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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1887
Page
2
Dec 1 1887 reports Hancock and Taliaferro counties going wet, Atlanta voting wet by large margin, prohibition contests looming. Mentions Griffin ice factory, Seton, Bishop Beckwith travels, Simon Cameron cattle, Memphis fires, Albany fair, Brunswick free school centennial, tariff debates, New South Wales rabbit extermination reward, Sherman platform, and potential Augusta editor shift.
Reports say Barrett’s circus caused a chaotic stampede among gathered crowds in Albany last Monday when a tiger escaped. Fences broke, people and animals were trampled as fear spread among thousands of onlookers.
A local drug store drives trade with free trial bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption. The ads touts its curing power for coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and lung diseases with a free trial bottle offer and a large size priced at 1.00 all bottles warranted.
The Boston Advertiser’s portrayal of Massachusetts agriculture shows widespread farm distress despite dense local manufacture. The piece argues tariffs fail to help farmers, notes thriving small industries in the North, and urges the South to imitate North Carolina’s pine straw fiber industry to create income and wealth from readily available materials.
A Tribune field report criticizes bureaucratic delay in Washington highlighting a customs desk lock repair requiring four letters and multiple clearances. The piece suggests fire proof pulp paper from a scientific exchange and jokes about mass nomination of politicians to win elections, urging vigilance for truth.
An old advertisement proclaims Bucklen's Aries Salve as the best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded. Price is 2 cents per box. For sale by Dr. B. J. Eldridge.
Feeling low with poor appetite and headaches you seek a brace up without stimulants. Electric Bitters are advertised as an alterative to purify blood, boost liver and kidney action, and restore vitality with renewed health and strength at 60 cents a bottle at Dr. E. J. Eldridge’s Drug Store.
Fearful talk about disease from poor digestion and hidden poisons. It extols Shaker Extract of Roots or Seigel's Syrup as a curative for constipation and dyspepsia, quotes testimonials from S. Grace, T. Pullum, and T. Evans, and urges readers to obtain the syrup from A. J. White, Limited.
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