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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1894
Page
3
A tearful man confronts life as a tangled skein and a dreary path. He trembles in darkness yet feels a divine hand lift him. The voice bids him aspire to know the light, promising Heaven after sins of earth decay, and growth through life’s ascent.
A British officer recalls a near-fatal cobra bite in Burmah. The account recounts tense moments as the venom paralyzed him, brave Brown the surgeon, failed antidotes, and a dramatic misidentification of a bed intruder a rat. The tale ends with relief as poison subsides and life resumes.
The article describes Jean Hess's Le Viguro account of Yoruba life noting a beauty ideal and love practices. It includes a prayer to Imoya at streamside rites, the practice of tattooing, and marriage exchanges among Yoruba groups, with chants and ceremonies around the baobab tree and the protective roles of genii.
A man describes four years of heart palpitations, shortness of breath, swelling, and fainting. After unsuccessful treatment by Savannah physicians and various springs, he finds he is finally helped by a treatment or remedy referenced but not completed in the provided text.
E B Sutton of Ways Station Georgia reports improved health after using Dr Miles Heart Cure and nerve and liver pills. He gained fifty pounds since recovery and urges others to consider the remedy. The medicine is guaranteed to benefit from the first bottle or money refunded, with pricing options 1 or 6 bottles for 8 prepaid by Dr Miles Medical Co. Elkhart Indiana.
Agents of the Ohio Central Lines announce round trip fares for Home Seekers and Land Seekers excursions to Virginia Alabama Florida and other states with specific sale dates and return limits. November 6 December 4 for Home Seekers to southern states. November 18 19 20 for Mississippi Valley Medical Association meeting in Hot Springs Arkansas. December 10 11 for Ohio State Grange in Dayton with return by December 15. Stopovers allowed at select Virginia points for Norfolk Old Point Comfort and Richmond with 30 day return limit. Tourists urged to consult Ohio Central Lines agents for details.
The Buckeye Route sells round trip excursion tickets to Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee and Virginia on October 2 November 5 and December 4 1894 at the lowest first class fare. Tickets are valid twenty days for return passage with stopovers south of the Ohio River. Contact agents C H V T Ry or W H Fisher Columbus Ohio for details.
The Buckeye Route offers one fare round trips to Alabama Florida Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Virginia and Tennessee with departures on September 4 October 2 November 6 and December 4. Contact C. H. V. T. Ry. agents or W. H. Fisher Columbus Ohio for pamphlets and rates.
On September 4 October 2 November 6 and December 4 the C. H. V. & I. Ry. offers a round trip fare limited to 20 days for return to all points in Alabama Georgia North Carolina South Carolina and Tennessee with some points in Florida Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi and Virginia. Stop over allowed on the southbound trip beyond Cincinnati.
The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway offers a round trip fare from all points to Hot Springs Arkansas for the Mississippi Valley Medical Association meeting from November 18 to 20 with return valid until November 30. For details contact B and O S W Ry agents. J M Cuessprovan, G P A, St Louis MO.
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