000. The piece notes both display and purchase value, intermingled with poetry and weather verse fragments.
The garbled text mentions health issues and appetite problems, then shifts to a public school funding line item. It cites SSACHT spending per thousand dollars of valuation and a total of 1182.30. It also briefly references conspiratorial phrases and a note about cotton production in the South.
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