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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1891
Page
3
Sale advertisement lists 1891 era oak suits at parlor, plush rockers, sideboards from 15 to 250 dollars, china dinner and tea sets priced 7.50 to 75 dollars, plus picture moulding frames easels cards and hangings. All items offered on a basis of six cents cotton.
On a late Erie ferry crossing John Chapman of Ramapo is mistaken by a thin man who insists the fat passenger is John Chapman. The man fears mortification if his request to borrow a dollar till tomorrow is revealed as a misidentification. The exchange ends with the fat man fleeing to deck and the thinner man jotting notes in relief as the boat nears port.
The Marquis of Salisbury championed electricity on his estate, powering lighting, grinding corn, cutting fodder, and pumping water with electric motors. Farmers near streams increasingly install electric plants for economical farm work, noting vast potential for portable steam engines to be repurposed with electricity and reducing flying insurance costs.
A garbled line references DeWitt's Little Early Bla ne as a remedy and men tioned Davenport Drag Company. The readable fragment hints at an ointment or patent medicine promotion but lacks clear context or outcome.
A fragment from a historic paper mixes science trivia with patent medicine ads and a curious bid. Michelson’s light velocity figure appears beside Dr Acker’s English pills claim. The note mentions a syndicate offering to buy the Washington Monument for a shot tower.
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