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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1889
Page
5
The issue highlights holiday bargains from a general store in Americas offering baskets of nuts, fruits, candy, butter and eggs, lard, and other staples at low prices and inviting customers to visit the storefront. It notes visiting locals, shipments, and community chatter about seasonal preparations and cold weather expectations.
In Americus the Southern Express Company staff endured days of ceaseless effort to manage a flood of packages. The overworked workers faced odd shipments in pine boxes and pasteboard, marked this side up and perishable, with strong scents and fragile contents. The piece also reports a fall through a Lafayette street building ceiling, a juvenile knife incident on Forsyth street, a curiosity in cotton boll clustering, Santa Claus sightings at Mrs. Klam’s, a bottle stopper accident, a buggy giveaway won by S P Holston, and a train hand with both legs broken after an accident below Cordelo.
Gus Harris offers a wide range of groceries and holiday items at low prices. Fresh 2 pounds of Cream Chocolate for 25 cents per pound, fruits like apples and oranges, Malaga grapes, cranberries, prunes, dates, raisins, citrons, and canned goods. Fireworks and French candles headline a large stock, plus pickles preserves crackers and more. Call A A Harris agent at telephone 27 for detail and delivery.
A civic drive in Americus to form the Americus Manufacturing and Improvement Company with capital of 100000 dollars. Fifty thousand dollars to build a first class hotel on the old court house site and the remaining funds to acquire property and erect manufacturing buildings to attract new enterprises. A syndicate of ten leading merchants will raise the capital with subscriptions opening January 1 for 30 days, at par, with ten percent due at start and further assessments as needed.
The post office sees a surge in holiday mail as books jewelry and money are sent as gifts nationwide. Registry and money order work remain heavy with Postmaster Roney and staff working long hours to ensure delivery. Also notes a local house sale of A B Harrold and a charity umbrella raffle by Williford Mathewa Co. plus Rev W M Hayes’s arrival as new Methodist pastor in Americus.
Col A P Wright reports on Americus after the first narrow gauge line to Lumpkin and its integration into the Savannah Americus Montgomery railroad. Cotton receipts rose from 20000 to 60000 bales annually, spurring new buildings, revived property values, and new manufacturing enterprises. Investors like John W Sheffield credit the road for the boom and warn another line could triple cotton and merchant trade.
The following hours will be strictly observed from this date through the holidays Express will close south and west bound at 12 o clock north and east bound and B V E road and 8 A M at 2 45 p m Express will be received and forwarded on Sunday 2d and 29th L Cooper Agent Peerless Dyes in forty colors Bright Fast Convenient for dyeing alk cotton or wool ribbons etc 10 cents per package Cooks Pit A 430 Cotton Avenues
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