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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1886
Page
2
Howells in Century Magazine sketches the peril of city arrival for country lads. He warns lonely young men to slow their social pace, avoid quick alliances with city women, and beware regrets that harm future prospects.
A testimonial from M. Husbands of 210 Fulton St New York recounts seven years of facial neck lumps vanished after using Cuticura external remedies and Resolvent internal. He grew from 115 to 161 pounds and credits skin and blood cures for lifelong health, urging wider distribution and sales of Cuticura products.
Eminent divine Rev Jackson argues over prohibition tactics and local option. He contrasts historical law shifts and moral arguments with modern temperance tactics, citing Moses, polygamy, slavery, and murder as parallels while urging practical, statewide enforcement and local option to extend prohibition in Ohio.
A farmer Nathan Avington of Wa bash county Indiana, upset by a dangerous use of dynamite, throws excess dynamite into a burning brush heap, it explodes injuring him severely. Also notes praise for Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets as a mild, pleasant cathartic sold by druggists. A correspondent reports a cow’s butter yield drops when moved to a strange place and mixed with unfamiliar cattle and a cross man.
A retired physician offers a vegetable remedy claimed to cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous disorders. He will mail the recipe in German French or English free upon request from W A Noyes 40 Power’s Block Rochester NY. The notice also notes cloves as a potent destroying agent compared with tobacco camphor or cedar shavings.
A historical note compares acre yields, estimating an acre of clover could produce about 675 pounds of pork, while corn would yield far less. It also notes cherry trees as suitable shade along roadsides due to their hardiness against trampling and vehicle passage.
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