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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1894
Page
4
A miscellany notes political candidates for Congress and the judiciary in the 11th district, details prize awards at the World’s Fair, and quips about reform and taxation. It cites Charles H. Grosvenor and Daniel A. Russell for Congress and two judges, Henry W. Coultray and others, along with satirical remarks on newspapers and local history.
A New York Evening Post noted strange work near cities where crews of three to ten men aboard schooners and sloops fish the sea bottom for lost anchors. Off the Delaware breakwater and up the coast, fishermen haul up buried flukes and rusty bargain anchors to sell for reuse or iron. Prices: five cents per pound for new, one cent per pound depreciation for old. Each average catch runs from fifteen hundred to twenty-five hundred pounds, with rarer six thousand pound hauls.
A Springfield Republican take notes on a witty court exchange about St Clew and St Cloud, then reports a dog burial in Lee cemetery. The piece lists assorted curiosities: tariffs, a Brownsville boy ill from eating nineteen sausages, an old 1778 iron bridge, snail poisons, spontaneous combustion, and other miscellany including Hawaii greetings, biblical terms, and South Carolina phosphate mining totals.
A man insured his barn near Wauseon Ohio. A locomotive fire from a train while returning home damaged the barn just insured. The misfortune was noted amid scattered remarks on state mottos and a Brooks quote on teaching and motivation.
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