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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1876
Page
2
Ads trumpet D Zenner & Co. dry goods and footwear at quoted prices from manufacturers. Harvey Roach & Bro. Grocery offers a wide fresh line at low prices. Wm Warner opens Union street meat market with daily offerings from 5 AM to 9 PM, promising quality and fair prices.
A large lot of ladies hats in new styles with elegant trimming offered cheap. Opened at the One Price Store opposite the Court House for ladies to inspect the trimmed hats.
Albert Scott of Athens endorses the Hocking Valley Cook Stove No 8 as superior for family use. Jacob Grones sole Athens agent on South Court Street offers this high quality stove, praised by Cripps Kern and Lansley for its excellence in cooking.
Amber colored ladies cloaks, new fashions for sale at CaRTeUp. A full line of women's and children's heavy shoes recently raised at Walker's. D Zenner & Co. promote boots and shoes with extraordinary inducements. Walker's offers boots made from top stock with guaranteed quality. WM Shaffer of Marshfield endorses the Hocking Valley stove No. 8 as unsurpassed for family use after hands-on experience and purchase from Jacob Grones of Athens.
The undersigned Stephen Hooper reports using the Hocking Valley Cook stove purchased from Mr. Jacob Grones of Athens. He finds it unexcelled in every quality desirable in a cook stove.
A fragmented note suggests Harve will maintain domestic offers to benefit the town. It mentions an advantage tied to a count of 18 or a box, but details are unclear due to the garbled text.
We have opened this week a new and elegant line of Ladies and Misses Trimmed Hats in Felt Straw and Velvets offered at popular prices. M. SELIG & Co.
It states that W. B. Voorhes & Son's is the leading local headquarters for pure polen dars of home manufacture offering quality and price advantages. It also advertises Billy Warner's meat stand on Union Street near Blackstone's corner as a sale point for marketable farm produce at the highest market price.
The great rush in the Over coat department cleared many piles but there is still enough left to attract much of Athens county. The Boss Clothiers M. Selig & Co. invite buyers to come on.
Wanted immediately to trade horses buggies wagons or town lots for lumber. yan and see us F. Cornell & on.
A claim that Green's August Flower cures Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint with a perfect success rate is presented. The advertisement cites 30 000 dozen bottles sold last year and numerous letters from druggists praising cures. Three doses are said to relieve any case with sample bottles at 10 cents and regular size at 75 cents.
Three thousand salt barrels needed urgently for Herrold's Furnace. Best market price paid in cash. T. J. Herrold seeks prompt delivery and price quotes.
In 1876 a petition seeks vacation of a county road in Athens township Ohio. The line describes the route from Woodrough Connett’s house east to the state road. The notice is dated November 1676 and signed by WIT. HOWARD.
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