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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1901
Page
2
A long meditation argues there is no reasonable excuse for self harm. It cites financial ruin, love heartbreak, and social shame as weak rationales, insisting most suicides arise from imagined misery and urging faith in future chance and reason to avert despair.
A Milwaukee woman testifies to dramatic relief from long standing female health troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She claims ongoing health improvement for a year and urges others to consult Pinkham's in Lynn Massachusetts for their illnesses.
The annual report of the Athens County Sunday School Association is presented by Secretary A P Saunders of Glaveville. It highlights 96 Sunday schools, 422 officers, 519 teachers, 4 979 scholars, and 283 conversions, with growth from 68 schools two years prior. The county is named a banner county and plans expansion of association work with a call to diligence and faith.
A paragraph from Slarper's Bazar discusses embroidered handkerchiefs intended as a Christmas gift skeleton and notes the misattribution of ownership. The piece moves to Miss Alfen Ef Day of Batavia New York, the only Roman graduate in the University of Buffalo law department, disqualified from a prize. It lists twenty French titled women in high society, including Princess de Polignac and Duchess de Rochefoucauld, among others.
Grerge Heonedy, Civil War veteran, collapses and dies on a public road near his home in Terre Haute, Indiana, with death attributed to heart disease. The report notes community concerns and mentions local references to Goshen, Illinois and Genesee Pure Food Co in a separate context.
A distorted reminiscence piece questions which disease causes greatest misery, referencing headaches and medical cures, with heavy political digressions and dubious quotes from a 19th century Ohio publication. The fragmentary text blends health, politics, and satire without clear facts.
The Burlington offers a Wednesday night California excursion from St Louis and Chicago with personally conducted jourial sleeper cars. The trip travels via scenic Colorado and Salt Lake City with special conductors and very cheap fares from September 7 to 27, final return November 16.
Advertising feature urging homeseekers to plan autumn trips via Burlington routes to Nebraska Kansas Colorado Utah Montana California Washington Oregon and Dakotas. Promotes Burlington as major railroad with 8180 miles total of which 5000 are main lines and lists agents in Cincinnati St Louis and other cities. SHAW WAKELEY PL A and Howard Elliott signers.
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