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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1887
Page
15
A poetic meditation on endurance and hope. The speaker recalls heat and toil while longing for distant, better moments. The verses promise a future, peaceful shore beyond sorrow, uncertainty, and night. Attributed to Alfred C. Shaw.
A fresh German visitor in Norwich had his mustache dyed and asked for medicine. He could not pay the thirty five cents and said charge it to Castle Garden. He mistook free in America as meaning nothing costs money and was released amid laughter.
A flirtation card titled There's a Sigh in the Heart is mocked when a father finds it. A physician dismisses the idea of a heart sigh as junk, chalking it to lung and diaphragm causes. Humorous quips cite an unsentimental doctor and amusing European medical lore about rocking chairs and deafness.
A tailor tests two suitors by sewing two identical suits from a single cloth. The daughter, unseen by father, gives the man she loves shorter thread while the other gets longer thread. The first finishes first and wins the daughter, revealing the daughter's tacit choice and the cleverness of her balance of love and practicality. Also a humorous aside promotes SOZODONT and SPAULDING's GLUE with a moral on faith guiding life and death.
Fragmentary OCR text references a product advertisement or medical remedy claiming relief for corns warts bunions and other skin pests with lines suggesting quick relief and complete cure. Mentions Wells and Rough on Corns in uncertain context.
Fragmentary ad style notes mention Rough on Itch cures for various skin eruptions and ailments including ringworm salt rheum and chilblains with a 50c jar price. Also referenced is Rough on Catarral a complete chronic remedy and a gargle for diphtheria sore throat and foul breath at 50c. Includes a line about a tablet erected for the first white settler in Tennessee and a pinkham Vegtable Compound promotion with a big sale in the section.
A June report claims Queen Victoria will draw her fifty year annual salary of £385000, about $1925000, vastly exceeding combined U S executive salaries. The estimate totals $96250000 over fifty years, not counting private estates. Also notices praise Gilmore’s remedies and report a Virginia temperance victory.
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