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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1899
Page
4
The Barnesville Saretts in Barnesville Georgia are noted for a local event dated Thursday July 13 1899. The brief item records a community gathering or game with local interest. Specific opponents or scores are not provided in the fragment.
Prof Jere M Pound leaves for Cedartown teachers institute and Rev Charles M Brittain preaches at Forsyth Baptist church with promise. Milner High School re elects Dr Rolfe Hunt president for another year with assistant Charley Cauthen. Fall term begins first week in September. Barnesville praised for pluck and progress by Jonesboro Enterprise and Georgia exchange. Summers Buggy Co floats with lemonade, and interest in new manufacturing plant urged. Local officials, educators, and politicians visit Barnesville for Chautauqua and cotton factory talks.
A grandfather sits in a shaded porch armchair recalling a June wedding and years with his wife. The scene returns with rose leaves falling and the arrival of a child who shares his grandmother’s eyes and name, while his days drift between memory and loss. Florence B. Tucker.
The article lauds a single individual for labor and unselfish effort, asserting he contributed more than any other to the success of a major undertaking and calling his toil simple justice.
For over fifty years Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has soothed teething children, calmed gums, relieved pain, cured wind colic, and treated diarrhea. Widely sold by druggists worldwide at 25 cents a bottle. Ask for Mrs Winslow's and avoid other kinds.
An advertisement extols authentic Syrup of Figs from the California Fig Syrup Co as superior and genuine, warning against imitations. It emphasizes manufacturing care, medical standing, and a laxative effect that avoids irritation, noting the company’s names and locations in Louisville and New York.
J C Collier Co offers 200 men's negligee and dress shirts at 75c to 1 25 and 50c balance. Straw hats cut to 35c to 1 00, bargain counter shoes and slippers, 50c to 1 50. Dress goods on sale 8c yard former 12 25c. organ dies, percales, swisses reduced. Ladies shoes from Krippendorf Drew and Selby promoted as best in the city.
We will rent anything in our furniture department to boarding houses, hotels, etc during chautauqua week at reasonable prices. Make contracts early to be sure you get what you want. here till Sept 4st.
A large Barnesville group travels to Lifseys Springs for a week long outing. The party includes R. G. Matthews and family, R. A. Stafford and family, Seneca B. Burr Jr and family, Belle and Nell Blalock, H. S. Bradley couple, and Col. Frank M. Stafford. They will occupy about three cabins and expect a gay occasion with good times.
This notice advertises the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company of Springfield Mass offering life insurance at low, safe rates with cash and paid up values guaranteed and large annual dividends. It promotes grace in premium payments, prompt death or maturity payout, and sample policy upon age and address to W. K. Wilkinson, general agent.
A Texas wonder proclaims Hall's Great Discovery cures for kidney and bladder troubles including gravel diabetes and rheumatism. One bottle by mail for 1 cent. two months treatment. Manufacturer E. W. Hart of St Louis formerly Waco. Sold by W A Wright in Barnesville.
Rev. George A Whitney, resident of Griffin, will conduct a service for Episcopalians at the Presbyterian church Sunday evening. He holds monthly services in Barnesville.
An advertisement asserts deafness cannot be cured by local applications and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as the remedy for catarrh related deafness. It offers one hundred dollars for any cure it cannot achieve and notes the product costs 75 cents with Hall's Family Pills recommended.
Temple Texas April 16 1899. I used Hall's Great Discovery for bladder and kidney trouble and would not take a thousand dollars for the benefit from one bottle. I feel permanently cured says W R Tyler D D S formerly of Barnesville.
Utah offers death row inmates the option of chosen execution methods and the latest inmate selected shooting. The policy has drawn debate over capital punishment practices and rights.
Advertises Browns Iran Bitters as a universal cure for dyspepsia claiming no two cases are alike and promising relief for stomach, blood, and nerve issues. Says the product treats severe pain and attacks and is sold by all dealers.
A taxpayer calls the many investigation committees an expensive luxury of war and likens sympathy to a blindfolded game, describing it as fellow feeling for a fellow creature.
A Vienna theater manager unveils a device designed to generate applause for performances. The invention seeks to boost audience response and enhance stage success for his troupe.
The pleasant flavor and gentle action of Syrup of Figs provide soothing laxative effects. If a parent is costive or bilious, the results are highly gratifying. This best known family remedy is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
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