Daily Recorder Advertising Rates and Local Notices
Daily Recorder lists subscription rates and advertising prices with per line charges for first insertions and subsequent entries. Notices note office relocation for the Southern Express and report on the first rattlesnake of the season found in Schley county, measuring four feet six inches with nine rattles and a button.
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Daily Recorder
Seen Inc
Thad Wilkinson
Schley County
Henry Renew
Revising the Jury Box Nominations in Lee County
Jury commissioners have been revising the jury list since Monday with work extending into the next day or two. Judge W H Kimbrough is nominated for Lee county representative by unanimous approval, with a possible opponent rumored but likely defeating. A telegram reports the death of Mrs Nena Morgan of Montezuma, who died yesterday in that city. She will arrive this afternoon at 3:30.
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Lee
W. H. Kimbrough
Lee County
Nena Morgan
Montezuma
Col
P. F. Brown
Owen Nelson Institute
Dawson
Senoia
Feuding tails and false reports haunt Atlanta rest
Marshal Lingo debunks a circulating tale of an abused negro girl as unfounded. A quirky note tells Jim Base’s dog and tree bound squirrel tale. Henry Williams, colored, is jailed after a domestic dispute over a killed chicken, with Judge Pilsbury sentencing him to six months on the chain gang or a $20 fine.
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Jim Base
Jim
Henry Williams
Feagin
Pilsbury
Stymore
Dr Thortons notice and local health report to wards
See Dr Thornton's dental notice. The doctors report sickness. Cousin Jon Roney is ill with chills and fever. Miss Lillie Dean of Bottsford visits in city. The Georgia Bar meeting in Atlanta late August. The State Agricultural Society meets in Cartersville August 10. The Recorper notes a boom in job work and A P L extension. Local pride urged and a waterworks debate continues.
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Westbrook
Lillie Dean
Bottsford
Webster County
Schley County
George Stapleton
Court House
The
State Agricultural Society
Cartersville
J. W. Wheatley & Co
Ferocious Cats Swamp Cat Attack Kills It
A swamp cat row ends with a man named John Speight killing a feral cat after it mauled a child then attacked two dogs. The event began Sunday morning when a young boy was bitten near the thigh by a swamp cat misidentified as a snake bite. A subsequent chase ended with the cat felled by a log strike, and reports note another cat was killed later in the week following a harrowing encounter.
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Charlie Tiner
John Speight
John
Tae
Will Get There. Simmons Leads in County Nomination Race
A Recorder reporter, using district figures, estimates Col E F. G. Simmons will be a top legislative nominee with strong support and surprising strength in several districts. His supporters plan a large turnout Saturday to back him through the final balloting push.
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Col E F. G. Simmons
Linen yard sale at Shaw's drastic price cut
A fragment notes White India Linen Lawa reduced to only 10c per yard at John R. Shaw's. The wording implies a clearance or sale event with a focus on discounted fabric by the merchant.
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John R. Shaw
Sumter County Sunday School Association to Meet at Rehoboth
The last quarterly meeting in Sumter County was at Andersonville and the next will be at Rehoboth church near Americus. Indications point to a large attendance as the exercises promise pleasant and profitable programs. The conventions foster Sunday School work and Christian fellowship across the county.
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Sumter County
Sunday School Association
Andersonville
Rehoboth Church
Americus
Ehoboth
Making Trouble in Macon Plot to Overpower Jailer
The Macon Telegraph reports Will Jackson led a plot to overpower Jailer Birdsong and escape. Geo Coldwell confessed involvement, with Jackson’s cell found concealed wood to gag Birdsong. Birdsong says Jackson caused him much trouble and that justice awaits.
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Macon
Yeterday
Will Jackson
Birdsong
Geo. Coldwell
Jackson
Fenee
Will
Bettter
Obituary for Melissa Shelly Gunnets of Georgia
Melissa Shelly Gunnets, born the 80th day of April 1849, married Joseph A. Gunnets on April 22, 1886 in Webster County Georgia. She joined the Baptist church at Church Hill Marion County. Survived by husband four sons four daughters and many relatives. She died after suffering, with faith in God, and rests in Heaven. Church Hill, Ga.
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Melissa Shelly
Joseph A. Gunnets
Webster County
Baptist Church
Church Hill
Marion County
Personal notices from a Georgia town ill with fever and travel
Miss Eula Lockett is very ill with the fever. Mr. John Windsor and family have gone to Marietta for a visit. Miss Pearl Adams returned home yesterday from a visit in Worth county. Mrs. J. W. Furlow left yesterday for a visit in Macon, Atlanta, and other places in North Georgia. Mr. Lucius Hudson and family returned from a two week visit in Alabama yesterday. Mr. J. K. Prince returned from North Georgia Monday, leaving his two little girls there to enjoy the up country air. Capt. W. M. Hitt and dodge J. B. Pilsbury leave the morning for Forsyth, where they will attend a reunion of the late Georgia.
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J. W. Furlow
Samuel J Tilden Dead at Grey stone New York
Samuel J Tilden died at his Grey stone New York home at 8 45 A M after a period of frail health the immediate cause being heart failure following an acute attack of diarrhea and nausea Present were his niece Miss Gould and Doctors Simonds and Swift The end was peaceful and the routine of his last days described with details of his daily care by Miss Anna Gould including his morning regimen and handicap from paralysis
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New Yon
Samuel J. Tilden
Greystone
New York
Mr.Tilden
Samuel Swift
Mr. Tilden
The
Hudson
Anna Gould
Henry Tilden
Machine Needles and Sperm Oil Trade Notes
A listing notes needles for multiple sewing machines at John R. Shaw's shop and W. F. Nye's Pure Sperm Oil in Montezuma. A Taylor county bee tree near Chapell Brooks’s land yielded a ten foot hollow with a solid honey core weighing 100 pounds. much honey wasted while bees were saved and set to work storing for winter.
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John R. Shaw
Singer
Crown
Royal St. John
White
Davis
Florence
Remington
Wheeler & Wilson
Alao
W. F. Nye
Chapell Brooks
Taylor County
Tre
Lemon Elixir Sold As Cure All Split
An Atlanta resident testifies after using Dr. Mosley’s Lemon Elixir for chronic stomach and heart distress. He credits the remedy with curing his digestion and constipation and claims his wife was permanently relieved from constipation and headaches after long illness.
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Atlanta
C. Davia
Masley
Dissolution Notice of Buchanan and Speer Firm
Dissolution of the partnership Buchanan and Speer entered into by mutual consent E A Speer retires W B Buchanan assumes all liabilities and will continue the business at the old stand All debtors are to make payments to W B Buchanan The notice is signed by W B Buchanan and E A Speer and dated janedut
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W.b.buchanan
E. A. Speer
Buchanan & Speer
W.B. Buchanan
W.W. B. Buchanan
FE. A. Speer
W. B. Buchanan
Janedut
Oak Grove Academy opens August eighteenth with four month terms
Educational notice outlines starting August 23 1886 for four months. Classes include primary spelling penmanship reading and primargraphy. Higher divisions add arithmetic English grammar composition science nature algebra geometry trigonometry rhetoric philosophy and Latin with music instruction. Tuition details and rates are partially garbled.
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Oak Grove Academy
City bond vote notice outlines debt plan and ballot options
Voters will decide on issuing bonds to fund city debt with a deadline for principal payments listed by year from 1801 to 1911. Voters endorsing bonds should mark For Bonds, otherwise Against Bonds. Election rules and registration eligibility follow standard city procedures. Brinson, Clerk and Treasurer, orders the notice.
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Rtes
Bald Stettion
Jnat
Brinson
Zanuay
Americus
D.K
Alteration in Public Roads in Sumter County
Public notices announce alteration of a public road affecting Adams residence and surrounding lands in Sumter County. The change, authorized by Commissioners, will open a direct route from Adams J Stanford lands to the new line on September 6, 1896, unless a contrary cause is shown.
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Broadfield Millroad
Americus & Pkin
el. Mize
W. B. Guerry
W. M. Mask
Ty Poor House
Aaid
W. 5. Guerry
Said Guerry
Lumpkir
Adams
Said Adams
J. Stanford
John A
Route
Rovante
Sumter
Teeny TV
Wheatley
Euporium Closure Notice
Euporium will be closed from the Mint of August until mid September or possibly the twixt of October, per the notice. Bell.
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Artesian City Baseball Club
Albany
Pansies
Southern Express Company
Fricker
D. B. Hill
Shippers
Marshal Lingo
Atlanta Constitution
Jon Roney
Minnie Hinton
Col. Simmons
Georgia Bar Association
Ocmulgee
Nellie Harden
Crisp
Congress
Hawkinsville
Perry Journal
Georgia
John T. Argo
H. D. Watts
Johnny
City Council of
Judge Stubbs
Dawson Journal
Messie
Frank Bragan
Bob Wheeler
Lumpkin Independent
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W. W. Fitzgerald
D. B. Fitzgerald
la Crosse
Buena Vista Times
Miers
Americas
Felder
Dooly
Abbeville
Savannah
R. D. Shropshire
Eufauia
Lumpkin
Eufaula
Columbus
Jake Israels
B. T. Jennings
Capt. McGarrah
Jennings
Williams
Constitution
Lingo
Seltzer
Vichy
J. A
D.F Davenport
Eula Lockett
John Windsor
Marietta
Miss Pearl Adams
Worth County
James Fricker
Jewelers
Pees Deve
Piantly
Lericus
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