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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1885
Page
3
The speaker argues against dismissing new remedies and asserts that honest preparation earns trust. He defends B. B. B. as superior to rival tonics, claiming it cures blood poison where others fail, while warning against anti patent medicine campaigns and urging room for all offerings.
Paris sportsmen prize betting on how often chaffinches sing each hour at two Sunday meetings. Birds are kept in darkness then burned with a red hot wire to force singing, a practice condemned as cruel. The piece notes accidental risks, sharp betting stakes, and calls for protection of birds and public safety from storms and lightning.
In Hindoo, Moham medan, or Buddhist rituals the inferior must present a token to a superior, with escalating gifts up to the value of the Kohinoor, returning a greater gift in return. A China travel note laments no bar rooms, only tea houses where locals play dice and settle debts in Philadelphia style. Mexican artistry delights passersby as street workers admire French and German engravings. A czar’s mastiff guards the ruler, while a San Francisco man sports buttons from human fingernails.
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