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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1899
Page
3
D W Wheatley celebrates the formal opening of its Holiday Stocks with a full store presentation. The article highlights ready gift options and a comprehensive inventory designed to meet demand, describing an atmosphere of Christmas and the store’s seasonal readiness.
Holiday sale lists a wide range of handkerchiefs and gloves with encoded prices. Offers include ladies hemstitched and embroidered handkerchiefs from 50 cents to 1.50, and gloves from three to four dollars, with various styles and sizes highlighted for gift buyers.
Officers report the Light Infantry unit is transferred with potential petitions to the government or to retain command in the Second Regiment, a move noted after an 80 year tenure. Capt. Clarke is mentioned in Macon as part of the developments.
The Americas Light Infantry faces transfer from the Second to the Fourth Regiment, stirring opposition from soldiers attached to Colonel Wiley. A petition to Governor Candler seeks retention in the Second Georgia while Captain Welborn F. Clarke and Second Lieutenant Z. S. Childers prepare for commissions amid the reorganization joining Albany Guards and Dawson Guards in a new battalion.
Mrs Axns E Hart of Groton writes of a severe cough that turned to consumption. After four doctors predicted a short life she used eight bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery, which cured her and left her well. Sold at E Eldridge’s Drug, with guarantee. Also ads for fireworks at Ansley and atomizers at Rembert’s drug store.
A catalog note touts Laisies Pocket Books and Card Cases as elegant gift items for Christmas. It highlights plain and sterling silver mounted versions with gold mountings, offered at various prices to suit economies.
Our stock features brushes in sterling silver with mounting, ebony and celuloid, all in fine cases. Prices are low and moving fast. Also Cologne in attractive bottles and a variety of novelties to aid affordable gifts for him or her.
More than half of Sumter county taxpayers failed to pay state and county taxes as the books closed. Executions will be issued today with perhaps a thousand files. The tax collector's office was crowded late, many did not come at all, and added costs apply. The note mentions a sale of sterling silver novelties and related items.
Auction or shop feature notes a broad stock of puff boxes and gift wares including china cut glass and porcelain priced from 25c to 175 dollars.
A local store promotes stationery as a sample of its superiority with a parade of novelties. Prices are listed at 25 cents and under, aimed to please the eye without straining the pocket.
A Richmond Indiana man credits Chamberlain Pain Balm with relief after 1862 rheumatism. A Tyre Michigan woman reports Kodol Dyspepsia Care cured her long standing dyspepsia and weakness. The ad also touts hair brushes with bristle varieties from 25 cents to 2 dollars and a claim about a product called Come sée.
A Sedalia Missouri advertisement promotes a china dresser set including Cologne bottles comb and trinket box as a new safety novelty priced at $30. It claims a quick cough care product saved a child, stating doctors warned the child would die without it.
Fragmentary description notes collar and cuff boxes made of celuloid leather and china. Mentions design features and invitation language but details are unclear due to damaged text.
Dispatches from Tugela river report Boer positions along a low-lying hills line north of Colenso bridge, outshooting British guns and forcing a retreat. A Durban AP note claims two kon wagons and 4908 prisoners captured, with guns possibly left by Boers. Times notes strong British denouncements of the war office over artillery.
An actress, famed for her stage work, is described as treating acting as an art with many onstage collaborations. The piece notes she often works with different leading men across productions, reflecting a professional rather than personal focus.
A reader states chronic diarrhoea in her son improved after using Chamberlain's Oolic Cholros and Diarrhoca Remedy, with two bottles at 25 cents each. Another note praises DeWitt's Witch Hazel Balm for rashes in a baby, warning against counterfeit products from W. F. Rembert.
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