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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1897
Page
3
Ayer's Sarsaparilla recalls its early rise half a century ago and its World Fair 1893 medal. The ad touts its power cures and the difficulty imitators face in matching its famed record.
A poem fragment laments the Ottoman empire with sharp indictment of foreign influence and corruption. The speaker calls for the ruin to fall and for a rebuilt civic temple where freedom endures and suffering stops, echoing Richard Watson Gilder’s Century verse.
Maurice Sandys comes back to Lanstead amid a landslip and bitter cold to face his death. He rejects help and endures pain with defiance as Dr Lysaght, Mr Drysdale, and staff rescue others and tend him. Maud Drysdale and the crowd offer quiet, restrained support as he confronts mortality.
Editor Morrison of Worthington Indiana recommends Electric Bitters as a cure for consumption and sick headache and a general tonic. Mrs Annie Stehle of Chicago recovered after six bottles, regaining appetite strength and energy. Prices 50 cents and 1.00 with W H Chambers Drug Store as retailer.
An advertisement for DeWitt’s Little Early Risers promotes the famous pills as a remedy for constipation and stomach troubles. It claims work builds health and rest is essential and emphasizes the pills’ supposed terms of use. A separate Am ericus Herald quotation notes severe penalties for harming a family, contrasting with legal leniency for mass violence.
A fragmentary line from the page notes a simile about chemistry on wrappers, phrased in a terse, puzzle-like style. The text centers on a single illustrative comparison with minimal context and no clear event or person tied to it.
The advertisement promotes Dr. King’s New Discovery for coughs colds and consumption claiming it cures many ailments. It guarantees satisfaction or money back and offers free trial bottles at W. H. Chambers' Drug Store with a recommendation to take New Life Pills as a stomach and bowel regulator.
A fragmentary notice advertises a contest or prize for inventions and ideas. The text promises wealth and asks readers to submit and enter their concepts for a reward, with references to a wide list of inventions sought and an evaluation process.
At a recent Atlanta convention the Georgia Epworth League passed resolutions pledging to banish whisky from the state and cooperate with all movements toward its suppression, calling liquor the greatest curse and hindrance to the cause of Christ.
A brief sentence asserts that the product One Minute Cough Cure was designed to cure coughs. The statement emphasizes its intended purpose as a quick remedy.
Prof Alvin P Barnaby of Hartsville College recounts a long illness with stomach trouble nervousness and collapse. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with a full recovery after trying multiple doctors and treatments. Prof Bowman and an affidavit support the tale and urge use of the pills. The drug is sold by dealers or by mail from Schenectady NY.
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