Farmers Institute to Boost County Agriculture
The Athens County farmers institute series expands to four sessions in Albany Amosville Coolville and another town. Officials predict broad benefits from idea exchange and updated practice across professions. A New York electric potato farming example is cited as progress toward faster yields.
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Farmers' Institute
Athens County
Timo
Allons
Albany
Amosville
Coolville
Iabor
Electric potatoes spark a farming dream in Athens county
A letter imagines using electricity to grow oversized crops and charge potatoes to glow like lightning bugs. The author cites New York trials and envisions home control via a single button enabling dramatic yields from onions, tomatoes, cabbages, and pumpkins, praising modern convenience.
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New York
Athens County
Earth
Athens County Teachers Union Program Set for December 7
The Athens County Teachers Union and quarterly institute will meet in Athens on Saturday December 7 starting at 9 am. The event includes music by Prof James Pryor McVey an invocation talks on fiction form of literature and geography a banquet at 1 pm school etiquette and discipline discussions led by several speakers and an address by Dr Alston Ellis president of the D A. All educators are invited with C H Dammaree as president.
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Athens County Teachers’ Union and Aurterly Institute
Athens
James Pryor McVey
Roey
G. Walton King
H. RB. Wilson
Mary Rineheart
Albany
Alston Ellis
D. A
C. H. Dammaree
Thanksgiving Reflection On Gratitude And Harvest
A reflective piece notes October fading and November abundance. It praises divine blessing on land and sea and asks readers to give thanks for health strength and kin. The author E. W. Alycos Luhrig signs the verse, framed as a thanksgiving tribute.
Prairie dog hunts by Navajo use tricks for dinner
The Navajo tap prairie dog villages using mirror lures and rain floods. A rain hunt funnels water into burrows and drives the rodents to the surface where many are slain. The hunts yield pounds of meat for communal feasts.
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Prairie Dog
Eseh Sun Lome
New York Commercial Advertiser
Instructions for assembling a broom handle wrap
The text describes cutting twenty inches from a broom handle, padding with a substance, applying edebet powder, coating with bright pougee stir, and making frills at each end. It then instructs rolling the vell smoothly around a roller and pinning the ends with a narrow ribbon.
Holiday Rates via Hocking Valley Train Sale
The Hocking Valley will offer limited round trip fares for December 24 25 and 31 and January 1 1902 to points in Ohio Indiana Illinois and Western Pennsylvania. Tickets are one and a third fare for the round trip with return allowed until January 2 1902.
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Hocking Valley
Ohio
Indiana
Ilineis
Western
Pennsylvania
Hunting and Fishing Guide in the South
A promotional look at Southern game and fishing opportunities with state game laws, trusted guides, hotels, rates, and travel tips. Send two cents to G B Allen in the Southern Railway office for the publication details and booking information.
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G. B. Allen
Southern Railway
Louis Ao
Home Seekers Low Sale Nome-Seekers Zion Tickets
Tickets go on sale at all Ohio Central Lines offices on the first and third Tuesdays in December 1901 for round trips to West Southwest and South. Return within 21 days from sale. lines south of the Ohio east of the Mississippi may start return on Tuesdays and Fridays only. Stop-overs allowed on going trip within a 15 day limit. For full details contact Ohio Central agents or W A Peters Pass Agt Charleston W Va.
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Zion
Ohio Central
Ohio
Mississippi
Ohio Central Lines
W.A. Peters
Charleston
W. Va
Winter Excursion Rates Placed on Sale by Southern Railway
Effective October 15,901, excursion rates are placed on sale by the Southern Railway to all the principal winter resorts of the South and Southwest. Ask any agent Southern Railway for full information.
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Southern Railway
Headache Wafers Claim Rapid Relief at Local Pharmacy
An advertisement touts Clinic Headache Wafers as a guaranteed cure for headaches and nerves, claiming others fail and promising quick relief after a single trial. Available for 10 cents at C. B. Siederson.
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C. B. Siederson
Fortunate Farmer’s Cure Highlighted in True Story
A Maine farmer, Mr. F. E. Brainard of Readfield Depot, credits Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People with curing his grip after years of illness. He endured headaches, dizziness, and heart and liver issues before finding relief after multiple doses, praising the medicine's power to restore health and work capacity. The piece notes the pills' claimed efficacy for various ailments and urges readers to obtain them from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company.
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F. E. Brainard
Maine
Agesta
Fremont J. C. Little
Justice of the Peace
Brainard
Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Sehenectady
Dr Seth Hart's Croup Syrup Praised by Athens Parent
George McKee of Athens Ohio testifies to Dr Seth Hart's Croup Syrup saving his son's life after a nickel ingestion. He credits the syrup with easing fretful choking and asthma like symptoms, noting the bottle was swallowed and the child recovered fully. He adds the British army has discarded the sword, hoping for progress in brass buttons.
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J. B. Clayton
Seth Hart
Athens
Ohio
Hart
George McKee
What Shall We Have a' re Dessert
Question arises daily as families seek a quick treat. Try Jell-O, a delicious dessert prepared in two minutes. No baking needed, just add hot water and let cool. Flavors include Lemon, Orange, Raspberry, Strawberry. At your grocers for 10 cents.
Boston Drummer Recalls Narrow Escape From Veranda Gunman
The Boston drummer recounts a western veranda incident where a native onlooker leveled a gun at him while he calmly sat with a meerschaum pipe. A bullet grazed the pipe, the man fired again, and the shooter later gifted the drummer a fifty dollar pipe after praising his nerve. The tale ends with the drummer recounting lingering chills and a fainting spell at the memory.
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Fiat
Boston
Beare the Tha Kindial the Thas Bou of STATA
If all women were as sweet to their husbands as female dry goods clerks are to their male customers there would be fewer matrimonial failures.
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Stata
Opening of Winter Tourist Season by Southern Railway
The Southern Railway announces for winter 1901 1902 the most superb service ever offered across its lines linking the North South Florida Cuba Mexico the Pacific Coast and Central America. If a woman gets what she wants to wear and a man what he wants to eat there is no lesson why they should not live together happily.
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New York
Lycat
Nature
The
Southern Railway
Florida
Cuba
Mexico
Pacific Coast
Central America
Throbbing Headache Relief Ads and Health Claims
An OCR fragment lists various old advertisements and health claims. Items mention Dr. King's New Life Pills for headaches, Maple City Self Washing Soap reducing washing effort, Genesee Purefood Co products from Letuy NY, and Grain-O as a health beverage. Voices urge health benefits and consumer skepticism about drugs.
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Dr. King
W.h.mckey
Name Chase Trademark Warning Against Imitations
The article warns against imitators using the name Chase to market Dr. A W Chase products. It notes that only boxes bearing the initials A W Chase J D are genuine and urges buyers to verify signatures. It mentions Dr. Chase's Receipe Book and nerve pills as the authentic remedies sold by C B Henderson in Athens.
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A. W. Chase
Dr. Chase
Mra. W
A. W. Chase 3D
Chase
Birds of Prey
Sur
Alw
Beilzin
A.W. Chase
J. D
A. W. Sects
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Cline
Athens County Teacerers
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Adaline Taylor
UAL
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Luhrig
Hardliuy
Lower Jinine
Othrs
Culagus
Rafe
Maple City
Wastixeton
D.C
Genessee Purefood Co
Letuy
N.Y
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Philadelphia
Sam
Candy
stostEer
Eben
Oring
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York
seGaRae
Pxecutars
C. M. Heary
Athena County
Bulsavesh C. Cars
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Noway
Columbus Stocks Exchange Co
North High Street
Columbus
Columbus Stock Exchange
Ssmcate
Busin
Kcidney
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Modernu
Pers. Kennedy & Keagan
Smerlor St
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Chaz
L. Bart
Su Mott
Headerson
Dragstere
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