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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1898
Page
6
A Budapest livery hotel hosts a gypsy band whose members are described as swarthy Bohemian. The hotel uses an informal payment method during performances, with guests placing coins in a dinner plate circulated by the musicians, often a nickel or twopence piece. The piece notes the liberal, carefree lifestyle of the gypsy performers.
The passage notes Samoa as Stevenson’s island home where rulers and chief justice leaders engage in laundry work as a public service. It highlights the playful claim that Samoan leaders discuss high politics one moment and bid for washing services the next, even requesting testimonials of satisfaction for visiting guests.
A playful exchange compares brothers, noting one being taller and another broader. The banter includes a quip about a separate character, Lustige Blatter, as a comic aside.
A Detroit lawyer who had long been esteemed by the bar refused commissions and returned $210,000 to a client after buying back 3,000 railroad shares sold in error. He covered a $7,500 shortfall from his own funds, keeping ethics over gain as the stock later fell to twenty-one.
A collection of sayings and adages titled Favorite KENNEDYS Remedy covers topics from health cures for kidneys liver and blood to social observations. It includes remarks on love money work and gender with humorous and cautionary lines about human behavior.
A testimonial from L. Mipple Brooks of Sparta Georgia proclaims S S S blood purifier cured her cancer of the tongue after ten years and asserts the remedy purges poison from the blood permanently. The ad claims cancer is a blood disease not cured by surgery and lauds S S S as the only guaranteed cure for deep seated blood diseases including eczema rheumatism and ulcers.
Advertisement notes a mineral free product from Swift Specific Co. of Atlanta Georgia. Claims no potash mercury arsenic or minerals and offers free mailing of valuable books on cancer and blood diseases to any address.
The New York Sun recounts Judge Hallett's stance in Colorado's early courts and Colonel Taylor's defense during a Spanish language jury trial. The tale centers on English only rulings, a Spanish jury, and a plea that elicits the judge's ire and a dramatic acquittal.
The term seot free traces to the Anglo Saxon eceat meaning taxation and once described exemption from tax payments. Over time the phrase broadened to mean freedom from any burden or constraint, entering common usage as a general expression for liberty.
A nervous curate, Bruce, earned sharp rebuke from a senior colleague after a clergy gathering at the bishop's palace. The senior called him a donkey for his awkward remarks and lack of restraint as they walked home, causing brief laughter among onlookers.
A Webster City Iowa farmer hung his vest on a barn fence seven years ago. A calf chewed a pocket containing a gold watch, later found in a slaughtered milk cow lodged between the lungs, the respiration keeping the stem wound. the watch had run down only four minutes.
A playful domestic exchange about a new baby Emma Beth who has no teeth and is hairless, paired with a stark colonial comparison that describes the Papuans of New Guinea as primitive and unacquainted with metals. The text juxtaposes intimate family humor with sweeping outsider judgment.
A philoso pher laments misjudgments while Mr. Brokington debates the habits of bill collectors. The dialogue hints at social tensions over money and perception in a Washington Star fragment.
A collection of wry maxims on money delighting in labor as cure for melancholy and the vanity of genealogy. It notes rings as weather signs and jokes about romance bills and a baseball misstep. The tone is humorous and proverbial, reflecting social satire.
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