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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1900
Page
3
A cluttered page lists patent medicines and tonics for coughs colds and aches. Products include Chamberlain s Cough Remedy Foley s Kidney Cure and Pain Balm with testimonials and pharmacy displays. Also notes a caution about drinkers and a quip on shortcuts to wealth through others pockets.
Rain could not dull the Retail Clerks Association outing in Americus with visitors from Macon and Columbus. Magnolia Dell’s verdant setting drew crowds, then a shower sent picnickers to shelter at Allen House, which A B Harrold opened for all. The day ended with bands, banquets, and warm welcomes from City Attorney James Taylor and Senator-elect Roland Ellis.
A fragmented historical item recounts a former slave made free by personal testimony, cites Elec tro Bitters as a cure for wife’s paralysis, and touts Dr Moffett Teething Powders. It includes notices on teacher examinations, rental listings, and testimonials for De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve, with several garbled names and local ads.
This year will witness the completion of many pretty residences in Americas, with several under construction citywide. Mr. E. B. Everett completed a beautiful home on Les street, and Mr. P. L. Holt is having material prepared for an elegant residence at Taylor and Elm ayenus in Ontario. A dozen dwellings have been erected recently, signaling thrift and prosperity across the city.
The Sumter county school teachers will divide a £2000 bank credit among them this Saturday. Superintendent Moore prepared sixty five checks yesterday, marking the March salaries distribution for the pedagogues.
A meeting of county Democratic primary candidates is scheduled for 10 o'clock this morning at Judge J. B. Pillsbury's office to discuss urgent business. The event aims to align strategies among hopefuls for county offices.
Rayton May 23 Twenty two miners, ten white and twelve Black, lost their lives in an explosion at the Cumnock coal mine in Chatham county North Carolina. About fifty men were in the east heading at 430 pm when the blast occurred. Five escaped alive from the east heading, rescue work began within an hour, and by night all but one body had been recovered. The mine had suffered a previous disaster in December 1895 when 43 men died. The shaft depths and ventilation arrangements are noted, and the disaster is part of a series of fatal explosions at this site. The article also mentions the council naming an engineer.
The city council filled the engineering vacancy at the pumping station after E B Thayer resigned to Alabama. George A. Nix won the remainder of the current year after caucus. Also note ad copy for Paix-Kitcen pain relief and Perry Davis pain killer.
Primrose and Dockstader present a hundred white performers in Americus next Monday with two shows at 2 and 8 pm. The grand theatre tent sits opposite The Windsor and 25 cent admission reflects the large seating capacity. Also from Philadelphia May 23 Mrs Amy Chisholm Gilmore wife of Major J C Gilmore dies by self inflicted razor wound in her husband’s arms.
Fragmentary notices mention Babies and Miss Proxert, plus unrelated ad style lines. The text cites war casualty ratios, testimonials for Ons Minute Cough Cure and Banner Salve, and a note about Foley's Honey and Tar. Overall content mixes health testimonials and miscellaneous phrases from an old newspaper page.
A thunderstorm yesterday afternoon sent lightning into tele phone cables at the central office causing a small cannon like report and burning fuses. The long distance line to Albany was cut off briefly as fuses burned out and repairs will be made immediately. All 120 drops on the switchboard fell when the bolt struck the wires.
An antique advertisement extols Mozley s Lemon Elixir for liver stomach and bowel regulation and general nervous and digestive issues with testimonials from users in West Virginia Alabama Georgia and Woodstock plus a joke ending about a wooden wedding. The piece promotes 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles from Atlanta based Dr H Mozley.
A fragmentary ad notes life’s great end theme and offers a good secondhand piano for sale or rent, inviting contact with Lee M. Hansford.
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