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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1896
Page
2
Patient reports severe nervous anxiety and sleeplessness until taking Dr Miles Restorative Nervine. After four bottles, memory and nerves fully improved. advertiser promises guaranteed benefit with refund on first bottle. Claims physicians failed to help and personal recovery cited.
Wallace Putnam Reed lauds Henry W. Grady as a gifted Georgia journalist turned orator. The piece traces Grady’s evolution from a spontaneous speaker to a national figure whose speeches urged peace and national brotherhood, highlighting his natural delivery, memory, broad reading, and humane, inclusive philosophy.
A Carrollton visitor returns from the west with a spoof list titled Rules for the Guidance of Guests at the Rustler's Rest Little Cayuse Creek Col. The humorous rules cover dining room conduct pie limits table linen changes and tipping liable to funeral benefits plus odd cockeyed cautions. Also mentions a One Minute Cough Cure ad by Dr W A Wright.
An 19th century advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy for cuts, sores, ulcers, salt rheum fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, claiming to cure piles with refund if not satisfied. Price is 25 cents per box, sold by S. B. Burr.
The piece extols the London and Northwestern Railway as the greatest company with vast capital revenue engines and workers. It notes in detail its in house production and monthly repair costs while contrasting Edwin Gould’s wealth with a Mulberry Bend resident’s view on wealth and marriage. The passage probes attitudes toward wealth inside and outside its fortress.
A column argues ministers erred by mixing party views with pulpit duties. It says preaching morals and urging reform, not endorsing laws or abusing opponents, aligns with Jesus example. Ministers should weigh wisdom and moderation when advising the public.
The Sparta Ishmaelite praises Governor Atkinson as the state's truest, bravest, and most patriotic executive. It lauds his safety, readiness to spend in public service, and declares he will likely succeed himself, contrasting him with the erratic rival Wright.
The ad extols Electric Bitters as the best medicine to restore the tired nervous system and vigor. It claims vegetable composition, nerve toning, liver and kidney support, blood purification, and appetite improvement. Sold at S. B. Burr Jr's Drug Store for 50 cents or one dollar per bottle.
A brief note from the Shoe and Leather Reporter explains that thirteen is called a cobbler's dozen in Italy and that a tradition once had cobblers sewing twelve nails around a boot heel with a center nail for luck, a practice tied to nail costs.
A historical kitchen note describes preparing creamed cabbage by soaking a firm cabbage half in ice water, chopping the heart, boiling with a lump of charcoal, draining, and serving with a milk sauce. The sauce combines butter, sifted flour, white pepper, salt, and boiling milk, stirred until creamy and poured over the cabbage.
An advertisement describes DéWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as antiseptic soothing and healing for burns scalds cuts and bruises and claims it cures piles. It asserts the product instantly stops pain with Dr. W A Wri ch.
Instructions for handling stale bread advise cutting slices thin and drying each in a clean cloth, then storing in a stone bread jar that is cleaned and sun-dried at least twice weekly. Make toast quickly and avoid accumulation to prevent molding and spoilage.
In a playful exchange a character mockingly calls Miss Homely ridiculous for fearing thunder storms. He questions the fear and she quips that there must be some attraction even for lightning.
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