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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1895
Page
3
The excerpt promotes longevity and wellness through blood flow and strength. It references the book How to Live a Hundred Years as the source of health guidance. It emphasizes improving the frail to become strong and healthy.
An advertisement extols Brown's Iron Bitters as a strengthening purifying remedy for the system. It claims health and happiness in thousands of homes and mentions its pleasant taste and value for constipation. Brown Chewal Co, 64 Baltimore, MO is listed.
An 19th century advertisement touts Orange Blossom as a natural, direct-applied remedy for female troubles. It claims to draw fever and pain, reinvigorate the system, and cure conditions like dropsy of the womb and irregular menses. The paste-like tablet is mailed on receipt of price from Dr. J. A. McGill Co. Chicago.
Captain John A Cobb reports a surge in stills and peach brandy production across central Georgia as distilleries multiply. Meanwhile cotton receipts rose with wagon loads over 200 bales yesterday and prices edged up to 74 cents. further gains expected as good picking weather continues.
A bicycle collision near dark on Lee street injured Percy Griffith and Bernard Watts. Watts fell on a rock, sustaining a severe head gash needing several sutures. Griffith was stunned but not badly hurt. Also notes civic sanitation appeals and local notices from August 1896.
Ads describe 129 acres near railroad suitable for stock and crop, price 4000 cash with eight year balance at 7 percent. other tracts include 40 acres near Plains with a stockade and a 7 room house, 50 acres wooded land two miles from town, a two story brick store on Prince Street renting 9 per month, and a blacksmith shop with rear lot. Listings mention multiple properties in Americus and nearby towns with terms and potential earnings. broker P B Williford, Murphey Building, 809 Lamar St.
Seymour Keener is sentenced to hang on October 18 by Judge Kimsay for killing his two cousins Leonia and Arizona Moore. The report also covers veterans wreathing a Hamburg monument, a drowning and injury death, a ship’s valuable cargo, a Kentucky family tragedy, and other scattered items from across the country.
The text touts Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with anecdotes of cure across several families in Lewis ton North Carolina and other towns. It cites W A Rembert druggist as seller and includes testimonials from local residents about relief from dysentery and diarrheal complaints.
The sale follows a Sumter Superior Court decree in the Sumter Real Estate and Improvement case. On the first Tuesday in September the one acre city lot at Church and Hampton streets will be auctioned for cash at the courthouse door. Bounded by Kendrick lands to the north and east, Church Street to the south, and Hampton Street to the west. There are three existing settlements on the lot. The notice includes unrelated medical and patent medicine advertisements common to the period.
multiple parcels in Americus Georgia to be sold at court house door on the first Tuesday in October 1895 to satisfy city tax liens for years 1892 1893 and 1894 and other judgments with tenants in possession notified and various lot boundaries described including 5 Winn Street 314 Forrest Street Lee Street and other parcels along Ash Street Poplar Street and nearby avenues as listed by city officials with sale notices and transfer actions advised by the mayor and city council of Americus.
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