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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1905
Page
1
An advertisement claims Dr Miles Heart Cure strengthens weak hearts and cures heart disease. It recounts a testimonial from Wilmore Kentucky about severe dropsy and heart swelling, crediting five bottles with recovery and return to farm work, promising money back if not benefiting.
Mrs Ora Bussard of Brubaker Illinois reports that Chamberlains Cough Remedy cured her daughters cough from pneumonia leaving her stout and healthy. The note about gloves and the long stockings joke ends with a boyfriend failing to win a home. Rangeley Me early settler Tibbetts born 1812 buried on the twelfth day of the twelfth month last year.
The column critiques self interested public figures in Lumpkin and Dahlonega. It cites a preacher accused of profiting from a neighbor by selling corn and pawning a bull, and reports a Mound City Coffin Company carpenter collapsing at work from heart disease.
A list of new applicants in Lumpkin County to the Commissioner of Pensions requests state pensions for widows and soldiers. Names include Mary J. Boartfield Rebecca Bishop Elvira Fisher Millie Patton Susan Cooper Nancy Holeman Julian Ann Adams Julia Ann Anderson and several veterans from 52nd Georgia and Phillips Legion units plus Cobb and Briley regiments with various company and rank designations. The notice enumerates each claimant and their unit to initiate pension claims.
Rev. J N Austin reports a business trip through Hall and Jackson counties finding people cheerful sober and prosperous. He notes cotton prices up despite smaller crops, good meals, and daily work with nights at meeting. He recalls a light dispute with a fellow preacher and urges Methodists and Baptists to unite to improve society and curb drunkenness and crime.
A list of humorous redefinitions accompanies a Colebrook Conn item about Rev. Mr. Taylor, long blind, awakening to sunlight and expressing gratitude. The tone shifts from wordplay to a moving anecdote of restored sight after years of prayer. The piece ends with a prayerful reaction to the visible world.
A man, overwhelmed by a supposed miracle, fears hallucination and rapidly becomes a roaming madman by nightfall. A Leeds sewing machine weighs five and a quarter tons, used for leather belting, with two thirteen inch needles and two shuttles. Mothers may safely give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to children. it is said to be safe and effective for coughs, colds, and croup. For sale by Dr CH Jones, Dahlonega, Ga.
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