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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1897
Page
2
A railroad official recounts a long career with emphasis on safety practices and operational challenges. The piece highlights procedures, training, and incidents shaping daily duties and decision making in rail transport.
A young man seeks the hand of a woman but learns her father is away on business. He visits the father's office and learns the daughter is already married to another man. The girl explains her father left for New York the previous night, clarifying the mistaken assume.
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a plant based remedy to revive tired nerves, stimulate the stomach nerve centers, liver and kidneys, and purify blood. It claims appetite and digestion improve and rates the product as best for nerves and blood purification, sold at W A Wright's Drug Store for one dollar per bottle.
A Washington Post writer recalls foreign guests at St Matthew’s Church who watched the service with interest then asked if music at church is always like this. A Washington man answered proudly, but one visitor whispered that she would rather dance than pray, finding it distressing.
A mountain preacher, now deceased, told Hazel Green Herald a tale from Letcher county. He sought the lost sinners and encountered a farmer's wife who mistook his mission, remarking the ram should be his. The exchange reveals the preacher’s clarification and ends with a quip about dying in ignorance for not reading a newspaper.
In Washington Post lore Mr Richard Lee recalls a Virginia cavalier at The Riggs recounting a Philadelphia youth with sporty tastes who gambled away early winnings. An appeal to his plutocratic father to fund a relief is told through a contest of verse with a witty reply about sending fifty dollars to P D Q.
The Elberton Tribune notes calls to admit girls to the state university and suggests allowing boys to receive scholarships at Milledgeville's Girls Normal and Industrial College. The piece argues for co education and equal benefits, mentioning sewing and cooking as future skills. Dr. W A Wright.
The tale from Arkansas Senator Berry, the only one legged member, recalls a home state query from a visiting preacher and wife in the Marble Room. After a brief chat and farewell, the wife asked, What state did you say you were from, revealing public life fame versus local recognition.
Letart Falls Ohio August 19 1896 Allen and Allen advertise Dr Tichenors Antiseptic with good results. They claim customers return and one user says it gave his wife relief from neuralgia.
A German lieutenant, off furlough in civilian dress, encounters his colonel and asks for Lieut Schmidt’s address posing as the brother. The ruse ends when the colonel warns that if the brother returns in civilian clothes he will face thirty days in close confinement.
In 1838 Ulysses S. Grant, then 16, visited Flat Rock Bourbon County Kentucky with his employer’s niece. Grant helped clean the store next morning and later faced a runaway horse, guiding it blindfolded back to Georgetown. The account comes from Colonel Jesse E. Peyton’s reminiscences.
In Macon petitioners seek a receiver to take control of the Southern Railway. The piece derides receiverships as a means to create jobs for lawyers, arguing the plan harms the public and undermines the railroad’s value, urging courts to refuse the appointment.
An advertisement asserts AFRICANA will cure rheumatism and scrofula for lasting relief. It also promotes DeWitts Little Early Risers pills claimed to quickly overcome sick headaches by W. A. Wright.
Thoroughly wash and drain cucumbers for pickling. Cut two inch picks and scald in vinegar. Place in jars with red pepper bay leaf onions and spices. Heat fresh vinegar add sugar and salt. Fill jars with hot vinegar and seal. Keeps two years or more.
The Youths Companion reports Daniel Webster praised Gen. Taylor for military service while noting his candidacy for president. When Taylor complained about crowds intruding on his time, Webster replied you never turn your back on your enemies, a delicate compliment to the general.
For over fifty years Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used by millions of mothers to ease teething pain. It soothes the child, softens the gums, relieves wind colic and diarrhea, with immediate relief. Sold by druggists worldwide at 25 cents a bottle. Buy only Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
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