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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1894
Page
7
A girl breaks her bicycle and her mother suggests trimming the light wheels into hats. The lightest manufactured wheels are repurposed for fashion rather than repair, while a separate quotation notes alcohol's varying effects in different locales.
An 1880s ad fragment denounces complexion prejudice and promotes tonics. It claims Heathen Chinee is not a beauty and offers remedies from Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters to cure malarial and kidney troubles. The copy mentions Dr Kimer’s Swamp-Root and a Binghamton laboratory.
A Boston Journal reprint recounts two men visiting A. T. Stewart’s store in New York without intent to buy. Polite staff offered coats, escorted them, and guided them through a shawl display until the friend bought a 1500 shawl and a carpet. Politeness, the piece concludes, is a valuable commodity that pays.
A compilation notes South Carolina voters: Evans 39586, Pope 17967, constitutional convention yes 31484 no 30130. Fires destroy 12 businesses and 9 homes in Columbus Kentucky. loss $75,000. Knights of Labor in New Orleans adjourned after study. Jellico Manufacturing sues Judge Shepherd for $250,000 in Chattanooga. A barge with 6500 barrels of flour sinks near Greenville Mississippi. cargo likely ruined. Danville Virginia fire destroys Anderson Co. mills and lumber, $28,000 loss. Breckinridge lecture tour planned. Georgia Central reorganization expected. regional railroad plans. Key West reports fire aboard Hajeen. Royal Welsh ashore and on fire near Cuba. Jackson Miss. postmaster indicted for embezzlement. fined and jailed. Memphis lynching trial flash: deputy sheriff Turner reveals remarks predicting arrests and lynching. Kentucky betting on horse racing shifts prices after New York amendment. Chattanooga grave robberies prompt arrest of William Hurst. possible physician involvement. Huntsville Alabama court to hold special term December due to docket. South Carolina society to raise $50,000 capital to stabilize state fair funds. Lexington Kentucky rail purchase linked to Vanderbilts. improves cargo transfer.
The Knights of Labor met in New Orleans to approve the finance committee report and approve about $2500 to cover delegates expenses. Sovereign was re-elected grand master workman without opposition, with Bishop of Massachusetts and Merritt of Colorado as nominees for grand master foreman, and Bishop elected. Hayes was re-elected secretary-treasurer amid some opposition. The new executive board is not yet ready.
Mr B F Johnson of B F Johnson & Co Richmond VA describes the firm’s ad recruiting representatives to work part or full time. He asserts many good men are employed profitably and earn more with the company than in other lines.
An old timey catalog-like blurb advertises products claiming to cure dyspepsia headache and teething discomfort. It mentions Sateen tablets and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with softening gums reducing inflammation and soothing wind colic priced at 25 cents a bottle.
A prominent restaurant keeper recalls a morning by a hurried patron who rushed in for quick food. After eating boiled or fried eggs, the man learns he misread the clock by an hour and curses his haste, then leaves sheepishly admitting his error.
A wild man rushed into a Clark Street dentist office in Chicago shouting about gas that would render a person asleep. The dentist confirms the gas causes brief insensibility lasting about a minute. The man demands a plaster removal from his back rather than dental treatment, escalating the strange scene.
A quoted passage argues against false modesty for girls and asserts that beauty and dress hold real value for a woman's prospects and happiness. It states beauty is not worthless and a well-chosen gown or bonnet can influence life outcomes, urging that common sense reveals this.
In Berlin at Herr Bolie's dairy milk is strained through a cloth and gravel then heated to destroy any germs. An ad promotes Tetterine for skin ailments at 50 cents a box from J. T. Shuptrine in Savannah. The Cairo museum displays seven ancient Egyptian brooms of straw, similar to modern tools but with shorter handles for discipline.
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