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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1900
Page
3
A jumble of brief notes on wartime figures Cronje Roberts and Kitchener realigned by age. Field conditions delay farming with boggy plots. peas rise in price. A Birmingham bound carload of goods shipped. rain dampens spirits. Uniforms for state troops ordered 750 pieces for 18 companies to arrive by Memorial Day April 26.
A Georgia factory district traveler reports mills running low on cotton with orders to buy as prices rise. Mills fear disruption until new crop arrives and may pay well above ten cents for fiber as stocks dwindle.
Courthouse and city hall offered few items while the chess club enjoyed a rare moment. A planned Lee county dove shoot was canceled by weather, Faust is slated again for the 22nd, and local talk ranges from politics to railroad prospects and street repairs.
Local readers from Milesburg and Peterstown praise One Minute Cough Cure as a speedy, harmless remedy for coughs croup and sore throat. Endorsements claim immediate relief from bronchitis pneumonia and grippe with no opium or harmful drugs.
Americus residents plan to travel to Savannah for Admiral Dewey’s visit on the 20th with round trip rail fares from Americus at six dollars. Notables including President McKinley and cabinet members expected to attend. the event described as a gala in the Forest City. Notices promote Chamberlains Pain Balm and Ely Cream Balm with testimonials, plus various medicinal cures and petty humor notes.
In Toomesboro Georgia negro Clem Gibson was ambushed and fatally shot near Lightfoot yesterday. Henry Stubbs is suspected, tied to a prior year shooting in the same area. authorities contemplate this as retaliation or ongoing violence.
A Dawson column records visitors from Huntington and New Orleans, local homecomings, social calls, and brief notes on residents like Mr A J Carver and Miss Florine West. It includes healthcare ads and light anecdotes about manners and local life.
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