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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1898
Page
7
Slate pencils are produced through crushing slate into flour, mixing with steam tight materials, and kneading into a stiff dough. The dough is rolled into cords, cut to length, dried, baked in a kiln with superheated steam, pointed on a rotating wheel, and packed 100 pencils per box for shipment.
Food undigested is poison. Digest it and you gain life and strength. Indigestion wears down pale overworked people, doctors miss the symptom. Shaker Digestive Cordial helps proper digestion and can restore color, energy, courage, and endurance. Trial bottle 10 cents. sold by druggists.
General Crittenden told how his eight year old son asked where John Jay was after Chickamauga. The father said the horse took him to the rear like a coward, and the boy replied that John Jay would never do that on his own, implying the General’s influence.
Readers are urged that headaches constipation and biliousness ruin life but can be cured by DeWitts Little Early Risers the famous small pills. W A Wricurt is cited as endorsement.
An advertorial asserts Africana will cure rheumatism and scrofula and keep users permanently cured, promoting a tonic with grand health claims and testimonials from unnamed users.
A historic timetable note describes the Cincinnati and Florida Limited solid vestibuled trains linking Jacksonville to Cincinnati via Everett Atlanta Chattanooga with through Pullman sleeping cars. It notes connections to Kansas City and St Louis routes and details car placement for southbound and northbound passengers at Atlanta Union Station and Union depot.
A newspaper ad touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for kidney and urinary ailments. It claims urine sediment signals kidney disease, promotes nightly urination relief, and offers samples and pamphlets by mail from Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY with a Gazette mention.
An advertisement touts Dr Miles pain pills as a cure for neuralgia and highlights three proven helpers: the ant the bee and DeWitts Little Early Risers. Dr W A Wright endorses the products for stomach and liver troubles.
A 19th century warning proclaims a dry morning cough signals consumption and touts Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup as the cure. A testimonial from Simon Amasal of Chicago claims complete relief after using Bull's. The ad raises the price to 25 cents and urges buyers to ask for Bull's.
Mark Twain notes in Following the Equator that ship beds are universally imperfect and rarely comfortable. He lauds the Arundel Castle as modern but claims no vessel has perfect beds, comparing them to scandalous Noah’s ark standards. He argues bed quality varies by ship and editor.
A young man seeking the old man’s daughter calls to inquire and the father, sticking to bluff, asks if the suitor can support her in the style she’s used. The youth answers promptly that he ought to be ashamed if he cannot. The bluff is called in a gesture of wit from Chicago Post.
An offer from Dr T A Slocum of New York claims a universal cure for consumption and bronchial diseases. He will send three free bottles to afflicted readers of The Barnesville Gazette upon request, citing testimonials and a duty to suffering humanity. Readers should write with their address and mention the Gazette. Also mentions One Minute Cough Cure by Dr W A Wricut as a remedy for coughs and croup.
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