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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1896
Page
2
Electric Bitters is advertised as a seasonable medicine to relieve languor, liver torpor, and bilious fevers. It claims to counter malaria poisoning and ease headache indigestion constipation and dizziness. Sold by S. B. Burr Jr's drug store at 50 cents and 1.00 per bottle.
The Chinese mandarins are distinguished by rank badges on robes and hats. Each class features specific birds, gems, and button colors from coral red for the second class to a plain gold button for the ninth. The depicted robes include peacock, pelican, phoenix, stork, partridge, sparrow, and other symbols.
The passage explains how facial lines indicate traits. It links eyebrow wrinkles to honesty in money matters, nose and chin to age, mouth lines to sadness or mirth, eye lines to enjoyment, and lip and chin features to friendship, love, and leadership.
James H. Brown issue clerk at the Fort Hall agency in Ross Fork Idaho reportedly harbors the longest mustache among living men. It spans five feet tip to tip and four and a half feet each side from the lip center. Indians reportedly gaze on the immense beard with awe and reverence, believing Brown blessed by God.
A collection of wry observations on behavior and politics. A 12 year old's drawer, western silver advocates, job hustlers, plagiarists, courtroom front seats, and a bow to common sense mingle in this Smerville Journal quote parade.
An advertisement touts Simmons Liver Regulator as a guaranteed method to “wake up your liver” and feel refreshed. It emphasizes a unique Red Z package mark and warns against taking any other product to ensure promised health benefits.
Parboil a pair of sweetbreads for 15 minutes then drain and cut into pieces. Melt butter add flour, mix, thin with milk, bring to a boil, add sweetbreads and cook five minutes. Season with salt and white pepper and serve in china cases.
The Macon Telegraph denounces mud slinging as harmful in campaigns and within parties. It frames personal abuse as unprofitable and warns it damages the user more than rivals.
A. I. Wooster of Osseo Michigan suffered ex cruciatingly from piles for twenty years and was cured quickly by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. The preparation is claimed to be the absolute cure for skin diseases and is widely used, as stated by Dr. W. A. Warairr.
Harper's Bazar notes Chicago surpasses New York in annual library funding, book holdings, and reader proportion. Only Boston exceeds Chicago. New York ranks third, with Philadelphia and St. Louis following.
Figures on New York City consumption show 960 million eggs per year 300000 pounds of butter daily and similar milk and beef totals. Speed’s exhaustive study in The Ladies Home Journal presents these as moderate estimates for feeding a large city.
The railway was enjoined from building a seven wire cut off between Richland and Louvale, argued to sidetrack Lumpkin. The company proceeds, signing a contract with Atlanta contractor William Redmond to build from Louvale to Richland, with work starting soon and the cut off to be completed.
Lesroy Armstrong in The New Bohemian crafts a tranquil scene at dawn. A traveler rests at a tent door by a stream in a forest where fire glows in the distance and birds sing in a melodic forest chorus.
For over fifty years Winxton's Soorsine Syrup has been sold by druggists for teething children. It claims to soothe, soften gums, relieve pain and diarrhoea, with immediate relief. Available at 25 cents a bottle, marketed as Mrs. Winlow's Soothing Syrup.
Wash asparagus and boil in salted water for about half an hour. Remove tops, then heat milk and press the stalks through a colander into it. Rub butter and flour, stir into soup, boil promptly, then add tops and season well.
Advertises One Minute Cough Cure as the standard time tested remedy for every form of cough or cold claiming it is the only harm free preparation that yields immediate results.
The Savannah News mocks Tom Reed calling him dull and uninteresting after a convention, noting Reed’s habit of staying silent while a metaphorical bee hums. The piece lauds his restraint and humor to those familiar with his temperament.
An old advertisement extols De Witt s Little Early Risers as a liver cleanser blood purifier and system invigorator endorsed by Dr W A Waiger for spring toning and health.
A church once built by Abstainers and Bible Christians in Third street Philadelphia, known for meat abstinence, is now occupied by a pork packing and sausage making firm.
The speaker claims women are moved by sympathy toward a man who looks wretched, saying pity can lead to passion and that public sentiment may be swayed by a sad bearing more than overt affection.
A courtroom exchange captures Brown noting money left behind and Jones confirming it had departed long ago. The judge comments on the remark as the hearing progresses.
There is fun in the foam and health in the cup of HIRES Rootbeer the great temperance drink. Made only by The Charles E. B. Hires Co Philadelphia package makes gallons sold everywhere.
A reader recounts scenes of virtue and vice from farm to city life. He notes young men selling farms, turning merchant, and dying in illness, while prudent wives rebuild fortunes. The piece warns against deseit, extravagance, and foolish lawsuits and extols candor and wise counsel.
A reader from Middleburg Iowa, Mrs R DeYoung, commends One Minute Cough Cure as the quickest acting and most satisfactory cough remedy she has used for herself and her children over six years. Dr W A WriSat.
In a bold claim Puck said a girdle round the earth in forty minutes, while Dr. Depew nearly matched it sending a message from New York to Japan in under an hour. The Boston Herald credits arrangement for this telegraphic feat as a new triumph of speed and a sign of electricity’s advancing conquest.
The tonic claims the largest worldwide sales and ranks first among medicines for its cures and permanent remedies, asserting its dominance in the market.
Dr Samuel L Brown of David City recounts his recovery from paralysis varicose veins and diabetes after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. He credits the treatment with freeing him to practice again and cites a Brainerd postmaster case as another success. The letters announce the pills as a blood builder and nerve restorer sold nationwide.
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