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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1896
Page
6
Mrs Cleveland refuses public display of her children calling them private persons and sacred to her family. Report notes few exceptions granting a single photographer access while others cannot photograph the tots. Public sentiment contrasts with observed charm of the children.
The Northeastern railroad property valued at about 290000 dollars drew no bids by Friday when bids were due. Governor Atkinson had offered the sale and a receiver directs the property, but no party appeared to submit offers. The state will keep the line running under existing control.
Dispatch describes Indian women as proverbially healthy and strong. It notes they march days with babies on backs, travel around confinement, and gain endurance from a local weed used to make a medicine sold by a druggist as Indian Weed or Kemale Medicine.
The piece traces ballet from prehistoric roots to its Italian birthplace and its growth with opera. It notes Medici import to France, court patronage under Catherine de Medici, and noble involvement including Louis XI Henry IV and Le Roi Soleil.
Do not be induced to buy Hood’s Sarsaparilla. The ad urges faithful use and promises cure after other medicines fail. It claims Hood’s Sarsaparilla cares and offers vegetable pills priced at 25 cents.
The article argues humans imagine space giants by earth standards. It cites Arcturus as a huge planet with a circumference of 2,000,000 miles and a diameter of about 658,000 miles, contrasting it with Earth's 8,000 mile diameter and 24,000 mile circumference.
The passage speculates on habited planets and compares imagined beings to human scales. If Arcturus hosts intelligent life, the author argues Arcturians would be extremely tall, about 12 miles in height, based on proportional reasoning with our own world.
An advertisement touts Simmons Liver Regulator as a Spring medicine to cleanse the liver and improve health. The copy claims the product removes a slug gish liver and bad blood, promising a “new man” or “new woman” after a dose, with a red Z on the package as a marker.
The Savannah Press reports Mr Moody’s sermon recounting a godmother’s plea to save a young man from dissipation. Moody describes the dramatic chase through pews to reach him, the aunt’s fears, and the man’s eventual reform and later public confession at Moody’s meetings.
If you have loss of appetite constipation headache fainting spells or are nervous sleepless excitable melancholy or dizzy this medicine is the cure. Health and strength are guaranteed by its use. Fifty cents and one dollar at S B Burr Jr's Drug Store.
An advertisement touts Orange Blossom as a direct topical cure for female troubles and related symptoms. It claims rapid, permanent relief from dropsy of the womb, irregular menses, leucorrhea, ulcers, and other conditions. Sold as a pastille for self use by Dr J A McGill Co of Chicago with mailing option on receipt of $1.
The Kansas City Times extols John G Carlisle as a paragon of Southern honor and integrity, arguing his political career shows no profit from office and no stain of scandal. It lauds his long service and compares him to historic leaders from Washington to Jefferson. July is praised for a matchless record.
An advertisement extols Dr. Witt's Witch Hazel Salve as a remedy for sores wounds and piles. It claims immediate relief from itching and burning and says chapped lips and cold sores heal in two to three hours under Dr W A Wieraur.
The article reviews a twenty year study by Professor Worthington on controlled drop splashes. It details how a fixed size mercury drop from a short height produces regular surface rays, droplet fragmentation, ring formation, and rebound, with thirty sequential stages photographed in one twentieth of a second.
An old advertisement claims the product cures coughs and colds by acting at the right moment. It emphasizes taking the remedy when symptoms appear and urges action with a casual call to the reader.
A 73 year old Mexican woman in Morelia reportedly born with a second face on her right thigh. Doctors described rapid facial development including eye nostril teeth and brow as the cyst enlarged, prompting medical interest in Vera Cruz and Mexico City newspapers.
An advertisement extols Simmons Liver Regulator as the top liver remedy and blood enhancer. It features a testimonial from Mrs. R W Smith of McIntosh Bluff Alabama urging friends to take the product for health and happiness.
The Brooklyn bridge railway has operated twelve years and three months carrying 391 153 850 passengers between New York and Brooklyn. The figure equals a fraction more than 27 percent of the world population and amounts to about one and a fifth of Europe’s population and five and three quarters of the United States population.
In the Baltimore based takeover of the Georgia Midland and Gulf railroad the new owners shortened the name by removing Gulf and restoring Georgia Midland.
A Covington Kentucky Post feature recalls Judge John M Rice of Lawrence County who retired after years in law and politics. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with saving his life after years of rheumatic sciatic illness and liver failure, noting rapid recovery and renewed health. The ad claims pills restore blood and nerves and lists price and ordering details.
A man proclaims a plan to regulate the world aided by DeWitt’s Little Early Risers pills as the druggist hands him a bottle. Dr W A Wriaur is noted in the fragment.
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