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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1891
Page
11
A classified notice lists price ranges from 7.50 to 75.00 for picture and room moulding, frames, pictures, easels, cords and hangings. All items priced on a basis of six cents per cotton unit.
A Seattle report describes a novel incline system on Rainier Avenue Electric railway. A hidden lower track uses a weighted truck to counterbalance cars climbing a steep 164 percent grade between Fifth and Eighth streets. Trials succeeded and regular up and down runs will begin soon. The setup relies on a concealed cable and pulleys turning a side wheel, with the heavier descending car pulling the loaded truck uphill. The mechanism is standard gauge with a two foot gauge for the counterweight track, largely unseen from the street.
In Eldridge Street police station a man with stomach pain asked the sergeant for cholera medicine. The sergeant retrieved a bottle, the doorman dispensed a dose, and the patient left relieved.
A miscellany of lines extols women's issues and midlife stereotypes while advertising patent medicines. It touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for uterine ailments, DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, DeWitt’s Sarsaparilla, and Dr Kipnippe’s medical wines, ending with a quip about a bald man and his wife’s influence.
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