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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1899
Page
2
A jumbled OCR passage blends politics and childhood growth, contrasting campaign rhetoric with a child's first years. It critiques stump speeches, literature from parties, and shifting moral views while tracing a child’s descent from monarch at home to a cautious learner entering school and playground life.
The cutting of a row of 12 giant poplars on Forty-eighth street between Grand Boulevard and Calumet Avenue drew strong reactions. Neighbors argued over paving, with women lamenting the loss and men voicing harsher sentiments. A quiet old man warned the foreman to “save the last one to hang yourself on.”
A clipped Klondike era note laments unclear gold totals and English royalty taxes driving miners to dodge the law. It pivotally promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for bad colds and the grip, while claiming benefits for digestion kidneys and liver and malaria.
The guide stresses honest tight packing of export apples with sound fruit. Barrels must be clean and coppered, neatly stenciled with variety grade and shipping marks, and bear U S A letters for export. Ship 1000 apples per shipment and repack if stored long. prioritize hard, well colored varieties.
A Cumberland squire, W J Alexander of Lorton, England, backed a scheme to reward cottage occupiers for cleanliness in Cockermouth, but after six months and 15 winners the plan was abandoned. The scheme faced objections from participants and observers, with dissolution of the promoting society. Alexander notes some indirect benefits but doubts the effort will restart.
Report notes a Rennes court martial quirk where journalists, exhausted from overnight duties, nod off during dull testimony. When a lull hits, witnesses often speak to a sleeping hall, prompting startled awakenings and a rush to claim safety from imagined outrage.
A construction for a vegetable shovel is described to handle large quantities of root crops or potatoes. The design resembles a common scoop or snow shovel with screwable sides that can be built anew or adapted from a standard tool. The device reduces weight and enables many crops to be moved at once.
A fragmented page blends Nature poetry praising crystal glasslike visions with brief ad sections. The verse by UDgar Jones contemplates nature through light, seasons, and renewal, followed by short notes on clover hay storage, a cough remedy, a peacock feather hat, an Enterprise meat chopper ad, and a note about a rumor of Britain's fear of foreign moves. The mix includes products, recipes, and local notices in a period-voice style.
A dramatic health claim states cancer is incurable by surgery because it is a virulent blood infection. The notice asserts a cure has been found, but warns the disease remains in blood and can reappear after removal of a lesion.
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