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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1894
Page
4
A political column analyzes tariff fallout and party weakness in the Democratic Party. It reflects on GOP hope in McKinley and Reed, citing state election losses, the Atlanta Exposition, and historic figures while praising cross-state political camaraderie and chivalry between rivals.
Dr Pascan Davis of Keokuk Iowa argues cholera germs arise from decaying human remains not animal or vegetable matter and cites war epidemics. cremation of the dead as the sole absolute preventive. Also reports Havana duties under McKinley tariff, corn crop prospects, whiskey surplus, a Boston women’s business directory, and Populist party declines across Georgia Arkansas and the South.
The piece notes President Cleveland's missive to Sanford B. Dole as a rebuke of the monarchy supporters in Hawaii. It recalls Democratic chatter in Washington about a 1886 presidential bid and questions whether Cleveland would announce his candidacy directly or through third parties. Republicans have long suspected Cleveland aims to run again.
Epidemic scarlet fever closes schools in Racine and Meigs counties. The piece notes local civic concerns, including urging an Athens ordinance to ban street littering and a discussion of pricing and advertising in local papers. Police scandal and university enrollment are mentioned, along with counterfeit checks tied to New Pittsburg Coal and local saloons. Authorities investigate counterfeit store checks amid a mining town scam.
A long cited opinion extols advertising as essential to business success and urges merchants to leverage the press to reach the public. It notes that intelligent effort, planting seeds of promotion now, can yield broad profits, with mentions of advertising agents and the role of media in building fortunes.
A compact overview discusses Sierra Nevada elevations, human salt content, yearly salt needs, vast aerial space, storm origins across Nebraska and surrounding states, and meteorologist notes. It also mentions Paris Observatory photographers producing a five foot diameter moon image showing unprecedented detail of surface features.
A collage of witty lines and quips from Fliegende Blatter Galveston News Truth and others. The snippets include remarks on work temptation luck and love with playful exchanges among fictional and historical figures.
An eclectic, era voice notes money as a social draw and classed items as dry goods with wry aphorisms. It laments recurring habits and foreshadows future influence, citing a tea time hostess and a maxim from Inter Ocean on customs born of ignorance.
A brief collection notes England's wealth growing fortyfold over two centuries, leather trunks in Rome by Cesar's era, a tall forest plant in Japan reaching six feet in three weeks, counts of animals at London Zoo totaling 650 beasts 1391 birds and 860 reptiles, rising numbers of female bootblacks in Paris and other French cities, and the daily birth rate of about 3200 babies on United States soil.
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