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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1897
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR reveals items from 1897 including official organs of counties and railroad commissions, university notes at Yale and Princeton, wedding music, political commentary on New York mayoral races, and scattered remarks on education and public figures, with numerous garbled phrases and incomplete names.
An article discusses how rumors of mint openings and possible government demand shifts lifted silver prices by seven cents in weeks. It contrasts bimetalists and mono metallists on price drivers, then shifts to a sketch about the Sprague family, praising their mother’s sacrifices and condemning the daughters in a separate note.
The page mixes verse about summer with a naval item noting the Kaiser Friedrich steamer to be launched at Dantzic on October 5 with Emperor William witnessing, describing it as sister ship to Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse, while a separate line cites Davin B. Hite declaring democracy.
A column contrasts auburn hair as a sign of iron in the blood with portraits of historic women such as Helen of Troy Cleopatra Catherine the Great and Marie Antoinette to note influence and beauty across ages. The piece ends by lampooning a modern "uncommissioned" government finance panel likening it to many named commissions.
The Chicago Tribune reports an Arctic trek where travelers prepare for extreme cold with warm clothing and whiskey, accompanied by a volume of Ella Wheeler Wilcox poems to steady morale.
A reader is told catarrh is a deep seated blood disease not cured by surface washes. The ad claims surface treatments fail and only a blood remedy reaches the disease. It promotes Swift’s Specific as the sole method to reach the root and permanently rid catarrh.
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