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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1896
Page
5
Insurance advert warns that cut rate fire insurance signals doubtful solvency and urges safe business men to beware of wild cat schemes. The notice promotes the Old Reliable Fire Insurance Agency as a trusted source.
The column records a parade of local social visits and regional travel. Dr T J Watts spends Saturday in Atlanta while Rev Homer Bush and others visit nearby towns. Election day looms October 7 with state and county officers to be chosen. Residents report improving business, coal deliveries, fall goods, and a growing sense of activity as Barnesville prepares for winter.
For sale or lease a tract four miles from Barnesville on Thomaston railroad containing 101 acres more or less. It is valued at half of lot number 18 in the South district of Pike county. Mrs. S. O. Turrentine.
All library books must be in by Monday October 5 so they may be returned and a new lot sent to the Barnesville library. D. L. Anderson, Librarian.
J G Gollier and partners tout their grocery, urging customers to compare ads with rivals. They advertise flour, bran, salt, hams, coffee, sugar, nails, plow tools, rope, buckets, coal oil, crockery, and more. Derr: Wanted chickens eggs butter beef wax sweet potatoes.
Citizens anticipate calm as campaigns wind down after months of political turmoil and heated questions. Public mood shifts toward relief and recovery once results are known and the process concludes.
The shop advertises thirty bushels of sweet potatoes and a full fruit and vegetable selection including Mesina lemons, California pears, oranges, bananas, coconuts, navy beans, onions, cabbage, and more. It markets large quantities of bran, hay, oats, and corn with free town delivery and promises competitive prices on flour, meat, lard, sugar, and coffee. It also lists wholesale tobacco, snuff, soap, Trash Mover Soap, and Elgin Creamery butter with an invitation to visit.
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