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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1896
Page
3
Reports describe a spring near Stonington Connecticut that pours ice cold water from a crack in a high rock. Drinking it allegedly causes veins to swell and a bursting sensation for about ten minutes, then subsides with mild dizziness and a buzzing in the ears. Chemists find no poisonous salts or minerals. the cause remains unexplained.
A short ad copy touts DeWitt's Little Early Risers as tiny pills that cure great ills. It notes physician Dr. W. A. Wriaen as endorser and positions the product as effective relief in small doses.
A New Hampshire women’s group organizes a weekly darning club. Each week members visit a hostess home and bring their knitting. They sew around a large table stacking stockings and garments while chatting, then depart at 5 o'clock with completed work and a pleasant sense of accomplishment.
A man spares a stray fly stuck in butter and later helps his family by sheltering a burglar. The same grateful fly later leads the thief back, revealing the saved family silver. The tale, from London Answers, illustrates that kind deeds are often rewarded.
D W Fuller of Canajoharie New York says he always keeps Dr Kings New Discovery in the home and his family has always seen the best results. G A Dykeman druggist of Catskill New York calls it the best cough remedy and says it has never failed in eight years. Trial bottles free at S B Barr Jr’s Drug Stores with regular sizes 50 cents and 1.00.
Boil sugar with water then pour over strawberries in an earthen vessel and add lemon juice. Cover and steep twelve hours, strain, add dissolved gelatine and cold water to make one quart, pour into a mould, and chill on ice for jelly.
A discussion of historic big gains in telephone stock and the 15 million sale of a pneumatic tire invention to an English rubber firm. It notes Dr Dunlop’s 1889 start up, a 375000 capital, and dividends of 3,285,000, with a final sale yielding over 18,000,000. Also promotes DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve as a cure and advertises Dr Wriaut.
The professor distinguishes loving from liking, noting one may love a wife but like a meal. He adds that a young man with his first wife may illustrate the difference, while after several marriages the conditions would reverse.
An advertising rhyme recalls Castoria as a trusted remedy across generations from infant illness to motherhood, highlighting its longstanding presence in households and parental routines.
A column warns readers about politics as a perilous path. It quotes a United States senator advising a boy to avoid party politics and political office, urging the martyr spirit only if entering politics, to endure sacrifice without surprise. The piece emphasizes the dangers and the fate of great minds in public life.
A brief adish anecdote recalls a vintage cure for chest ailments and a luncheon hosted by Mrs. Astor for young girls in New York. One child jokes that the peas at the end of the meal were not cooked enough, prompting a lighthearted remark about the hostess.
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