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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1894
Page
1
Advice warns against tight shoes for growing children and endorses buying larger sizes to fit growing feet. Also mentions using gasoline as a cleaner for gowns, a patent remedy for various ailments, and notes on a catarrh cure and shorthand schooling promotions.
A vintage advertisement promotes Syrup of Pigs as a pure liquid laxative. It claims health benefits for kidneys liver and bowels, relief from colds headaches and fevers, and says the product cleanses the system while not weakening organs. Available in 50c and 1 bottles from druggists.
A rural dairy tale shows a village butter maker clinging to tradition while a traveling dairy school proves its value by raising public taste. The grocer reports higher prices for school butter, eight cents more per pound, signaling the drift toward better quality and awareness.
An opinion piece argues against habitual borrowing of farm implements, comparing it to an old chestnut. It urges owners to protect tools as their property and suggests joint purchase or payment in lieu of lending. A lighter aside notes egg and poultry care for better profits and cleaner nests.
A survey of scientific marvels from timepieces in the hand to Egyptian rainfall absence, flightless reptiles, dragon flight suspensions, German electrical looms, seamless stockings, and a French naturalist chicken hatching. It notes a Texas five acre ore patch with rare metals, a giant Victoria leaf, a Bristol submarine, fiber analysis in textiles, ozone origins, European consumption patterns, and early color photography attempts by Becquerel and Herschel.
A Greek priest in Trikhala Thessaly died at age 120 after a life of simple living. He slept outdoors, drank no alcohol, smoked rarely, ate mainly fruit and vegetables, rose before sunrise, and retired at nine. He never fell sick, memory faded only for recent events, and his death came from a disordered stomach after two meals or long fasts. He served as priest there for ninety nine years.
A collection of curious notes cites Leavening power of Royal, bird songs, hair growth after burial, iron ore veins near Bessemer Alabama, brain convolutions in animals, ear bones names, Madagascar textiles silk and rofla cloth, and a Heading Michigan log with embedded stone found in a sawmill.
A Wisconsin man in Two Rivers attributes his recovery from suspected consumption to the No-To-Bae tobacco cure. He claims losing tobacco habit reduced his weight by pounds, improved health, and nerves, with testimonials from friends and a general drugstore availability.
Electrician experts in Texas test battery powered fence systems to control stampedes by charging barbed wire. Proposals include adding telephone links for ranch headquarters while long fences cover vast ranches. Separate notes describe a Gardner Maine case of a local peace officer robbed while sleeping and a cure claim for Tetter with a 5 cent offer from Savannah Ga.
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