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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1903
Page
6
A jumble of satirical quips and 독 humorous vignettes on rural life, manners, and public morals. The piece railing against pretentious aristocracy, hunting jokes, and marriage foibles. includes a mock notice on a divorce suit and a critique of public virtue.
A quotation emphasizes that steady, plainspoken leadership rooted in common sense can keep a nation from decay. Citing E G Woolworth, the message argues for steady civic assimilation of sound policy and pragmatic oratory over flashy rhetoric.
A jumble of advertising notices and references to Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and coughs, Dr Baing’s New Discovery, McKee’s Drug state, and California Prune Waters. Mentions Dorchester Massachusetts doctors and ship subsidy hope in Congress. Publicity mixes medical claims with political notes and product prices.
A chaotic mix of unusual ads describes a New York physician seeking five thousand dollars for a perfect right ear and a Westerner with a fortune in gold mints. The notice mentions a staged engagement, a Runaway Bicycle, and a mutilated leg of J. B. Orner with Bucklen’s Amica Salve praised for skin ailments. Other items tout California Prune Wafers for bowel issues, police raids in Chicago, and job ads for The American Pad & Textile Co. and Alma Cement Company workers in Ohio.
The document outlines whimsical and contradictory local laws. It prohibits hunting piano peddlers stock food peddlers or whest fan distributors from January to December and bans harming book agents from sunrise to sunset. Other clauses threaten matrimony entrapment by May to April and forbid molesting widows in pursuit of game. The county court may grant bounties for scalps. Hoss traders and crap shooters are spared on Sundays.
Henderson offers Dr. Howard's Specific at half price claiming it cures constipation and dyspepsia. The ad compares the discount to finding money and guarantees a refund if the product does not help. It targets headache dizziness sour stomach and liver trouble with a money back promise.
Local note quotes testimonial from B F Bass of Fremont North Carolina praising Electric Bitters as curing kidney trouble and rheumatism among others. The ad asserts autos aid in war signals and mentions General Greely endorsing automotive use for telegraph and balloon transport.
Hill resident Mrs Geo T Benson recalls a Saturday burn to her child. After applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm the child slept within thirty minutes and recovered in two weeks. The ad notes the balm as a healing antiseptic for burns and other injuries and lists McKee's Drug Store in Nevada as supplier.
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