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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1884
Page
4
A lengthy news digest covers party splits in Georgia and Illinois on endorsements and tariff policy. It notes Clemland era baggage penalties, maps candidate rotations inSenate races, warns Sedley versus Americus politics, and highlights New Orleans Exposition plans with government and foreign participation.
A Mississippi broker may advertise for bills of sale for enslaved people paid in Confederate money and bonds. Colonel Primus Jones reports a large cotton acreage with first bale imminent. A deep well is completed in Quitman county. Caterpillars and brown cutworms devastate cotton in Stewart county. Rome city treasurer John C. Eads pays city debt from bank assets. In Cuthbert a well digger Harry Hall dies in a cave in accident. A living enslaved man survived a well incident twelve years ago near Cuthbert. Albany’s Colonel Reuben Jones notes caterpillar cycles and fertilizer benefits, with forthcoming statistics. He also cites fertilizer effectiveness. farmers using drilled guano in middles see bolls and value. The Boston Post notes over 6,000 Ramesses listed at Independent HQ in Boston.
N G J K Prince offers day train meeting at 1.00 per train or two trunks for 2i, night carriages 2 per train and 25c per trunk. Homebound travelers may write or telegraph, orders via post office. cash prices, prompe service. Carriages for prominent men or funerals priced separately. 1864.
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