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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1896
Page
3
The author urges girls to seek happiness in virtue and gentleness rather than wealth and fashion. A good man values a modest, hardworking wife educated by nature and good books. Country girls should thank their luck, for nature school teaches true beauty and happiness beyond riches.
An advertisement promises cures for skin and blood diseases including rheumatism and ulcers via a free book from Blood Balm Co Atlanta Ga. Botanic Blood Balm is marketed as a building up and purifying remedy with a $1 large bottle and cautions to avoid substitutes. A Leavenworth preacher rebukes a crowded church for a singer’s absence.
A catalog note promotes an ice cream freezer that supposedly freezes cream instantly and can earn five to six dollars daily selling cream and ten to twenty dollars daily selling freezers. It claims broad suitability and easy profits with demonstrations, sent by J. F. Casey & Co. in St. Louis. It also includes a humorous family letter about a college student receiving ten dollars from his mother.
Electric Bitters is a seasonable medicine for languor and liver sluggishness. It is pitched as a preventive against malarial poison and a remedy for headache indigestion constipation and dizziness. Available at W. L. Carmichael's drug store at 50 cents and one dollar per bottle.
Rev. Rhodes, twelve miles east of Thompson, Texas, found a leather sack containing 380,000 Mexican dollars while plowing his field. The coins were nearly rotten. Rhodes purchased the land twelve years ago amid years of nighttime digging by unknown parties in the area.
A witty remark from Puck stating that the simplest way to prove you cannot play the violin is to attempt to play it. The quip underscores how performance reveals lack of skill.
Rev J Gunderman of Dimondale Mich commends Dr Kings New Discovery for his wife the treatment ended severe coughing spells from pneumonia and flu after a long illness. Trial bottles offered at W L Carmichael's Drug Store with regular sizes 50 cents and 1 dollar.
A Boston Transcript gag contrasts a deaf mute man’s speech impediment with a buzz saw injury. A Cleveland Plain Dealer exchange imagines Queen Anne’s beheading linked to a high hat, delivered as a child’s joke about history and attire.
A garbled quotation promoting No-To-Bac as a harmless tobacco cure sold by druggists with a money back guarantee. It promises nerve strengthening and no financial risk, then spuriously adds a social aside from Puck and a quip from Texas Sifter about women and tools.
Advert shows Shellaberger of Atlanta Ga selling fencing as the best and cheapest for all uses with a free catalogue. A quip about a martyrdom joke follows. A jokey exchange on a husband and wife discussing decisions appears, reflecting newspaper humor.
In a humorous item from Harper's Bazar, Miss Smashum resists men while Miss Comely counters with a blunt refusal. Miss Antique boasts Pilgrim ancestry as Hicks probes the Mayflower tale, prompting playful disbelief. Adams Freeman frames the exchange with playful zingers and social banter.
The candidate, Rev Seymour Briggs, colored, announces for representative from Dodge County. He states his run on May 13 1896 with self examination and bold resolution, declares refusal to be bought, and promises a speech on June 22 before the fourth Sunday at Hore. He remarks the world is a stage with actors counting railroad ties.
Ada Wainwright of Alamo Tennessee recounts three years of severe bone erysipelas and near amputation before claiming recovery after six bottles of S S S. The testimonial asserts the blood remedy cures deep seated blood diseases others cannot touch and leaves the patient stronger and healthier.
Bargain list from Rachet Store includes embroidery and lace items 15c per dozen spools 58c per pair of counterpanes and 58c per dozen spools of embroidery. Household goods like toilet soap underpriced pens pencils and combs cheap. Tools outfits and hardware items priced low including drawing knives braces and saws. Also window shades paper pins and various accessories offered at small prices.
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