26 Apr 1894
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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1894
Page
1
Edgar L. Rogers touts a season of ready Spring Dresses and Clothing with one cash price for everyone. He claims to buy from top manufacturers in Atlanta and Macon, offering big discounts and the same styles as leading dealers.
In wool linen or cotton fabrics I offer the newest patterns and trimmings. My selection includes silks ribbons laces and embroideries. Don’t be talked into old styles until you see mine and the White Goods and Embroideries.
About Town laments idle loafers in Barnesville while urging effort and enterprise. It praises Mountain Reservoir picnic grounds, hints at a future vice park project, and notes a building boom with new homes. Confederate graves funding plan from Hodges is revisited as underutilized.
A group will tour the Suwannee Springs area in Florida, famed on the Suwannee river as a health and pleasure resort. Special rates and accommodations are secured for the party. For details contact G A Macdonald in Macon Georgia, general passenger agent of the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad, the Suwannee River Route to Florida.
Farmers have been busy planting cotton for about a week and report planting less than in prior years. Land preparation has improved, some cotton has emerged, and corn planted weeks ago is already up.
Mr J F Hodges suspends his school near Midway until July as farmers begin busy season. Children are kept from schooling to help with work. He will resume after the busy period ends. Attendance prior to suspension was very good.
An 19th century advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a universal tonic that strengthens flesh and blood, aids recovery from grippe and fever convalescence, and treats liver and blood diseases including scrofula, skin conditions, and early lung scrofula with a money back guarantee.
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