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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1885
Page
6
The article argues that tasteful embellishment of a farm increases real estate value by significant margins and enhances marketability. It stresses landscape gardening as an art, warns against uniform straight lines and road-adjacent siting, and urges thoughtful, harmonious planting and maintenance to improve appeal and profit.
A Denver agent of the Louisiana State Lottery sold Green tickets to Miss Kaichen and others, sending five tickets home and keeping three. One ticket later matched the capital prize number 8999, delivering a cash windfall. The item ends with a local humorous note about summer catfish and odd characters.
A fragmented item notes endorsements from Persona Judge T J Simmons and L F Livinga president in Macon along with other state citizens for Hall's Georgia Chill 88.0. The garbled text references various names and roles, implying a promotional or political endorsement in Georgia.
In Nashville reporting by the Union, Bishop Quintard details the origins of a Civil War era order called The Comrades of the Southern Cross. An 1863 Chattanooga meeting at Tyner’s Station led to a committee with Generals Pat Cleburne Brown Liddell drafting a constitution for a military brotherhood aiding veterans and orphans, published later in 1888.
Macon Georgia August 18 The Constitution correspondent interviewed Colonel E O Grier secretary of the state agricultural society in Hon W A Huff s real estate office on Mulberry street and learned that the state fair will be a major event. Premium lists are at the printer and available soon with twelve hundred dollars more in field products premiums than ever before. Expect robust Jersey cattle displays and a strong amusements lineup including baseball matchups with teams from Louisville Richmond Chicago and New York invited for substantial prizes.
A long excerpt by Dr. E. J. Cherrington discusses a seamstress's fatigue and estimates the day’s work in pounds and horse power. It calculates lifting 813 tons equivalent over 11 inches in eight seconds plus walking 82 tons, totaling about 73.8 horsepower. It argues for measured walking and rest, noting bodily power comes from food and air, and outlines three laws for effective exercise.
A fragmented item notes New York officials instructing politeness toward prisoners. It mentions a future shift away from vulgar force toward a restrained approach and references a plan to pave streets with material from Hong Kong.
Sheriff notices list numerous property foreclosures in Sumter County Georgia for September. Writs cover livestock including bay mares and a gray mare, a dark bay mare mule, a brick storehouse, a house and lot on the upper Danville road, a stock of groceries and fixtures, and a fractionary tract of land in the twenty seventh district. Auctions occur at the court house door in Americus with multiple creditors including Thos. S. Green, J. A. Baisden, Pataysco Guano Co, and H. D. Watts & Co. Notices reference county court files, tax awards for 1883 and 1884, and various tenants in possession. Proceedings dated June to July 1885.
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