14 Oct 1869
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1869
Page
1
A housekeeper urges careful table setting to elevate meals with bright glass and clean linen. She recommends neat tablecloths, stylish but affordable dishes, polished cutlery, and preservation of cleanliness to make a wash day dinner feel inviting and economical, ending with a note that a well-set table pleases a hungry husband.
A historic pudding method uses one pint sour milk two tablespoons butter or lard one teaspoon soda and half cup chopped raisins or fruit with cornmeal to a thick batter. Boil two hours in a covered tin dish then serve with sugar cream lemon vanilla or syrup.
To soften hard water for washing fill a tub or barrel half with wood ashes and add water to make ley. A gallon of strong ley in hard water will soften it like rain water. Some use pear ash or potash but that costs more and can damage cloth texture.
A recipe for a simple pudding uses four tablespoonfuls of flour stirred into milk with egg yolks, baked quickly, and served with a sauce of choice. The article also mentions plantain seed as a cheap canary food, noting canaries’ fondness for it and its use as a remedy during loss of appetite.
Biane Mange. Four or five tablespoonfuls of corn starch, tea quart of milk, beat the starch thoroughly with two eggs, and add to the milk while boiling, with a little salt. Boil a few minutes, stirring briskly, flavor with rose, lemon, or vanilla, and pour into a mould. Sweeten and serve.
A poet warns that people will talk no matter how you dress or behave. If generous or upright or bold, critics will label you harshly while your funds and style provoke comments. The verse counsels staying steady and true, accepting inevitable abuse as life’s test.
The Executive Committee convened a Pioneer meeting at New Boughind Athens County on Sept 30. Gen John Brown opened the session with prayers as members debated constitutional amendments expanding female membership and changing meeting dates. New members joined, and Orations honored past settlers while Rev Cheadle lamented delayed county organization.
An Athens county gathering preserves pioneer memories and public improvements. Speeches by Owen Barrows and others recount rail road strides from Baltimore to Elliott's Mills and Morse telegraph beginnings. The session ends with a doxology as the Pioneer Association contemplates future records.
A rich merchant quotes a Bible maxim about prospering by acknowledging God in all ways. He proclaims this as the secret of his worldly success and urges youths to adopt the same habit to direct their paths.
The passage laments that wealth, health, knowledge, friendships, and reputation may be restored by effort and virtue, but warns that wasted time once gone cannot be recovered. It contemplates penitence and study as means to repair loss and regain what is lost to neglect.
A broker父's son resists work and faces a week to choose his path. He lowkey proposes borrowing three to four hundred thousand dollars to buy government bonds and live off callable coupons, provoking the father's rage and final silence on "business."
A clever fraud exposes a trick that converts nine five dollar notes into ten by removing increasing fractions from the right and reassembling them. One tenth is cut from each bill, then pasted to form nine five dollar notes, leaving a tenth note. The method relies on careful pasting to dodge detection while the perpetrators target five dollar bills for higher scrutiny.
A vivid northern Norway scene from a cliff above the sea describes Mr. Campbell and his party watching the sun stay above the horizon. At midnight the full orb shines above waves forming a northern bridge of light, prompting hats to come off and a shift to a new day with shifting colors and sounds.
The passage reflects on how tiny missteps and random events alter empires and battles. It argues that such happenings point to a divine hand guiding outcomes, warning that denying Providence makes God merely a spectator of the world.
The text argues that gray hairs come from many useful observations rather than years alone. Wisdom depends on repeated, varied experiences that sharpen judgment, not simply age, as long as observations are made well over time.
A garbled line appears to describe domestic jars and a cycle unique to a place or event. The fragment mentions abroad and a cycle, but lacks clear nouns or actions to define a full story or outcome.
Advertisement describes early American travel by stage and boat. John Butler’s waggon departs Monday from Strawberry Alley for Trenton Ferry, connections shift to Fitzrandolph line, then to New York with Robin Fitzrandolph’s boat. Returns Thursday with passengers and goods. March 8, 1759.
An odd collection of queries asks about the origins of a chicken egg and a snake’s fat body, the effects of rolling pins on husbands, waterfalls on women’s heads to ease brain congestion, and phrases like paying the devil his due. It also muses on money, “Poor Man’s plaster,” belting aches, free masons, undertakers, and meanings of bilious attacks.
The text presents the preacher Bider Sknown stating that while society claims there is no family, he argues there is still family but governance has shifted from the old to the young. He speaks in a quiet, earnest tone during a pulpit moment.
Readable remnants mention John Cassel a journey ter and Willian Gifford tied to the Quarterly Review. The text also recalls a Pictorial maker and a shoe apprentice linked to early journalism circles.
A Western newspaper notes the editor’s absence and remarks that loyal subscribers mention him in prayers while contrasting this with the belief that prayers of the wicked avail nothing, reflecting a pious editorial tone of the period.
A New Yorker reviews a Sunday Indian piece describing a hybrid food likened to oats and molai, noting it suits boarding sea life while criticizing perceived human reluctance to assist, and referencing clever apprentices from Espa.
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