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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1898
Page
6
An appeal extols a product aiding expectant mothers during childbirth, claiming it reduces danger to mother and child and makes delivery natural and easy. The text urges choosing this preparation rather than alternatives.
A customer claims intense relief during labor using Mother’s Friend across two pregnancies, noting past experiences with other remedies. An advertisement from Henperson Dare of Carmi Illinois offers the product at $1.00 plus express delivery and promises a free book of testimonials and information for all mothers, The Bradfield Regulator from Atlanta Georgia.
A Danish zoologist August Fjelstrum claims a new meat preservation method. After stunning, an assistant drains blood from the heart ventricle and injects a briny solution via the opposite ventricle, allowing rapid preservation for immediate use.
Edward Bok urges forming an organization to unite those who are alone at Christmas especially women. He notes many people have kin nearby but still feel isolation and hopes readers consider those not sick or poor yet solitary, urging compassion for the lonely.
Advertisement for De Witt's Little Early Risers claiming relief from constipation headache biliousness and inactive liver with a sugar coated tablet that won’t gripe or nauseate. Mentions Dr W A WriAr t.
A cynical bachelor reflects that women face more effort to win admirers than to marry. He calls a woman an agreeable blunder of nature and quips that nothing is more musical than a mule’s voice to another male. He warns that if the devil isn’t loose, many men on good terms with him are. He notes that each man should know his own business, though friends often doubt his competence.
Gen Wheeler told Mrs Grant at a Windsor Hotel reception that American arms draw strength from soldiers' memory of the women they left behind. The veteran’s quip blends gallantry with timely sentiment, lauded by the New York Press.
An advertisement proclaims One Minute Cough Cure as the best remedy for all ages and severe cases. It asserts rapid, effective relief and includes an endorsement from Dr W A Wrient.
In the Indianapolis Journal a Cornfed Philosopher muses that if Methusaleh possessed property in youth, he would have enjoyed indulgent rapport with younger relatives once he reached five or six hundred years old.
T B Rice of Greensboro Georgia endorses Dr Pitts Carminative after eight years of use saying it never fails to satisfy and converts customers, noting it outsells other carminatives and soothing syrups and colic drops combined. He adds it has no equal for teething children.
Dr T A Slocum of New York City offers three free bottles of his claimed cure for consumption and bronchial lung diseases to readers of the gazette. He asserts vast success and urges afflicted readers to write for delivery, noting testimonials from Europe and America.
A drummer recalls losing a grip and overcoat on a train after dozing during travel. He suspects four commercial men hid his belongings as a joke but is told by others the items were not with him. The narrator refuses to pursue the supposed thief, joking that after fifteen years on the road he won’t be caught.
A veteran reporter recalls covering a wealthy ranchman murder trial in rural Kansas. With the jury deliberating past midnight, he sacrificed sleep and even a cigarette delivery to rush the verdict to print, only to discover the rival editor had foiled his grand scoop.
The advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup used for over fifty years by millions of mothers for teething pain and diarrhea. It claims instant relief, gum soothing, and wind colic cure, sold by druggists worldwide at 25 cents a bottle. Be sure to ask for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup and take no other.
One hundred engraved visiting cards offered for one dollar with a price rise to 1.50 after December first. Samples available and orders invited. Wedding invitations also engraved at low prices. J P Stevens and Bro jewelers and engravers located at 47 Whitehall Street Atlanta.
The piece reports Vigiliant deputy marshals and strict prohibition enforcement in the Indian Territory, yet unusual intoxications persist. Ginger jamada is consumed in quantity as a legal drug. a teaspoon can trigger choking. Some drink two or three bottles daily. Red ink and essences, other alcohol based items, sell freely. Peddlers dilute wood alcohol for sale across the line. Chicago Inter Ocean.
A 19th century style advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease promotes a powder to shake into shoes to cool tired swollen feet. It claims relief from smarting, blisters, corns, bunions and sweating and offers a trial package free with 25 cent sales at druggists and shoe stores.
The Central of Georgia Railway launches parlor and sleeping car service between Atlanta and Albany with trains departing Albany at 4 15 a m and 4 05 p m arriving Macon and Atlanta at specific times. Berth tickets allow overnight sleeper use. Rates: double-berth under 150 miles 1 50 over 150 miles 2 60. seats 50 to 300 miles 25c to 1 00.
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