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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1895
Page
3
An advance subscription note shows terms at 1.50 dollars per year. The date is Thursday May 9, 1895, indicating the issue timing and pricing context for readers.
A concise description of the book Ohio Farm Laws and Legal Forms detailing chapters on animals mortgages contracts property descent dower drainage fence game mills warehouses spouses exemptions landlord tenant liens offenses wills education and a final chapter with legal forms. It emphasizes current Ohio law, repeals and amendments, Supreme Court decisions, 236 pages, large type, wine colored cloth binding, priced at $1.00.
Tur Minneapolis Journal notes beef prices rising may reduce American horse trade. Cleveland administration blamed for blunders in foreign policy, while wheat prices climb giving farmers optimism. Writer cites boom for Governor Morton, Ohio party splits, and Cuba rebellion woes. Louisville tragedy reports Fulton Gordon killing Arch Brown and Gordon's wife Nellie Bush Gordon in an assignation house. sensational Kentucky case tied to baer and Gordon relation.
The editor of St. Louis Butchers' and Packers' Magazine reports a sudden beef price rise tied to a packer combine including Nelson Morris, Armour, Swift, and Cudahy. He cites large stockpiles, a European boycott, and plans to sway public opinion. The piece also notes Meigs county society debts, tribal sovereignty issues, and Garfield Stanner riding a bicycle fifty seven miles in under five hours on a small wheel.
Tris notes that most of the 5000 horses sent from America to Europe recently were intended for slaughter as food. Also, electricians view it as a sign electricity will dominate as a motor.
Dr Otto Wickes a Ridgewood Illinois wholesale druggist has created a cheap movable trolley fender designed to capture and safely deposit pedestrians on the platform. The device uses a flexible iron lattice or perforated rubber dashboard with springs and a movable platform about an inch and a half above the rails. It aims to reduce injuries by guiding any body struck by a car onto the platform rather than under the wheels.
A Missouri couple marries after a West End minister agrees to wed them on a sleety evening. The groom offers sausages as payment when he cannot pay a cash fee. The tale shifts to Col. Will L. Visscher, who recalls a daughter’s affectionate reception and Bill Nye’s quip about turning his child into a humorist.
Miss Bilgrami of Hyderabad, an Arst Mohammedan woman, passed the first arts examination at Madras University with honors in Arabic. She studied alone after being restricted from leaving the zenana and took the exam in a girls' school under the head mistress’s supervision.
An old advertisement extols That Tired Feeling as a symptom of depleted blood and spring strain. Hood's Sarsaparilla is promoted as a spring tonic that purifies and enriches the blood to restore vitality, featuring testimonials from William Gardner of Fall River and Exrr J. Wooley of Jamesburg about relief from tiredness, headaches, and illness after use.
Patient testimonial from Mars A S Bowen of Cline Arkansas endorses Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for impure blood and rheumatism. She credits one bottle with relief, noting improved sleep, restored hip condition, healed sores, and renewed energy enabling housework and walks.
Readers report Hood's Sarsaparilla curing scrofula and salt rheum in two siblings after one and a half bottles each. A mother attributes relief from headaches to Hood's Pills. Mrs. H. B. Keapre notes fatigue and facial eruptions improved by the tonic. Hood's Sarsaparilla sold by druggists at $1 or six for $5. Prepared by C I Hood & Co Lowell MA.
Birds prepare leafgrown homes as one writer muses on nature and a future world. The column then shifts to business and public affairs, noting M. M. Gillam’s advertising pay rise to ten thousand a year in New York, a Col. Coit trial date change, railcar contracts, and Alaska fisheries and gold prospects as evergreen wealth.
The Ohio Central Lines publish a broad transportation catalog listing 123 lines and 67 distinct systems with divisional lines. The Department of Agriculture classifies peanut not a nut and notes authority favors Brazilian origin. A New York Chinese laundry union forms to maintain rates. Moses Baxer of Marble Hill Missouri dies from poison by wild parsnips. The Vatican houses a 820 pound Hebrew Bible manuscript, the largest in the world.
The advertisement urges action to treat cold and dyspepsia and claims Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures consumption in early stages. A testimonial from Mira Mills describes severe illness a year ago, doctors predicting death, then recovery after taking the medicine and resuming household duties.
A Cleveland jury granted Charles Heathorne damages of 30000 for the loss of both legs and the crushing of an arm in a Baltimore and Ohio collision.
The beet root sugar crop of the United States totals a little over 40 million pounds annually. California alone accounts for about 29 million pounds of that output.
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