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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1896
Page
3
A short excerpt notes Mr Meanman refusing to contribute to a new organization fund. The rector recalls promising support when needed, and Mr Meanman confirms he has now been called and is glad to see them. The passage is from Harper's Bazaar.
An assortment of old time advertisements push Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for constipation and fever with cautions on delaying treatment. Dobbins’ Floating Borax Soap markets itself as a superior floating soap for toilet and laundry. Cascares claim to stimulate kidneys and intestines without weakness or griping.
An old advertisement bundle touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure claiming it cures deafness from catarrh and promotes other remedies. The text includes promises of a $100 reward for incurable deafness, testimonials, and various patent medicines with pricing and where to buy them. It mentions Dr. Fenner’s Specific, Castarets for children, and eye-waters with locations such as Toledo and New York references.
In dialect, Pick aninoy Jim debates luck with a companion about rabbits. The exchange centers on whether keeping the rabbit’s left hind foot and the hind legs of the animal signals good dining fortune. The tone mirrors playful regional chatter from a Washington Star quotation.
Boil two quarts of water and add one cup of rice for 50 minutes then drain. Place two tablespoons of cooked rice in a cheesecloth, tie into a walnut sized ball, boil 20 minutes, and remove. Arrange the warm balls in a pyramid on a dish, garnish with cherries, and serve with warm custard or cream.
A reflective ad text describes women awakening cheerful yet afflicted by crippling back ache and uterine trouble. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy to restore courage, urging immediate use to end suffering and reclaim daily brightness.
A brief ad notes Lettuce Cream and Lettuce Cream Soap offered to consumers by Lettuce Cazam Co. Send 26 cents in stamps to L Commision at 114th Ave. No. for purchase details.
A collection of maxims about virtue, humility, honesty, and growth. It contrasts true piety with stinginess and warns that moral progress matters more than wealth. It notes that truth stands firm like rock and true friendship appears in guidance.
Stephen Fiske describes Dickens as disciplined, working daily 11 to 3 in Fechter's chalet. He outlined planning steps with hero naming and character queries, noting blue ink usage and a shared Dickens school led by the author, who was affectionately called Chief.
The article explains a method to ship butter from Australia to Africa without ice. Glass boxes, enveloped in plaster, create a poor heat conductor, keeping butter stable during long voyages. Packing costs are about two cents per pound, with 40 pound cases common and 200 pound boxes available.
The Lewiston Journal recalls mast teams in Maine forty years ago moving from Chesterville or Farmington to tidewater at Hallowell or Gardiner. Teams, driven by shouting drivers, pulled long cattle lines to haul massive masts to the sea where some were worth hundreds of dollars. The writer asks if mast teams have been seen in Maine in the last 25 years.
A mirror test described to gauge seasickness suggests those unaffected may endure sea travel. Meanwhile Toronto residents, numbering eleven thousand, petition for Sunday streetcar service as the Lord's Day Alliance mobilizes opposition to the project.
The arid region requires a new policy as the homestead and desert land laws misfit irrigation needs. The review argues current laws force settlers to water and farm before title, urging radical reform to unlock western potential and halt perjury and fraud.
The New York Mail and Express argues that Italians, more than other Latin peoples, have a strong migratory drive. It attributes this to centuries of misrule, wars, and unstable finances under united Italy, noting that the government failed to curb departures and, in fact, seemed to encourage them despite recent national unification.
Secretary of War Lamont orders a dignified lowering of the National colors at sunset. After the retreat call and sunset gun, the band plays the Star Spangled Banner as the flag descends slowly and remains off the ground until the anthem ends. Congressman McClellan praises the sight and urges nightly enactment in cities.
The United States Consul at Rheims reports English horses aged out in England are sent to Dutch canneries. About 26,000 horses annually are processed into canned beef after labeling with American marks, then shipped to France and neighboring countries.
Poem fragment by G Fovelle printed in Truth cautions about money. It contrasts wealth and poverty, noting that the borrower bores, the rich pay the piper, and a broke man must cope alone with his troubles.
A collection of light humorous lines and exchanges from multiple newspapers offering quips about family, manners, travel, and daily life. Jokes touch on boarding, weddings, vacations, riding wheels, and social manners with dated newspaper wit.
A German newspaper declares the Turkish Empire's ruler insane, citing frenzied hatred of Armenians and dangerous mood swings. It claims his cabinet fears him as he paces halls talking to himself and has even shot a courtier during a paranoia driven fit. Sometimes he derails into sudden bursts of merriment when he suspects Powers disagree.
A South American mot mot begins shaving on maturity. Its long blue tail feathers are trimmed by the beak, removing two inch side portions to leave neat oval tips at the end of each tail.
A collage of unusual data notes tiny Greenland potatoes no larger than marbles and human body proportions a quarter of a bone size. a Paris ruling allows horseless carriages in privileged streets. English education in Transvaal schools. global bread consumption and salt yields from sea waters. measurements show limb length disparities in skeletons and rare equal cases.
A man leads his partner to a beechen grove where initials carved long ago form a knot. He asks in an anxious tone if they will follow the example, offering to knot if she will, echoing a quiet vow from the past.
Reports note one thousand deaths from a virulent plague in Bombay district India while six powers weigh the deposition of the sultan of Turkey. Louisiana Missouri hosts a watermelon prize with a sixty pound first prize and fifty eight and a half pound runner up. Cairo editors face jail and fines for libel and obscene caricatures of Queen Victoria. A four hundred thousand dollar mausoleum for John W Mackay's son rises in Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn.
The passage extols Syrup of Figs as a cure for renewed health and internal cleanliness, contrasting it with old-time medicines and cheap substitutes. It suggests only the well-informed reject inferior options while goodness and knowledge should accompany progress.
Old advertisements tout No To Bac No To-Bac cure all ills promising restored manhood and weight gain. Dr Kaine Great Nervine Storer and Dr Kline offer free trials and addresses. Also Winslow soothing syrup for teething and CACARETS liver regulator advertised with prices in cents.
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