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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1892
Page
2
The column mixes political color with Shoal Creek farming life. It recalls Georgia politics and national figures, plus a draft of local tales from Shoal Creek about crops frosts and a lively baseball club. It also notes community weddings, social feasts, and a busy slate of local personalities and enterprises.
Community readers learn of Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised as a universal remedy for catarrh. The note claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, offering a $100 reward for any cure failure and inviting testimonials, with Toledo based promoters Cinexey & Co. and local druggists selling the product.
Cleveland presents itself as a premier Georgia town with pure air, purest water, and the highest altitude in the state. At nearly 2800 feet, it offers cool summer breezes, healthful climate, and refined surroundings. Hotels and boarding houses welcome large numbers of visitors seeking a pleasant season amid natural scenery.
A thirty six dwts gold nugget weighing $82.50 was found by Mr. Wash Adams, a very poor old miner, while washing gravel on Col. Boyd's property near the Lockhart last Monday. Frank Moore purchased the nugget and it can be seen there. Uncle Wash, elated, said he felt as happy as before the war with a pocket full of gold.
Curiously weighed figures on gold and silver held by the U S treasury spark debate among math minded readers. One reckons gold weighs over 601 tons and silver 8000 tons with packed forms describing wall lengths and cart lengths stretching multi mile distances. Also notes on health elixirs and local mining boom with the Gordon property purchase and mining preparations.
A promotional piece touts Cleveland as an inviting destination with low taxes and affordable housing. It highlights a cosmopolitan population, good schools, and a thriving potential for business, mining resources, and stable climate, urging residence for happiness.
Historical notes warn of a six month Antarctic cruise driven by a $10,000 per ton whale bone market. The piece mentions seasonal fatigue, blood quality, and Hood s Sarsaparilla as a cure for tiredness, along with a catarrh remedy, and reports of 1000 horses killed in western Kentucky by buffalo gnats entering nostrils.
An old physician, retired, offers a free international remedy recipe for consumption bronchitis asthma and nervous complaints. He claims the simple vegetable cure works in many cases and will mail full directions in German French or English upon request with return postage stamps. W A Nevis 820 Powers Rochester N Y.
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