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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1886
Page
7
A daughter questions her father about supporting the eight hour workday for workers. He indicates conditional support, prompting her joyous reaction as she explains George would not need to stay late. A Washington Critic quote precedes a note on a Pennsylvania pumping engine that moves 20 000 gallons per minute to 130 feet, praised for efficiency.
A jumble of reflections on good byes and the weight of words accompanies brief items on butter exports and moral tales. The piece blends sentimental maxims with notices of lawsuits, medical ads, and quirky anecdotes from various locales.
The piece describes spring and summer coiffures with Mikado and cupola styles, front arrangements, and decorative pins, noting Parisian influence and evolving bangs. It also shares a rural quip about cotton and prayer, via an Arkansas planter dialogue, illustrating social contrasts.
The piece touts Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy as effective at any stage, claims many cures, and warns of progression to debility, consumption, or insanity. It also notes a Hartford Post remark on modern household mottos and practical sentiments in changing times.
In Lincoln County West Virginia Mrs Margaret Donnan a widow became religiously inspired and murdered her three daughters aged 12 10 and 5 with a carving knife before killing herself. Neighbors found the room blood soaked resembling a slaughter house.
An advertising paste extols a salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers and all skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. It markets price of 25 cents per box and lists Henderson & Minear as sellers. Additional claims tout Hall's Hair Renewer and BOZODONT teeth product with promotional verses and household glue Sparpine's GLUE mending items.
An elderly doctor, long retired, claims to share a simple vegetable remedy gifted by an East India missionary to cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and all throat and lung diseases and nervous complaints. He will mail free full directions in German French or English upon request to W A Noyes Rochester NY. The Pittsburg Dispatch notes a 200 ton aerolite found in Washington county Penn. and the Greek minister Papamichalopulas is blamed on his parents for his name.
The piece asserts corrective action against so called polly wogs of anarchy, urging imprisonment for those fleeing oppression and noting contemporaries Herr Most, August Spies, and A. R. Parsons as targets, reflecting a tense law and order stance in the era.
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