Falling A Mile Balloon Adventure Tissandier and Gowers Escape
Tissandier and Gower recount a perilous balloon ascent from Autetilavaut during experiments on theories by M. Gower. At 1500 feet they faced a sudden loss of lift, a vacuum in the envelope, and a rapid descent aided by ballast shedding. They landed safely after a dramatic near-miss and recorded the event in a notebook.
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Gaston Tissandier
Frederick Gower
Huisland
Nordica
Tissandier Establishment
Autetilavaut
M. Gower
Paris
Vincennes
Ha of i Morning News
Fontenay
Ound
Tissandier
Acuin
Tiksandier
Ealmly
Local notices and business updates from Barnesville Gazette
J. Albert Bar brey departs Singer Manufacturing. Bennett & Bro. employ fifty hands. DeGroat & Padgett employ thirty two. M rs Mendes insured by Knights of Honor. Holmes Wash and Centrofide hawked. Elis Black injured in fall yesterday. Charlie Mann's arm burned. G Samamiers buys half interest in Forsyth corner lot. Dentists recommend Wash and Centrifuge for diseased gums. Chambers & Matthews plan rebuilding stable by January. Visitors from Center Alabama and Henry County Weekly. New cylinder press at residence. J A Allen rode sixty miles for ministerial appointment. Jasper County News praised for new dress. E C Collier rents S Fr Mann residence. Ha demonstration in Macon. Sheriff Bussey attends. Dr. Kendall visits from Trinity Church. H R Chambers and T W Cochran buy old livery stable lot for two brick stores. Chattanooga Chilled Plow advertised. Pike County primary election notice. Death of Mrs. D. F. Bennett. Meat market seeking fat cattle and hogs. Middlebrooks & Graddick contacted. Daily Gazette suspends publication due to fire. revival possible with advance subscriptions.
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Freesures
Chambers & Matthews
N.F. Cablet
Center
Alashaine
J. A. Fouche
Henry County Weekly
Charn
Gazette
J. ¥. Allen
Sundey
Barnesville
Jasper County News
Lockett
H.R. Chambers
T. W. Cochrane
J.es Blalock
Chattanooga
J. D. Woodall
Democratic Party
Pike County
Zebulon
D. F. Bennett
Baptist Church
Middlebrooks & Graddick
J.D. Woodall
Daily Gazette
Postponed Receivers Sale Noted for Friday Next Week
Reference to advertisement of Messrs A. Stafford and W. P. Bussey receivers of Mr T. B. Lyon shows the sale announced for Friday the 14th is postponed to Friday the 21st. Notices advise public to attend on the new date on the public square.
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Messrs
A. Stafford
T. B. Lyon
Leber Goolsby Co Advertises Reliable Cigars Atlanta
Leber Goolsby Co of Atlanta asks especial attention to their advertisement. They boast strong connections and ship orders direct from factories for customer benefits. Mr Goolsby is well known to merchants from personal visits.
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Messrs
Leber
Marriages and local business pages in early 1900s edition
The notice recounts two weddings at the homes of guardians in Thomaston with Judge Jas W. Means and Rev. George W. Yarbrough officiating. It also notes the opening of a hats and umbrellas shop in Atlanta, listing Dunlap and Stetson brands, plus a long list of Civil War era legal suits against the Central railroad and the filling of additional suits forthcoming.
Enterprising J W Hightower Sells Dr King s New Discovery
Local merchant J W Hightower secures the agency for Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption and guarantees a cure with a trial bottle free. Items listed include jewelry and household goods from multiple donors such as Walter Grace Mrs T B Lyon Miss Maud Cook and J W Stafford among others.
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J. W. Hightower
Dr. King
Walter Grace
T. B. Lyon
Miss Maud Cook
Mrs Powell
J. F. Wooten
Miss Willis
Maybelle Powell
Dick Cubbege
R L Swatts
W. C. Stafford
J. M. Crutcher
J. W. Stafford
A. Blalock
N. Woodward
Soltaire King
M.T. Grace
Julia Knox
E. M. Blalock
J. A. Blalock
Fires Consume Gins and Cotton Stored in Monroe County
Two separate blazes cause heavy losses. Mr. 8 M Howard’s gin house burned during operation with $400 insurance and about four bales of cotton lost. In Holmes County near Monroe, W H H Bush’s gin and many bales of cotton were destroyed by an incendiary fire with no insurance, plus 2,000 bushels of cotton seed and a new press burned. community sympathy offered for the misfortune.
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M. Howard
W. H. H. Bush
Monroe County
Lush
Holmes
Calamity Notice Demands Immediate Debt Repayment
A. J. Wire of Milner Georgia urges friends who owe him debts to call and pay at once. He notes extended indebtedness since last spring and says not one has paid a dollar by October 15. He warns it is a calamity for a man in business to fail at maturity and requests payment from all who owe him.
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Atlante
Onte
Jedd
Atlanta
Thoneall
A. J. Wire. Milner
Sale of Lyon House lot in Barnesville GA set for November
By order of the Judge of the Superior Court of the Hunt Circuit the Moore Marsh & Co suit against Thomas J. Lyon sets the Lyon House lot in Barnesville Ga for sale on Friday November 21 at We oclock in the morning on the public square. The lot is bounded by Hese Matthews Jackson street W R Murphey Co public square and depot road. The purchaser holds under bond from John Neal with balance due. ENGINEERS.
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Superior Court of the Hunt Circuit
Moore, Marsh & Co
Thomas
Lyon
Barnesville
Thorns
Lyon House
Hese & Matthews
Jackson Street
W.R. Murphey & Co
Public Square
Thomas J. Lyon
John Neal
Neal
Curious Tuning Fork Deafness Experiment
A San Francisco physician, inspired by German neuralgia work, tests tuning forks on ears of congenitally deaf individuals. He reports vibrations are perceived, stimulating the rudimentary auditory nerve nearly as much as normal hearing in the affected patients.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Lefttea rubber rings exchange notes for restoration
A fragment discusses rubber ring use to keep a girl from harm, noting restoring elasticity by soaking in water with a pinch of mpmpanin. It cites Gazette Medicale del Algerie on cider drinkers and stone relief, and a humorous aside about a cold after drinking wine.
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Gazette Medicale del Algerie
Heligoland A British Waypoint in the North Sea
The writer details Heligoland as a windward North Sea resort once Danish, then British since 1800, with a small population and a governor. He describes clean streets, painted gardens, two land zones, and modern comforts for visitors, noting access from London via Hamburg and Cuxhaven in under thirty hours.
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Neptune
Heligoland
Helgo
Lethia
Heiliges
Holy Land
Lindgair
Dsmn
Oberland
Hell
Vikin
Tucker
Iomdon
Hamburg
Cuxhaven
Vegetarianism Gains Ground in Manchester Dinner Trial
A Manchester society offered an eighteenpenny all vegetable dinner as an experiment and tickets sold out before the event. The menu featured green peas, tomato soup, curried vegetables and rice, mushroom pie, and a vegetable fritter with fried onions, which drew strong praise from the reporter for its bold flavors.
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London
Fsaragi
Pasana
Cure for betrmattism in a New Haven home
A rheumatic patient used a shotgun to treat a rheumatic ache. He aimed downward and tamped around the house until fatigued then reversed the gun and played with the gunpowder, causing a blast that shook a hole in a wall and sickened the head of the family living upstairs.
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Colling
Opera Critic's Burlesque Praise Sparks Montana Scene
A Montana paper lauds a burlesque prima donna for her birdlike upper tones and agile shifts between bass riffs and spiritual treble, while a Burlington Free Press quip mocks a cold citizen seeking shelter and a witticism on money and law echoes as a social jab.
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Montana
bLair
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Tissandier and Gowers
Anteull
Mir Barwesville
J. Albarbrey
The
Singer Manufacturing Company
Bennett & Bro
Mersre
DeGroatt & Padgett
C. S. Mendes
Lodge of Knights of Honor
Elis Black
Harge
Charlie Mann
G. Samamiers
D. A. Stroud
Forsyth
W. Cochran & CO
C. Orr
T. W. Cochran & CO
Murray
West Solomon Street
Royal
Cullin
Murray & Word
Leber, Goolsby & Co
J. A. Seaton & Co
Central Railroad
J. Ff. Taylor
Rls. Crutcher
T. G. Middlebrooks & Co
T. G. Middlebrooks
Middlebrooks
J.T. Blalock
Rogers & Smith
Rogers & Smith, Mrs. L. R. West, M. Newman, R. G. Matthews, W. 0. Marshburn
J. L. Aldredge
W. C. Jenkins
W. A. Prout
H. N. Cain
T. E. Rose
C.T. Tyler
J. B. Gardner
J. S. Ware
T. A. Jenkins
Fannie Mangham
Macon
G. W. Jordan Jr
Eppie Eider
J. F. Coney
Clara Rockwell
C. By Adams
Willie Redding
R. D. Brown
Knox
Troy
Ala
Chas Tyler
May Stafford
Tully Blalock
Ma Rawls
Kate Swatts
Nannie Howard
J. F. Hanson
Berry Spoon
H. M. Comer
A Stafford
C.O. Wynn
Ella Rawles
Blannie Stafford
T. W. Cochran
R.D. Brown
C. B. Adams
G. W. Jordan, Jr
H. C. Pickett
Thomaston
W. D. Caraway
Gazettr
Caraway
J P & WR Holmes
Mulberry Street
Geo
Ith District
Upson County
Cudenhead Place
Thomas B. Lyon
A. Starfort
W.P. Bussey
J. ¥. Allen, A. T. Tisinger
Allen & Tisinger
Attorneys At Law
Georgia
United States
Supreme Courts of
Peachtree Street
Atlant
Milner
W.D. Willis
Wallah
Englands
Germany
Opera In
Burlington Free Press
Citzen
Gath
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