Pink Pills for Pale People touted as cure in 1893 letter
A Washington DC letter claims relief from rheumatism nerve pain and paralysis through Dr Will Pink Pills for Pale People. The writer Ann Atkinson swears to the treatment after suffering injury and nervous collapse in Kia Georgia County Virginia in 1810 and later years. The piece includes a medical notice and endorsement from Dr Williams Medicine Co listing conditions treated and sales details.
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Kia Géorsa County
Wsmans
Philadelphia
Will
Dilome
Rory O'More
Wasuixaton
Catrict
Columbia
Wasuiyaton
Ann Atkinson
Cossin
Nnil
A. D
Frank B. Marinow
D. C
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Schenectady
Brockville
Ontario
Speed of the Earth's Journey Explains Orbital Speed Variations
The article notes Earth's elliptical orbit causes varying speed, with closer approach to the sun in winter making the pace faster. It cites January 1 being about 3,000,000 miles nearer than July 1, and explains half the orbit takes 186 days while the other half takes 179 days. It adds tidal friction may slow rotation by about half a second per century, a change negligible for now.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Very Much in Earnest in a Fractured Street Scene
A short comic fragment shows Aunty and Little Johnny trading quips about praying and candy rewards. The child explains he is praying for Pil to be good this afternoon while tracing moral sentiments about debt and honesty in a light street chat tone.
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Johnnny
Georgia State News highlights bonds and reforms in Georgia
The governor approves a $100,000 bond for the First National Bank of Cartersville as a state depository. Reuben B. Mobley is reappointed to the Griffin Experiment Station board. Roswell seeks a Western Union telegraph office. Rewards offered for Laura Nelson’s killer and barn arson. Rome assigns W M Gammon stock for creditors. Central railroad repairs Savannah Atlanta division funded by receiver certificates. Augusta drafts a new city charter. Milledgeville supports Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College. Local elections, pensions, and legal cases noted. Georgia plans bank charter filings and counterfeiting cases emerge in Savannah. Professor Barrow resigns from U Georgia. Dr Hinkle cases move toward trial. Central Railroad reorganization gains momentum with new bond plan.
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First National Bank of
Cartersville
Milledgeville
Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College
Seven Wonders of Corea Described by Chinese Paper
A Chinese article outlines seven Corean wonders. It mentions a hot Kin Shantao spring, twin wells with opposite tastes, a wind filled cold cave, an indestructible pine forest, the hovering stone that moves without obstruction, a hot stone on a hill, and a sweating Buddha within a temple where no grass grows nearby.
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Corea
Kin Shantao
Tims
AGRICULTURISTS MEET IN BRUNSWICK GEORGIA SESSION
The State Agricultural Society met in Brunswick city hall with welcome addresses by Mayor Dunwoody Judge Bolling Whitfield and Spencer Atkinson. President Waddell delivered the annual address praising Brunswick, noting railway passes dispute, Augusta Exposition ties, and plans for Macon fair. Two veteran members, R D Winn and T W Fleming, were remembered. reports highlighted Georgia farming, prices, and home production.
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State Agricultural Society
Brunswick
Jean Vane
Dunwoody
Bolling Whitfield
Spencer Atkinson
R. B. Hall
Macon
Waddell
Stone Mountain
Georgia
Tam
Thad
Southern Passenger and Steamship Association
Georgia State Agricultural Society
Association
Augusta Exposition Company
Patrick Walsh
Augusta
Horne
R. D. Winn
Gwinnett County
T. W. Fleming
Baker County
Happenings of four days summarized in brief
Disjointed dispatches report creditors in Greensboro North Carolina A H Ottley Co of Reidsville gains 3600 additional. South Carolina attorney general states county government law preserves current system until 1895. Judge Woods upholds Roanoke local option election. prohibition may start April 1 pending appeal. Bank president George N Henson of Chattanooga freed on bond. Indian council sells rupees in telegraphic transfers at 134 percent. London Daily News notes rupee valuation stance. Virginia Senate delays Wickham debt resolutions. Scituate crew of Minnie Rowan saved after wreck. Post Office Inspector reports Honduras Lottery ties at Port Tampa Florida facility worth ~50000.
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J. W. Alspaugh
Greensboro
N. C
A. H. Ottley
Woods
Roanoke
Hastings Court
George N. Henson
Chattanooga
J. B. West
Indian Council
The
London Daily News
Virginia State Senate
Wickham
West Virginia
Scituate
Mass
St. John
First Cliff Point
Fourth Cliff
Post Office
Dice
Honduras National Lottery Company
Postal Service
Department
Lottery Company
Port Tampa
Fla
The Pollard Case in District of Columbia Supreme Court
Miss Madeline Pollard's case moves to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia next Thursday. Attorney Calderon G. Carlisle of Washington represents Pollard. Depositions of Mrs. Dr. Buchanan and Mrs. Dr. Perry from Covington were not finished. Pollard will call no further witnesses. any needed will testify in Washington.
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Calderon G. Carlisle
Washington
Madeline Pollard
Cincinnati
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Carlisle
Miss Pollard
Frankfort
Da Gama Reported Dying After Rio Skirmish Wounds
Admiral Isidenha DaGama, rebel commander, was wounded in the neck and arm during the Armaco battle near Rio de Janeiro on Friday. A Rio dispatch says his condition is critical and may prove fatal, with every effort underway to save his life.
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Rio de Janeiro
Isidenha DaGama
Armaco
Atlanta markets price rundown on staples and provisions
A dense list of commodity prices from Atlanta markets including sugar, molasses, tea, rice, canned goods, flour, grain, and livestock feeds. Notable items include New Orleans yellow clarified fat at 4a44c, sugar 4c, molasses 35 38, butter 12 eis, and middling at 78-16. The column compiles dozens of daily trade quotes across groceries, grain, dairy, meat, and farm supplies.
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New Orleans
Jamaica
Singapore
DepPe Elle
Mace $Lo
Rice
Japan
Sai Hay Dairy
Virginia
Star i
Tennessee
Western Creamery
Missing Links and Ancient Origins of Common Produce
The passage traces origins of many foods including asparagus from Britain, cherries in Asia by the 17th century, lettuce shipped from New Jersey to New York, and pecans with a large nationwide yield. It notes beets, chestnuts from France and Italy, tomatoes from South America, Cape Cod cranberry bogs, parsley from Egypt, Hercules myth, Romans bringing apples, crab apples in Britain, cantaloupe from America named near Rome, and onions worshiped by Egyptians before Christ.
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Great Britain
Asia
New Jersey
Inky York
Washington
France
Italy
South America
Portugese W
Cape Cod
Egypt
America
Rome
Europe
India
Contempt of Court in France.
French judges use summary contempt procedures. An anarchist named Trentiere, appealing a six month sentence for swindling, told the court he sought appeal to expose what he calls unjust judgments. The president replied we confirm the sentence and add two years of detention for contempt of court.
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Trentiere
Court of Appeals
Des Bourreaux
Yellow Faces and Fortunes in a Fair Field
An editorial style fragment discusses marriages and matches among social peers, noting Arthur Hally as a failing choice while others are wealthy. The piece shifts to medical tone, praising Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for liver issues and digestive troubles, then a generic nod to well being and vitality. It closes with a moral line about preferring honest living over sentimentality.
Royal Buckwheats and Quick Buckwheat Cakes
An 1880s Domestic Cookery receipt promotes using Royal Baking Powder to mix a fresh buckwheat batter daily. It claims light, sweet cakes with no rising time, contrasting with traditional sour batter kept overnight. Also a humor panel about flowers and a mistaken chrysanthemum joke.
Syrup of Figs Promises Comfort and Health Benefits
An advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative aiding kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. It claims broad public medical approval, pleasant taste, and effective relief from constipation, colds headaches fevers, with bottles sold by druggists in 50c and 1 shipments. Manufactured by California Fig Syrup Co with its name on every bottle.
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California Fig Syrup Co
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Tris
Hood
J. Baker
J. Barer
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Maca
Aliliver
Georgia State News
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Reuben B. Mobley
Experiment Station
Griffin
Roswell
J. B. Trees
Western Union Telegraph Company
William Nelson
Laura Nelson
J. J. Rodgers
Barnesville
W. M. Gammon & Co
Anniston
R. G. Clark
the Central Railroad
Savannah
Atlanta
William Hooks
Americus
Cynthia McPherson
Carroll County
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Banks
E. B. Gaddy
Baldwin
W. Oakley Wood
Lord Beresford
Fort Worth
Tex
Country Bank Stock Security Company
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E. P. Chamberlin
E. W. Marsh
W. A. Hemphill
J. A. McCord
Forrest Adair
E. W. Martin
J. R. Murdock
Central Railroad
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Pembroke
B. H. Getsinger
Board of Commissioners
Floyd County
Max Meyerhardt
Chattahooga
Col. W. A. Little
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Colonel Little
S Iato
Treasury
J. H. Horn
Webster County
Columbus
United States
G. E. Thomas, Jr
United States Mail
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Columbus Southern
Weston
Wright
Thomas
United States Court
Forsyth
Government Service
David C. Barrow
University of Georgia
Athens
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Barrow
Albert Hinkle
J. J. Worsham
J. B. Hinkle
A. B. Hinkle
Terrell
Waycross
West
Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad
Folkston
Seven Wonders of
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Captain Lyon
Dr. Payne
Col
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Tom Lyon
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LaGrange
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Confederate Soldiers
Pikesville, Md
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South Carolina
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West Point
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Minnesota
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la Crosse
Wis
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Brita
Ouro
Torpo
Lucas Couatry
Frank J. Corser
F. J. Carney & Co
Toledo
Haun
Frank J. Cheney
A A. W. GiEzason
Beal
Hall
J. Cozxey & Co
Laj E Co
Isaac Thompson
Beecham
Eir Caneemi
George
Bridget
See Sharges
Tre Bradfield Regulator CO
Ailnta
Metadinds McElrees’ Iwine
Carduil
Regi
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Thi _trade Company
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Menlo
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Batley
Pubon
Dawes
Fe Postag
John A. Salzer
LA Ce
Este
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Iistas
Awands
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Cienpnesa
Harmess
Urese
Ree Alliance Carriage CO
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