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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1895
Page
2
A collage of kitchen instructions covering apple jelly making from red apples, cheesecloth filtration, sugar ratios, and testing methods. Also includes notes on corn-based batters, sweetbreads with pork stock, tripe dressing, gravy finishing, tripe roasting, tripe plating, use of Newton pippins and tangerines, potato prep, and sausage boiling followed by light frying.
Barnesville merchants tout local cotton as fetching the highest prices, arguing buyers here will pay premiums to keep cotton from slipping away to other markets. The message emphasizes price quality to keep growers selling locally.
A school teacher tries to teach basic arithmetic to an unwitting pupil. The boy refuses stockings, pigs, jackets, and apples with comic refusals, then admits eating his own cakes, and the class ends with the teacher sending the children out to play.
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes a thriving spool making trade using birch wood and hot air kiln drying. Machines bore holes and shape blocks rapidly while small boys sort and trim stock, finishing with polishing. Spools dyed yellow red or black indicate intended thread yardage as a weigh measure rather than exact length.
Reverend J Ganderman of Dimondale Michigan writes of his wife’s recovery from pneumonia after La Grippe using Dr Kings New Discovery. He notes severe coughing fits that lasted hours but ended quickly with the remedy. Trial bottles are available free at S B Barr Jr’s Drug Store with regular sizes 50 cents and one dollar.
Lanier proclaims Tetterine a sure cure for ringworm ground itch and itching piles. Endorsed by W. R. Fountary, mailed for 50 cents from J. T. Shup trine in Savannah Georgia.
The text argues that social purification starts at home with parents shaping children. It asserts that immoral behavior stems from parents and that children born to virtuous parents will remain pure. It urges marriages based on love and identical moral standards for both sexes to preserve harmony.
A historical recruitment notice seeks energetic men to canvass, sell Singer sewing machines, and collect payments. It offers a light wagon, horse and harness, a $500 bond, and a salary or commission plan with potential promotion. Address Sixart Mra. Co. J. H. Harney in Atlanta.
An advertisement extols nervous energy through Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. It claims hot weather drains weak nerves, that the pills rebuild nerve force and vitality, and cites global recognition. Sold by Sage Pharmacy and others in Schenectady New York at 50 cents per box or six for $2.50.
An advertisement touts pl dswam as a poultice that draws fever and pain and revitalizes the Female System. It markets Orange Blossom as a painless cure for falling womb, menses issues, leucorrhea, ulcers, tumors, and related ailments with a mailed-cost offer from Dr. J. A. McGill & Co in Chicago.
A dealer learns of a peculiar clock invention designed for husbands who stay out late. The device uses a secret spring to mislead a wife by showing wrong time until 3 a.m. and then resumes normal speed, with variants for 4 and 5 a.m. sales proposed. The narrator orders one.
For more than fifty years Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has soothed teething pains. It softens gums relieves wind colic and cures diarrhoea with immediate effect. Sold by druggists worldwide at twenty five cents a bottle. Ask for Mrs Winslow's and none other.
A Dooley county farmer reports he has cut more than ten tons of hay and peavines, but vast amounts remain uncut in his fields. He notes too few Georgia farmers tend the bay crop and thousands of dollars’ worth of hay go to waste each year for lack of effort to save it.
A note states that Orange Blossom is a safe harmless flax seed poultice for ladies to use themselves. Sold by John H Blackburn.
D E Johnson of Ken ton Ohio reports a second crop of Sheldon pears on his trees this year. The late crop formed as large as the first and ripened earlier, a first in this latitude. Citizens who saw the first crop ripen note the unusual success and good flavor.
In Atlanta before Judge Westwareland, the jury awarded G. Keeny one dollar against the Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway Company. Keeny boarded the Far street car, offered a silver half dollar, which the conductor rejected as counterfeit. Keeny claimed the coin was good, but was forced off the car and walked about a mile.
The Cleveland Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution urging other cities to press for a shorter 1896 Presidential campaign. It notes post election gloom from long campaigns and recommends conventions be held three months before the election, sending a memorial to both Democratic and Republican national committees.
Former governor Boyton, described as a sage and capable lawyer, is quoted saying that if people continue farming as this year and living as they have for the past two or three years, they will soon become the most prosperous in the world.
A cook who served a Manayunk family for five years died last week. The bereaved family erected a tombstone reading Bridget who departed this life Det 1 in the fifth year of her reign.
The railroad north of the Ohio river will implement a one cent rate to the Atlanta exposition. This rate is touted as the best development for the exposition’s success and is expected to draw a large attendance from that region, the primary target audience.
The text explains how wild deer dug holes called scrapes in England's forests. Travelers and careless walkers fell into these pits at dusk or night. Laughter followed mud stained arrivals. The phrase gotten into a scrape spread from these incidents to describe difficulties. Cambridge students later adopted the expression.
A San Francisco clothing firm prints an ad showing Svengali and Trilby with the caption We don't want to put you into a trance we are content to give you a fit It claims hypnotizing in business exists and argues that many sensible people wear such clothes TM
A saloon keeper sued a patron for liquor and cigar charges in Sturgeon Bay. The defendant counterclaimed for damaged health claiming vile ingredients and cabbage leaves were libeled as tobacco. The court ruled the patient had voluntarily taken his medicine and must pay.
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