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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1897
Page
6
A true story by Emma Mahaffey recounts a young man’s slide into drinking and its ruinous effect on his lover, wife, and future children. The narrative warns readers to shun whiskey before life and family are wrecked and death comes from drink.
Editor Morrison of Worthington Indiana praises Electric Bitters as a valuable prescription for consumption sick headache and a general system tonic. Annie Stehle of Chicago recovered after six bottles restoring health strength and appetite. Price fifty cents and one dollar at W A Wrights Drug Store.
A Vicks Magazine editorial argues the fear that grape seeds cause appendicitis is unfounded. It notes no authenticated cases show seeds in the appendix and urges continued grape planting and consumption, especially by children, despite scare headlines.
Advertises Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy for cuts sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. Promises to cure piles or money refunded with a 25 cent price per box and sale by W. A. Wright.
Advertisement touts DeWitt's Little Early Risers as purely vegetable pills for constipation biliousness and stomach and liver troubles. Dr W A Wricut endorses the product.
A medical advertisement claims Swamp Root relieves back kidney and bladder issues. It promises benefits for frequent urination, pain, and urinary discomfort and offers sample bottle by mail from Kilmer Co. with a paid price of fifty cents to one dollar. The Farmer is urged to send address for pamphlet and sample.
A Missouri farmer promotes rye boiled until grains burst as a hog cholera preventive mixed with kitchen slop. He claims his hogs never contract cholera while neighbors lose hogs. Rye is praised for spring feed value for horses and cows, and its adaptability to poor land and bad weather.
Advertisement states that some users suffer for ten, twenty, or thirty years with piles and are quickly and permanently cured by De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. Credits Dr. W A Wright as the physician.
A young woman asks about luck from a four leaf clover. Mr. Barker ponders any link between superstition and events and recalls a girl who found a clover then caught a cold after wading and was deemed lucky she did not die.
A five year old, impressed by praise for his aunt’s hat, learns the meaning of Frenchy. Later, he attends a ritualistic church with his aunt and answers that he liked it so much as it was so.
An old Dublin tale from Beggars' Bush Barracks recalls a kindly colonel and his wife. Aged woman greets them with a humorous dream prophecy about tea and tobacco, while a quip on grammar and parts of speech follows as a light aside from the Exchange.
A courtroom exchange records the judge asking the prisoner to justify his conduct toward his wife after a black eye. The prisoner cites the wheel she told him was no good, calling it the Flying Jib. The judge discharges, noting the jab about the Flying Jib as the basis.
The Waynesboro True Citizen argues that shooting a man to death is murder unless the shooter faces long jail time, otherwise it becomes justifiable homicide or pardonable insanity. The snippet ties an old ad phrase to a legal discussion on crime and punishment.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a sharp contrast between a mild feminine appearance and a feared street reputation. A character questions such perception as another woman learns to ride a bicycle amid public scrutiny.
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