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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1895
Page
5
The essay argues that newspaper advertising is the most effective, cheapest way to gain publicity and customers. It claims the Messencer and Herald has the largest circulation in Athens county, invites inspection of the press room, and offers to prove circulation figures to business readers.
General Asa S. Bushnell of Springfield wins the Ohio Republican nomination on the sixth ballot at Zanesville. The platform backs 1892 principles, a protective tariff, honest money, and denunciation of the current Democratic administration. Other nominees announced include Jones for lieutenant governor and Guilbert for state auditor.
The Columbiad quarterly literary magazine announces its first issue on June 1 with editor Willis Boughton of Ohio University and publishers J. H. Atkinson Carrie A. Mathews and W. K. Greenbank. Contents include stories by Ada Wickham Jessie M. Tresham and Jeannette S. Barker, poems by multiple authors, and sketches like Climbing the Sierras. Subscription is 50 cents yearly or 15 cents per issue, Athens Ohio.
Washington letter discusses Cleveland's possible nominating strategy with Whitney, Senate rules questions, and Gorman's Maryland machine. It notes Debs and the American Railway Union case, plus a Memorial Day tribute praising veterans and national unity.
The Athens county Republican central committee met at the courthouse to choose eighteen delegates, with one-half votes each, to represent the county at the state convention. The list includes Gen. C. H. Grosvenor and others, plus executive committee members. They endorsed McKinley for president, Foraker for senator, Grosvenor for governor, and Haughee for chief mine inspector, with affirmations for clerk of the supreme court and other nominations.
Fruit Commissioners inspect Athens Township orchards and report peach trees infected with yellows and black knot. A law requires notified orchard owners to destroy infected trees within ten days or face a $100 fine. Commissioners oversee other township appointments in the county.
Public records show marriage licenses issued for Z Lindley Henry and Myrtle W Johnson B F Allen and Charlotte G Barne cut Silas H Hoisington and Mary A Copeland Charles Boyer and Lucy Hall.
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