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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1875
Page
3
The author chronicles a July trip from southern Ohio to Put-in-Bay, Cleveland, and Niagara Falls, noting pleasant lake travel, island features, and hospitality shortages. He observes Put-in-Bay houses and caves, Cleveland parks, and Niagara Falls crowds and hustlers, contrasting generous nature with tourist commerce before heading toward Cincinnati and home as rains arrive.
A science note explains that a lightning flash lasting at most a sixtieth of a second can be observed as motionless on a rapidly turning wheel in darkness. It cites Whetstone’s experiments and concludes the brief duration of a flash is definitive. A Georgia man dying remarked to his wife that after thirty two years he never found a button off his shirt.
Leave Mail Express Logan early morning with connections from Lancaster to Circleville and all points on the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley line. Direct routes from Columbus to Cincinnati and west, and to Buffalo Philadelphia New York and all points East. Signed W A Mills General Ticket Agent M M Green President.
Cleveland to Columbus to Cincinnati and beyond via the Bee Line and C and H V BR. Through tickets are sold at the depot to save crowds in Columbus. No 4 leaves Columbus at 6 pm with a through car to Delaware visiting Springfield by 7 20 pm. Passengers return to Columbus by 12 15 am and 1 15 am. Palace Day and Sleeping Cars on all trains. Details on No 6 service Sundays and connections with Erie and New York Central Railways. For more information contact Abe Flint Columbus Ohio.
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