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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1886
Page
8
Fragmented verse laments the passing of the old year and greets the new with regal imagery. It invokes a royal procession, time’s blade, fading colors, and a plea that memory endure beyond the coming year. The fragmentary text names no clear persons or places.
Poem fragment filled with archaic language about moonlit night and a grave. Reflects on grief, memory, and a past birthday mourned by a speaker who recalls a distant loved one and a churchyard scene. Names and places are fragmented and unclear within the damaged text.
A reflective piece blends a symbolic dying year with a hopeful New Year. It quotes ancient wisdom and urges gratitude for blessings while urging acceptance of loss and change. It stresses the power of forgetting as a tool for personal growth and the need to replace dark thoughts with constructive ones.
A lyrical meditation descends on rugged peaks and distant valleys as Carlyle contemplates time and the universe. The speaker cites awe before the silent, ever changing world, calling existence a miracle beyond words and human reach.
Fragmentary verse predicts the coming year’s weather signs with curious rhymes. It mentions winds, warmth, growth, and effects on milk, sea, and trees, mixing archaic language and playful forecast imagery.
An attributed quotation asserts daily life as the ultimate day, urging readers to internalize that no one truly learns until recognizing every day as doomsday. The line emphasizes personal philosophy over routine, framing time as a constant reckoning.
A New Year dawns as a fisherman sails into a storm while yearning for home. He prays for safety for his wife and child as waves pound the vessel. Dawn reveals the sea's rage and a missing boat and maker, with only one boat left adrift.
The fragment lampoons time as editor of life urging renewal and forgetting past mistakes. It contrasts wisdom—youthful in all of us—with time’s relentless corrections. The speaker invokes Emersonian hope, praising time as a purger, healer, and judge of truth.
The article notes a four day national holiday starting on September 17 with heavy troop movements and grand fireworks. Banks closed on the 21st, but public order remained good. It mentions wine quality and courtesy of Latin races, then shifts to art reproductions and a Paris plaster work displaying a life like orangutan carrying a woman, with dramatic detail.
A German doctor reports long-lived individuals often rise late, claiming early hours exhaust strength and hasten aging. He notes eight of ten over 80 stay up late and wake late, while invoking tales of Lincoln and actor Murdoch to illustrate the era’s attitudes toward time and vigor.
A Nagoya man Takada has created a method to make fan nets from old cotton cloth, establishing a factory to expand production. The Empress of China, reigning twenty years, plans to resign next February in favor of her son amid claims of progressiveness. Maryland’s canning industry employs about 60,000, with roughly 150 million cans annually. Wales grants the first medical degree to Gardenia through the college of Asti in 1820. Pittsburg lays a new 80 inch gas main, said to be the largest ever laid, to conduct natural gas.
A survey of Cotton holdings in Stewart county alongside counts of local voters in Dooly and Monroe, plus notes on a Chinaman crafted necklace, Dudley DuBose’s Kimball estate transfer to Hugh Inman, and a Carroll County child saved from mad dog by Dr. Tidwell using a mad stone. The piece blends local commerce, demographics, probate, and medical lore.
A report from Melbourne cites the Department of State on rabbit pest damage in Victoria. The Common rabbit has devastated large tracts of land since 1860, causing crop and rent losses totaling at least £3,000,000 over a decade. Control methods include trapping, phosphorized oats, and arsenic, with high costs and risks.
J M Norris of Rome Georgia suffers kidney trouble and eczema for years and three years respectively. He reports great relief after using Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve on hands and feet and urges others with complaints to try the remedies. Sold by E J Eldridge. The Dayton Journal mocks a presidential ticket listing John Sherman for first and his brother General Sherman for second.
Knoxville police chief endorses Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption. He and his family praise its curing power for coughs colds bronchitis asthma and throat chest and lung ailments. Trial bottles offered at Elridge’s Drug Store.
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