09 Aug 1888
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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1888
Page
1
A Georgia reader warns farmers about rushing to city jobs as clerks, arguing farming offers freedom, modest wealth, and stability through steady work, thrift, and home life. The piece cautions against political meddling by farm groups and urges remaining on the land while opposing costly office pay and overextended expenses.
advertisement-style text touts Bosche's German Syrup as a universal cure for consumption cough asthma pneumonia and other lung diseases. It urges every reader to recommend it to the poor and notes sales and bottle counts in vague terms without clear evidence or measurements.
A Waterbury businessman once fed large sums to his wife for safekeeping after banking hours. He handed her 1000 dollars on June 5, planned to deposit next morning, but the money vanished. After a fruitless search, a Sunday dream led the wife to find the cash in an antique chest beneath blankets.
Isaac Waldrof a New York merchant is said to have married his own daughter after a sequence of marriages begun in Austria. He separated from his first wife, remarried, and had three children by the second wife. The second marriage is alleged to be bigamous and the third marriage void, as the governess who became his wife was the daughter of a Vienna visitor who recognized him as her husband. The Grand Rabbis appeal to straighten the tangled relations.
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