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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1895
Page
5
The Messenger and Herald proclaims advertising rates and terms for Athens circulation. Rates cover display ads by column width and duration with special position options and reserves the right to decline certain placements. Reading notices legal notices and classified items priced per line with discounts for long runs.
A string of short notes lists residents visiting towns around Athens Ohio and in nearby areas. Mrs. Adair is ill, several people traveled to Logan, Chicago, Glouster, Magnetic Springs, Columbus, Lancaster, Greenfield, Cincinnati, and other cities for business, visits, races, or study. Notables include Judge Russell, Mayor Buckley, and H. R. Higley heading to Penn to study mathematics, with numerous Athenians hosting guests or traveling home.
Athens M E church finishes a 2500 dollar modernization including frescoing by Bryant Bros Columbus new pews and glass windows, two Kernan furnaces and a raised oak pulpit and choir area. Rev D Y Murdoch ends his second year as pastor and is likely to be renewed as congregations applaud the metropolitan interior upgrade.
Mr H F Ritz of Oxford Ohio will preach at the Christian church next Sunday morning and evening. The Wednesday evening prayer meeting has been rescheduled to seven o clock.
A collage of patent medicine claims, druggist endorsements, and a rail excursion tease. Hall's Catarrh Cure promotes a $100 reward for incurable cases while Chamberlain's remedies are praised by readers in Rushford and Dexter. Local merchants push De Witt's Cure, Shaw's Malt Whiskey, and a $1.50 Cincinnati excursion from Lancaster.
Mr R J Hubler of South Salem Linn county Mo visited this office this week and ordered the Missen GER AND Herax to be sent to his address. He is described as an Athens county boy.
The ad column extols sunshine and exercise for health and promotes Syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative. DeWitt’s remedies are praised for headaches, biliousness, and cholera, with mentions of DeWitt’s Colic and Cholera Cure. Cline’s Pharmacy advertises Shaw’s Pure Malt Whiskey. A dentist from Zanesville visits Athens. a Democratic mass meeting offers cheap round trips.
A special train to Cincinnati via the C M V runs for an excursion from Lancaster. The train leaves Lancaster at 4.45 a.m. likely offering an early travel option to the event or outing referenced.
Cholera Morbus is dangerous and often fatal. Use DeWitts Colic Cholera Cure at first symptoms. Cline's Phar Old Papers for sale at 5 cents per dozen at the Messenger and Heraxp office.
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