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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1896
Page
2
A garbled anecdote recalls a claim about an elephant reading and a royal Bengal tiger incident. The narrator mocks the tale, then recounts the elephant escaping after a clash, heading toward a trunk repair shop while ignoring a surgeon, highlighting the furor and disbelief surrounding the story.
A Worth County Gazette column praises the region in the Wiregrass of Southwest Georgia. The writer extols health, schooling, and hospitality in Barnesville Sylvester and Ponlaw, notes a planned cotton factory, endorses hog and hominy farming, criticizes immigration effects on land prices, and laments impact on poorer residents while praising democratic traditions and local leaders.
A prominent market observer predicts 8 cents may be the last price for cotton under normal conditions. He cites global growth in cotton cultivation, cheaper labor abroad, and rising competition from India Egypt Peru and other nations as factors behind a potential long term price decline. May futures dropped while the local market remained steady with middling at 74 cents. The view reflects a broader shift in global supply and labor economics impacting U S prices.
For over fifty years Mrs Wixton's Sooruina Syaor has been used by millions of mothers for teething, soothing gums and easing pain. The remedy claims to cure wind colic and diarrhea, promising immediate relief. Sold by druggists everywhere in a 25 cent bottle.
Sir William MacCormac argues in Nature that future warfare will produce widespread injuries from new projectiles. He notes long range penetrating bullets will cause severe wounds across multiple bodies, but many injuries may be surgically manageable with improved antiseptics and sanitation boosting recovery.
An 19th century ad promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a universal healing remedy for cuts sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money back and lists S B Barr Jr as the retailer at a price of 25 cents per box.
O. W. Bracknalt of Kittrell North Carolina reports rapid progress in several new strawberry varieties. Parker Earle requires rich soil and ships firm, Lady Thompson commands high northern prices, Greenville leads in production, Woolverton is the firmest large berry, and pollenizers like Gordy Belle boost pistillate varieties. Seder Wood and other named types show strong yields, though some do not perform far south.
Suggests children cut out pictures of animals trains bicycles from papers, paste to cardboard, and assemble a miniature menagerie. Recommends blunt-ended scissors for safety and easy handling.
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