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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1883
Page
8
October debt reduction totals 10 395 000 while Ohio politics see a senatorail push for Henry B Payne and contests for Democratic renomination. The Virgina race riots are cited as tactics to suppress black voters and preparations for Governor elect Hoadly begin as officials dodge office seekers. The Ohio State Journal and national trials, including a libel suit, feature in a broad midweek political panorama.
The State presses mourn the death of General F P Pond famed for the Pond Law. A Civil War colonel wounded in action, he served in the Ohio regiment and later held offices in the General Assembly and as Attorney General. Also noted is the return of Mary Churchill, a St Louis girl missing for months, who was found at an Indianapolis insane asylum hospital and accompanied home by her father.
The stock in trade of the late Athens firm Laird Josten Co Carriage and Wagon manufacturers is offered at administrator sale regardless of price. The collection includes carriages buggies farm and spring wagons agricultural implements and harness. Call at once for first choice. W H Brown Administrator. Also a frame house on Congress Street with barn well cistern garden and fruit. Possession April 1 1884 terms from Dr E G Carpenter. A rare chance for bargains in carriage wagon and agricultural implement trade via the closing out sale.
No more satisfying investment can be made than in one of the overcoats that are being offered at such remarkable low prices at D. Zenner & Co's. and in any kind and style of material desired. An active and responsible man to represent us in Athens county. Address at once, The Monumental Bronze Company, Bridgeport, Conn.
All persons indebted to the late firm of Van Vorhes & Bartlett are urged to call at D. Bartlett’s hardware store to settle accounts or have claims collected by law. Those indebted can save costs by calling at once. Pigs for Sale. A few full blood Foepe-Chlas Pigs for sale cheap. PM IRICK, Hibbardeville, ONout 1, 188tewee
Retired doctor claims to possess a vegetable vomiting remedy said to cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and all throat and lung ailments and nervous debility. He will mail the recipe free in German French or English with full directions to requestors in Rochester N Y by sending the paper with stamped return. W A Noyes Power’s Block Rochester N Y requests letters today.
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