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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1900
Page
5
A period advertisement warns of danger from heart disease and claims Neakles Heart Cure offers rescue. It recounts a patient’s severe nervous and chest symptoms, notes initial three-physician failure, then reports improvement after Dr Miles Heart Cure and Restorative Nerve. Contact Dr Miles Medical Co for free advice and booklet.
Local items report visits by Mr and Mrs Jesse Warren in Columbus and other regional travel, with numerous mentions of guests at homes across the area. The Epworth League Convention opens in Marietta with services, speeches, and prayers, while church leaders from Center College and various congregations prepare for installations and dedicatory events.
The Athens M E church hosted a well attended W T U county convention with out of town delegates from Nelsonville Amesville and Jackson. Officers for the coming year include Margaret A Vickers president Ennan McVay corresponding secretary and Mrs Sarah L Poster treasurer. Resolutions and work plans will be published later.
Demster Coal Company at Chauncey and Beaumont is absorbed by Nelsonville investors Joseph Slater L D Lampman FE Montrn Pos ton and a Columbus partner. The mine will run at full capacity around nine hundred tons daily employing nearly two hundred men with a clean six foot vein of high quality coal. A second shaft may follow west of Chauncey near New Woodwood as development continues.
A fragmented notice records lodge resolutions honoring J. Patton, praising him as a brother and community member. It notes mourning drape for thirty days, publication in county papers, and sending a copy to his family. Includes ad fragments about bicycles, cures, and Ohio travel tickets for a May high school event and excursion train details.
The store advertises a wide stock of parasols in white and colored china and tatters, hemstitched, ruffled, striped, figured and plain. It promotes early visiting when the line is complete and lists prices and styles, including dressing laces and new fabrics, with attractive pricing.
A scanned old notice lists an excursion to Columbus via Hocking Valley Railroad on Friday May 9 with one fare for round trip and return May 9. Also promotes No-To-Tie a tobacco cessation remedy claiming easy quitting and permanent results with claims by pharmacists and druggists.
Ww B Lawrence of Crosby Township testifies that One Minute Cough Cure alleviates coughs and breathing trouble. He credits the remedy with relief for his wife and family. Excursion tickets to Columbus offered May 2 and 24 for Prohibition Convention travel. W S Musser of Millheim credits the cure with saving his daughter's life from croup. Cline’s Pharmacy promotes the product as a harmless, fast-acting remedy for throat and lung ailments.
Agents of Ohio Central Lines sell excursion tickets to Chicago and return May 1 and 21 with a round trip fare plus a small surcharge, returning by June 1. See agents for full details. Also includes unrelated medical testimonials and Cascarrets laxative promotions from local pharmacies.
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