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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1900
Page
3
Community sales offer assorted boys garments from ages 8 to 16 including warm suits blouses coats and pants. Prices range around two to three dollars with various styles described in a dense catalog ad format from Washington.
Paragraph notes remaining stock of Inna Minsea Jackets in sizes 4 to 14 years. Garments carried over from last season may need minor alterations. Formerly priced at 350 each, closeout price listed as 8100 each.
Various remnant carpet and matting offers with price cuts and sizes. Includes piano and player matting, extra heavy and extra weight designs, and China matting. Discounts on Smyrna Rouge and fireside rugs with listed sizes and original versus sale prices.
The fragment notes a continuation of a friendship with stated satisfaction, though the text is garbled. It references a social bond and a positive sentiment, but lacks clear events, names, or places to confirm specifics.
An 1898 testimonial claims Hall's Great Discovery cures kidney and bladder troubles in men and women and aids children with bladder issues. The letter from J. King of Texas endorses its efficacy after suffering from bladder stones. Also noted is a Kansan praising Foley's Honey and Tar for grippe and coughs observed by Davenport Drogs Co.
Marion county prisoner Thomas Kemp in jail awaits the penitentiary guard to take him away for life. His brother, also sentenced for aiding in Cook’s killing and a prior escapee, is believed hiding nearby and may be captured soon. Kemp was brought to Americus Tuesday for safekeeping in the county jail.
A large appreciative audience attended Hoyt's satirical piece A Texas Steer at the national capital last night, delivered by a capable company. The performance drew praise as one of the season’s best, with familiar ads and local notices interspersed among the theater celebration.
The Georgian Alabama Railway offers a special round trip fare of six dollars for travel from Hicketa to Savannah and return, valid through March 22. The trip features elegant parlor and buffet cars at fifty cents for the seating. Also mentions local cures for rheumatism and a Macon hotel sale with bidding by C A Newcombe planned for Saturday.
Denver honors the burial of Ritch son of Captain Jerry O Ritch of Athens Georgia who served in a Colorado regiment during the Philippine War He went to the front at the war’s outbreak and earned gallantry but died after living in poverty since returning to the country
Churchgoers enter forty days of self denial and prayer as Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent for Episco pals and Catholics a period of religious observance with special services. The note mentions Easter Sunday on April 15 and a cultural aside about a New Orleans colored minstrel show in Americas with tickets at 15 and 25 cents.
A retired dry goods merchant Robert Johnson loses his Mount St. Vincent home to a fire. Damage amounts to 104000 dollars. Johnson escaped by tying a surveyor’s chain to a bedstead and leaping from a storm door with back injuries. He crawled a half mile through snow to a gardener’s house before collapsing. The fire destroyed statues rugs and paintings. Johnson, 45, lived alone.
An old advertisement extols Mozleys Lemon Elixir as a lemon tonic for biliousness constipation and digestive issues. It claims benefits for nerves heart Fever and kidney disease with testimonials from L. J. Automen of Atlanta and Mis A Guemzau of Salem. Also promotes drops for sore throats and hoarseness with generic claims of relief.
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