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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1898
Page
7
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer piece, Mr Blimber argues war demands patriotism and sacrifice while his wife calmly counters with a nonchalant belief there will be no war. The exchange covers ships marches hospitals and dangers, ending with her refusal to panic.
An advertisement promotes St Germain Female Pills described as the original French remedy by Mme St Germain Paris. It claims safety reliability and a money back guarantee, offered at 1.00 per box with sole U S and Canada agents King Harvard Co Chicago, via mail orders.
A brief remark on Blankly’s character notes he is too proud to beg and too honest to steal and that he earns trust through his conduct.
A Philadelphia boy visits a Market Street store with a written list and asks clerks to fill his order. He calls items aloud, learns prices, and totals the bill to 18 dollars and 73 cents. He explains the exercise is his arithmetic lesson for Monday.
Bainbridge jokes that fugitive poems earned their name because the author had to run for his life. Goldborough asks why and the exchange hints at a playful literary moment.
A traveler from the short grass country rode No 1 from Dodge City to California to visit his son. He showed astonishment at train berths and made up bedding himself. He struggled to adapt to Pullman life, finally dressing in the berth after two hours and facing curious passengers.
M L Yocum of Cameron Pennsylvania testifies that after ten years of suffering from piles he found relief with DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. He used one box and says it effected a permanent cure. Dr W A Wright endorses the product.
A writer recalls a boy who applies for a squire’s job promising to do anything needed. The squire tests him with tasks from cleaning silver to plumbing and geography. The boy offers to fill spare time by making bricks, but the squire rejects him for insolence.
Mrs. A Fiedler of 2864 Palethorp St Philadelphia testifies Salvation Oil better relieves rheumatism stiff joints and bruises than any liniment and suggests keeping it in the house. Reject substitutes and insist on Salvation Oil priced at 25 cents.
In a Lincolnshire coast village a novel land auction method unfolded at the village inn. A tallow candle stood on the table with a pin placed near the wick and bidding continued briskly until the candle burned to the pin and dropped. the last bidder before the drop was declared the purchaser.
A playful exchange about observing Lent and the joy of new bonnets. The speaker cheerfully notes a lifelong habit of receiving a new bonnet each Lent, while the other confirms her own fondness for the season and its customs.
Tommy shrugs off questions about his heavy eating as his grandmother teases him, calling him a glutton while noting the family scene and his mischievous charm. He attributes his appetite to luck and continues eating with a smile.
Prominent chemist T A Slocum of New York City offers three free bottles of his claimed cure for consumption and lung diseases to Gazette readers. He cites thousands of testimonials and pledges prompt delivery to any afflicted reader who writes with address, noting the offer in The Gazette.
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