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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1903
Page
13
Fragments recount autumn bounty and Thanksgiving mood with poems of turkey, frost, and Indian summer. A slot machine tale from Athens and a controversial piece on Mrs Ramban Burke highlight era moral views.
A fragmented tale recounts love triangles and divorce with Ramban Burke and a Cincinnati setting. It contrasts passion and impracticality, then shifts to a critique of theorists like Dowie Henry George and Bellamy, arguing theory must unite with practice.
A Lewisburg Leader reprint describes a woman in Arcanum devising a brutal method to cut a chicken's head. She rigs a log with spikes and uses a hatchet, forcing the head through a gap, then yanks it off with quick, repeated strikes.
The article surveys climate and sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis. It quotes Dr Arthur Furtham and Sir Herman Webe on outdoor life and air. Dr J A Knopf and Dr Norman Bridge on climate as an adjunct, not a cure. It explains sanatorium advantages, home treatment, and notes that drugs do not cure consumption, with the body's natural defenses as the key.
An ancient foe health guide extols scrofula and tuberculosis avoidance through fresh outdoor air nourishing foods rest and regulated exercise. It argues home and sanatorium style care under a physician yields better results than drugs, with six months to a year of treatment and strict hygiene to prevent relapse.
C B Henderson promotes Dr Howard s Specific for constipation and dyspepsia at half price, guaranteeing a cure. He states refunds available if unsatisfied and claims no returns have occurred. A Paris physician notes the hour of death ranges from 5 to 6 am to 9 to 11 am over several years.
An old age scornful note promotes Dr Kang's New Life Pills claiming they cure dyspepsia jaundice fever and constipation regardless of age. The ad emphasizes their effectiveness and lists W. G. Mosee's Drug Store as the seller.
Miss Louise Voigt of New York presented a Thursday night recital with assistance from the Choral Society of the university. The performance drew high praise, marking her as a nationally renowned singer and perhaps superior to many professional soloists seen in recent years.
Report lists pupils with no absences or tardies in October. Names include Howard Bobo Harveys Calentine Alonzo Calentine Vance Limberger Clarence Mitchell Orland Asley Walter Porter Edith Barrows Winnettas Brown Marie Calvert Ruth Geeper Marc Patton Addie Guthris Faye Johnson Mildred Mills Susan Seott.
A promotional note urges cheap remedies for coughs and lung troubles, praising Boschee's German Syrup as a universal cure. It claims to heal, reduce inflammation, aid expectoration, and soothe sleep, with bottles priced at 25 and 75 cents. The piece contrasts railway distances in several countries.
Nov. 3 report: local school teacher BE J Thompson, treated by two physicians for diabetes for over two years, credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with curing him after ten boxes. He claims diabetes is curable and praises the remedy. Also notes a separate fact about the Northern bluethroat's 1600 mile nocturnal migration from Central Africa to the German Sea in nine hours.
A collage of old advertisements notes Electric Bitters curing kidney trouble and debility, plus claims of croup remedies and Honey syrup comparisons. It also mentions a water-clad battleship concept with cork decks for buoyancy, and promotes California Pine Wafers as malaria protection, with drugstore sales and a memorial for boxer Peter Jackson in Toowoomba.
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