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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1896
Page
6
The author notes only four domestic animals drive the world’s economy cattle horses sheep and bogs. Birds also number four chick eve, ducks, geese and turkeys providing food clothing and labor.
The essay argues that human sympathy surpasses mere greatness and that kindness sustains a fruitful life. It laments selfishness and praises mercy as essential to justice, leadership, and enduring worth, citing the need for warmth in a world of grand yet cold deeds.
A Dimondale Michigan pastor’s letter praises Dr King’s New Discovery for his wife’s pneumonia and La Grippe recovery. The testimonial notes rapid, highly satisfactory results and mentions trials available at S B Burr Jr’s Drug Store with regular sizes priced 50 cents and 1 dollar.
The advertisement boasts Hood's Sarsaparilla as the most remarkable cure on record for blood diseases and claims it is unequalled for all blood issues.
The Savannah News notes the situation is favorable for cotton producers as European port stocks may pose a risk but not a probability. It warns against expanding the next crop beyond a tight level and urges limiting cotton output while diversifying crops to restore profitable production in the South.
James Eldridge of Hartford Conn bought the sword and handcuffs of John Brown from Daniel Lizer of Wabash Ind for 51 dollars last week. Lizer had held the relics for years and did not intend to part with them, while Eldridge pressed to complete the purchase. Lizer finally agreed to take 50 but accepted 51 with a letter confirming the sale and Eldridge’s payment.
A busy wife tallies a year of tasks showing she raised two children, managed two servants, and handled meals, cleaning, teaching, crafts, letters, church work, and more. She lists 1 157 lunches, 963 meals, 172 deserts, 328 lamps, 2 259 rooms dusted, 786 children dressed, 879 visits, 167 purchases, 88 books read, 553 papers read, 234 stories read aloud, 329 games, 125 church services, 1 246 clothing items, 120 crafts, 66 fancy pieces, 429 letters, 904 piano hours, 208 Sunday school hours, 44 sick days, and 10 amusements.
Promote strength to resist pneumonia bronchitis and typhoid fever and persistent coughs. The ad claims Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies blood, keeps vitality high, boosts appetite and digestion, and defends against illnesses in the weak.
An old advertisement touts Hood's Pills as a cure for liver issues constipations biliousness jaundice and headaches. The claim emphasizes relief from digestive and head discomfort with a proprietary remedy.
J J Wood of near Columbus recounts 1895 as his fifth farming year. He began in 1891 with no crop sales, grew all he used, paid for a 160 acre farm on credit, and now owns the land free and clear. His orchard, vineyard, and pecan trees expand while he and his wife manage without regular help.
The item described as a flax seed poultice called Orange Blossom is claimed to be safe and harmless for self use by any lady. It is sold by Joha H Blackburn.
The legislature failed to pass multiple measures including creating a lieutenant governor’s office, a Bush dispensary bill, moving the agricultural college from Athens to Griffin, supporting the dance du centre, standardizing textbooks, private hiring of convicts in counties without chain gangs, establishing a reformatory, an inebriate asylum, placing Pullman cars under the railroad commission, and abolishing the fee system for county officers.
In that new year period many feel health declines. The ad claims Hood's Sarsaparilla tops all medicines with the greatest cures and largest production, implying it is the remedy for sickness.
The San Francisco Argo naut notes locals prefer tragedy over comedy and admire forceful dramatic methods like Edwin Forrest’s. The audience skews toward vigorous, sensational theater, with many seeking high intensity and sensational death scenes rather than refined wit.
Miss Frances Power Cobbe recalls a Mrs. Peter Taylor gathering where Mary Carpenter suggests the great cause of the age. The group quizzes each other on reform topics, from parliamentary reform to abolition and woman suffrage, until Carpenter declares the real focus is the industrial school bill, provoking shared laughter.
Mr James Stewart, a leading southern horticulturist, notes in Meehan’s Monthly that a 25 year old tree showed 75 concentric rings when felled. The species is unnamed.
Intimate dialogue portrays a wife accusing her husband of growing cold and comparing his self love to twenty years ago, reflecting a domestic quarrel feature in the Somerville Journal.
Bradfield Regulator, a tonic from Bradfield Regulator Co of Atlanta Georgia, is advertised as available through all druggists nationwide. The brief notice emphasizes wide distribution and consumer accessibility for the preparation.
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