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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1898
Page
8
A shop advertises a complete line of men boys and children apparel and household fabrics bought direct from manufacturers. Items include shoes and slippers shirts collars cuffs negligee shirts and various linens offered at twenty five percent below rival prices. Customers urged to view wool dress goods before buying.
Barnesville Georgia city council meets with Mayor Smith presiding. Bills approved including lights water works dispensary schools and various vendors. Water main extension contract closed and street frontage sale considered. City marshal report filed and there is a push to prosecute persons scattering tacks on sidewalks. An ordinance on sanitary conditions is approved. Quotes from Smiles and Foster conclude the record.
An advertisement urges use of Cod Liver Oil with Lime and Soda and Scott’s Emulsion to keep adults strong through winter. It recommends a fall course for those not very strong and says to ask a doctor. The wrapper should show Scott’s Emulsion and the men on the label. Druggists offer 50 cents and one dollar sizes.
A sermon extols a life built from small acts and steady virtue. It praises humble daily deeds, avoidances of minor sins, and gentle consistency as the true measure of sanctity, comparing to a soft sunbeam rather than dramatic miracles.
An 1895 Texas print advert claims Hall's Great Discovery cures kidney and bladder troubles for men women and children. It offers mail delivery for 1 cent with a two month treatment and cites a testimonial from J A Waassenich in Floresville. E W Hart is named as sole manufacturer and W A Wright Barnesville Texas stocks the remedy.
Capt Sigsbee relates a Maine disaster witness who testified at a board of inquiry. The sailor vowed to speak only of firsthand knowledge and described waking in the hospital after a loud explosion. The court maintained gravity and excused the witness.
A vintage travel tip promotes Syrup of figs to aid kidneys liver and bowels during trips thought to prevent fevers headaches and sickness. Sold in 50 cent bottles by leading druggists. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co with a Napoleon quote on determination.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company of Kentucky seeks at least five women and five men in Pike Upson Monroe Spalding and Meriwether counties to solicit insurance. Promises of profitable contracts for applicants with good business qualifications and references. Contact T. R. Jones Cartersville Ga State Agent for Georgia and Alabama.
James O Neill recalls Edwin Booth delivering the Lord s Prayer to a select gathering in a Fifth Avenue Hotel smoking room. He describes the prayer lifting listeners to celestial realms and calls Booth a great man whose performance confirms Christianity to those present.
A columnist notes the standards for matrimony announcements and wedding invitations, urging correct form and quality stationery. It recommends consulting J. P Stevens & Bro., fashionable engravers in Atlanta, for up to date styles used by London and New York elites.
A collection of quotations contrasts Burleigh’s belief that every day offers a chance to do good with Buxton’s assertion that energy and unwavering purpose distinguish the powerful from the weak. Both voices emphasize resolve and decisive action as keys to achievement and success.
The Cash Store stocks eggs butter and sustenance for Easter meals while spring gardens boost vegetable offerings. A shopper boasts that after Easter the garden produce will entice buyers, and praises Joe W. Reeves for delicious groceries.
The advertisement claims thousands of grippe sufferers were restored to health by One Minute Cough Cure. It asserts quick relief from coughs colds bronchitis pneumonia grippe asthma and chronic throat and lung diseases through this remedy.
A New York Sun anecdote recalls a pompous man refusing gas before dental work. The dentist under gas anesthesia pulls his tooth while the patient claims he dreamed of a circus procession, insisting he was not unconscious as onlookers witnessed the event.
The Evacup Om Company of Cleveland Ohio seeks commission based salesmen for Lubricating Oils in Barnesville and surrounding area with liberal terms.
The lines emphasize that opportunity emerges from effort and action. Lowell suggests work is inherent to a person at birth, while Garfield notes success comes when someone actively brings it forth.
Miss Dessie Garner returns to her Thomaston residence on Tuesday to pleased friends. She visited her cousin Miss May Franklin. Community notices mention A. L. Mills illness lasting several days. Emma Helton of Lamont visits Miss Angie Bush on Zebulon Street. F A Echols of Stevens Pottery, formerly local operator, was in town. C S Stacy of Griffin, a Y M C A worker, visited city yesterday. I bought S C B Leghorns coop and will sell eggs for 60 days at 13 cents per set. S M Howarp.
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