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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1891
Page
7
Pleasant notes from Americus society and business circles. Visitors, relocations, and local engagements include Mrs. M. L. Myrick's Atlanta trip, Ed Clark at a theater, and Judge Fish's circuit connections. Local ads promote watches, hats, journals, taxes, safes, and holiday closures with notices on insurance and minstrel shows.
The Bottom of the Sea adapted from a French piece by William A. Brady will be staged at the Academy of Music on Monday night in the same form as New York and Boston productions. Realistic scenery, divers, a giant devilfish, and scenes in mid ocean drive the drama, with a love triangle, a murder plot, a Greek villain, and a happy ending as the culprit is revealed. Also a half-car load of canned tomatoes is expected to arrive this week for customers.
George D. Wheatley announces a Christmas draw in his advertisement promising a boy a free safety bicycle. To enter, customers must purchase their boy’s suit at Wheatley’s, which advertises a wide, affordable selection. Visit the store at 414 Jackson Street for details and to view the latest styles.
Sumter county residents will travel to Atlanta for the Piedmont Exposition and many will stay at the Grant House, a first class hotel praised for cozy home like surroundings, fine service, cuisine, and location. Also notes on Chamberlains Cough Remedy for croup and local ads for groceries and seeds.
The Women's Missionary Society of the South Georgia Conference plans its annual session at the First Methodist church, starting Thursday the 15th and continuing through the week to Sunday. Delegates from across the conference are expected, with sessions twice daily and a missionary sermon by Dr. J. P. McFerrin on Friday night. A children's missionary entertainment is planned for Sunday night.
A claim says Isis and hundreds of cases have been cured after other treatments failed. The remedy is sold in 95 and 60 cent boxes.
An amalgamated ad feature touts Lemon Elixir for biliousness, constipation, sleeplessness, nervous headaches, and female regulation, attributed to Dr H Mozley of Atlanta. It also promotes Mozley Lemon Hot Drops for coughs, colds, laryngitis, and bronchitis at 25 to 60 cents. The page includes a joke about a masked baseball spectator and recites the Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery as a universal tonic for blood, liver, and kidney cleansing.
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