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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1896
Page
3
A Washington Post reader recalls a boy about 14 cutting lawn along a driveway near a Soldier's Home, riding a bicycle while pushing a lawn mower beside him. The writer admires the ingenuity and resolve of such a young worker.
Over fifty years Winston's SootHine Syrup has soothed teething children easing gums and pain. It is said to cure wind colic and diarrhoea with immediate relief. Sold by druggists worldwide at 25 cents a bottle, with Mrs Winslow's name as the brand.
The passage extols DeWitt's Colic and Cholera Cure as a rapid remedy for summer complaints in children. It claims reliable relief for dysentery and diarrhoea and asserts the product is genuinely curative.
H. P. Myers argues Georgia Democrats face dangers from factions over liquor policy. He cites Governor Atkinson and Dr. Candler favoring non partisan or broader prohibitory methods, warns against fusion, and questions party platform clarity. He urges clear, principled stands to keep voters from breaking ranks in October.
Remedy claims permanent relief from all headaches and habitual sick headaches. It balances the bowels in habitual constipation and is offered at fifty cents to one dollar at S. B. Burr Jr's Drug Store.
An old campaigner notes that delivering clear meaning in a speech is tough and rare moments demand honesty. A reply counters that it's harder to always mean what you say, reflecting on blunt communication. The piece ends with a household remedy promotion for DeWitt's Colic and Cholera Cure as an aside.
A Columbus Enquirer Sun reader recalls hotter Texas weather and a man on Broad Street cooling mint juleps for a crowd. He says he kept a stove lit for a month to guard against heat damage. In Barnesville a poultryman fed hens cracked ice to prevent hard boiled eggs amid last week’s heat.
Pearson's Weekly notes the habit of yawning among MPs, recounting Lord Hartington's famed maiden speech and how Disraeli teased the moment. It surveys Gladstone, Chamberlain, Harcourt, Temple, and others, describing nods, tilted hats, and the seeming duel between sleep and rhetoric in Parliament.
The piece lists practical tests for an 18 year old to be considered capable in business and wartime service. It stresses handwriting, letters, English, banking tasks, arithmetic, accounting, promissory notes, measuring a pile, spelling, advertising, ledgers, grain quantities, and knowledge of contemporary authors and statesmen.
A description notes Egypt’s birds roam freely in hotels and homes, sparrows perched at meals, kites and crows on roofs, owls in upper Egypt, with a contrast to pigeons. It also cites John Trowbridge on cathode rays, explaining their invisibility to the eye yet their strength on photographic plates.
A guest unable to eat soup keeps rejecting multiple bowls, each returned by a silent, frustrated waiter, until the proprietor questions the guest. The guest reveals the reason: he has no spoon to eat the soup.
An 1890s warning argues most surgeries are unnecessary and deadly, urging blood remedies like S. S. S. to cure cancer by cleansing the blood. It cites William Walpole of Walstown, Dakota, who credits S. S. S. with healing a cancer under his left eye and warns against surgical steps as dangerous.
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