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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1900
Page
3
An aged ad features patent medicines and cough remedies from Chamberlain's and Foley's Honey and Tar. It touts relief for bronchitis, colds, and chest pains, with druggists Hodson and Dodson's Pharmacy promoting these tonics and salves as lifesaving and widely trusted by customers and physicians alike.
Thousands of Black mourners and participants travel on special trains to Andersonville for Memorial Day commemorations. Army posts from Macon and Fitzgerald oversee exercises at the national cemetery for 13,700 Union dead. Railroads run numerous specials from Americus and nearby towns, with hundreds of Fitzgerald and Macon citizens joining.
Advert says Foley's Kidney Cure excretes uric acid and treats rheumatism with healthy kidneys. Testimonial mentions W. H. Rembert and H. Clark praising cures for dyspepsia and skin diseases. Promotes One Minute Cough Cure and Foley's Honey and Tar for colds and pneumonia prevention, with Davenport Drug Co. as seller.
Two women letters praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief during the change of life. One Brooklyn reader reports nine years of bladder and liver trouble improved after use, endorsing it to others. A Bradford reader adds it brought benefit in change of life and recommends the remedy.
Four companies of the Fourth Regiment proceed to Andersonville this morning to insure good order. The Albany Guards Fitzgerald Guards Americus Light Infantry join Maj. Wylly in command. Thirty men per company, train at 0 30, Captain Clarke leads the Light Infantry with cooked rations for the day.
Inspector General W G Obear inspected the Americas Light Infantry and found it in excellent condition with about sixty men. The unit, once placed on probation six to eight months ago, has reached a high standard and stronger numbers than in its twenty-year history.
Reports from May 2 and May 20 detail Russian requests for gunboats to Taku and Port Arthur readiness with 20,000 troops. Chinese forces mass overland from Hunan and Kiang. Boxers seek Dowager Empress support to expel all foreigners as martial armies mobilize. Blood Balm ad follows with health claims and trial offer. final line jokes about wooden weddings.
An 1897 ad promotes Hall's Great Discovery as a cure for kidney and bladder troubles, gravel, diabetes, seminal emissions, back pain, and urinary irregularities for men and women and children. It names W A Rembert in Americus, Ga and Waco Texas as dealers with a testimonial from REV L B Pounds. A stray line notes a poor baseball player failing at a critical moment.
A clipped 19th century note features endorsements for Castoria and Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, praising digestive relief and liver cleansing. It includes a prothonotary from Washington PA and short maxims about time, urging readers to act on trifles while important matters arrive later.
Regular meeting notes list mayor and aldermen present, petitions to erect awning and install electric light, sewer work, street sprinkler bill approved, and multiple city bills ordered paid. Includes brief financial rundown with amounts and vendors and a bill for waterworks. Also an unrelated personal anecdote touting King’s New Discovery for coughs and lungs with trial bottle offer from J Eldridge’s drug store.
Miss Ida May Littlejohn will marry Mr. W T Hughes in Columbus at 10 o clock at the bride’s uncle Dspt H C Sapp home. After the ceremony the couple will depart for Blackshear. Hughes is a prominent merchant of Americus and Cordele ties mark the bride as the youngest sister of Judge Z A Littlejohn and Mrs J W Walters.
The court continued civil business with few cases disposed yesterday but more than balanced the day prior. W F Clarke commissioner v Americus Grocery Co opened morning, while a land injunction filled the afternoon. The grand jury stayed in session most of the day and several true bills were found.
Bears press the cotton market driving August futures down another 20 to 25 points with a sharp nationwide decline across months. Trading closes early due to a national holiday as the market shows continued weakness and scattered losses from the opening.
A fragmentary newspaper blurb touts De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve for skin ulcers and wounds, claiming rapid healing and cures, followed by odd endorsements from Boonville Indiana and Tuskegee with garbled patient testimonials and a tainted sense of patent medicine.
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