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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1900
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text appears to list times and locations with currency values and initials. The readable portions include times such as 935pm and 439pma and references to Alvin. No coherent event, person, or organization is clearly identifiable.
The Georgia Pine Railway Co of Georgia issues a December 3 1899 schedule. Trains 31 1 and 2 and 4 connect at Arlington with Central of Georgia for Albany Macon Atlanta and points East and West. Trains 3 and 52 connect at West Bainbridge with Plant System for Savannah Montgomery and points East and West. BR B Coleman General Superintendent.
The Southern Inter-State Fair in Atlanta from Oct 10 to 27 offers record prizes for agricultural products. A $250 premium is set for the best bushel of wheat, oats, corn, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, hay, and 20 stalks of upland cotton, plus a $250 award for the largest pumpkin. Exhibits require no entrance fee or space charges with transportation paid by exhibitors. Secretary T H Martin, 218 Prudential Building, Atlanta, can provide details.
The piece contrasts modern progress with earlier times and highlights a biography of a young couple who left near Pittsburgh in 1790 for Kentucky. They traveled with only an ax gun seeds, facing frozen rivers, bare barefoot wading, fever herbs, paper window panes, bear oil, log cabins, coal fetches, wild crab apples, sour swamp grapes, berries and nuts, amid frontier hardships and survival.
An editorial discusses the rise in newspaper prices over three months and the rejection of unlimited credit for subscriptions, arguing newspapers must prove themselves a legitimate business. It then advertises Oak City Drug Co’s paints and Dr T.wenor’s Antiseptic, urging families to stock a 50c bottle.
The excerpt questions a baby’s thinness, suggesting illness or improper feeding as possible causes. It urges confirming food quality, notes that healthy babies must grow when nourished, and proposes a simple aid of adding a small amount of a basic remedy to support natural growth without heavy medicines.
A vintage advertisement touts Scoit's Emulsion as a daily aid for babies and nursing mothers. It claims rapid digestion benefits and improved thriving from the first day, noting success over twenty five years and suggesting both mother and child benefit. Available in cc or $1.00 from T and Bowne chemists in New York.
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