Various Household Remedies and Odd Tidbits
A mixed column of stray notes on cleaning and safety tips, comic exchanges, travel quips, medical ads, and miscellaneous anecdotes. Topics span alum to purify water, chloride of lime as rodent repellent, flour to smother kerosene flames, concerns about canned goods, a Langtry tour quip, a Marquette mining misadventure, physician banter in New York, and brief notices from Buffalo and Terre Haute. Includes an Invalids’ Institute pitch, clerk humor, poultry illness cure, a cough remedy, a Bethany wedding gag, dyspepsia tablets, and a mock tobacco blindness joke, ending with a rosewood dog casket note.
Meigs county verdict in Brannon case yields one dollar
A Meigs county court verdict awards one dollar to Robert E. Brannon against Central Union Telephone Co. Brannon fractured his jaw years earlier. a delayed doctor visit after a telegram miscommunication led to disputed medical care and a heated trial. The record also notes a mix of humor and miscellaneous anecdotes throughout the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Brannon
Central Union Telephone Company
Meigs County
Brannon
W. P. Johnson
Union County
Magnetic Springs
Johnson
August Weather Report and Brown House Endorsement
The August report from the U S Weather Bureau notes the month’s high and low temperatures and lists numerous general and local rain days with regional patterns. The signer endorses the Brown House in Athens Ohio praising care, cleanliness, morality, attentive staff, and comfortable rooms under proprietor W W Watkins, with several named endorsers from Ohio towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohie Meterological Bureau
Brown House
Athens
Oho
W. W. Watkins
James H. Rogers
Webster, O
E. W. Howe
Albany
Daniel Horlocker
Columbus
M. D. Waugh
Gallipolis
Daniel Tracy
Porter
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Bank OF Athens
Boughton
John Brown
Amuel
Knowles
Lawter
Welch
Oonto
Harles Townsend
Ohio
Elch & Welch
John Welch
J.M. Welch
John Ring
Gx. W. Towsley
Atkinson
Warren House
J.S. Basom, D. D. S
J. E. Edmundson
Phenix Block
Athens, Ohio
A. Dille
Orrice—Perkins
Geo. P. Rowell & Co
Newspaper Advertising Bureau
Spruce St
New York
U.S
Washington
ALGER
U. S
Snow & Co
Washington, D.C
Athens Gas Works
Athens Gas CO
Rees
Marquette
Mich
Cicero
Invalids
Buffalo
N. Y
America
E. R. Wilson
Grand Rapids
H. T. Sheldon
Lansing
Bethany
Acker
C. B. Henderson
Scientific American
Puck
Ely
DeWiggs
Montreal
LeWiggs
Enire
Hartford Insurance Company
Asesurance’ Company
Henderson & Minear
Zebedee Smith
Ebenezer Jones
Western Lands
Kansas
Texas
Minnesota
Iowa
BB. É& Co
Frederiksen & Co
Pioneer Block
Power Press
Job Printing Department
CHIO
C. E. M. Jennings
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