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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1896
Page
4
In a Rockier town a fearless teacher protected her class when a mountain lion attacked a school near a pet antelope. She retrieved a shotgun, loaded it, and fired to kill the animal, though the recoil felled her briefly. The children and townspeople praised her dangerous, courageous act.
A South Dakota editor reports two loyal subscribers who pay a year in advance each visit to renew their subscriptions. One subscriber has already credited 1901, and a statewide fraternity wants to identify the whisky brand to offer it as a premium.
An anecdote from Chief Justice Georgia Himbottian of Victoria shows his courtesy to women regardless of rank. He helps a woman with a handkerchief and treats all visitors with gracious manners while upholding justice, as a lawyer notes a prior case where courtesy preceded a decisive debt repayment or imprisonment.
An old advertisement promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy for cuts sores ulcers eczema fevers and cracked hands. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded and is sold by S. B. Burr Jr at 25 cents per box.
The Florida Times Union contrasts luck with hard work noting luck is lazy and unreliable. It argues luck drains ambitions while steady effort earns wealth and a home, concluding relying on luck may only keep one out of poverty.
A rugged reminiscence set along the Rockies between Fort McLeod and Calgary in January. Jim the mule skinner recounts guiding an English hunting party, the high spirits and fearsome ride, a wary pilgrim in the group, and Li'l Field's wagon mishap and eventual injury from a bear, ending with a note of Montana hunting plans and a quip about choosing sturdier mules.
Mile Hugo, M Trebuchet died in Paris and guarded Mlle Adele Hugo the insane daughter of the poet. Adele, about sixty, has inherited a fortune now reported as several times a millionaire by French papers. She is confined in a private asylum and may visit the theater, though she refuses to leave after performances believing the play never ends.
A Sportsmen's Review note explains smokeless powder varies with temperature, producing higher trajectory and deeper penetration on warm days and stiffer performance in cold. It claims a 80 grain smokeless bullet makes a third larger wound than 75 grain black powder, and recounts hunts where smokeless shots felled animals quickly despite windless, smoky conditions.
An English writer notes the barber pole began with barber surgeons who practiced medicine and surgery. During bleeding operations patients held a stick wrapped with bandages, hung at the door as a sign, later replaced by a painted staff.
A dialogue ends with a nervous farewell as a couple banters about danger. She frets about footpads while he insists he would run if confronted, claiming courage and a wish to protect her in the dark streets. The piece highlights urban fear and bravado in a city context.
English patent by Mr Winans describes a luminous foresight for firearms. A tiny lamp in the stock powers a muzzle shield ray to align with the shooter's eye for night game shooting and naval service use such as lighting machine guns during torpedo attacks.
The Grand Duchess Sergius was presented at the St. Petersburg court when the czarina offered a kiss. The priceless pearl neck lace string broke and pearls rolled onto the floor, yet the grand duchess curtsied and retired without a glance at the loss, displaying noblesse oblige.
A veteran miner recounts California’s early mining era from 1849 to 1889. He describes tools such as the pan, rocker, bumper, long tom, and sluices, and notes shifts to hydraulic and underground mining with black powder, nitroglycerin, and gunpowder.
The New York Sun notes rattlesnake sellers offer live snakes for four dollars, buzzing and darting tongues as long as sight is kept. A six footer costs seventeen dollars, with bites used as a drinking excuse. Strangely, dead snakes are cheaper, a skin worth five dollars from the pricey live specimen, enough to make pocketbooks sold at twenty five dollars each.
A Minneapolis Tribune item recounts an odd antediluvian teacher named Noah who sailed for 40 days and 40 nights. Dick Hicks accomplished the feat without a yachting cap in a playful nod to nautical bravado.
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