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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1894
Page
8
This summary traces how common phrases emerged from drink and social customs. Mind your P s and Q s links to pint and quart, skedaddle derives from Irish dispersed, Pasquinades name a Roman tailor Pasquino, pledging a toast from Saxons, Boo from Boh, bumper once a Pope toast, and a Hungarian three centuries ago earned a feather for each Turk slain.
The piece argues protected industry boosted wealth and living standards. It cites per capita imports and exports, sugar and coffee consumption, and duty-free shares under McKinley era tariffs, contrasting with Democratic free trade. It claims wealth and comforts rose with protection.
Dr Kings New Discovery has been tested for a quarter century and millions report relief from throat chest and lung diseases. Each bottle is guaranteed to help or money back. Trial bottles free at W H McKee drugstore. Large sizes 50c and 1. A humor note about a sparmaker and language echoes Leisure Hours.
The article argues demand for western farms will rise and prices will recover after a recent state of panic. It warns eastern holders to resist sharpers, noting improved demand in some areas, expected price gains within five years, and that government land is largely dispersed while new agricultural regions open globally.
San Francisco reveals Hansen manuscripts by Olaf Linberg with notes by Christian Andersen. Predictions include 1664 SARS plague era, rise and fall of Napoleon with precise timing, destruction of Lisbon by earthquake, extinction of papal power, and Franco-German upheavals. Documents show charts, celestial lines, and ominous prophecies.
The Springfield Union notes wide disparities in penalties for the same crimes across states. Fred W. Wines argues the system is unjust as murder, arson, perjury and incest penalties vary from fines to death, with examples from Michigan Montana Missouri Delaware Virginia and Louisiana. The piece calls for study and reform to reduce the injustice.
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A British consul reports dire conditions among Persian peasants living in mud hovels with smoke holes in the roofs. He notes cycles of debt to Russian moneylenders tied to cotton sowing, leading to insufficient grain for winter and unusually high bread prices due to export, worsening hunger in towns such as Meshed.
A small woman entered a central Crug store asking for stamps and paid five cents for a nickel. She left in anger, vowing never to return, while the clerk noted such complaints are common. He joked about stamp mucilage and self-made stamps, saying such customers are hard to get along with.
Japanese papers claim the oldest married couple in the country live in Saweda on Sado. The man is 133 and the wife 135. The fourteen member family includes an eldest daughter of 108 and an eldest son of 105.
A new scientific initiative led by Dr. Arthur McDonald under the U S Bureau of Education tests twenty five thousand Washington schoolchildren mentally morally and physically. The study compares laboring and well to do classes white and Black pupils and tracks gender differences in pain tolerance memory and study habits. Early results suggest girls show greater mental development and perseverance, while boys more likely to exhibit impatience and lower memorization.
An amateur geologist reports a dramatic fossil trace in Palo Duro Canyon north of Amarillo Texas. The site shows ridged reptilian claws and large hand and foot prints on rock nine hundred feet above the ancient riverbed, suggesting a reptile pursued by a larger primate or ape-like creature. Plaster casts will go to the Texas state museum in Austin.
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