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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1899
Page
2
A hunter recounts grizzly feats including lifting a 1000 pound weight with one forepaw and moving a 1200 pound cow. He describes a moonlit scene in the Hudson Bay coast mountains where a big bear carries a dead cow three miles across rugged terrain to its cubs, then is shot at near its lair.
A reader praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing long standing womb trouble and improving life after eight bottles and Sana tive Wash usage. She states prior doctors and medicines offered little relief and now she feels well and will recommend the remedies widely.
The board approved numerous county bills including lumber, ditching, and road work. It reviewed road petitions, pauper placements, and reduced jail fees to seven fifty per month. Officials W C Jenkins J L Coggin H G Jordan presided with clerk R Gwyn recording.
Otton states that cotton remains the South’s money crop and that planters who maximize yield per area at minimum cost earn the most. He emphasizes good cultivation, proper rotation, and liberal use of fertilizers containing at least three essential nutrients.
Adults with cold symptoms may call at John I. Blackburn’s to receive a free sample bottle of Boschee's German Syrup. Limit one bottle per person. no free samples to children without parental order. The ad claims worldwide sales and physician usage of the throat and lung remedy.
The state fair committee lists unique contests for Black exhibitors including plowing, rail splitting, cotton picking, horse shoeing, shoe making, tailoring and cooking. Special events offer $10 prizes for each top performance such as straight furrow plowing, rail splitting, fast cotton picking, best shoe making, men’s brogans, women’s jeans, and a farmer’s dinner for three. Vice Chairman Northen backs a Negro day to draw large crowds.
The ad touts Dr. Tichenor's Antiseptic as peppermint scented and effective for injuries and colic. It urges readers to ask for the product at all druggists and notes the bottle is available locally.
The Hon. John Temple Graves argues racial separation is the logical inevitable solution to the negro problem. He claims the white race must uphold purity and law by separation, a view echoed by the Charleston News and Courier and Macon Telegraph noting broad agreement and eventual acceptance.
Cave Springs Georgia in September 1998 a medical note recommends Dr Tichenor’s antiseptic as a dressing for wounds and bruises based on about three years of use by J C Warts M D. The letter endorses its effectiveness for such purposes.
A man boasted of drinking a bottle of wine daily for fifty years, yet his twelve children suffered severe outcomes with six dying in infancy, one idiotic, one insane, and four nervous invalids. The piece warns that ancestral sins may be paid by later generations as an old law is invoked.
Thomas Whitfield and Co. recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for la grippe, promising prompt relief and prevention of pneumonia. For sale by J. K. Blackburn.
A Burma observer claims that traditional tattoo ink used in Burmese tattooing acts as an antitoxin against venomous snake bites. He cites local belief that tattooed individuals suffer no ill effects from bites, corroborating the unusual claim with testimony from a Burmese gentleman.
An English journal warns anger harms the unhappy mortal much like toxicants to inebriates. It notes anger as a disease with dire results, citing Sir Richard Quain on physical power and wealth not shielding from danger. Each outburst can threaten life as heart and brain suffer. anger disrupts heart rhythm and vessel control.
W M Repine, editor, touts Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds as the true remedy after trying others. He claims it cures coughs colds and whooping cough with a guaranteed satisfaction and offers free bottle samples at W A Wright s Drug Store.
The Crystal Palace Company repairs its aquariums and links them to local lakes reservoirs and fountains in its grounds. Fifty thousand trout eggs have hatched and a start has been made. The venture could profit from trout sold at 25 cents a pound across the season.
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