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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1898
Page
6
A persuasive essay contrasts country life with city work urging country girls to value quiet farm routines over the monotony and hardships of urban labor. It highlights early rising, crowded factories, and the cost of city comforts while touting simple pleasures, home, and nature as true reliefs.
Edward Bok argues in The Ladies Home Journal that home life should reflect respect and consideration. He asserts a husband’s best self belongs at home where his example shapes his children.
Dr Miles nerve piasters priced at 25 cents at all druggists. This brief product note marks availability and price across retailers.
A dated advertisement extols Mrs. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female sterility linked to general debility and blood conditions. It cites a Jersey City woman’s experience of pain relief and childbirth after using the product, and includes testimonials and unrelated campfire reminiscences from the era.
An old soldier recalls shifts in army rations from the Civil War era to later conflicts. He recalls sutlers, fresh bread ovens, potatoes, onions, and pork, and he describes cooking an Irish stew from ration components. He notes oysters sold for 16 cents a pint and reflects on money in the field.
The Great Chemist T A Slocum M D of New York City offers three free bottles of his claimed cure for consumption and all lung ailments to readers of THE GAZETTE. He cites thousands of testimonials and invites afflicted readers to mail their address to 98 Pine Street New York, mentioning the Gazette in their note.
Petitioners seek a 20 year charter to form Mutual Aid and Benefit Association in Barnesville Pike County Georgia. They request corporate powers to sue and be sued own property adopt by laws collect assessments donations and operate to benefit members and foster moral intellectual advancement. Attorney J J Rogers signed for the petitioners.
A Georgia merchant L. M. Kennon from Odell commends One Minute Cough Cure, calling it the best preparation he has ever sold or used and praising it highly. Dr W. A. Wricut is mentioned in the endorsement.
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