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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1899
Page
4
Analyzed excerpts reflect 1898 1900 political tones with Bryan and McLean mentions. Mentions of gold production and Dingley customs policy frame fiscal debates. Local Athens county primary is projected tame with incumbents seeking renomination amid party unity talk.
President McKinley receives calls from Senators Kyle Grosvenor McCumber Barham and others praising expansion and predicting quick end to the Philippine insurrection. Mrs Joy campaigns to expel Roberts Utah and Wise plans to contest his Virginia seat as Wise cites fraud. Foraker foresees GOP strength, urging reform of monetary policy and canal projects to sustain prosperity through 1900.
Rev Walton King told a Sunday audience that young women should act as true ladies, guiding their conduct by God. He urged education, home care, and preparation for life's professions, stating women can influence society and reform lives if they live rightly and guard their conduct.
The passage notes two Democratic representatives from Louisiana and Alabama who opposed expansion were killed and McKinley’s re-election seemed assured by state elections. It highlights their skill at gauging national sentiment even when divergent from their party.
The Cradle Roll registers babies under two for early involvement, boosting maternal interest and teaching membership from birth. Some churches maintain a cradle in the Primary Department with birthday remembrances and prayers. For circulars, contact Joseph Clark, secretary of the Ohio School Association, at 79 The Buggery, Columbus, Ohio.
Grain-O offers a coffee substitute that tones the stomach aids digestion and strengthens the nerves. It is presented as nourishment with no harmful effects, priced at 15 and 6c per package.
A Chicago bridge tender laments fewer lumber schooners on the river as steamer traffic rises. He notes ships once bringing lumber, shingles, and posts from Michigan forests no longer frequent the river, due to timber depletion and logs moved to Wisconsin and the Mississippi country. South Chicago gains trade as river channels shorten and tug bills fall.
Edward Bok argues in Ladies' Home Journal that clerks behind counters are ordinary mortals who endure rudeness from thoughtless shoppers. He notes many clerks lose jobs due to ill-founded complaints by influential customers and urges recognition of their humanity and better behavior from shoppers.
A discussion of the friction between male illustrators and female authors in journalism and fiction. A New York Times remark notes a male illustrator’s frustration with demands for exact gown folds, neck bows, and hair styling as a woman writer’s stories press for precise visual detail.
Sister recounts Buffalo Bill’s visit to a small North Platte church he helped build. His wife and sister attended. An overly high organ key causes multiple failed attempts at the opening hymn Oh for ten thousand tongues to sing. Will exclaims start it at five thousand and mebbe.
The Japanese publish three times as many books as Italians. In 25,000 volumes printed last year in Japan, 5,000 were law books and 1,300 treated of religion, indicating romance is not yet popular there.
Lieut. Col. Andrew C. P. Haggard recalls a Newfoundland spectacle where a white headed eagle, nicknamed a grip, seized a large barnacled lobster from a tidal pool. The lobster countered by grabbing the eagle with its claw, tearing feathers as both struggled, ending with the battered eagle retreating to a cliff and the lobster lurking at the pool bottom.
Acs Taveatress, who developed a watch bottom patent bag, was offered $20,000 for her patent while still in Washington.
Sheriff announces a sale by alias order in Athens County Court of Common Pleas. H Cheyney and others extrs Samuel Pickering and others are to be sold at public auction at the front door of the courthouse in Athens. Date not specified.
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