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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1886
Page
2
An old medical claim promotes Ayer's Sarsaparilla to prevent kidney disease by purifying and renewing the blood. It asserts debility harms kidney function, causing albumin loss in urine, and that the remedy restores proper kidney action and reduces albuminuria.
Advertisements claim Bright’s disease and kidney inflammation are prevented by Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Testimonies from Mrs. Weld of Jamaica Plain and W. M. McDonald of Boston credit the tonic with restoring strength after long kidney trouble.
John McLellan of Bridge and Third streets Lowell Massachusetts reports years of severe dyspepsia and kidney complaint with poor appetite and emaciation. After using a remedy he regained perfect health and avoided a fatal progression of disease.
In District Court a defendant sentenced to the lightest penalty for horse stealing protests to the judge that his chosen attorney plans to seek a new trial and asks the judge to protect his rights. The young lawyer reportedly will not defend pauper criminals for free, even if ordered.
As railroads complete and stages abandon routes the era’s drastic purgatives fade. Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets enter the market as sugar coated pills smaller than mustard seeds. Sold by druggists.
A Washington correspondent reports there is no foundation for retirements claims about Secretary Manning. He earnestly desires and fully intends to remain at the head of the Treasury Department, which he has directed for the past year.
A four foot long four inch diameter steam whistle is mounted atop the boiler house at Jacksonville Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. It serves as an awakening signal. inmates who cannot hear feel the vibrations through the building, making them aware of its signals.
After nine p.m. August Spies addressed a crowd from a wagon at Crane Brothers factory. A shot hit a man in the thigh, three bombs exploded, wounding many policemen. The mob volleyed at officers, and battles left rioters and several anarchists dead or badly wounded. Police stations became temporary hospitals and the riot cooled by Wednesday.
A Louisville professor spent eighteen years and $10,000 seeking rheumatism relief but found a cure with St Jacobs Oil. A severe cough is claimed to be quickly removed by Red Star Cough Cure. Professor Williams endorses it for children, noting its efficacy. Bottles cost twenty five cents.
Ex President Franklin Pierce once taught in Oxford county and aided a scholar with an algebra problem. He could not solve it, offered a lecture on perseverance, and urged the student to try. Late that night the teacher inventoried effort. A closet discovery revealed a wrinkled paper bearing the solution to the problem.
An eminent English nobleman presiding at a press dinner ends his brief remarks by proposing the health of Gutenberg. A whisper informs him Gutenberg is dead, prompting a later quip that the speaker must announce the same fact.
A Rondout New York man bought green dye to color Easter eggs for his kids. He left the dye in the yard and his hens ate it. For three days the hens laid green eggs. A professor tried a lengthy preface but the students shouted well let er go, ending the joke.
Spring health advice urges cleansing the blood of impurities to prevent scrofula and disease. Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised as the best spring medicine, said to expel impurities and strengthen the body's functions, sold by all druggists.
Telegraph dispatches indicate about 400,000 workers across major industries pressing for eight hour days with or without wage adjustments. About half are on strike, a quarter have had demands met, and the rest await agreements. also notes on New York and Chicago leading the movement. Also mentions Henderson and Minear endorsing Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets and a NY Tribune stock sale valuing the paper at 6.6 million dollars amid Democratic city boycott.
In Echols county a land dispute pits two innocent purchasers with conflicting title chains. Judge Hansell examines the oldest deeds and confirms one chain as genuine, declaring the other forged, recalling his own role in drawing the original title decades ago.
A promotional notice claims Dr King's New Discovery cures throat and lung ailments including consumption. It asserts thousands of permanent cures and offers free trial bottles at Henderson & Minear's Drug Store with a large size priced at $1.00.
Jay Gould denied U S Court jurisdiction over the Wabash in a pending suit. His attorney rushed to Judge Gresham in Chicago to seek court protection from striking workers. The episode shows Gould recognizing the law’s power to safeguard property rights.
In some Easter elections at Episcopal churches women pressed to vote but were denied. They argue they contribute as much as men to church sustenance and should influence management decisions. A Mercury era reference notes broad social debate on gender roles in church governance.
The Senate on the 4th mnet recognized broad public sentiment for liberal government policy toward steamship companies and adopted an ocean mail subsidy appropriation funding eight hundred thousand dollars to American vessels carrying the mails.
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