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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1897
Page
2
The ad extols Ayer’s Sarsaparilla as a growing cure all with a vast list of cures. It boasts the World’s Fair 1893 medal and claims imitators failed to match its enduring record, noting competitors trail its success rather than eclipse it.
A Chamber's Journal description critiques Turkish women as dull and monotonous yet notes Friday mosque trips and cemetery visits. It portrays women gathered on the curb with bright parasols, describes clothing, footwear, and adornments like yashmak and henna stained limbs, while mocking cosmetic ideals and claimed beauty.
A narrator recalls unrequited teen affection and rivalries among friends in a small town. Jack, The Girl, and The Other Fellow navigate picnics, rain hats, and shifting escorts as two relationships form, first with Jack and then with the black haired girl, ending in marriage and lasting friendship.
A vintage advertisement touts Electric Bitters as the best medicine to restore a tired nervous system. It claims a vegetable formula tones nerve centers in the stomach, stimulates the liver and kidneys, purifies blood, improves appetite, and aids digestion. Sold for 50c or 1.00 at W. A. Wright's Drug Store.
The Atlanta Journal denounces the crowd that fights over pieces of the rope used in executions. It condemns lawmakers and sheriffs who pand er to this vengeful eagerness for memorials of blood and calls for decency.
A historical advertisement touts DeWitts Little Early Risers as remedies for dyspepsia constipation headaches and poor appetite. Dr W A Wright endorses the small pills as effective regulators.
A fragmentary exchange references a product called One Minute Cough Cure as its purpose. The dialogue includes a valet delivering flowers to an officer's fiancée, noting it took nearly three hours to gather them, in a literary sounding line from Fliegender Blatter.
A diarist recounts stopping at an Arkansas cabin where a couple debate if a cyclone is coming. A sudden violent wind rips the cabin apart in twenty seconds, leaving both startled survivors to comment on the comparison between the cyclone and the previous warning.
A dried old ad proclaims Shaker Digestive Cordial cures indigestion for those starved of proper digestion. It claims the product aids stomach digestion, builds strength and energy, and suits millions who cannot gain weight. Trial bottle costs 10 cents. sold by druggists.
A Philadelphia Call column extols women noting they think deeply, often more purposeful than men, retain interest in past lovers, exhibit sympathy and sense, value money, keep secrets, are strict with their own sex, forgive sinners, can be deceived by a tramp, and bargain shrewdly at stores, yet remain essential.
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