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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1896
Page
6
Tennessee prepares a centennial exposition at Nashville to honor statehood with a grand display planned for June 1, 1897. Subscriptions opened statewide, with buildings under construction and diverse exhibits from agriculture to arts and crafts.
Tennessee centennial notes Three rivers and towns, Chattanooga and Enoville relief. Population growth from 4,767,518 in 1690 to about 2,0060,000. Nashville praised as capital with educational institutions and a planned Transportation Building and park. Roads to be asphalted. mentions Vanderbilt Fisk and other universities. Describes thriving trade, manufacturing, railroads, and Nashville’s progressive outlook. farmer near Belver, Missouri sold $99 turkeys.
A decades old advertisement extols Eyudian Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the ultimate relief for female ailments. It portrays women as plagued by mood and health woes and claims the remedy comes from a noble woman who discovered both the cause and cure.
A collection of fragmented misprinted quotations from Goethe Sinslin Holmes Massillon and others. The lines speak on patience pride malice love and memory with errors and garbled names, suggesting an OCR extraction of a literary page. The text includes aphorisms about divine delays genius and the duties of a householder amid jumbled attributions.
A mixed digest on farming costs and farming experiments notes butter at 12 cents per pound, varying by breed, and stresses that experiment stations should aid practical farming. It covers clover germination, manure versus fertilizer, and a New York inheritance rule change. The remainder includes garbled phrases about football in Scotland, weather, and stray lines on farming and birds.
A spoof lexicon entries set mocks moral terms with misspelled phrases and whimsical definitions. It lampoons social pretensions and academic diction through distorted etymologies and comical misprints.
Fragmentary chatter mixes with light courtship and plan talks. Dialogue touches on election secrecy, a pianist, a daughter, a sister, a brother, and a traveler asking about train timing. The tone reflects a lively, informal social column with local voices and occasional humor.
The Mining World reports over 4 000 stamps active in California and mentions 526 mining companies floated in London in 1855 with capital of £53,796,254. It notes a 150 ton copper shipment from Ducktown to Swansea and cites rail and medicine ads. It also references Parsce Biswarcx earnings and Pierce's Pleasant Pills with several dubious health claims.
The advertisement touts blood purifier remedies for Reds Mothers claiming pure blood and strong appetite. It also mentions a plan to build a polytechnic with endowments costing about 41 million and promotes Hotel Victory near Buckeye route with summer attractions and travel details on the Toledo line.
Milwaukee man ZL W Gallaher, once a major lumber products maker, suffered epileptic attacks that forced him from business and caused dangerous falls. After using Dr Miles Nervine, he reports a cure lasting years and credits the remedy in a letter dated February 16.
Delegations from across the state will tour Ohio State University on May 22. Guides will escort visitors through laboratories and farm buildings as part of a program by the Townshend Agricultural Society to promote agricultural education. A new seventy five thousand dollar agricultural college line building is planned. Farmers and aspiring youths are urged to attend and see the grounds and facilities.
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