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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1881
Page
8
A fragment from a St Nicholas piece describes a mother figure fearing her baby son’s mischief and clumsy antics. She worries about wandering to or near stairs and the boy’s knack for causing trouble while seeking attention. The tone is cautionary and moralistic.
Uncle Harry recalls a summer trip to Little Tupper Lake in the Adirondacks to camp with a guide Hank Sweeny. After Hank leaves, the narrator fears panthers and fires at shadows, only to discover a blue army coat mistaken for eyes in the trees, prompting laughter and a noteworthy shot. The tale ends with Charlie asking about the skin and bedtime.
A 150 year old tale tells of a brave mail carrying dog in Brunswick and Topsham Maine. He delivered letters from Fort George to The Reach along the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers using his mouth as a pouch. The dog saved mail through Indian threats but was killed protecting his duties and his name remains unknown.
The Pope has given his approval to a series of schoolbooks prepared for Catholic schools in the United States. The move signals official ecclesiastical backing for the educational materials used in American Catholic classrooms.
A San Francisco Chronicle account recalls Dutch Jake, a Nevada stage driver, who refused guards for bullion runs fearing cowardly shotgun messengers. On a Wellington trip, Jake used stubborn mules as improvised guards and a cocked shotgun to scatter pursuing robbers, ending with the robbers fleeing and the mules damaged.
Senator Hearst addresses Christian Education at the South TM meeting of the Americas Missionary Association. Tennessee University plans to exclude negroes and may send students to Fisk University at state expense. Open air Chicago church meetings draw large, orderly crowds under church auspices. Jesuits expand in England with a Dover hotel bought for conversion to a Jesuit college. Jewish groups debate Sunday sabbath vs seventh day observance. N W Halcomb of William Jewell College to Tung Chow China as missionary. American missionaries run 400 schools with 15,000 pupils in Turkey. girls’ high schools and colleges expand in major cities. London rector living seaside and unceasingly quarreling over parish music. sermons halted. Presbyterian Board of Home Missions reports 1,217 missionaries in 39 states and territories with 65,666 members, 1,147 churches, and $115,865 debt paid. receipts $345,911. Barnard envisions a broader education at Columbia College emphasizing open-air study, natural sciences, and direct contact with the world.
A New York Tribune correspondent describes living in Italy on about $1.40 a day with two servants in a seven room house near Leghorn. Rent for one hundred days was $20.19, showing still cheaper country living despite railways increasing shared costs.
In parts of Georgia water melons fetch an average price of a half cent per pound, with buyers reporting steady demand and light supplies in local markets.
A reading of pungent paragraphs and humor from various periodicals. It cites Vanity Fair and other outlets, lampooning lawyers, wealth, and social manners. The piece comments on weather prophets, storytelling tropes, and colonial era stereotypes with satirical tone.
A buyer from Ma Feb purchases five bottles of Hi Bitters praising the product for a daughter’s long illness and rapid health return. The ad notes wide sales and mentions cures for tumors erysipelas mercurial diseases and general debility by Dr Lindsey's Blood Searcher.
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