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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Nov 08, 1900

Page

3

Local Briefs From Ath Over Weekend And Local Notices

Local items report K P Jennings visiting his mother in Hilliards and Mr and Mrs J D Brown in Cincinnati. Mrs C H Grosvenor returned from Columbus while Mrs Shepard from Columbus visited here. Mrs deSteigner returned from Cleveland. Athena reading club hosted by G Walton King and Miss Jennie Kurtz at Hotel Berry Friday night. Sylvanus Miller arrives from Washington, D C, to assist as an election observer and will be away briefly. Miss Vesta Harris seeks health benefits in Ratón New Mexico. James Brown provides a Silver City Enterprise copy to the paper. Brown plans wintering there. Welsbach company of San Francisco disputes any shortage in Ewing accounts. In a case, purchaser R C Marion directs a deed to the Manifa Columbus and Cleveland Railway Company with $25,000 due by Nov 14 and rest per court order. master commissioner to receive Receiver's certificates as first. Taxes for 1900 to be paid from purchase money. Marietta [text incomplete].

American Debenture Company Teledo and Ohio Central Extension Railroad Company R. C. Marin Manifa, Columbus and Cleveland Railroad Company Marietta Fader

Farmer's corn crop and fodder scare prompt voting tale

In Amesville an unnamed farmer struggles to hire help for stacking fodder after harvesting corn. He pays nightly, but helpers leave once paid. A busier neighbor assists with fodder, while a moral centers on hiring the diligent worker. The tale shifts into partisan voting talk favoring McKinley and Roosevelt over Bryan.

Amesville McKinley Roosevelt Bryan B. L

Six Frightful Failures and Quick Cures Advertised

A garbled ad mix cites six feared failures of Wor. H. Mullenoi ckland Ohio and claims Dr. King’s New Discovery cures lung ailments including tuberculosis and bronchitis. It touts a guarantee and trial bottles at W H McRee’s drug store. Also references Chinese edict and a dubious marriage ad and a Kidney remedy sold by EB Slug­gist in Athens Ohio.

H. Mullenoickland Sid Dr. King W- H. McRee's

Electric Bitters End Malaria Ailments Claim Strong Cure

In period tone the article highlights Electric Bitters as a universal remedy for malaria fevers chills and ague with testimonials from W A Null of Webb II and a note on a家庭 event about twins and political names. It then mentions Feleys Kidney Cure and a Missouri graft warning on Department of Agriculture seeds with a $300 private use penalty.

Stanley Livingstone W. A. Null Webb W. H. McKee Druggist Missouri Department of Agriculture

How to Make an Omelet Like a French Chef

A concise guide to preparing a perfect five egg omelet with butter in a bright iron pan. It details cracking eggs separately, stirring whites and yolks, seasoning, cooking over hot heat, and rolling the omelet while highlighting optional fillings such as ham veal mushrooms and vegetables.

Tribune

Trainmen urged to try Foley remedies and vote notes

Trainmen are urged to use Foley products for back ache cough and colds. Testimonies from C B Henderson of Lima Ohio praise Foley's Kidney Care and Foley's Honey and Tar for relief and prevention. A claim cites 6,000,000 copies sold of the book In His Steps.

G. H. Hansan Lima L. E Foley C. B. Hender C.B. Henderson Iris

Jell O New Dessert Pleases All The Family

A short catalog style note describes Jell O as a new dessert with four flavors lemon orange raspberry and strawberry available at grocers for 10 cents. It is pitched as a family pleasing product with a promotional tone from the era.

Stacks of Humorous Bits and Nostalgic Reminders

A collage of quips and mock dialogues from old papers, including lines about fairy tales at bedtime, a joke about moonlit storage warehouses, a note on the first White House birth, and a late 19th century health ad praising Hood's Sarsaparilla for catarrh relief and blood purification. The snippets evoke era humor, presidential trivia, and miracle cures.

Iron in Clay Gives Bricks Their Red Color

Iron content in many clays explains brick redness due to iron oxides. Science notes that various clays include iron compounds, imparting the characteristic hue seen in common bricks.

It Makes a Difference It Makes a Difference in Ram's Horn Quote

A Ram's Horn unsigned line reflects on life as a station or a terminus, suggesting that small choices define direction and meaning. The phrase frames a philosophical contrast between transient paths and final outcomes.

Free Boschee’s German Syrup Sample Offered

An advertisement states that any adult with a cold chest bronchitis throat or lung trouble can visit C B Henderson to receive a free sample bottle of Boschee's German Syrup. One bottle per person not given to children without parental order.

C. B. Henderson's Boschee

Kindness on the Road Went Unpaid Home

A Chicago Evening News critique laments a traveler’s lack of monetary support for family. The column labels such behavior as remitting kindness that never arrives, highlighting a tug between public praise and private neglect.

Chicago Evening News

Free Blood Balm offer promises cures for many diseases

An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as a permanent cure for blood and skin ailments including cancer scrofula eczema and rheumatism. It claims blood purification and energizing benefits and offers a free trial bottle by mail with personal medical advice.

Blood Balm Co Atlanta

Beight and Shining Duel Here Halted by Wit

In a bleak exchange Heime quipped that the field of honor is dirty when pressed into a sham duel. The caustic remark helped keep the popular bubble from collapsing entirely, as noted by Youth's Companion.

Heime

Deputy marshal Samuel Jackson Falls From Capitol Stairs

Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Jackson died after a fall from the first floor to the basement of the Capitol building in Helena Montana. Investigators described the incident as an accidental fall during a routine assignment.

United States Samuel Jackson Capitol Building Helena Mont

What Shall We Have for Desert

A fragment discusses quick Jell-O desserts, flavors lemon orange raspberry and strawberry, prepared in two minutes with hot water and cooling, advertised at 10 cents. The piece also notes typhoid fever death rates in England have fallen about 50 percent over a 25 year span.

England

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