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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1896
Page
4
A poetic meditation on marital memory and forgiveness where a wife asks if silence after death would spare the husband from bitterness. The speaker probes whether unspoken truths and past words would haunt their relationship, urging mercy and understanding beyond blame.
Denver Field and Farm describes the San Juan and Mancos cliff ruins in southwestern Colorado as among the oldest in the region. The piece recounts prospectors seeking gold, a failed 1892 rush, and dramatic canyon walls with painted warriors and antelope high on sheer cliffs, reached by daring artists suspended from ledges.
A New York Ledger recipe explains how to prepare glue based tablet edges. Combine glue with glycerin water and heat to dissolve, add sugar and color dyes, then stir in linseed oil and use hot. A second formula mixes glue glycerin glucose syrup and tannin, letting the mix dry an hour before handling.
Two eminent doctors stroll on the boulevard when one bows to a passing lady. A patient is discussed as a minor case a pimple on the nose. The doctor says he forbade her to play the piano and notes his rooms are just below hers.
The Chicago Tribune quotes that shorthand is learnable by anyone. After mastering it, the real task is to read what you have written and then go to work to apply the skill.
Over a thousand women in New York live by their pens, according to a local note. A playful comparison from Leeuwenhoek and Humboldt suggests a pound of the finest spider webs could circle the globe, illustrating vast reach.
Elizabeth Bisland argues the brain creates phantasmagoria in sleep for unexplained reasons. She reviews memory, perception, and dream content, noting selective recall, inherited memories, and heightened brain activity during sleep in a concise critique from the New York Commercial Advertiser.
A Kansas farmer recalls cyclones saving his neighbor’s mortgage by wrecking the house onto his pasture. The tale contrasts tornado luck with a dog sales anecdote from Iowa, linking storms to odd commercial outcomes.
A Chicago Times-Herald vignette depicts two neighbors quarrel over a nurse and gossip. A tall woman admits paying her nurse more and hosting the nurse for evenings, while the other implies resentment. The nurse’s revelations strain their friendship as she flits between households.
A reader recalls a Sunday sermon by a black long haired Scottish preacher whose forceful voice recalls Macready. The writer brands him a charlatan with vulgar insolence and mocks Irving and his followers for their dramatic eye movements and celestial airs.
Dwelling offered for rent in Jackson Georgia with four rooms and good water. Describes a good location and a rich garden. Apply to Dr Mapp.
A dramatic pastiche from Household Words presents a manifesto by a fictional candidate addressing workingmen and women. He pledges cheap meat, fair wages, faith with the Rev. Hale, lowering clerical salaries, reduced rents and rates, road lighting, and duty to self and workers, ending with a plea to elect him.
J E Newsome a Canadian and Alex Anderson from Pearl River recount a bear hunt near Ouimet where Anderson says hypnotic eye contact with a big sow and her cubs left the bears subdued. Newsome notes Anderson is cross eyed from the effort.
Berlin correspondent reports a Bohemian peddler sold Prince Bismarck a plain meerschaum pipe claiming it foretold the service of three emperors and three life changes. The pipe later fractured foretelling his audience refusal and partial dismissal, with a third sign still awaited.
The New York Sun notes about 200 forceps styles exist for dental use, varying in beak size and shape and in handle design. One dentist may need only a dozen pairs, while another may prefer a different grip on the same tooth.
The article notes at least five legal systems operate in Germany. It explains visitors face confusion moving between states as acts legal in one state may be crimes in another. It also highlights the complexity surrounding property rights across regions.
A Detroit Tribune quip notes a woman described as a "girl of the period" for her direct, succinct manner. The remark highlights contemporary female decisiveness and modern social tone.
Chamberlains Eye and Skin Ointment is unequalled for eczema tetter silt rheum scald head sore nipples chapped hands itching piles burns frost bites chronic sore eyes and granulated eyelids. For sale by druggists at 25 cents per box.
A Lexington woman claims six weeks of earnings totaling 530.00 from selling dishwashers. She asserts strong demand as every housekeeper wants a dishwasher and predicts high profits for agents, including potential earnings of 4000 next year, with details via The Mound City Dishwasher Co. in St. Louis Missouri.
Mrs Rhodie Noah suffered nightly cramps and diarrhoea until Mrs Mary Sibley sent Chamberlains Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. One dose relieved Noah and four doses cured a neighbor who had endured a week of illness. Sold by Dr W L Carmichel, Druggist in Sidney Mich.
Mr. Gilman Brown of 34 Mill Street South Gardner Massachusetts was told by doctors his son would not live a month after lung trouble from Typhoid malaria. After spending 375 dollars he used Dr King’s New Discovery with recovery enabling him to work again and he credits the remedy as the best for lung disease. Free trial bottles at W L Carmichael Co drug store.
The Poughkeepsie Eagle notes horse and wagon travel as the most dangerous conveyance, claiming accidents show more deaths per travelers than boats, railways, trolley cars, or bicycles. The piece also cites uniform Japanese infantry measurements with no more than two inches height or 20 pounds weight variation. It adds a legal point that patents are assignable by law and interests may be assigned as easily as entire rights.
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