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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1896
Page
2
Advice from horticultural guidance asserts that higher quality crops come with liberal Potash use. A fertilizer containing at least 10 percent Potash is recommended to insure a full crop of choicest fruit.
A poem from the Indianapolis Journal contrasts winter silence with past hopes and fears. It speaks of renewed resolve as old ways disappear under chastening snow and asks for firm steps and truer paths in the new year. It contemplates nature and renewal beyond the year’s end.
Mrs Meek must attend a bazaar leaving Mr Meek to cook. He attempts a hearty English dinner but a series of mishaps burns, splits, and spoons mischief. The cat eats oysters while the evening ends with cold ham and overdone baked apples. She returns to find chaos and a reluctant toast.
Youth's Companion remarks on Lucy Larcom's first verses written at age seven. It notes her brother John encouraged poetry, he abandoned the effort, but Lucy produced two lines about a windy lane and a storm with thunder and cooling air. The piece highlights the rarity of such early talent.
A Chicago Record note recalls soldiers asking if bikes aided fighting. A veteran recalls dashing toward the enemy, then stacking arms and shaking hands as riders on both sides used the same bicycle model.
A playful mock guide suggests building a sonnet line by line with steady rhythm. It jokes about rhyming scans and using words like grove latitude dove love mood and crude while mocking overbearing constraints.
Sir Robert Ball envisions a traveler raised to 250000 miles above Earth testing gravity. A marble released would initially hover then accelerate, proving Earth’s attraction persists at great height as the object travels 250000 miles back toward the planet.
A young mother on a Summit street trailer argued with a conductor over fare as her baby gagged on a torn transfer ticket. Passengers helped, the conductor issued no refund, and the mother walked off with the child. Separately, a San Francisco Chronicle note discusses eye spots on dogs as protective markings from domestication.
A new occupation and fashion among English women is drawing room weaving on light house looms. They weave hand woven table linen and towels with or without borders. Some praise the artistic value not matched by machine fabrics and predict American women may revive the former household craft.
R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 in Richmond pushes for a general confederation of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The Savannah News notes veterans won’t remain long, and a strong organization is needed to maintain museums, collections, and historical data after they pass.
The Georgia Cracker notes optimism that the victorious ratio will spread to subscribers, asserting sixteen pay for every one who does not. The remark highlights financial expectations and pressure on readers to support the paper.
Wigwag and his wife divorced after a quarrel that began when they bought different bicycle makes. The split highlights matching shared purchases as a source of marital friction.
Frank B. Martin of 926 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington City recounts severe contagious blood poison illness. He details costly ineffective treatments and miseries before claiming cure after using Swift's S S S remedy, noting four years with no relapse and urging caution against mercury while requesting free medical books from Swift Specific Co Atlanta Ga.
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