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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1900
Page
3
A Kansas wife recounts using Mother's Friend before two confinements including a twin birth, noting a very quick labor and late-appearing suffering, leaving the reason for her editorial note unclear.
An external liniment sold for $1 a bottle by The Bradfield Regulator Co promises to ease morning sickness and nervous tension during pregnancy. It is applied to the skin for direct absorption, aiming to reduce pain and shorten confinement, while purportedly benefiting the unborn and ensuring a strong, healthy infant.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat excerpt recounts a folding cork safe built by a Dutch mechanic for confidence man Dr Baggs. The device mimicked a real lottery office, with transforming furniture turning a room into a sleeper’s alcove while the victim remained unsuspecting.
A chaotic committee room scene recounted by a Washington correspondent shows doorknobs as permanent fixtures under the architect of the capitol, while a glass case and a cloth fixator become temporary work. The tale captures bureaucratic inertia and comic misdirection.
Lord Roberts issues a proclamation to the burghers of the Orange Free State explaining the British cause, urging peace and responsibility for the war’s devastation. He asserts British goodwill, blames the Free State government for aggression, and warns burghers to desist from hostility while detailing requisitions and complaints procedures.
A Lewis Carroll riddle explains that a clock losing a minute a day is right once in two years, while a steady but faulty clock is right twice daily. The dialogue plays on self contradiction as the reader follows the logic and names times and clocks.
At Sharpstown Maryland a revival at the Methodist church drew about 600 visitors to a basket factory, where 30 women sang prayed and shouted halting production. The owner a prominent Methodist urged workers to rejoice and be paid equally. Converts were reported.
A column extols attention to small daily tasks as the seed of great outcomes. It cites a clerk rising to partner through a single noticed pin, urges promptness and precision in work, and highlights Skiff the jeweler for his care of little things. Mrs Miller praises DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
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