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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1885
Page
7
A travel note surveys Dutch towns Alkmaar Hoorn and nearby villages praising cheese markets windmills and old houses with varied colors and bas reliefs. It also explains how a blacksmith uses hammer blows and hand signals to guide sledge work in a workshop.
A printer's circular explores zylonite as a revolutionary use for paper. English inventor Spills sparked a London factory to mass produce this material. Made from plain white cotton linen pulp, it becomes parchment like after acid treatment and solvent washes, then can be formed into transparent plates or colored like silk.
A Chicago Times excerpt notes ashes from cremations vary by body weight, citing Philadelphia cases with ash weights from four to six pounds and diverse disposition choices. A Pacific Coast letter describes narrow channels and sunken-mountain islands along the north coast, where large steamers can approach shores and observe wildflowers with field glasses.
In a Commercial Point Philadelphia Call vignette a small grocer explains winter business. A customer asks why winter sales rise, and the grocer replies people come for one item but linger to buy more as molasses runs slow in cold weather.
The article extols health through attention to daily details, advocating cleanliness over excessive disinfection, fresh air, plain food, uncontaminated water, and regular exercise as the path to well being. It urges aligning with nature’s teaching to avoid disease.
Philadelphia Call reports M. Calladon of Geneva described a curious experiment. An air gun loaded with a compressed air reservoir fires a lead ball in a vertical bore while the gun mouth is blocked by the operator’s thumb. The ball falls back, yet when fired at a pine board four inches thick it passes through. He notes safety conditions: thumb strength, gun length over thirty-two inches, and a nearly full spherical ball acting as a piston.
The piece argues about Hebrew vocalization in Genesis noting that it only covers the creation of our world not the beginning of all time. It stresses the definite article Ha is not signaled by the vowel and that proper translation is At first or at a beginning God created Heaven and earth.
Sheriff sales at Zebulon will occur on the first Tuesday in December before the courthouse door. Properties include multiple tracts in Pike County and Monroe now Pike with 300 acres total, plus individual lots 225 241 269 and 244, fractions and improvements, a dark bay mare named Nette the gray horse Bill and other collateral that secure various mortgages and judgments.
J P McLean and other properties near Milner Barnesville are offered for sale to satisfy various fi fas and mortgages. Items include 50 acre Monroe district land, 27th district land, 683 acre home place, Gardner Daniel lands, a store in Milner, boarding house, other houses, 25 head of cattle 30 hogs and farm tools, and a 650 acre Lloyd Head tract. Sold by W P Bussey Sheriff October 28 1885.
Under an order of the Pike County Ordinary the court sale will occur at the county court house door on the first day of December. The property includes 160 acres and parts of lots 188 and 165 in the Ninth District, the lands where Mrs M F Carriker lived at her death. Proceeds go to distribution of the M T Carriker estate. Terms: half cash, rest due November 1 1856, no interest. Henry G Jordan admr.
Public auction announced by A J White for land in Pike County 7 1/2 acres to satisfy promissory debt with sale at the Zebulon courthouse. Georgia Pike County notices include executors and administrators seeking dismission letters and guardianship petitions for minor heirs Nellie Gray Augustus Gray and Hollis Gray with hearings in December 1885.
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