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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1897
Page
7
Reports cited by the Philadelphia Press show Cuba’s trade shifting from machinery and hardware to eggs potatoes condensed milk beans cocoa and cattle as unrest disrupts shipments. Prices rise about 20 percent with government payments delayed, while eggs from Havana fuel army needs.
The piece extols a merry wife as a household blessing and contrasts it with eight types of civic detractors in Macon area. It notes superstition, dishonest dealers, a local dog law in Barnesville, and suggests broader state action may follow.
The guidance stresses concealing any slenderness with full waists and bouffant fronts. It recommends draped or very full skirts to balance a slim silhouette, while avoiding styles that exaggerate a narrow frame.
Hon Patrick Walsh has been enthusiastically nominated for mayor of Augusta. He ought to be elected and deserves as much from the city he has done so much to make.
A man claims a palm reader foretold marriage and four children while a summer girl beside him listens with disengaged curiosity. The reader says the man would marry despite lacking mathematical taste, and the girl questions the prediction about four children.
A schoolgirl’s composition on The Confederate Veteran praises sacrifice but mocks state aid. She notes pension, a home built and sold before entry, and cites her father saying damn the state after recounting his leg injury at a Confederate saw mill making coffins.
A historical advertisement urges immediate relief from coughs and colds calling One Minute Cough Cure essential. It features Dr Wricar promoting the product as the fastest remedy to stop coughing and ease symptoms.
Anecdotes on Rev Lorenzo Dow recount his comical courtship method when a widower proposed marriage in church and a future wife rose to accept. A separate incident in West Palm Beach shows a furious wife chasing a barkeeper with a stick after blaming him for her husband’s drinking. Also mentions a One Minute Cough Cure.
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