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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1898
Page
2
In a barnyard tale a boy recalls a near fatal creek accident when a high wagon body overturned into water. His brother Jim was trapped under the wagon bed but escaped as others aided extraction. The pair recount the peril and how bystanders helped lift the wreck and pull them free.
The advertisement promotes Electric Bitters as the best medicine to revive tired nerves and restore vigor. It claims vegetable ingredients tone nerve centers in the stomach, stimulate the liver and kidneys, purify blood, improve appetite and digestion. Sold for one dollar at W. A. Wright's Drug Store.
H J Cleveland recalls his first meeting with Remenyi at a Council Bluffs stable area. A braying jackass stalled the pianist who refused to play until pumpernickel was procured. After a private request the pianist finally performed, moving the young observer to tears in a crowded hotel.
A Yonkers Statesman quip depicts a wife asking about a nightly kitchen visitor, her intended husband delaying marriage until his appetite wanes. The exchange humorousty hints at domestic wit rather than a serious event.
A Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph item notes Mr Frankstown Spiffin's birthday next week and a plan to honor him with a smoker, but Spiffin dislikes cigars and tobacco odors. A poem from New York Ledger speaks of lost love, sorrow, and longing, describing a heart haunted by a departed beloved.
A professor, noted for his Irish heritage, presided over an English literature class and defined impediment from the Latin pes meaning feet. He challenged students to use the term in a sentence, then quipped that anyone who never opened their mouth without putting their foot in it clearly had an impediment in speech.
Cassier's Magazine notes that during the 1585 siege of Antwerp by the Spaniards the Dutch built an ironclad flat bottomed vessel named Finis Belli. It was armored with iron plates but grounded and captured, never used in combat.
A brief exchange between a father and a suitor quoted by the New York Journal. The father doubts happiness for the couple, fearing discord over small matters, while the lover jokes about hiring a nurse to cope with daily frictions.
The St Louis Globe Democrat comments on a new Canadian postage stamp featuring the queen at her coronation with maple leaves in the corners, noting Canada aspires to be called Greater England.
Nicholasville Ky. Colonel John L Logan an atheist died of heart disease at his home. He was worth 250000 dollars and had given 150000 dollars to atheism.
Hattie Gates of Detroit sues William Kirschner in Justice Bauder's court seeking 299 dollars for alleged breach of promise. The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes the civil action was filed recently in the local court.
A humorous exchange from a New Orleans Times-Democrat column notes a parishioner denying ability to repeat sermon contents while recounting a remark overheard about a bonnet. The vignette captures churchgoing manners and social chatter in brief dialogue.
An old medical advertisement claims Hall's Great Discovery cures kidney and bladder troubles, gravel, diabetes symptoms, seminal emissions, back pain, and rheumatism in men and women, with bladder regulation for children. One bottle provides two months of treatment and can be mailed if not carried locally. Hall's sole maker is ER W Hall, P O Box 218, Waco, Texas, with W A Wright Barnesville as a seller.
A Ben Jonson quote on opinion describing it as a light crude and imperfect construct of the imagination that never reaches true understanding yet seeks the tincture of reason.
The city lays out 8000 miles of sewers 34000 miles of telegraph wires 4580 miles of water mains and 3200 miles of gas pipes all definitively fixed in the dense underground network.
The fragment recalls the French war period 1798 to 1800 with 4598 naval troops, then shifts to a local ad for Hall's Great Discovery kidney aid and multiple Barnesville Georgia merchants. It mentions W J Lyle general manager and a West End Store pitch inviting all residents to compare prices and insure against sickness and death.
A periodical essay argues the United States must produce a rival to Homer and Shakespeare, not rely on light American short stories. It cautions against overvaluing current American literature and calls for a bold thinker to disrupt the tedium of the American school of philosophy.
A witness at the Old Bailey rejects evasive answers in a tense clash with barristers. The recorder interjects to compel direct replies and the exchange turns on the idea of humbugging the court. The woman insists the recorder would be a gentleman if she told the truth.
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