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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1897
Page
3
A witty dialogue between a literary girl and Col. Stillwell contrasts new tastes with traditional drinks. The girl mocks the Scotch line while the colonel shifts toward a mint julep as his preferred beverage in a light social exchange.
The text critiques parental costs of raising a son with figures from P. B. Fisk. It estimates a fifteen year old boy costs at least five thousand dollars in city life, grows to two to three times that by twenty one with college, and warns that a bad boy costs ten thousand dollars if he skips college. It questions what parents deserve in return for such investments.
The piece condemns the mania for federal office seeking as a wasteful pursuit. It argues officeholders live dependently, save little, and become dependent on petty bosses. It cites 100,000 applications in Washington and about 600 daily, urging seekers to pursue private enterprise instead. It says ambition requires appointment or death as remedies.
The verse laments heat and longs for a snowbound Christmas night, while a health column links chronic dyspepsia to constipation. It promotes Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a quick, gentle cure and offers a pamphlet upon sending 21 cents to the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo, N Y.
An editor asks boys whether it is fair to despise a father or neglect a mother and whether tobacco and sin ruin a life. The piece notes property invested in boys and girls, warning that loss would bring poverty, while success would repay a hundredfold.
An 19th century advertisement promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a cure for cuts, sores, ulcers, salt rheum fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and skin eruptions, promising refunds if not satisfied. It lists price at 25 cents per box and identifies W. A. Wright as the seller.
Each year more than 40,000 pilgrims view a tomb in a cemetery outside Jeddah. The gravestone is described as fifty cubits long and twelve wide. Arabs hold that Eve was the tallest woman ever.
Excursion tickets at reduced rates for weekend sale from local points through Sunday. The route offered travels Central of Georgia Railway to Savannah, then Ocean Steamship Company to New York Philadelphia Boston, or Merchants and Miners line to Baltimore. First class includes meals and berth with comfortable ship amenities. For rates and sailing dates contact the nearest ticket agent or J C Haile Savannah Ga.
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