16 Apr 1909
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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1909
Page
1
Fayetteville area notices highlight Edwards & Son promotions, long distance Bell Telephone rates, local social visits, hotel and shop offerings, and community events. News covers illness, school terms, citrus and hardware ads, and farm activity with reminders to subscribe and preserve home surroundings.
Tam offers bicycle repair services and repair materials for sale. Also an agent for new wheels, inviting customers to visit at the railroad location to save money.
Advertises a descriptive circular offering seven State school examination questions and answers for a dollar. Sender B. S. Holden lists Box 27, Ellijay, Georgia, as contact and promises free descriptive circular.
The interurban electric railroad from Atlanta to Fairburn is set to begin grading and construction on May 6. Work starts near College Park and proceeds in a near straight line toward Union City or Fairburn, with an expected entry into Atlanta within five to six months.
A humorous letter to A O Blalock from Fayetteville Georgia cites Josh Billings on success and recounts N R Watkins of Lott Texas describing a paint saga. Watkins bought 13 gallons believed to be paint, later had 7 more gallons applied for Devoc brand, costing $65 then $25, with $30 saved in a safe. Ours Truly W DeEvoE Co P S Fite Mercantile & Hardware Co sells our paint.
Advertisement for Botanic Blood Balm claiming to cure blood poisons and skin diseases including eczema scrofula and ulcers. Promises relief, purer blood, and stopping pains with a large bottle priced at $1, samples offered free by the Blood Balm Co. and Fayetteville Drug Co. in Fayetteville, Ga.
Fresh stock arrives at Farrer and Landrum offering red green and black matting for picture framing. H. H. Brown of Pittsfield VT endorses Dr King’s New Life Pills as reliable family medicine for chills constipation biliousness and headaches at Fayetteville Drug Co priced 25 cents.
Pickled pig feet offered by Farrer and Landrum. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are recommended as gentle and effective pills. White Dove ham is advertised as the best on the market. A light fresh shipment is available at Farrer and Landrum's.
The fragment mentions a desperate plea to a doctor and references a remedy named Dr. Miles Anti-Palin Pilla as a supposed cure. It appears as a chaotic mix of phrases with no clear event or identifiable people, places, or dates.
A mix of excerpts notes the Dames of the Revolution founded in 1896 for women descended from American independence fighters and aimed at promoting patriotism. The piece also advertises Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup praising its flat non-opiate relief and maplesugar taste. It discusses Admiral Nelson's naval appointment as influenced by family wealth and backdoor influence.
The road overseers of this county worked public roads after rain last Thursday with Friday and Saturday labor. Miss Nora Smith is on the sick list. Mr. G. M. Murphy and wife from East Point visited. Elisha Rountree and wife of Riverdale called on J. D. Evans. G. W. Bottoms and sister Sara Cato passed through toward Culman, Alabama to Lucy Tarpley’s near McDonough. County commissioners built a stockade at the county farm for convicts and arranged road work or commutation tax, with preference to using payments on the roads. The writer believes Fayette county roads are about as good as achievable and that road work can be done when fields are too wet. If roads worsen, it will partly be our fault.
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