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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1885
Page
6
A Nashville school composition urges expansion of women's roles, citing progress in education, arts, science, and professions. It warns against vanity and social pitfalls, calls for church-based reform, punctuality, and dignified conduct, and ends with a bread and yeast recipe and household notes.
From Our Own Correspondent reports the coming season favors simple lines with pleated skirts and solid trim. Ball dresses feature tulle and silk in white black and red with Parisian designs and elaborate trimmings. Dominos and striped jerseys appear, lace dresses stay popular, and English pugs remain a society favorite with specific blue tricot harnesses and gilt bells.
A Vermont woman, Mrs. Hettie Green, is described as the wealthiest in America with an estimated fortune of 35 to 40 million dollars. The piece details her actions in moving 475000 from John J Cisco & Son in New York, contributing to the bank's suspension after refusing to cover her husband’s loan, and portrays her as a shrewd, frugal, and influential financier with extensive holdings including Louisville and Nashville stock and government securities.
The Chestnut Street windows display a range of attractions including elegant riding habits on an imported horse. Sharpless & Sons highlights seven cases of specialties as a premier feature of the New Orleans Exposition. The Weekly Times of Philadelphia notes growing popularity of the Annals of the War series and introduces a Mary E. Lambert Home Department offering vital family information. A renewed sense of value is seen in the publication at one dollar per year.
The author argues that primary light may exist independently of the sun and could have appeared in different forms during creation. He suggests God dispenses light to new universes and speculates on six day creation versus geological ages, while affirming scripture as the best guide to truth and future life.
Advertisements and testimonials praise Thrash’s Lung Restorer from multiple users including D. Stegwant and W. H. Boyce for coughs and colds. Messages claim it outperforms other remedies and merits trial, with mentions of travel and family use.
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