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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1891
Page
3
Plush Rockers and sideboards priced from 15 to 250 dollars accompany china dinner and tea sets ranging 7.50 to 75 dollars. Picture moulding frames and room hangings offered on a six cent cotton basis with easels cords and hangings included.
A monument to Mrs. Ralph Shaffer in her mother’s plot bears a life size shadow of the deceased. The mother forbids engraving the name. the shadow remains, showing a distinct female profile with scarf and bangs, eight inches wide and fourteen taches high, not resembling the deceased.
An 1891 era page features varied items including a testimonial for P. P. P. from J. Person AMER in Lake City Florida, claims of cure for rheumatism, and an array of ads and notices. It mentions DeWitt's Sarsaparilla, Favorite Prescription, house painting services, paint ads, a reminder about timely ad copy, and local business promotions with names like Davenport Drug Company and Langman & Martinez. The piece closes with a note on posthumous publication.
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