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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1897
Page
6
The passage recalls the 1899 vision of a grand arch and dome at a fair. It notes a prize awarded to Ayer's Pills by a world audience and compares the scene to Chicago, highlighting a long-running record show from years past.
The text notes the continued public success of Ayer's Cathartic Pills since their preparation and highlights their worldwide popularity, culminating in the World's Fair medal of 1893 which underscores their proven record.
A collection of kitchen tips covers meat tenderizing with lemon, adding citrus zest to sauces, lemon juice to scrambled eggs, and mint sauce with vinegar. Instructions include poaching tricks, tomato cheese sausage sauce for fried eggs, and using bacon fat for frying chicken.
A Chicago Tribune account of a women's luncheon where attendees trade anecdotes about husbands. The chiffon vest guest boasts of a husband who rocks her to sleep and wakes for a sick headache, while another notes his coal and furnace care, and a third praises domestic help including dishes and porridge. The spinster fears jokes about husbands.
An advertisement touts Shaker Digestive Cordial as a food and digestion aid for the pale and weak. It claims the product cures indigestion by helping digestion and promises permanent improvement after trying a small bottle, with a trial bottle priced at 10 cents and sold by druggists.
A caustic note from the Abbeville Chronicle jokes that the same stubborn rural character appears everywhere. The dated caricature mocks a man who distrusts schools, shuns his home paper, and avoids town business by not advertising, even as his habits and barter extend across regions.
W B Johnson of Newark Quebec says the remedy saved his only child from croup and has helped thousands with croup pneumonia bronchitis and other throat and lung troubles. Dr W A Wricur endorses it.
A narrator travels through Colorado to Silver Creek and finds a barber shop run by a colored man named Dave Jones. He pays two bits for a shave, then learns the town lacks barber services, and his experiences blur with hypnotic dreams about watches. He discovers no barber shop and suspects a hypnotist's trick.
A Dundee Times tale describes a minister offering serious advice before a nuptial. A bride-to-be humorously answers that she is prepared, listing her many household textiles and goods as proof. The item ends with a plug for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve and its skin-healing uses.
The ad claims urine tests diagnose kidney trouble and touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for back pain urinary issues and bladder problems. It promises relief, offers sample bottles and pamphlets by mail, and notes price fifty cents to one dollar.
Wickliffe Preston of Lexington Kentucky is described as the likely next consul to Marseilles. He hails from a prominent Kentucky family with a Civil War era ancestor and a former U.S. minister to Spain. Preston, 47, educated at Washington and Lee and Yale Law, has worked in New York and Kentucky farming and horse breeding. He stands tall, athletic, and is married to Sarah McDowell of St. Louis.
The Washington Post quotes critics claiming southern senators who secured a cotton tariff are ridiculed by supporters. The piece likens overreach by young lawmakers to a child choking on food and notes discomfort among junior senators and a few congressmen. Bacon, Clay and Maddox are singled out for overindulgence and misstatements.
An old promotion touts a product named One Minute Cough Cure as a quick cure for coughs. The claim emphasizes rapid relief and simple use, typical of period medicinal advertisements.
Veteran S E Evans of Maquolita Iowa describes paralysis and heart trouble over ten years. After using Dr Miles Nervine and Heart Cure he regained mobility with a cane and sleeps well. He endorses the remedies and reports others benefited, noting physician and nurse support and a money back guarantee.
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