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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1891
Page
2
An advertisement extols Dr Price’s Pleasant Pellets as gentle, vegetable pills that regulate the liver stomach and bowels with minimal griping. It touts tiny sugar coated pellets requiring one to four pills for laxative to cathartic effects and promises satisfaction or money back under a peculiar guarantee.
A business man argues against hiring many young workers on recommendation letters. He cites efficiency, salary limits, and fairness to seasoned staff, proposing no salary list expansion or mass layoffs. He notes the risk of overstaffing from biased introductions and recalls Disjonval the prisoner who used spiders as weather signals to aid a French retreat.
American photographer Arthur Green outlines a method to create ghost or shadow images. Stretch a black backdrop, place a subject in white, expose half a second to form a shadowy figure, then reframe with the chair and table and expose two more seconds for a full ghost effect.
A description of an Indian duck catching method using a flexible stick and a bone needle baited with corn, plus Cape Cod fishermen using cod liver as bait to lure sea birds. Also a humorous item about a dog powered printing press where a dog named Joe drives a giant wheel to run the press for five years.
A dated collage blends a philosophical verse about change and mortality with short items on plasterers eye accidents and a wander through curiosities. It notes sun variability, natural soda springs in the Colorado desert, and Chile’s evening shopping culture, closing with brief mentions of pioneers and Princess Christian.
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