Middle Georgia notes mix of ads and local updates
A collage of short notes from Barnesville and nearby areas includes moved professionals from Atlanta and Jackson, new shops opening on Market Street, meat and haberdashery offers, a public wedding, a skating rink accident, and local book and farming news. plus ads for wallpaper samples and furniture.
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the Gazette
New York World
Hugh Conway
A. E. Seifert
Money Order Department
Atlanta Postoffice
Monroe County
Georgia
Atlanta
Crutcher
Local notices and business openings in city
Tuesday afternoon returns bring Hon James H Blount and Thon Thomas Hardeman home. R G Matthews finishes a commodious barn and livery ready for public use. Woodall Blasingame open groceries in Chambers room. Cruthers sells china matting. J J Cook opens harness factory in Middlebrooks Graddicks building. New Corptes and window shades at Cruthers. Middlebrooks Graddick add kitchen and ice cellar for restaurant with soda water and ice cream. Central Agricultural Club report notes farming industry gaps and practical ideas from Judge Brown. Oat meal at Kennedy s. 500 bushels yellow corn at Murphey Co with more offered.
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Mesers Woodall & Blasingame
H. R.chambers
J.J. Cook
Middlebrooks & Graddicks
Atlanta
Messrs Middlebrooks & Graddick
Jackson Street
Central Agricultural Club
Upson County
Agricultural Department
Judge Brown
J. L. Kennedy
W. R. Murphey & Co
Texas Land Sale For Actual Settlers In Center Shelby
Texas land listing offers twelve thousand acres for sale to real settlers on long time. For particulars write Hicks and Bro Center Shelby County Texas. Also a notice seeking a capable intelligent lady to take a permanent sole agency for household goods stock furnished without investment. References required J B Hettne Co Chicago. Professional services notice promotes Dr J P Thurman with office at Gem Drug Store and residence at former Methodist parsonage.
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Texas
J.B. Hettne Co
Chicago
J. P. Thurman
Gem Drug Store
Methodist
Thurman
Home Comfort Wrought Iron Range Gains Attention
Mr Coleman of the Wrought Iron Range Co of St Louis canvasses Griffin area for the Home Comfort Range. The iron range is praised for durability and cooking quality with emphasis on its superiority over malleable iron stoves. A manufacturers advertisement is noted in a separate column.
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Coleman
Wrought Iron Range Co
St Louis
Griffin
Price Baking Powder Co
Dr. Price
Chicago
St. Louis
Ladies Memorial Association selects Mary E Bryan for Memorial address
The Ladies Memorial Association plans to invite Mrs. Mary E. Bryan of Atlanta to deliver a Memorial address or suitable tribute at the event. A called meeting is set for Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Mrs. J. L. Kennedy's home, with all ladies urged to attend. Spades shovels hoes forks rakes and garden tools are offered cheaply at W. R. Murphey & Co.
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J. L. Kennedy
W. R. Murphey& Co
Octopus Grips Diver and Dyspepsia Duel
A diver off the Alaska coast faced a rare encounter as an octopus seized him while searching for pearls. The article links this fearsome grip to the relief felt by those treated with Brown's Iron Bitters for dyspepsia, noting cures for Mrs Schmidt and her daughter in Baltimore. It also reports Griffin's near unanimous support for public schools with 448 votes cast.
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Alaska
Brown
Schmidt
B B Boas Blood Purifier Promoted for Scrofula Cure
An 19th century advertisement urges families to use B. B. Boas as a blood purifier for scrofula and consumption risk. The copy claims universal public confidence and certificates from neighbors and druggists, presenting the remedy as the quickest absolute cure.
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B. B. Boas
Mrs. B. D. Hardaway Returns Home from Visit in Thomaston
The text notes Mrs. B. D. Hardaway returned to her Thomaston home Friday after visiting relatives. It also advertises J. L. Kennedy's shop offering tobacco, flour, canned goods, Seed Irish Potatoes, Pickled Rib, and Dr. Still's Cough Syrup.
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B. D. Hardaway
Thomaston
J. L. Kennedy
J. L. Kennedys
J. L. Kennedy’s
J.L. Kennedy’s
Death of Mattie Moore 14 in Pike County Georgia
The obituary notes Mattie Moore died December 26 1884 at her parents home in Pike County Georgia aged 14. It praises her gentle manners ambition kindness and scholarly promise and laments a bright future cut short by death while expressing faith in a peaceful afterlife.
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Pike County
Mattie Moore
Mattie
Electric Bitters and Dr King’s New Discovery Featured
A Girard Kansas customer touts Electric Bitters as a cure for kidney and liver issues and blood purification. A Mechanicsburg man praises Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption, noting a weight gain after free trials and purchased bottles. Also mentions a government inauguration display costing little beyond a small appropriation.
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T. W. Atkins
Girard, Kan
J. W. Hightower
E. Springer
Mechanicsburg
Dr. King
J. W. Hightowers Drug Store
Honest medicine urged for liver and blood health
An old subscriber writes that neighbors have bought many useless tonics for liver kidneys and blood and urges readers to try Dr Harter’s Iron Tonic as an honest beneficial remedy.
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Bprron
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Barnesville
Barnesville, Georgia
TGY
U. H. R. Chambers
P. S
M. M
Maui
J. W. Cheney
Jackson
Middlebrooks & Graddick
J. M. Pound
J. F. Howard
G. L. Summers
Virginia
R. W. Brooks
Merriwether County
Dow Law
W.R. Menaney & Co
Mike Shambles
Worthy Fambro
Ira Smith Clary
Messrs
Allen and
Tysinger
Cuba
Hogsheads
Webb
Murrney & Co
John Allen
Ella Cook
Holy Weddlock
John Neale
Willie Daniel
T. R. Riviere
Market Street
Milton
Tschendy
Upson
J. M. Suggs, Jr
J. O. Whattley
Hubank
Davis Dickson
Eubank
Dickson
J.T. Hunt & Co
E. Frank Coe
Merryman
Merrymans
Remembe Book Store
Tre
Tae Pry
B. Lyon
S F. Mann
Chapman & Crawley
Milner
James H. Blount
Thomas Hardeman
R. G. Matthews
Home Comfort
Our
Our Republic
Noah Webster
Cornwall
Alfred
Singland
Cadmus
Greece
New World
Columbus
Washington
Webester
Planet Jr
J.B. Redding
Willacoochee
Coffee County
Bransick and
Albany
D. E. Gaskin
Brunswick & Albany
Swift
Swrer Spectere Co
Drawer
Atlanta, Ga
EK. F. Hoge
Sterling Diaily
Atlanta Evening Journal
Buckien
Fitz Hugh Lee
Dr. Still
Ill
Grrocers
ZUR Weg FM
Oyal Wowsy
Sorurey
Rowan Baking Powder Co
Wall St
N.Y Janet
Adieus
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