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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
7
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Mrs. D. B. Leonard, widow of D. B. Leonard and sister of Hon. B. B. Lewis, died at her Vienna home. Funeral services are to be held there this afternoon. Americus gunners prepare for partridge season opener Monday, with quail plentiful in some areas and turkeys beginning to recover.
The advertisement promotes Golden Medical Discovery as a non patent medicine tonic to treat weak health headaches coated tongue indigestion and various stomach and bowel symptoms. It claims a glycerine extract from native forest roots and lists expert endorsements while offering a free booklet and suggesting Pleasant Pellets for bowel regulation.
Americus may again host part of the regular army’s twenty thousand troops as the War Department plans widespread southern camps. The local Board of Trade and civic leaders press for Americus to be included, noting past camps during the Spanish American War and available city sites. Macon and Savannah already mobilizing for the effort to place troops nearby Cuba.
A Philadelphia Inquirer item questions whether Bryan would welcome Tolstoyan endorsement grounds for the move, framing the political debate as to acceptance of a socialist leaning by the candidate.
An advertisement claims deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh, rejects local applications, and offers $100 for any case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It promotes the product from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio, with drugstore availability and a note to take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The marriage of Miss Ethel Schneide r and Mr J W Lindley took place Sunday afternoon at 4 at the Schneider residence on Forsyth street. Rev J L Irvin of the Presbyterian church officiated with only immediate friends and relatives in attendance. The couple will reside at the Schneider residence for the immediate future.
An old advertisement extols Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a universal cure for weakened kidneys and impure blood. It claims kidneys influence all organs and urges readers to obtain samples and buy bottles, noting the product is sold by druggists and mailed from Binghamton New York.
A snippet notes all Georgia Taft clubs will amalgamate to aid Harry 2d in obtaining a full list of white officeholders. The quote hints at concerns over a man named Harry who faces personal troubles as clearly as his own finish.
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