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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1897
Page
3
Newton M. Wilson reports a Scottsburg Indiana sample of early pest control. Two walnut boards hung in a V shape smeared with molasses captured flies by clapping the boards together as a household duty in old antebellum farms.
Travelers recount tales from Calais to Ostend showing how luggage labels hint at tipping norms. The London Mail notes hotel porter mistreatment contrasted with generous service, while label positions suggest guests’ attitudes toward tipping.
An advertisement urges readers to prevent serious illness by using One Minute Cough Cure from Dr. W. A. Wright, claiming instant relief and a certain cure for coughs that could lead to pneumonia or consumption.
A Boston Journal item reflects on how numbers carry superstition and fate. It contrasts 13 and 2 with 18 and 8, noting fires, royal dynasties, and historic tales to argue that luck and misfortune vary with context and interpretation.
Daniel Webster defended Roger Perkins's will by quoting doctors who disagree on the moment of death. He asserted that life begins as soon as we begin to live, prompting opposing counsel to cite Dr Watts and reveal Webster's humorous sting.
A clerk and a railroad official discuss transporting a man to Chicago. The clerk is instructed to sell him a half fare ticket, but the man insists he is not a clergyman while claiming to be a legislator. The official then grants him a free pass. Brooklyn Life.
A brief exchange notes that the tongue of woman is smaller than that of man. The remark contrasts speech vigor by gender in a concise aphoristic line.
Electric Bitters described as a year round medicine to cure languor liver torpor and sluggish digestion. Promoted as a tonic and alterative preventing bilious fevers and malarial poison with relief for headache indigestion constipation and dizziness. Sold for $1.00 per bottle at W A Wrights Drug Store.
A compendium of duels and near misses from 1700s to 1885, detailing Arnold Lauderdale Camelford Fox Hastings Francis Macartney Talbot Wilkes Canning Castlereagh Grattan Corry Roebuck Bate and other notable figures, with vivid scenes of pistols, insults and honor standards across Britain and India.
A collection of maxims on silence, correctness, guilt, rest, and discipline. The passages urge caution against needless talk, seek accuracy over consistency, and warn that neglecting duties or mistakes can form bad habits and poor outcomes.
Tutt's Pills cure sick headache sour stomach malaria indigestion torpid liver constipation and all bilious diseases. An old favorite remedy now increasing in popularity and arresting disease with timely use.
Dr O Henley Snider of Atlanta Georgia promotes mail and express treatment for chronic diseases over fifteen years. He claims to cure old sores dropsy fits catarrh asthma bronchitis rheumatism blood poison private troubles and female complaints with painless methods and without knives for ten dollars or five dollars per month. Testimonials cited and confidentiality promised with stamp enclosure.
The Philadelphia Times reviews social stereotypes urging caution about marriage and lifestyle. It highlights women who boast of pampered habits dismissing domestic work, frivolous spending, and naive views of men as perfect, arguing such traits undermine lasting partnerships.
Hamilton New York April 23 gs. This remedial agent is an old friend of mine, having used it in my practice for over thirty years, and I must say that it is equal to any I have ever used. I shall be glad to speak a good word for it whenever opportunity presents.
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