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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1897
Page
2
An advertisement for the Curebook by J. C. Ayer Co. of Lowell Massachusetts touts Cherry Pectoral as a medicine with a claimed fifty years of cures and invites readers to send for the booklet.
A neighbor nicknamed Uncle Nate fires at a rock where a whippoorwill sat nightly, aiming to frighten it away. He instead mangles his wife’s wash tub, then flees to the barn after Aunt Hannah discovers the ruin and calls it worse than the bird.
Henrion the French orientalist lists relative heights for famed persons. Adam stands at 123 feet 9 inches, Eve at 118 feet 9.75 inches, Noah 108 feet, Abraham 27 feet, Moses 13 feet, Hercules 6 feet, Alexander 6 feet, and Julius Caesar 5 feet.
Washington jeweler Frank B. Martin claims a severe blood poison was cured by four to eighteen bottles of S S S a vegetable remedy after two doctors failed and expenses reached three hundred dollars he reports healed with clear skin and no relapse Swift Specific Co Atlanta Ga mails free information and treatment borax and its remedy are advertised
A poem narrates an evening on the beach with Widdy McGrew as the speaker proclaims love amid moonlit waves. The tale ends with a frightened confession and a vow of affection, noting the rival tones of drums and bells and a secret future.
A castaway William Scott deserts a Ceylon schooner after wrecks on a remote Chagos island. He claims a cave filled with 210 elephant tusks and five jars of gold dust, later found looted. The Bark Pawnee pursues the tale, recovers a partial trove, and the crew disputes Scott’s claim while an American later confirms a separate treasure haul.
In Bohemia a pair of Bohemians joke about cooking for themselves to save fuel. One declares he prepares all meals and eats in a cafe to save fuel, noting he carries toothpicks to keep his fire going until the next meal.
A New York dealer and connoisseur discusses hasheesh as a stimulating escape from fatigue and worry, and recounts cases of opium and morphine dependence cured by gradual detox with cinchonidia and diet. Ether abuse in Ireland is noted as a dangerous sedative, with a focus on its near alcohollike exhilaration and harmful aftereffects.
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