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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1885
Page
6
Local notices report deaths, visits, school calendars, repairs, and social events in Griffin, Talbot and Upson counties. Topics include Mrs. A M McIntosh’s death, church picnics, school openings, marble grave markers, measles and whooping cough, property rebuilds, and a Centennial Association meeting.
Last Friday neighbors in Monroe County at four miles from Barnesville sent fifteen plows to aid Mr. Newsom Sappington who was sick for ten days. The act shows the community’s generous character and continues a long-standing pattern of prompt help when illness or hardship occurs.
The Jackson street stables of Mr R G Matthews display an elaborate stock of coffins caskets and burial robes with elegant trimming and two new hearse horses. He promotes a large assortment for ladies and gentlemen and invites customers to inspect the catalogue and goods.
Last Friday morning Master Joe Willoughby drowned while swimming at the pond of Mr T F Matthews. His little brother alarmed the father as the youth, unable to swim, disappeared beneath deep water with a plank. The body was found and brought home for burial at the family plot in Goggansville after funeral services held Saturday.
Farmers and Mechanics urged to buy Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup to relieve coughs colds croup and bronchial issues for mothers wives and sisters. Priced 50 cents and 1.00 sample free sold by J W Hightower. Also advertise Paradise cigars at J F Taylors tobacconist.
W H Woopatt, appointed Sixth Congressional Temperance Committee member, announces Pike County temperance leadership. He names members from Hollowville, Stearnesville, Ninth, Eppinger’s, Zebulon, Eighth, Second, Milner, Barnesville and urges local temperance groups to appoint delegates. A meeting in Zebulon on the 30th for selecting delegates to the Georgia State Convention in Atlanta June 10–11 is proposed.
A fragmentary notice bundle highlights personal grooming ads and trades including Parker's Hair Balsam claiming to restore hair and hide grayness, plus local business promos for a plow, stables with harness shop, picture frame mouldings, and Georgia Cane Syrup from Taylor's.
An essay denounces indiscriminate addition of military and academic prefixes to names. It argues titles should signify official roles or achievement, not casual status. The author condemns puffery in personal notices and critiques the proliferation of Ph Ds and LL Ds, urging merit over flattery. The piece ends with a local advertisement for Electric Bitters and crackers.
A list of postal guidelines covers registering valuable packages, avoiding cash by mail, prohibiting live or certain items, weight limits, credit restrictions, wrapping for inspection, and stamp exchanges. It emphasizes identity checks for money orders, acceptance of coins, manuscript postage, prompt mailing, accurate addressing, and proper recipient information to prevent dead letter cases.
Bucklen Arnica Salve advertised as best for cuts bruises sores ulcers and other skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Sold for 25 cents per box by J. W. Hightower. The Northern critic notes the South must shift from cotton to general farming for agricultural prosperity.
An Enterprising House, reliable J. W. Hightower, offers Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with a positive guarantee and trial bottle. Also notes fresh picnic pickles at Taylor’s and invites customers to try the “Paradise” brand.
The Knoxville Tribune notes farmers’ wheat crops may fail yet fruit crops show unusual promise. It urges extensive fruit drying and canning and suggests employing rural women in related labor as a productive response.
What is the best medicine to regulate the bowels cure costiveness aid digestion and give strength to the system Parker's Tonic. It is pleasant to taste and will save a thousand times its cost in every family. Floods have devastated the Arkansas valley and crops have suffered in the area.
A Rutland Georgia mother details her two year old boy's paralysis and lifelong limp. After months of feeble health and a steel ankle brace relief comes when he uses Swift's Specific starting July 1884. Six bottles later his limp improves and he walks without braces. The mother credits the remedy with saving her child and restoring hope, dated February 2 1885.
A Gettysburg resident credits Swift's Specific 8 8 S with curing years of catarrh. The testimonial praises the remedy's virtue and notes the writer can now share this message, dated January 14, 1884, with the Atlanta Swartz Center offering free literature.
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