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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1896
Page
3
In New York, SARY and Mass community leaders back a national professor to lead a new initiative. The proposal faces debate on funding and governance as the plan seeks state support and university collaboration.
A job-seeking man recounts his failed interview at Le froit Free Press. He boasts past crimes and misses, hoping for editorial work while claiming sport and criminal prowess. A detective hints the paper may lack a newsroom chief for the next year or two.
An 18th century Newcomer engine near Bristol is claimed to be the oldest steam engine still in operation. Built about 1745, it pumps water from a coal pit about five hours daily, with a five and a half foot cylinder and a six foot piston stroke. The 23 foot beam, four feet deep, weighs about five tons and its creaking motion is notable. Steam is supplied from nearby boilers, pressure reduced to two and a half pounds, yielding an indicated horsepower of fifty two and three quarters.
A terse notice from Washington D C offers a $1800 prize and invites inventors to submit simple ideas to patent. The ad targets residents to write to N Wedderban for the patent office.
A traveler and the railroad restaurant proprietor banter about vintage foods and old prices. The traveler jokes about sandwiches baked in 1840 and coffee made from chicory, while the proprietor counters with wartime rations and prices from past eras. The exchange ends with the traveler asking for pie from Lee’s surrender period and to set his own price.
Mr Nessitt urges thorough subsoil plowing and rapid cultivation over the next two months to protect oats corn and cotton. He advises two to ten day crop checks and warns against shallow planting and crust formation. Peas and potatoes discussed with planting details and fertilization plans for renewer soil.
H J Wing of Experiment Georgia reports a Texas fever outbreak in cattle near Greensboro affecting 21 registered Jerseys. He describes symptoms, post mortem findings, and a home remedy including salt copperas saltpetre and sulfur given daily, plus quarantine and tick control measures.
For over fifty years S&S Soorania Syrup has soothed teething children, easing pain and diarrhoea. Sold by druggists worldwide at 25 cents a bottle. ask for Mrs. Winlow's Soothing Syrup and refuse other brands.
The United States Tobacco Journal argues bicycles cut cigar consumption by 7 billion annually, citing 1,000,000 smokers as yielding a two cigars per day decrease. Whiskey advocates claim bicycles also reduce drinking, suggesting wheels promote economy and health.
Practical advice for starting farmers emphasizing staying on a good location, avoiding speculation, avoiding excessive debt, and making disciplined improvements. Encourages learning agriculture, limiting stock to pasture, and selling land if needed to pay debts or fund improvements.
A Forestburgh farmer told Phil Kinney a story of a bear that ate his mince pie while he slept. The tale includes the farmer sawing railroad ties, a fox terrier, and the bear later helping by cutting logs, then leaving without trouble after cider and a joke about pies.
Four Rhine gentlemen played a costly practical joke in Bullay by buying a cab horse and outfit for 12 cents a pound. The cabman pursued the matter through courts to Coblenz, forcing payment of $900 plus vast legal costs. He now travels with a pair and a victoria in Berlin, entertaining titled men.
The New York Dispatch outlines 15 major islands including Manhattan Long Island Staten Hart s Island City Island Rikers North Brother s South Blackwell s Randall s Ward s Berrian s Governor s Barren Coney and Marble Hill formed by a Harlem river channel cut. Many small Jamaica bay isles noted.
A Boston Courier item notes a wife praising her husband for twenty years of cohabitation without hearing him swear. The guest calls it the most remarkable example of self control he has ever heard of.
In a Detroit Free Press snippet Aunt Jane recalls Evelyn as a child amused by a spinning wheel. Evelyn retorts with a playful boast about the wheel spinning, capturing a lighthearted family exchange.
Successful growers of fruits and berries know that the largest yields and best quality come from liberal use of fertilizers containing at least 10 2 percent of plant nutrients, improving growth, vigor, and production.
Without liberal use of Pot ash on sandy soils it is impossible to grow fruits berries and vegetables of a quality that will command the best prices. Our pamphlets contain latest researches on fertilization and are sent free for the asking. German Kali Works 93 Nassau St New York.
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