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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1899
Page
3
A Detroit resident touts Pe-ru-Na for catarrh and jaundice cures in a letter to Dr Hartman. She cites personal success and urges others to try the remedy, noting a grocer now stocks it and her daughter was cured of jaundice. Dr Hartman offers free counseling to fifty thousand women and a health book.
Agents and residents travel between Cincinnati Nelsonville and Washington in late week. School principal Vernon Koutner and Miss Linna ill visit Athens. John Andrews reports Trimble Brick Company steady orders. Frost warnings and a near tragedy accompany a Miss Caroline Cook funeral. Miss Cook died in Idaho, with relatives attending in Athens.
The piece links the Land of Ophir to Rhodesia and Menomotapa, arguing ancient Phoenician gold, ivory, and slaves came from southeast Africa. It cites biblical connections, ruins with Phoenician origins, and parallels to structures in Arabia and the British Isles, then shifts to a brakeman rescue tale and finally notes rising U.S. treasury receipts and New York health crackdowns on hypnotism.
An advertisement touts Grain-O as a healthful grain based beverage resembling coffee. It claims doctors prescribe it for nourishment and vigor, noting its brown color and taste, with prices at 15 and 25 cents. It also mentions President McKinley opposing Congress assembling in an extra session unless contingency prompts it.
A woman in this country over seven years survived a disease with a new recovery after using Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption. Trial bottles sold at WH McKee’s diagstore with a guarantee on regular bottles. Catierra Crain aided her father to rescue four drowning men in Jamaica Bay New York. The ad endorses Hop’s Sarsaparilla and Cham ber lain s Cough Remedy used for whooping cough and croup with a testimonial from Joan E Clipford proprietor Norwood House Norwood NY. The remedy is offered by W H McKee.
A Cassell's Magazine excerpt describes Zulu marriage customs with focus on grooming. It details the bride's coiffure a cone shaped erection worn after rites, and the bridegroom’s shorn head with a circular crown and a ring of gum and ochre containing spoons needles and small items as a badge of manhood.
A fragment from a New York Tribune piece describes Elihu Yale’s connection to Wrexham in North Wales. It notes his tomb and the Yale Chapel, with a reflection on Yale graduates being transported to hear the rustic Welsh service and the Latin hymn sung in Bryn Eglwys church.
Advertisement style notice details special round trip fares to Columbus Marion and Roanoke from all Ohio stations. One fare with return by June dates, half rate to Columbus for Knights of Pythias and convention traffic. Also mentions tapestries at Dinton St George and potential ownership by Viscount Hinton in London.
A Paris correspondent reports on an egg forger who crafts false eggs for scientific collections. Plaster shells, chemical colorings, and careful disguises yield eggs of birds such as pigeons and nightingales. The article notes the craft’s long history in museums and ends with a vendor selling Chamberlain's Pain Balm, claiming it relieves rheumatism.
European doctors gathered vast sums for single operations and short attendances. Dimsdale received 60 000 dollars plus 2500 a year for vaccinating Catherine II in St Petersburg. A lithotomy specialist earned 50 000 rupees per rajah freed from pain. Zacherine was paid 75 000 dollars for two days by the late Russian czar. Gale of Bristol got 250 000 dollars for curing a nobleman’s diseased knee. Gale Yowski earned 35 000 dollars plus expenses for Tehran attendance. Jenner gained 50 000 dollars and a baronetcy for four weeks by attending the prince of Wales. Mackenzie took 100 000 for Emperor Frederick. An English army surgeon charged 50 000 dollars for a single prescription in rheumatism.
Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson Ohio suffered 11 months from a rectal fistula. Doctors warned he would die without costly surgery, but he cured himself using five boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, advertised as the salvative cure on Earth. Priced at 25 cents a box, sold by W H McKee. A new Window glass district forms to control 1 percent of US productive facilities.
A letter from B Cargile of Wassitta claims four bottles of Medtric Bitters cured Mrs. Brewer of scrofula and facial sores after years of suffering. The piece extols Electric ters as the best blood purifier for eczema tetter rheum ulcers and running sores, and promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla for blood health. Also notes a movement to appoint Col Funston’s men to political offices and reports John Derrixer’s death in Milwaukee during a sermon.
Panorama of Spanish American War scenes showcases military life from recruiting to hospital care and street life in Havana and Santiago. Includes depictions of officers, Red Cross, cooks, and new U.S. citizens in a compact 54 by 8 inch album offered by Big Four Route for 2 cents postage. Also notes claims about Dr King’s pills, a divorce law stance, a New York governor called session, skeptical German press, Bryan invitation withdrawal, and U.S. monitors repurposed for coast defense.
Fragment shows schedules for the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad with trains leaving Lancaster Pennsylvania and running to Zanesville. Mentions through trains and multiple stops, but details are garbled.
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