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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1898
Page
4
Local notes on crops travel and town life
Farmers cheerfully report healthy crops and delayed cotton openings while rainfall keeps dust down. Registration reminders urge citizens to sign the book. A preacher teases a crowd at Central depot with a sprint and church sermon notes warn about liquor traffic. Dove season nears with locals preparing for hunts and seed catalogs listed. Dodson's pharmacy also mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Depot
Columbus
First Methodist Church
Sporsmen
Landreth
Dodson
Soldier Boys Get Their First Month Pay
Americas soldier boys with Col. Ray's regiment at Camp Price Macon received their first month pay about $7,000 distributed for service from enlistment to June 30. Individual sums were small since many men enlisted recently, and the paymaster is hoped to return after July ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americas
Col. Ray
Camp Price
Macon
Sam
Crush at Tax Office As Voters Seek Local Election Ballot
Tax receiver Raiford faced a long day managing a large crowd of voters in his office as registrants line up for the August 17 local option election. Early tallies suggest over a hundred registered yesterday, with expectations of more today and a heavy turnout on the 17th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raiford
Death of John P. Mims at 28 in family home
John P. Mims died yesterday morning at his father W. T. Mims’s Church Street home after long illness. He was 28. Funeral services will be at 9:20 a.m. from the father’s residence, with interment at Oak Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers named: T. L. Granberry, Jno W. Shiver, J. T. Stallings, Eugene Lockette, W. M. Tullis, F. G. Olver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John P. Mims
W.T. Mims
Church Street
Oak Grove Cemetery
T. L. Granberry
Jno
W. Shiver
J.T. Stallings
Eugene Lockette
W. M. Tullis
F. G. Olver
LeConte Pears Rise In Popular Demand
LeConte pears surge in popularity surpassing Elberta peaches as growers in and around Americus reap a golden harvest. With a pear famine in the north and west, pears fetch fancy prices while peaches decline. One Americus grower has shipped 650 bushels of LeConte pears with very satisfactory returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americus
Americas
Mc Gaw Manufactures Seeks Soap Brand Injunction
Judge Z A Littlejohn heard Mc Gaw Manufacturing Co of Macon sue Whitley Grocery Co to enjoin selling a soap brand alleged to resemble a Macon brand. Hearing consumed the afternoon. decision reserved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chambers
Z. A. Littlejohn
McGaw Manufacturing Co
Macon
Whitley Grocery Co
Littlejohn
Blackman Bound Over For Wife Beating
Simon Blackman, the man charged with beating his wife Thursday morning, was bound over by Justice Graham. Unable to meet the $150 bond, he was committed to jail. Blackman described his wife and family in abusive terms during the statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simon Blackman
Justice Graham
Blackman
Dr E J Eldridge Sells Dr Kings New Discovery
Local store promotes Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds claiming it cures asthma bronchitis hoarseness and throat chest and lung ailments. Trial bottle free and regular size 50 cents to 1 00 with guarantee to cure or refund. Also offers fresh bird and garden seed at Remberts drugstore near post office and new crop turnip seed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. J Eldridge
Bucklen Arnica Salve advert and local anecdotes
An arnica salve claim lists cures for cuts, ulcers, and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee and 25 cent price. A Westminster Abbey burial count notes over 1 173 deaths in England. Milesburg Pennsylvania touts DeWitt’s Early Risers as the best pills for family use across forty years. An aside comments on old fashioned folks and stockings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milesburg
DeWitt
W. A. Rembert
Visits and departures mark city social lapses
The column lists multiple residents and visitors including Mr. Charles Culpepper Miss Maude Lingo Dr. W. A. Rembert Mr. Thomas L. Bell Sheriff Holder Sheriff Horn Frank Tigner Col Mark Hollis W. F. Mims Miss Kate Thornton Mrs. D. T. Wilson Miss Sarah Wheeler Mr. E. E. Anderson Messrs B. M. Davis W. E. McCaw n George S. Jones Misses Bessie Clem Warren Agnes Hillaman Chas Harold Eugene Haynes C C Clay Jr and others visiting or traveling to and from Macon Atlanta Marietta Savannah and Cobb on various personal business. The note ends with a piano and organ rental advertisement from Amonious Jewanny & Musso Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Culpepper
Macon
Maude Lingo
W. A. Rembert
Marietta
Thomas L. Bell
Atlanta
Sheriff Holder
Stewart County
Frank Tigner
Columbus
Americas
Mark Hollis
Buena Vista
W. F. Mims
Capt. Wheatley
Camp Price
Kate Thornton
Yester
D.T. Wilson
Sarah Wheeler
E. E. Anderson
Georgia and Alabama Railroad
Savannah
B. M. Davis
W. E. McCawn
George S. Jones
Death of a Young Lady Miss Lilla Parker
Miss Lilla Parker dies at 3 a.m. after nearly a month of slow fever at her mother's home six miles north of Americus. She leaves a mother and several brothers and sisters. Funeral services set for 9 a.m. at Shiloh church seven miles from the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilla Parker
Americas
Miss Lilla Parker
A. J. Parker
Americus
Miss Parker
Shiloh Church
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Geo, D. Wheatley
Cor, Lamar St
Cotton Ave
Americue, GA
Jomn Kay
Otis
Mn. C.N Gregg
Greene Bros
En2
Corron Ave
T. C. Parker
C. E. Hooper
Spain
Morelein Beer
T. Q. Bass
Artesian
Ir. Bass
Moerlein Beer
China
Brio-a- Mathenttvb
Americus Jewelry and Music Co
Watonmes
Hudson's Drug Store
Aegis
Judge Z.A Littlejohn
Bond
Rembert’s
Postoffice
Rembert's
Bucklen
England
Westminster Abbey
Biris
Sheriff Horn
Webster County
California Fig Syrup Co
Nunnally
Post Office
Kingan
California
Boston
Sullivan & Co. N. B
Oarders
No. Elm Ave
Kodak
Will Dudley
James Fricker
Sale ‘ Acies
C. B
South Georgia
Oda
Formmerly
Manhattan
Snow
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