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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1898
Page
6
Before Retiring, Before Retiring, take Ayer's Pills, and you will sleep better and wake in better condition for the day’s work. They are sugar-coated and perfectly prepared for constipation, biliousness, sick headache, and all liver troubles. Ask your druggist for Ayer's Cathartic Pills. When other pills won't help you, Ayer's is.
The Teachers Are Gaming Bamesville invites teachers from about a dozen surrounding counties to meet at their institute during Chautauqua. Several counties have accepted, and the event aims to bring three to four hundred teachers together for the week.
A new cure claims to treat all forms of dyspepsia, regulate the stomach and restore appetite. For sale by Joan H. Blacknurn.
About sixty children attended an Easter egg hunt hosted by Mr and Mrs Otis A Murphey last Saturday afternoon. The event brought great happiness to the young guests and their families in a cheerful, sunny setting.
The article urges readers to use Swift's Specific as a purifying and strengthening tonic during the spring season. It claims seasonal changes are severe and a breakdown is likely without such aid, stressing the tonic supports health for the entire summer.
The passage extols Swift's Specific as the best spring medicine for blood purification. It claims eight special benefits including cleansing, toning, strengthening the system, aiding renovation, and guarding against summer diseases. It emphasizes that S.S.S. is a vegetable remedy free from potash and mercury and urges insistence on the product.
Last Friday evening the Gordon Institute elocution class under Migs Kath ryn Lockhart presented Chronothanatoletron at the Auditor ium. The entertainment featured music recitations and pantomimes and was met with warm audience approval. A nice sum was raised toward paying for new stage scenery recently purchased.
Shreveport druggist Aug J Bogel hails Dr Kings New Discovery as the best seller and cure for coughs. Safford merchant J F Campbell calls it a sure cure for consumption coughs and colds. The medicine is promoted as not an experiment after a 25 year test with free trials at W A Wincut Drug Store.
Mr. Jones sold his barber shop to George Jordan, a longtime employee, as he moves with his family to Indiana to care for his ailing father. Neighbors express regret, noting the shop’s strong reputation and Mr. Jones’s positive impact on Barnesville. Jordan, colored, will continue the business.
Fragmentary OCR note preserves a facsimile signature line for CASTOR A with unclear context and a partial wrapper fragment.
Hon. John F. Madden of Concord declares his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the legislature. Madden has previously represented the county and pledges faithful, fearless service to constituents if elected, asking for public support.
The passage promotes contacting Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for female health issues. It asserts women will confide privately to a woman, that letters are read by women only, and claims vast experience and proven relief, urging all women to seek her advice regardless of wealth.
Mayor Smith and Alderman Rogers sealed a $450 drop curtain and two scenery sets for Gordon Institute auditorium. Atlanta firm McKinley & Otto hold the contract to finish by May 1, using modern improvements and a Rhine scene.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. Chas. O. Summers and Mrs. Wm. H. Chambers were thrown from a buggy near the city hall but escaped serious injuries. The horse pulled toward Mitchells stables, and in trying to steer up Forsyth street the buggy hit the electric light pull, damaging the buggy slightly.
A vintage advertisement touts DeWitt's Little Early Risers as pleasant pills that cure constipation sick headache and biliousness. Dr. W A Wright endorses them as a modern alternative to old fashioned remedies.
Citizens from Barnesville traveled to Zebulon on Monday to hear Col. Allen D. Candler speak for governor. He is regarded as a strong speaker with many friends in the county.
Thursday night about seven, Dillard Middlebrooks' wife and Jane Stafford both died in their chairs after illness. Ida Middlebrooks also died before half an hour after Jane. Friday morning Susan Jones died suddenly at her home. Local colored residents appear not greatly alarmed by the events.
An era folk remedy item notes DeWitt's Little Early Risers pills famed for quick relief. Advertising text touts health benefits and household use with small print claims.
Adolph Fisher of Zanesville Ohio endured thirty five years of hemorrhoids before finding relief with De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve after using three boxes.
The Epworth League special train arrived at 4 25 making Atlanta to Barnesville travel in one hour twenty minutes. Barnesville delegates led by C T Tyler and J T Chambers joined in singing and reports say the Macon hospitality was warm. Tyler earned a seat on Conference committees and the group plans to boost local League membership.
Miss Magnita Arnold, a student at the National Park Seminary in Washington D C, earned a top credit by matching her Gordon Institute record. Her final exams with the Senior class were of high order, prompting the president to send her papers to other colleges for review. Barnesville friends celebrate the accomplished student, who plans to return home in about six weeks for May graduation exercises.
Rev W S Stevens pastor of Barnesville Methodist church filled the Atlanta Constitution's pulpit Sunday delivering a sermon accompanied by a splendid portrait. He is considered one of the ablest preachers in the Methodist church.
A brief wartime style notice touts a product named One Minute Cough Cure as a remedy designed to stop a cough quickly.
Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Miss Marguerite Gunn and Mr. William Daniel Davis at LaVilla in Griffin with a noon ceremony on the twentieth. Attendants include Miss Daisy Mitchell as maid of honor and Mr. Ben R. Flemister as best man, followed by a reception hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin Davis. The couple will reside with the Davises at Baldwin Davis’s home while their own house is completed. The excerpt ends with an ad promoting Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for improving digestion and blood health.
A collection of 1898 campaign notices from Pike and Monroe counties announces candidacies for representative tax receiver clerk of the Superior Court and treasurer. Signers include W. H. Sarr Cyrus H. Sharp J. F. Mappden and W. Morcue urging Democratic primary support. Dates cited include March 14, 1898.
Chester S Harrington of Princeville Illinois, a Civil War veteran who endured Libby Prison and years of debility, credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his health, gaining 27 pounds, ending tobacco use, and returning to work. Affidavit verified by Notary Lincoln M Coy.
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