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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1899
Page
3
Fragmented OCR style text shows a crowded ad page with medical remedies and paraphrased testimonials. Names like Mr Wilkes and Mrs Moines Iowa appear amid product claims for foot care and cholera remedies. The snippet references W. AL Rambert and a Card of Thanks, with assorted misread lines suggesting a period newspaper item of consumer notices and patent medicines.
Fragmented OCR text describes a claimed relief from kidney pain and urinary issues within six hours. Mentions relief of water retention and pain, with garbled phrases and unclear product or location references. No clear entities or verifiable details are present.
Notice to taxpayers shows J P Ratford informing district residents he will be in his office daily until July first to close the books. The page also advertises various remedies and goods, including sarsaparilla, stomach cures, and DeWitt's Witch Hazel for piles, with attributions to local druggists and merchants.
A reader from Eric, Pa, recounts spraining a left hip while handling heavy boxes and failing to improve until using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. After trying it, the pain fully disappeared, and the writer now recommends the product to friends. Sold by John R. Hudson, druggist.
Judge Littlejohn and Solicitor General Hooper announce that about six felons will be sent to the penitentiary. The day includes the murder conviction of Thomas Ross not yet sentenced, with Ananias Davis and Green Gilbert also slated for prison terms. Elijah McDonald faces assault charges and a new session is planned for Wednesday and Monday in nearby courts.
Closing exercises begin Monday and run two days with sermons, exhibitions, and a literary address by Col. Harris. A comedy titled His Last Chance will be staged Wednesday night by local talent as part of the program. Also notes on diverse items including forgery arrests, sewer pipe workers, and a New Jersey court ruling.
Daily market notes show turpentine dull at Sipte 1840 attended by firm crude prices and steady tar. Reports from various mills indicate limited activity as receipts and shipments remain low, with demand tepid and producers holding prices steady despite unsettled market conditions.
Advertisement claims Hall's Great Discovery cures kidney and bladder troubles in men and women, diabetes, rheumatism, and related ailments. Includes testimonials from G. W. Williams and others in Americus Georgia and Trickson Mississippi, noting dramatic relief and purported Speed.
In Sedalia Missouri J A Bchest claims to have saved his child from death by croup using One Minute Cough Cure. The ad extols cures for coughs colds pneumonia grippe and lung troubles and promotes W A Rembert and DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as lasting cures with other nostrums pitched by merchants.
The state department denies any exchanges with Germany over replacing the Philadelphia with the Newark at Apia. The text also recounts a rustic tale of barter involving an egg and a darnin needle, a mothers meeting, and notes on fair haired peoples and theater lifespans, reflecting scattered items in a fragmented news page.
A sequence of notices details multiple properties in Americus Georgia to be sold at the courthouse door on the first Tuesday in June for delinquent taxes from the Sumter County tax collector. Properties include houses and lots on Elm Avenue Mayo Street Jefferson Street and Barlow Hill streets with boundaries named and tenants notified. Several parcels mention the 1898 1893 and 1898 tax years and list owners such as Carrie Bozeman Eula P Duncan Nelson Bright Emma Yowerson D E Boru Nancy etc. The notices describe levy on each property to satisfy tax fi fas and include description of bounding streets and adjacent parcels.
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