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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1896
Page
3
A Florida Times Union column fragment reflects on love and marriage with wry aphorisms. It argues liars and lovers dominate, marriage as a coffin for love, and poverty and sympathy as rivals. It mocks pretentious philosophy and notes widowly love grows with favorable memory.
Advertisement claims the product has soothed millions of mothers over fifty years by easing teething pain, softening gums, curing wind colic, and aiding diarrhoea. It promises immediate relief and is sold by druggists worldwide for 25 cents a bottle, with a hint to ask for Mrs. Winlow's brand.
John Habberton asserts that dragon flies frighten mosquitoes and will keep them away. He claims hanging one or two dried dragon flies from silk under an open porch repels the pests, noting dragon flies prey on gnats and mosquitoes and the mosquito avoids predators.
Thousands praise Hood's Sarsaparilla for relief from tired feeling waning appetite and exhaustion after winter. The remedy is said to build up the system, purify and vitalize the blood, easing prostration from seasonal change.
Hygienists urge seeking sunlight as a daily aid to recovery. Patients on the sunny ward recover fastest. A sunny-side walker outlives a shade seeker by ten years. Sleep in sunlit rooms all day for better health.
The Will iam H. Vanderbilt residence in New York City required over 40000 dollars for paving the front. The single stone laid there is the largest known paving stone, costing 9000 dollars including transport. A medical ad notes One Minute Cough Cure brings relief from a swallow.
Charles Broadway Rouss of New York offers to donate $500,000 for a southern battle abbey, with the South matching, and to place the building in Washington City, following his initial $100 pledge for the same purpose in a southern city.
The advertisement markets Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a universal remedy for cuts, sores, ulcers, salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions and promises cure of piles with satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Price is 25 cents per box and sold by S B Burr Jr.
The article explains humus as essential for fertilizer success and outlines soil needs by land type. It cites Cornell guidelines, notes nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash indications from plant growth indicators, and offers practical fertilizer forms and application methods for crops like cotton and corn.
The State Agricultural Department notes that small farmers cannot practically cut and shred corn by hand for curing until affordable machines reach them. Large planters may invest in machinery, but many producers cannot afford it and waste nutrients by stripping fodder and leaving stalks standing. Plowing leftover stalks under can help reduce cutworm problems.
Break ground deeply and mix in well rotted stable manure. Plant in rows with at least a foot between turnips and cultivate quickly for size. To deter turnip fly dust seedlings with plaster ashes or lime. some use wood ash. Lady bugs are beneficial. do not injure them. Improve cotton growth to outpace lice and pests.
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