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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 11, 1899

Page

2

The Sweet Girl Graduate and Political Craft

A satirical piece opens with a caricature of a sweet girl graduate, then pivots to a sharp essay on political ambition. It traces how a politician grows from local precinct talk to county seat bargaining, concluding with a cautionary portrait of rise, payment, and belief in public life. It also notes the marriage of Richard Harding Davis and Cecil Clark, praising their practical, uneventful honeymoon choice. A local correspondent’s cat washing query is treated with mock seriousness.

Hog Hollow Richard Harding Davis Misa Cecil Clark Marion Mass Athens

Postage Cut to One Cent Per Ounce Feasibility Discussed

The piece notes a potential future postage reduction to one cent an ounce due to rising mail volume. It cites Bostetter's Stomach Bitters as highly esteemed for curing sickness by targeting digestion and appetite, while mentioning a push for a public school system in Spain and a Manila veteran named Joseph Lucen inheriting 230,000 from his grandfather. It also reports Thuringian natives feeding horses with potato bread in cold weather.

Los Mails Congress Bostetter Thuringia

Pride Goeth Before a Fall Hood's Sarsaparilla Ad

An ad of Hood's Sarsaparilla claims health prevention and cure for debility scrofulous hip disease nervousness and dyspepsia. It touts a mother vouching for her son’s recovery and other testimonials from residents of Massachusetts Maryland and Philadelphia praising the remedy.

Hood Willie Sarasparilla M. H. Kixx Franklin St Philadelphia

Boxwell test questions list for Saturday exam

Twenty seven applicants took the Boxwell examination on Saturday. The page lists questions on geography physics grammar language history and early U.S. history including Earth’s shape tropical zones solutions for Verbal reasoning and notable figures such as Benedict Arnold and references to Plymouth and Jamestown colonies.

Arithmetic drill problems from a historical workbook

A collection of arithmetic problems covering simple interest time calculations fractions percentages and unit conversions. Questions include computing interest on various sums at specified rates determining costs from gains and losses and extracting square roots. Also includes practical problems on volume to bushels and partnership profits with missing or partial data.

Emu Protection Law Passed By Australian Legislature

The Australian act aims to shield the great emu from hunters as the species faces decline. Birds are hunted for fence repair damage and eggs are prized for ornaments. emus travel fast and nest near trees. Mature birds feed on grass and hatch eggs after eight weeks. chicks are grayish white with black stripes.

Australia Enja Chich Great Plains Drauth Cincinnati Enquirer

Cause of Dyspepsia From The Republic Reprint

A long dyspepsia treatise argues nerve force and blood vitality cause the ailment. It cites Joseph Vinulyke of Scranton and a Dr Williams pill remedy claim, detailing symptoms, cures, and a patent medicine advertisement selling pills for Pale People in a dated format.

St. Petersburg to Have a Novel Lunatic Asylum Museum

The article describes a forthcoming museum in St. Petersburg featuring models of famous lunatic asylums and related artifacts such as clothing, appliances, brains in alcohol, books, photographs, and more. Also noted is a scene at the zoo where a young monkey pleads for a grape, as the mother disciplines him with a bite and the keeper comments on parental discipline.

St. Petersburg Iarus Cassell

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