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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1885
Page
14
The message warns that a debt is overdue and an officer will appear at the recipient’s door if payment is not made soon. It presents a coercive ultimatum without details on the creditor or location.
Local notices cover circus day crowd plans and town commerce. Advertisements urge paying debts, buying wagons with steel axles, and selling Studebaker wagons while noting hotel work and new furniture bids. The piece also mentions a pastor’s church gifts, a fatal small infant burial, and Harpers publications prospectus.
Os or MAIN Bookseller and Stationer announces a move to No. 20 Main Street Barnesville Ga. and invites old and new friends. He will maintain a full line of goods at Macon and Atlanta prices and will not be undersold. The shop offers soaps perfumery and toilet goods dolls toys soda potash starch and more just received.
Stop and Read This It Will do You Good advertises a large stock of millinery dry goods clothing boots shoes jeans wraps cloaks and jackets with cashmeres silks and Henrietta cloths. The vendor invites customers to bring samples and promises to undersell competitors in the city.
Next week Judge Stewart will send his resignation to Gov. McDaniel, to take effect January 1, 1886. He will hold the Monroe court adjourned term later this month and then retire. He plans to resume law practice with his son Captain George C. Stewart, forming a strong, lucrative firm. The Griffin Sun endorses the grand jury’s praise of Judge Stewart. Buy your seed oats from J. L. Kennedy while cheap.
Local brief lists residents visiting and traveling. Forsyth figures include L B Head, B L Willingham, Joseph Yates, Mollie Jennings, E R Carswell, W T Respess, Jimmie, J B Blasingame, J M Pound, W H Potter, Geo W Yarbrough, A A Murphey. Church events feature Rev T B Cooper, Rev A C Wellens, and a change in schedule for Tabernacle Church entertainment in Monroe County.
A clerk recalls getting hired after six months of unemployment by a Wall Street bank following a new hair growth from Parker's Hair Balsam. He presents the $2,000 salary and the moral that Parker's product yields a new face.
The Gleaners Juvenile Missionary Society, hosted by the Ladies Aid at Mrs J W Stafford's home last Saturday, held an afternoon program with verses sung by the children, Carrie Cook singing Jewels, a group prayer, and a dining room reception. The event showcased orderly behavior and reflected on child social duties and religious instruction.
An elderly physician, retired, claims a simple vegetable remedy from an East India missionary can cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and all throat and lung diseases and also nerve debility. He offers to mail the recipe free in German French or English with full usage directions, addressed to W A Noyes Rochester NY. Also notices advertise affordable furniture imitation mahogany for 25 dollars oxen for sale and flour from local merchants.
Ohio opinion echoes in praise for Sells Bros Monster 50 Cage Menagerie and Great Four Ring Circus coming to Barnesville on Saturday Nov 21. Cincinnati Enquirer lauds the show as best traveling exhibit with vast zoological displays including hippos, sea lions, leopards, a five ton rhinoceros, educated elephants, and exceptional equestrians and gymnasts.
Captain Coleman of the schooner Weymouth sailing between Atlantic City and New York suffered a cough and sleeplessness. After trying Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption he found instant relief and reduced chest soreness. His children also benefited from a single dose. The remedy is now standard on board the schooner and in the Coleman household. Free trial bottles offered at J. W. Hightower's Drug Store.
Notice advertises a 140 acre farm in Pike County 14 miles from Barnesville with 90 acres cultivated and yields one cotton bale per acre on 30 acres. Inquiries directed to this office or P O Box 48 Barnesville Ga. Also mentions Oatmeal at J F Taylor and store ads for J L Kennedy selling groceries fresh pork sausage and rust proof oats.
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