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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1897
Page
2
A snapshot of colonial life notes debt imprisonment, a single cocked hat factory, and travel by stage coach between New York and Boston. It describes scarce libraries, high book prices, low wages, harsh penalties, and daily life from food to courtly etiquette.
Thos Bowers of Cracker Texas praises DeWitts Little Early Risers for sick headache and stomach liver disorders. Dr W A Wricut provides endorsement in the text.
The French report notes Americans consume far more candy than any other nation. It highlights New York Chicago and Philadelphia as larger sellers than France, Europe’s leading candy producer. The U S hosts over 1 000 factories with capital above 10 million and about 16 000 workers, while annual outlays for materials and wages top 32 million.
Advertises Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best skin salve for cuts sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and piles. Guarantees satisfaction or money back. Price 25 cents per box. Sold by W. A. Wright.
The article lists simple home remedies and cleaning tips. It covers peeling onions to ease odor on celery, salt to remove egg stains, buttermilk for mildew, nutriage added to port or sherry for neuralgia, creosote to stop bleeding, chloride of lime to deter rats, and sage rubbed on teeth to preserve them.
Guidance for preparing deep soil with ridges for sweet potatoes, handling plants from hot beds, and ensuring root contact. Drier soil may require watering early. moist soil may not. Early cultivation keeps vines down and roots healthy. running varieties need care in the early growth stage. Voyage from Sydney to Hong Kong reports 54 dead, including Capt. Shannah, with cargo of provisions and £10,660 in sovereigns.
Poem fragment echoed from Richard Watson Gilder in Century. It laments the Ottoman empire as a crumbling state propped by Europe, calling for ruin to yield a new civic order where freedom thrives and suffering ends.
Buffalo physician Dr. R V Pierce offers 500000 copies of The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser free after 680000 sold at 1.50 each. Send 21 one cent stamps for mailing, book sent post paid. 1008 illustrated pages in manilla covers. same content as the priced edition.
W B Johnson of Newark Ohio declares One Minute Cough Cure saved his only child from dying of croup. The ad claims the remedy cures croup pneumonia bronchitis and other throat and lung troubles for thousands of others during the period. Dr W A Wright endorses the product.
A claim that the famous little pills JeWitt's Little Early Risers quickly and completely cure sick headaches is attributed to Dr. W A Wright. The ad-like passage promotes a patent medicine with medical endorsement.
A discussion from Popular Science Monthly explains sleep as the key recovery for fatigue, noting mental effort drains brain power and longer forenoon vigor. It cites experiments showing reduced task performance after sleep deprivation and extended effects lasting days.
A Washington jeweler Mr. Frank B. Martin credits S S S with curing his blood poison after expensive doctors failed. He suffered mouth sores hair loss and tasteless months before taking four then eighteen bottles of the vegetable remedy cured him and he reports no recurrence. Books on the disease and its treatment mailed free by Swift Specific Co.
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes a poor but proud woman and her dying mother live in hardship in a back street flat. She faces a blunt butcher who replies with a wry quip about liver, underscoring denial and wit in a grim urban vignette.
An old advertisement touts DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a quick remedy for severe burns and disfigurements. It references Dr. W A Wricur in a sensational claim of rapid relief from pain and scarring.
A farmer extols the Lightning Churn claiming it can churn in one minute and produce more butter than common churns. He ordered 30 for neighbors, predicts universal adoption within a year, and says profits rise for sellers. Circulars and details available from J. F. Casey & Co. in St. Louis, Missouri.
Mrs Maggie Tulga of Ironton Ohio testifies the remedy forestalls and cures grippe with a 25 cent bottle. The ad claims early use prevents pulmonary complications and praises Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup as effective for cough and disease.
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