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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1899
Page
3
A garbled OCR excerpt mentions time limits and sellers but contains no clear event, names, places, or actionable details. The fragment lacks sufficient readable facts to identify persons, organizations, dates, or outcomes for a proper item.
An old newspaper fragment promotes Allen’s Foot-Ease powder for comfortable shoes and instant relief from bunions and sore feet, with mail order and local sales notes. It also markets Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a digestion aid, plus testimonial on Pain Balm and various local druggists. The clipping includes residence and business references plus medical ad copy and salve recommendations.
The Times-Recorder urges Americus to form a stock company and convert a brick building into a cotton mill, wagering that ready capital exists and a trusted leader could motivate local investors. It argues Georgia towns grow through manufacturing and that local confidence could mobilize residents to back plant development for mutual city and individual gains.
A fragmented 19th or early 20th century advertisement page touts Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve and Kodol Dyspepsia Digestive Aid. It features testimonials from H Wilson and Thomas Thurman deputy sheriff of Troy Mo plus sales from W A Rembert Dodeons Pharmacy Hudsons Drug Store and W M Gallagher. The page blends medical products with local dealer notices and prices.
The cantata Fairy Queen was staged at the opera house last night under Mrs. Jane Geist. Miss Stella McGee as the fairy queen led about eighty children in singing and dancing, with E. G. Simmons as A Yankee in Love a standout. The Japanese fan drill and Johnny Lawlow clowns drew applause, Miss Julia Guerry gave a graceful Goddess of Liberty finale, and the entire cast impressed as a grand success.
A horse bolted on Church street yesterday and ran over the son of Mr. George McNeal. The boy was caught in the buggy wheel and badly hurt. Too Howard was nearby and freed the child from the perilous position.
Money lost in the city mentions two eight ten dollar bills with a finder’s plea for return to the owner and a reward. Sam Jones to Preach Sunday Evangelist Sam Jones will attract a large crowd to Cordele next Sunday opening the chautauqua session with a special one fare rate from Americus and nearby points. Florist George Stanfield offers a limited supply of choice hothouse flowers arriving by express today at 2 p.m. for early buyers.
An 1899 advertisement touts Hall's Great Discovery as a universal remedy for kidney and bladder troubles, diabetes, rheumatism, and many other conditions in men and women. It claims mail order availability from J W Hall of St Louis and lists local sellers in Americas Georgia and Jackson Mississippi. A testimonial from W Williams praises its effects, while other lines reference hotel register success.
An old advertisement touts DeWitt's Little Early Risers as a faultless mild purgative and Blackberry Balsam for stomach troubles. It promotes relieving remedies sold at Rembert's Drag Store with a price of 250 per bottle.
Examinations in all city public schools ended at noon yesterday, bringing summer vacation for hundreds of pupils. Farlow School graduates will be honored tonight at the opera house with seventeen diplomas. The class of 09 promises a full theater as Rev. BR M Wesley leads prayers and students recite. McKay Hill school closes Friday night with another large crowd and fine program.
A collage of brief vignettes spans hunting lore at English parish churches, clergyman sport contrasts, Scots squibs, Pall Mall origins with Pepys cited, and wry exchanges on Wellington. The snippets include a lynching reference, a her hairdresser pulling on a dummy, and a schoolmaster quip about a chair chair discovery, all framed as light historical curiosity.
G W Barnett was acquitted on charges of mobbing and attempted murder of Seah Jackson after a May 28 beating near Griffin Georgia. The jury deliberated about 40 minutes returning a not guilty verdict. The report also notes the Georgia Baptist Young People convention in Columbus with about 450 delegates and B A Eckhart’s testimony before the interstate commerce commission.
The notice lists Seoul nearing completion of the first street railway, Raleigh voting to issue 1500000 dollars in bonds for street improvements and schools, a fatal fire at the Brown House in Blackshear Georgia, and naval concerns over the New Orleans and Albany cruisers bought in England. It also mentions contractor Charles Cabot’s death by morphine in Irondale Alabama after family losses. Additionally eighty two members of the 9th New York regiment sue Louisville Nash for damages totaling about 600 dollars from a wreck while traveling to Fernandina Florida.
Savannah June 14 Colonel Richard J Davant died at his residence in Guyana. The report notes market quietness and receipts details amid daily market activity. The obituary line appears in an otherwise terse market report fragment with limited context.
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