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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Nov 15, 1877

Page

3

Courtship satire and Columbus bones by the consul

The article lampoons courtship with a social critique of lovers draining resources and proposes a two to three week courtship close season. It reports San Domingo’s discovery of Christopher Columbus bones in Havana and the sealed remains in Regina Angelorum church. It also discusses replacing the Electoral College with direct district voting and ends with a humor tale about a worker tricking his boss over cloth holes.

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Legal notice notice to Elsha W Tinker in Ohio case

Elsha W Tinker formerly of Nelsonville Ohio now in Texas is notified of a petition filed April 6 1877 by Henry and Ann Broadwell in Athens County Common Pleas Ohio against William Dunnick Milton Kerney Elisha W Tinker John F Welch Wesley C Hickman Willis G Hickman Charles A Uable Ashford Poston and A P D Smith claiming a coal and mineral lease on 105 acres in Section 15 Town 7 Range 12 including rights to mine coal and build upon the land and alleging fraud in procuring signatures. The request is to set aside the instrument and remove the cloud on title with a response due by the third Saturday after November 15 1877. DFE Striguer Jewtt & Slattery plaintiffs attys Oct 1 to Nov 1 1877. Also notice of sale in Athens County Common Pleas. The site describes sale of Lot 4 and adjacent lands totaling 90 + 66 acres appraised at 4320 dollars. Sale to be held November 24 1877 at 1 PM at the courthouse. Sheriff Parker Carpenter. Tow nsend & Jones Pitts’s Atty’s. Oct 25 1877.

Elsha W. Tinker Nelsonville Ohio Texas Willf Henry Broadwell Ann Eliza Broadwell Court of Common Pleas Wesley C. Hickman Willis G. Hickman Charles A. Uable Ashford Poston A. PD. Smith Athens Federal Creek Said J. P. Brown H. T. McCune Dunnick, Kerney Sosa Tinker Elisha W. Tinker DFE Striguer Jewtt & Slattery, Plaintiffs Atty's Ndl-We Athens County Stephen Hooper A. C. Murphy John F. Smith Jessie McHenry Parker Carpenter W.A. Roor Sherif Townsend Navy Court,of Common Pleas York Watkins Polly Watkins York Township C. A. Cable L. D. Poston Parker Carpenter Sherif W. A. Root Golden & Brown Olivia Wilson I. W. Baldwin Pitt

New Advertisements and Notices of the Press

The veteran Magazine, formerly the New Monthly Magazine, remains popular and has grown with the times. Harper's Magazine is praised for travel, discovery, and fiction, continuing the tradition readers admired a generation ago with varied contents and fresh editorial insight.

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Harper's Magazine subscription offers and prices

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Warper's Weekly praised as national illustrated paper

Readers are urged to obtain Warper's Weekly as the ablest illustrated periodical. It is described as powerful scholarly and convincing with fresh contemporary illustrations. The Louisville Courier Journal and other papers endorse its high tone and wide regard across the country.

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Harper's Weekly Subscriptions and Back Numbers Details

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Harper's Bazar as Fashion Authority in American Homes

The Bazar is praised as the fashionable world’s authority on manners, etiquette, costume, and social rules. It appeals to households with fashionable content, patterns for children, and tasteful designs for slippers and robes, earning wide readers among American ladies.

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