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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1896
Page
7
A humorous 19th century snippet shows Mr. Slimpurse and Mrs. Slimpurse failing to obtain a kitchen clock key amid an encounter with Mrs. Stuckup at a jewelers. The scene pivots on conflicting priorities as they discuss timing to clean a diamond necklace and a thwarted purchase.
A late discussion among a group of women notes that marriages where wives are younger than their husbands are often happy. The women cite mutual satisfaction, maternal dynamics, and a perceived natural fit in caring for others.
An old advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy for cuts, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or a refund, priced at 25 cents per box, sold by S. B. Burr Jr.
The passage notes a Buffalo firm has contracted to supply four London omnibus companies with 6,000 horses for the new year. It argues there is little fear of horses disappearing in any country where they have long been man’s best friend.
An 19th century advert claims Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has soothed teething pains for over fifty years. It promises to calm the child gums ease pain relieve wind colic and diarrhoea. Sold by druggists worldwide at twenty five cents a bottle urging buyers to ask for the product by name.
A dated prose piece extols sunlight and cheerful living as healthful. Proverbial lines urge patients in sunlit wards to recover faster and a parson who walks sunny streets to outlive his shadow by years.
Post master Washington Hesing lauded Chicago's post office in a speech at the Auditorium. He said it equals New York in mail handling and registered packages and noted Montgomery Ward & Co as hosting the largest patrol of the post office in the United States.
A local hotel proprietor notes faith in humanity after receiving a towel from a guest who accidentally took it away. The towel, marked with the hotel name, prompted reflection on honesty and the guest's conduct.
A seasonable dose of Simmons Liver Regulator is praised as a liver stimulant and bowel regulator. It is touted to prevent heaviness and support digestion, with Dr. T. W. Mason of Macon Georgia attesting to its admirable alterative and tonic effects observed in his practice.
Mrs. Robert E. Park of Macon Georgia is elected Regent for Georgia of the Confederate Memorial Museum in Richmond Virginia. She asks for Confederate relics and urges contributors to send items to Mrs. Joseph Bryan in Richmond or to Mrs. Park in Macon. The call aims to preserve relics and expects public support.
The New York Tribune notes a Kansas populist advocates crossing milkweed with straw berry to enable people to grow straw berries and cream together, a plan intended to boost happiness.
An aged Alabama judge known for sharp sarcasm presided over cases including a pocket book theft and a murder. He warned a thief to beware local manners, and derided jury wisdom while stressing that 99 guilty men have already escaped.
The passage extols the standing advertiser as the backbone of the newspaper and the business core of the community. It argues persistent advertising builds public confidence, draws patrons, and sustains success across seasons, noting that visible success prompts trust and ongoing patronage.
An anecdote recalls a colored preacher urging a morning collection for the glory of heaven while warning thieves about Mr Jones’s turkeys. A spectator recalls Sam Jones promising a collection from every gentleman in the house as coins filled the basket.
A window in Hartford Connecticut holds what the New York Tribune calls the largest pane of plate glass in the nation. The Belgian pane measures 124 feet high and 154 feet wide, is half an inch thick, and weighs 1 800 pounds.
A druggist offers about six insect powders for cockroaches. He admits uncertainty, noting his wife has tried them all and says the roaches show no preference, leaving the best choice unclear.
A Pittburg Gazette observation laments the stubborn idle man who avoids work for what he owes, claiming six thousand years of effort to identify the meanest. The note paints a biting portrait of shirking responsibility and the social sting of debt avoidance.
A Richmond clergyman declares dancing and kissing must end. He argues it would be unfair as men finish their three years of privileges and someone proposes abridging girls rights when leap years arrive.
A Michigan merchant employed a novel ad scheme by placing slips on silver dollars reading take me back to the store where I am worth 1.05. The idea had been tried by a Texas firm earlier but dropped to avoid tampering with coins and hindering counterfeit detection.
Amous R. Wells presents a playful verse in St Nicholas about Mistress Morning waking children to a day of dominos. The poem pairs morning charms with children's names and scenes, asking who will win as the day unfolds.
Ann Quinn, a cook and laundress, wakes to a mysterious man crawling from the river. He pleads for reconciliation, moves to embrace, and she kills him with a knife. In the climactic moment he laments a life of waiting and a forgotten love as a clock chimes and summer lightning hints at unseen truths.
In a grim, tense flash of passion Ann Quinn seduces a man during a desperate night by the river. He offers rubies and escape from drudgery, then leaps to his death. A murder rumor swirls as the river takes the remains of the pair and a dried lilies of the valley stem drifts away.
A Switterda proclaims a rapid method to learn Latin French and High Dutch in two hours a week for 1 to 4 guineas monthly. A contrasting listing from a London-area school charges £10 or £11 yearly with basic implements, noting both male and female instructors and domestic skills.
The New York Weekly weighs balloons as potential war tools. Blinkers suggests they could aid in a draft, while Winkers notes uncertain usefulness but memory recalls past ideas.
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