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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1895
Page
4
A collage of medical quackery and humorous vignettes shows doctors offering remedies for hay fever and indigestion, lawyers advising odd solutions, and self-help pills like Lydia E. Pinkham style tonics. The piece freights exaggerated claims, testimonials, and travelogues to sell tonics, bitters, and patent medicines.
state news items from Georgia discuss Colonel Mercer’s letter to Colonel Gandler, Athens mill plans worth 10000 spindle, Savannah theater demolition cost and oak ledger, public building marble hopes in Savannah, a drive to Washington for marble, a murder case conspiracy indictments, and a Cleared tax ruling for Western and Atlantic railroad.
Hoboken hosts the Back Number Bicycle Club with twenty three members all riding high wheel machines. The club was organized by two young men who acquired twenty five bicycles at a low price and sold them on installments to members.
A dense listing of Atlanta wholesale market items. Various groceries and provisions include coffee, sugar, syrups, flour, grains, hay, meal, cottonseed meal, peas, corn, oats, barley, and butter. Also reported are live poultry, turkeys, ducks, sweet potatoes, onions, cabbage, and lard with prices and stock notes.
The Philadelphia Times is urged to view the summer girl as an improved, broader summer woman rather than a loss of prestige. Contends the summer girl emerged from a bicycle-clad phase with Browning and becomes part of the evolving New Woman, shaping resort seasons.
A collection of aphorisms on money love tact and social behavior. It critiques pride in wit and art while offering cautions on secrecy and engagement. The text blends social commentary with humorous cautions about relationships and propriety in late period diction.
The piece traces early writing materials from bricks and shells to palm leaf Bibles in the British Museum. It notes bark and leaves as primitive stationery, lead sheets in Job, and odd forms like writing on sheep bones, shirt fragments, and wax tablets. It contrasts ancient desks with the modern block system enabling reclining writing.
The New York Dispatch advises washing fruit to remove speckled shells of insects. Soak firm fruit an hour, scrub with a stiff brush, then chill. Apples should be washed before serving to avoid offending diners and ensure a crisp, dew kissed appearance.
London physician Dr George Herschell argues in Lancet that cycling may cause heart disease and offers guidelines for cyclists. He urges low gear, upright posture, avoidance of stimulants like kola and coca, and to stop when tired, not to mask fatigue. News agency York Telegraph notes the cautions.
Spells the Same Both Ways lists palindromes collected over three years for curious readers. Names include Adila Anna bab bib bob civic dad deified dewed did eve ewe eye gig gag level madam noon Otto pap peep pip pop red der refer reviver rotator see tit tenet tot tat waw and welew.
Baltimore News reports that the earliest farming mill or win nowing machine was erected in China and used there for centuries while Europeans cleansed grain by tossing it into the air on an ancient day.
The Parisian printers’ journal notes that women worked as printers long before 1641. Dominican sisters at Mount Ripoli in Italy ran a convent press, copying and illuminating manuscripts since the 13th century. After Gutenberg, Italian printers spread rapidly with Florence printing as early as 1472. Between 1476 and 1484 the convent press produced over a hundred works including a 1478 edition of the Decameron.
The glass snake can shed its tail to escape predators, a trick shared with some lizards. While the tail distracts enemies, the broken joints do not reattach, though a new tail grows if the reptile remains unharmed beyond the loss.
A historic court near St Petersburg, Tsarskoe Selo, built by Catherine the Great, features gold plating later painted due to damp, amber walled rooms, lapis lazuli parlor, tortoise shell decor, 500 rooms, a half acre ballroom, and priceless floors while speculators offered to melt the gold, and Catherine had them imprisoned. An office boy in a tax office tries to bargain for discounts but is refused as he seeks to close the account.
A Hartford Post vignette notes a West Middle School class where a pupil defines peace as no scrappin as a teacher discusses Penn and peace. The piece reflects simple classroom wit on grand concepts and a second quip comes from a printer's joke about space ads.
A child named Teddy confesses he licked Jim, realizing too late that his mother planned a children’s party. His mother chastises him, noting the misstep and the upcoming gathering.
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