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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1900
Page
7
The store showcases its holiday stocks as a major Christmas event with an emphasis on completeness, dependability, and ready gifts. It notes careful preparation, experienced staff, and a wide selection to meet peak demand, promising a satisfying shopping experience for buyers.
Readable lines describe a holiday handkerchief sale, promising tempting prices and double our usual selling spice. The note hints at exploiting special lots and beginning the selling push in earnest.
Better and bigger preparations have been made in this section than ever before with neckwear dress shirts collars cuffs suspenders night shirts and more. Most attractive lines at attractively priced values for Christmas shoppers.
Speech by O B Stevens, Commissioner of Agriculture, Atlanta January 1, 1900, reflecting on Georgia’s 1899 agriculture and economy. He notes higher costs for mules, fertilizers, and cotton goods, but highlights gains in railroads, manufacturing, and cotton production. urges farmers to plant oats, corn, and forage to self-supply and curb fertilizer use while projecting market prices for cotton.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Great Discovery as a universal cure for kidney and bladder troubles, diabetes, seminal emissions, and various irregularities in men and women, with claims of bladder regulation for children. Included are testimonial snippets and endorsements from multiple names across several states.
The Georgia Department of Agriculture reports rising enthusiasm for wheat and fall grain crops across the state. Farmers are increasing wheat acreage, shifting land from cotton, and expecting a unusually large wheat harvest next spring barring a severe winter.
The famous brewer Paul Janjou was killed in a first class railway carriage near Kesnee. An American youth William Martins, about twenty, fired after accusing the Englishman in the compartment of planning chloroform and robbery. Martins was bound and later guarded until police took charge. The incident, set in France, drew rapid official statements about insanity and potential repercussions.
A Pittsburg man credits Mystic Cure with rapid relief from lingering illness after five doctors failed to help. He says a short sleep and a bottle of Mystic Cure brought him out of his house within a day and a half and urges others to try it. The note appears among various advertised claims and praise for the product from a druggist in Americus.
An actress may be wedded to her art, but she usually acquires more than one husband during her career. This curious biographical note hints at a life lived in rotation, reflecting on fame, romance, and the marriage market in a public figure’s world.
Dodson's Pharmacy promotes Landreth's Garden Seed with a $750 prize pool for heaviest cabbage onion and turnip raised from seeds bought between December 25, 1899 and December 25, 1900. Weigh-ins conducted by disinterested parties. prizes awarded after the December 25, 1900 record review. Last year’s cabbage winner weighed 9 pounds 4 ounces. turnip winner weighed 1 ounce. Irish potato prize not awarded. This year onion prize added to contest.
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