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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1887
Page
14
A 19th century self help prose promotes moral living and inner strength. It advises that happiness comes from motive, conscience, and hard work, warning against reliance on eloquence without virtue. It ends by touting Electric Bitters as a blood purifier and tonic priced at 50 cents a bottle at H. K. Dorr's Drug Store.
Advice urges parents to sing to their children and cultivate their voice, suggesting a loving audience in heaven as motivation. A fragmented line about linen, gloss, water, and starch hints at a recipe note or stray OCR text amid the encouragement.
A collage of maxims from Johnson Fuller Thoreau and others, interwoven with a promotional sales pitch for Hood's Sarsaparilla. The piece extols appetite health and digestion while offering literary snippets and a testimonial style plug for a patent remedy priced at one dollar for a hundred doses.
The speaker argues that beyond innate traits people need a divine guiding motive that makes them seek right, noble goals and love them. It urges surrender of personal will to this higher principle, fostering self-respect through professional dedication and moral reform.
Florida orange industry expands rapidly, rising from 100000 boxes shipped in 1880 to about 1,000,000 boxes in 1884 and 1885, valued at around 1.5 million dollars. U S consumption is estimated at 600 million oranges per year, roughly ten per person.
The Enquirer letter laments the vanishing era of the demure homewise girl Dorothy as progress and luxury erode simple virtue. It contrasts sunrise chores, modest dress, and family duties with twentieth century bustle, fashion, late nights, and hotels in homes, predicting social decline and a loss of the grandmother’s quiet influence.
Bishop Cosgrove of Devonport Iowa preached on modern immorality and the breakdown of safeguards for girls. He contrasted today with an old fashioned girl of thirty years ago noting obedience modesty prayers and respect for elders. The piece cites the Omaha Bee and a Chicago depot wedding tale as additional anecdotes.
A fragment argues that an unloving marriage and a chastity-based life degrade a woman more than remaining in poverty. The remark frames gendered norms as harsher for women, linking marital unhappiness to broader social constraints.
A garbled OCR item mentions a man in sharp attire with baries Barton, and references Seay LarraTio. The readable text hints at a local event or人物 but lacks clear actions or outcomes to define a concrete report. further readable context is needed to produce a reliable summary.
OCR reads as a garbled note mentioning a possible meeting or event with unknown date and location. Names and specifics are illegible, leaving only partial phrases and scattered letters. The fragment hints at a gathering or announcement but lacks concrete details to identify persons or organizations involved.
Sea water preserves items from Vigo harbor shipwrecks of 1702 include wood and mahogany in near perfect condition after 184 years submerged. An ancient pulley block, copper shelves and worn iron band show remarkable preservation, with copper wheels slightly oxidized. Missionaries in China note listeners’ attention during preaching, only to have one man declare after fifteen minutes that the preacher is drunk.
After the secretary and treasurer of a major Pittsburgh street car line fell ill, his daughter ran the business. She kept books, collected funds, paid creditors, and bought feed and stock. Upon her father's death the company elected her to the position permanently.
A newly married woman jokes about her husband’s writing by saying she has a bushel of his love letters in her trunks. A cautionary note warns against depriving children of birthright joys, and a line muses that life’s pain sweetens death’s hardest ring.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture reports May 1 1887 crop and livestock estimates from about 700 township correspondents through May 2. Wheat prospects show a 30 percent shortfall from full average. 1886 output was 40 566 868 bushels. Notes on barley oats rye clover fruit and livestock losses accompany the report. A Brooklyn Standard Union feature extols the Brooklyn Bridge wind harp on its towers.
Long description of scrofula symptoms and hereditary or acquired causes. Claims Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies blood and heals running sores and swellings. Invites readers to write for a book of remarkable cures from C. I. Hood & Co. Lowell Mass.
In Indiana a Democratic senatorial candidate named Davin Turbie occupies a dingy Indianapolis office marked only by a tin sign reading David Turple Notary Public. The piece mocks his lack of a proper attorney identity while noting his long legal wait for clients. Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised as a remedy for sluggish liver and kidneys, urging prompt action.
An old text fragment references the phrase presumption as a disease and promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as valuable for female-specific ailments. The tone is promotional and moralistic, urging readers to trust practical remedies and divine support.
In Japan these insects spin webs among trees and wires, blocking telegraph lines. Their webs between earth and posts create dew‑wet conductors, risking earth connection when lines contact moisture.
An old advertisement promises relief and a complete cure for piles with Rough on Piles. It claims to stop itching bleeding and protrusion and notes availability at druggists or by mail order.
A vintage health tonic claims to restore vitality and address impotence and nervous debility in men and delicate women, promising renewed strength and well being. The advertisement targets adults seeking improved vitality and overall wellness.
An advert promotes a hair product that restores original color as it grows out. It claims to be oil and grease free, softens and beautifies, strengthens hair, heals the scalp, and reduces shedding. The tone resembles a vintage beauty remedy note.
James Anderson, a baling worker for Wm Mooney near Carson City Nevada, went missing during hay baling. A bale opened later contained his well preserved body, found tied within the hay. The death appears to have occurred while he was baling. A Kansas City man reports a six pound twelve and a fourth ounce lemon. Sunday schools seek weed photographs for picnic water use.
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