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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1896
Page
7
The fragment lists dress goods silks and wraps with mentions of prices and purchases. It references a store and multiple people negotiating and signing for items, suggesting a sales or procurement note despite the garbled OCR.
Sloganless ad fragment lists American Dress Goods prices and yardage with 420 sample references. Mentions silk fabrics or silks, invites customers to view wares and choose from variety. Includes garbled words and unclear names but signals a fabric goods sale.
Report describes Liberty Statue in poor condition with loose bricks, fallen rivets, corroded steel, and failing crown lights. Observers note six skull holes and copper verdigris while lamps and torch lighting have largely faded, jeopardizing the monument's grandeur.
An altered excerpt shows overheard remarks about Mrs Drowner and Geraldine, mentioning social refusals and extravagant speculation. The text includes garbled dialogue and names like Triiband Yest Wat, Wile-You, and Lex City Cho, with unclear context or dates.
A city hall scene unfolds as Mayor and Miss Jones try to read a scrawled letter. The mayor prompts blank words and Miss Jones recites crude lines, revealing accusations of theft and a robber’s reply. The odd exchange highlights a tense notice about a public grievance and personal tensions.
A year end fishing guide describes a fast fish dressing method for small perch bass and crappies. It instructs scalding the skin off with hot water then peeling, skin on is optional. The piece adds cleaning rinses, rolling in corn meal, and frying in hot butter for crisp flesh.
The article notes Charles F E Warburton’s Philadelphia Evening Telegraph estate valued at about 2.6 million dollars, leaving all to his son and daughter. It profiles Dr. John Wesley Gadsden as a leading veterinary surgeon who has died in Philadelphia. It mentions Mrs Kats Robinson of Carthage receiving a jeweled spoon from the Daughters of the Revolution and discusses public figures urging simpler displays of wealth to honor memory through lasting monuments.
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