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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1881
Page
9
A fragmented reminiscence praising a boy named Willie Mutto rs for his quiet bravery. The passage extols patience calmness and doing right while noting a mother’s bias toward his virtuous future. It recalls a schoolroom memory from years past and a guiding moral message.
A twelve year old girl Betty Grey sells watercress to support her invalid mother and younger sister. She plants a garden to grow flowers for buttonhole bouquets and to aid her family, teaching faith, hope, and charity as villagers buy her blooms.
A speaker urges youths and elders to seek usefulness in every role. No one is insignificant and all have a task, whether guiding others, reading to the aged, or brightening paths with their light. The message emphasizes humble service as a duty and privilege.
A school tale stresses honesty from Charlie who admits breaking a window and Lewis who faces spelling and truth aloud. The narrative urges not to color or evade statements, praising candor, self-control, and the lesson of doing right regardless of consequences.
A Dayton farmer, driving stock home, fought seven wolves three quarter grown and pups with a gun. He killed two and wounded others, eventually killing all seven wolves after an hour. He saved carcasses for a bounty of 11 dollars per wolf in Waupaca County, the scene near a farm and a tree.
Advertisement urges use of Lion Malaria and Liver Pad and Body and Foot Plasters to treat malaria and fevers. Claims quinine harms the nervous system and promotes the product as a safer, complete treatment for one dollar, sold by druggists.
The Cleveland Columbus Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway announces daily and Sunday train times between Columbus Delaware Crestline Cleveland Buffalo and New York with through Palace Cars to Washington Baltimore Philadelphia and New York. Notable routes include connections to Rochester Syracuse Utica Albany Boston and Philadelphia. special services run between Athens Chillicothe Parkersburg and between Chillicothe and Parkersburg. no trains on Hillsboro or Portsmouth branches on Sunday.
The Board of Examiners will meet in Athens for those who desire to teach in Athens County on the second Saturday of each month.
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