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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1885
Page
6
The writer urges cheerful visits and simple remembrances to comfort the ill. Small acts like a bowl of soup, bread, flowers, or a bright gown can lift spirits during convalescence. Young people, with leisure, should not overlook these opportunities to aid the sick.
A Harper's essay argues for the wife's positive right to the home during the marriage, detailing how property settlements across civilizations favor the wife and children. It condemns the view that all belongs to the husband, and frames the home as the wife’s equitable creditor claim, urging equal partnership and protection.
A collection of kitchen and home tips includes a rice based waffles recipe with eggs milk and butter, guidance on converting bath tubs with a cotton girthing strap and button, silver care using collodion and soap mixtures, preserving tips with egg white coatings for jars, handmade mucilage from glue and rock candy, and a creamy gelatine dessert recipe with lemon or vanilla flavoring.
An 1900s advertisement touts Pemberton's French Wine Coca as a universal nerve tonic and invig orator curing and preventing mental and physical malaise. It claims benefits for mood, memory, insomnia, appetite, weakness, digestive issues, kidney problems, neuralgia, headaches, and general debility, with awards from medical savants and professionals. It urges purchase by druggists and at J L Kennedy's for genuine Texas Rust Proof Vats.
A writer urges Georgia’s young men to secure fee simple title and build a home on land, warning that rising land values and a shifting economy favor owners. He cites Henry George’s Social Problems, Wade’s Senate claim, and national expansion to argue for home ownership despite immigration, railroads, and industrial growth.
B B B and all kinds patent pills offered by the dozen at J. W. Hightower's Atlanta shop. Laudanum also sold by the dozen at similar prices, reflecting the area’s catalog of remedies and goods.
A Montana correspondent describes vast grazing lands and changing cattle practices. He notes 60 million acres of available grazing, 1.75 thousand acres per tribe member, and growth from 400 to over 1,000,000 cattle in ten years. Spring roundups brand calves. fall roundups select marketable beeves. Sheep growing expands. Angora goats graze near Livingstone. horse ranching remains profitable despite horse-thief violence and vigilante justice.
The article notes the speculative discovery of a rare element named Norwegium by Dr. T. Lahll from Norwegian nickel ore. Properties are described as malleable, white with brown tint, hardness near copper, specific gravity 9.4441, melting at 80 degrees Fahrenheit, differing from known metals. The piece also discusses lung germs and tuberculosis risk from weakened health.
A broad faction argues that America was found in the fifth century by Buddhist monks. They contend the monks left the shore after hearing a mixed German-Hibernian-Scandinavian-Franco-Italian-American-Snenger band rehearsing songs for a Fourth of July celebration, a move that reportedly unsettled Ludd4ulaund.
An advertisement touts Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy claiming it absorbs tumors relieves itching and cures piles. The $0.50 remedy is offered by the Dr Bosanko Medicine Co of Piqua Ohio and sold by J W Hightower. The State Agricultural Society warns county clubs of a planned Fall 1886 fair with premiums for wheat and oats acreage.
An advertisement touts Mothers' Friend as a reliable, gentle preparation to ease labor. It claims relaxed, softened tissues, reduced pain and danger to mother and child, and quicker recovery, with a booklet offered by Mindfield Regulator Co of Atlanta upon request.
J. T. Murphey & Co. replaces WR. Murphey & Co. in Barnesville as the mercantile firm. They occupy the Murphey Building with a full stock of general merchandise, cash sales at low rates, and invite old patrons and new customers. J. T. Murphey will continue cotton buying. A carload of all grades of flour has just been received at J. L. Kennedy's.
William A. Wright promotes Wrights Drug House with pure drugs and medicines plus lamp goods stationery machinery oils varnishes paints toilet articles seeds snuff tobacco cigars Clara and D. H. branded products. He offers goods at the lowest cash figures and promises special attention to the sick.
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