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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1893
Page
4
An 19th century advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for gravel indigestion and related ailments. Claim includes relief from a listed list of symptoms and emphasizes quick, lasting recovery through a tonic.
The Senate receipted W Lee Mantle as Montana senator replacing Saunders and fixed adjournment for Monday. Debates on election of US senators and executive matters dominated the session while proposals for Spain Cuba relations and broader limits circulated. Capital gossip notes committee reorganizations, postmaster qualifications, and isolated White House talks with Hill and Cleveland amid posturing over New York offices. The clock controversy and inauguration-day cold caused public criticism and health concerns.
Willam Hemingway, jailed for five years for failure to pay over 515,612 due the state, offers no explanation for the loss. His brother F. Hemingway claims a safecracker stole and recorded the treasurer’s combination in March 1888, and never changed it during Hemingway’s tenure.
R. G. Dun & Co. reports a week strained by severe weather and tight money, with rates up to 6 percent on call and over 10 percent for two days. Gold movements, export restraints, and bank liquidity shaped conditions as Chicago and Denver banks offered to exchange paper for legal tender. Wholesale trade shows mixed signals across cities from St. Louis to New Orleans, while cotton goods orders rise and prints stay active. Overall, 225 business failures for the period, with varied regional activity and modest improvements in some markets.
A major blaze swept a Boston block late Friday, destroying the Ames building at Essex and Lincoln streets and affecting three other structures. The fire killed at least four and injured about thirty, with thousands of goods and several firms, including Horace Partridge & Co., burned. Loss tallied around four and a half million dollars as rescue teams battled through the flames and telegraph wires to reach trapped workers and mourned victims.
A Little Rock convention of Arkansas cotton planters and merchants debated reducing cotton acreage and promoting crop diversification. Ex Governor Eagle chaired the meeting, with W T West elected president of a new state organization and 31 delegates chosen for the interstate convention in New Orleans.
A. Beckwith, named from Wyoming two weeks earlier by Governor Osborn, was reappointed on Thursday. The earlier appointment occurred before a vacancy existed and some feared it would not be legally valid.
The article discusses normal pulse rates from birth to old age, gender differences, and how position and exertion affect pulse. It criticizes unsafe high chairs for children, advises safe play on rugs, and mentions a bread-making receipt and a cooking book offer. It also cautions on using dish towels for hot items, features a horse anecdote, and promotes health products like Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Brown's Iron Bitters.
An assembled selection from 1880s-90s writings cites John Lambert Payne on intermarriage and national unity, then urges road-building for prosperity with quotes from American Farmer. It includes market chatter, a quip about Dugout City, and patent remedies such as Brown's Iron Buffers and Dr Inaneaban's Eye-water.
The article argues hair benefits from monthly end trimming for vegetation like growth, but adult hair growth may not improve and could baldness. It warns against alkali or soap in washing, as it dries hair, and suggests vaseline near roots only to soften hair without greasiness.
Fragmentary dialogue recalls Miss Budd and her at-homes in informal exchanges. De Bore reflects sadly on past attendance while the speaker notes several sessions. The excerpts hint at a social or cultural event framed by familiar faces and a sense of nostalgia.
A brief item notes a man who was set in and refused help, then arrested after replying thanks to a dollar gift. The exchange highlights rough frontier behavior and law actions in a terse social sketch.
A New York weekly recounts a humorous anecdote about a man named Woodson and a fisherman friendly by the Potomac. The tale recalls a summer with Mr. Cleveland and a campaign nomination sparked by fishing success.
A child volunteers to fetch sweets from Mrs Stickney's shop and then is told to buy a bar of candy at a nearby grocery. The snippet shows a domestic exchange with a football of chores and a boy's complaint of an aching leg.
Unfermented bread made without yeast avoids yeast fermentation by other breads and is palatable warm and fresh. It may be eaten without discomfort, unlike breads produced by other methods.
Efficient note lists ingredients and steps for a batter using Royal Baking Powder and a potato for texture. Mix flour salt sugar and powder, rub in potato, add water to a soft batter, pour into a greased 4x8 inch pan, and bake in a very hot oven about 45 minutes. Do not overwork or delay mixing.
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