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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1888
Page
7
Krers Shoe Store touts its men’s $5.00 shoe with button and elastic, claiming unmatched quality, wear resistance, and a superior vamp fit. A $2.00 Planters’ Shoe is advertised as durable and easy-wearing, designed for plantation use with lasting strength.
The South shows a booming outlook with record crops in cotton corn wheat and fruit, rising manufacturing from new furnaces and mills, and expanding rail and labor markets. A Scotlandside race note and scattered local items follow, including fairs, farmers' reports and inventions amid general regional prosperity.
XM Cohen offers a tan yard and shoe factory in first class condition two miles from the Plains of Dura on the A P L R R with 60 vats hides bark mill yard machinery and land. Also 2300 acres to be sold in lots at 7 percent, plus 30 acres Leeton and multiple city lots and a brick store all at bargain prices. Several farms near Americus and Webster county offered for exchange sale or lease with rents to September. Property wanted for dwellings and stores with part payments.
Georgia Governor John R. Gordon submits a proposed amendment to increase the Supreme Court from three to five justices, adding a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices. The measure would be voted on at the next general election, with two thirds of both houses required for passage and ratification by the voters. If approved, the General Assembly would later elect two additional associate justices for six year terms.
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