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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1894
Page
9
An Ohio soldier falls at the Wilderness as a minister places a loved letter on his breast with the dying request to bury it with him. The scene captures tender wartime devotion during a soldier’s last rites amid a grieving group. A second item notes Southern planters transitioning from cotton seed disposal to sale, earning $6 to $8 per ton.
A mixed page of medical claims and oddities notes Dr. Bosanko's pile remedy promising cures, electric bitters for headaches, and Dr King’s Discovery for coughs. odd facts include Vienna horse populations, a corn king, a one cent verdict, and stamp duties in Britain.
A leather bound record of Daniel Webster's legal receipts from 1833 to 1836 shows yearly totals from 13 140 to 21 793 74 and notes the largest fee of 7 5 0 0 in February of the fourth year. Prominent figures like Winthrop and Holmes comment on Webster's rapid earnings and underestimated value.
Popular Science style notes space immense scale with Earth salt content and air heat sources. Meteorologists explain six heat sources and Paris observers capture a five foot diameter moon image with sectional photographs showing minute details visible from space.
The census reveals varied urbanization with 51.81 percent of people in the North Atlantic in cities over a threshold. Missouri reports 234,869 foreign born citizens among 2,679,184 residents. The US total families reach 12,691,052, rising from 0,045,014 in a prior census. New York tenements house six families and over thirty occupants per building, while only ten percent of St. Louis residents live in dwellings with more than twenty occupants. By 1870, fourteen cities exceeded 109,000 inhabitants. now there are twenty-eight.
Sir William Van Horne the Illinois born rail man rose from telegraph operator in 1856 to president of the Canadian Pacific in 1888. The article traces his early days in Will county Joliet and rise through Illinois Central, Michigan Central, Chicago and Alton, and Milwaukee and St Paul. It notes his art, geology, and wealth as a collector in Montreal, plus a humorous aside about his beefsteak preference and a long career of improving rail service and dividends. It ends with stray bulletins and moral quips from Ram's Horn.
A set of brief maxims on travel wit, character, simplicity and trust. From Feltham Shakespeare Hazlitt and others, noting insight into self negotiation, selfishness, friendship, and bearing pain.
The report notes a surge in halibut landings with many fish of unusual size being caught and sold at twenty five cents each. It highlights cheaper fish in Puget Sound cities and mentions extensive use of pocket liquor in Cincinnati, a coal origin fact, and a Passaic incident where a horse died by self harm.
The fragment offers a wry collection of maxims and witticisms about judgments money marriage and social norms. It hints at Madeline Orvis as a named figure and suggests satirical commentary on relationships and prudence in life choices.
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