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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1897
Page
4
The piece surveys public and private Atlanta, noting the shift toward transparency and judging figures like McKinley, Sewall, and Reed. It critiques saloon influence, comments on prosperity, and highlights upcoming political issues including silver and Southern railway power debates.
A Northern and Southern press clash over biased histories and the impact on attracting capital. A satirical Southern paper mocks patriotic fervor while voices condemn censorship of truth for material gain, urging balanced scholarship and growth without pandering to Northern interests.
A memoir style note recalls an old pupils days at a Milners Cross Roads school. The writer describes Sabbath school, happy children, and memories of hickory marks, bells, nails for hats, paddles, and bouncing balls, ending with a reminiscence at a final stop.
Barnesville should begin building another mill soon with a cotton mill on the old oil mill site. A new company could use the Georgia Underwear Mills power, reducing costs, and provide work for about fifty people, boosting the town’s manufacturing prospects.
Old Curiosities in Piedmont owner M W Bussey shows items from his grandfather. A pair of spectacles likely seventy five years old and a grandfather’s pocket book with a fifty year old buckskin string from a deer in Pike county forties. He holds many similar relics.
The advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional disease needing constitutional treatment and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio. It asserts the remedy is taken internally, targets blood and mucous surfaces, offers a $100 prize for cures it fails to achieve, and directs readers to obtain circulars with testimonials.
The Reeves Boys offer cash sales with cheap prices and a wide range of goods on a bargain counter. Customers are invited to visit and are promised courteous service from Messrs. B. F. Reeves Jim Reeves and S. C. Charping, with ads in the Cazerrr.
Mrs. J. O. Walker presented a fine pulpit Bible to the Presbyterian church through the Ladies Aid Society. The Bible once belonged to her father and is described as handsome and valuable, a thoughtful gift that honors Barnesville and its community friends.
The Crokinole board by Barnesville Planing Mills earns praise. It has been in Dr. W. A. Wright’s drug store display window and received favorable notes. Turner and Prout run a well equipped plant ready to make almost any product customers may want.
Legal sale of all that house and lot in Zebulon Pike county Georgia bounded by James H Howell, alley between W M Maples and Yarbrough, W C Yarbrough road, and Zebulon Jackson road comprising about 3.5 acres to satisfy a deed security dated February 4 1896 and recorded February 6 1896 for American Building and Loan Association of Fulton County.
Farmers can reduce costs by borrowing from Barnesville Savings Bank and paying cash for supplies, keeping expenditures lean and preserving working capital with upfront purchases.
O R Downey editor of the Democrat Albion Indiana reports Chamberlains Cough Remedy cured a dangerous cough in 24 hours. He declares he will never be without it and extols the remedy as among ten thousand. Sold by J H Blackburn druggist.
For sale 10 000 loads fine building rock and 500 cords dry pine wood at 1.50 per cord. Also water power for running mill or machinery, a good mill house and mill machinery. Included are farming lands with nice houses. All cheap. See S M Howard Barnesville Ga P O Box 160.
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