Cotton Market and Local Notices in Americus
The Americus Recorder reports cotton receipts at city warehouses totaling 20 145 with prices in multiple markets including Good Middling and Middling and notes on futures. It also covers local items such as mule purchases by J K Prince, a German Club idea, grocery changes with Gus Harris, a new road charter toward Columbus, Clark's school reopening, and a trial incident involving J W Bailey and Henry Martin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lelow
Principal Pointe
Macon
Des
Savanxan
New York
Uplands
Pilsbury
J. W. Bailey
Américas
Henry Martin
Mr. Bailey
Mr. Weelow
Bailey
Martin
Barley
Weslow
Long awaited rain and new railroad news from Wheatleys
The piece notes a recent rainfall and praise for a new railroad while mixing local commerce updates. It mentions Gue Willett transporting ten enslaved people to Texas, a springlike morning, cold and illness rumors, and a busy Mississippi theater of events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gue Willett
Texas
Echo
Personal notes from Smithville area amid holidays
Several town residents travel and visit relatives with moves to New Orleans, Atlanta, Nashville, Eufaula, and Texas. Local figures include Aunt Nancy, claimed to be 101, famed for hair over four feet long and stories of long-ago work and harvest. The item also notes reduced long loan charges and a party attending a German at Albany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Johnson
Smithville
W. B. Merritt, Jr
New Orleans
Osbourne Harvey
Gus. Willett
Texas
W. J. Harper
Child
Rev
C. G. Dilworth
Monticello
Fla
J. B. Hinkel
Nancy
John ‘Poulan
Local Grocery Stock Sale Announcement
Based on a business closure, Scuumpsat and Rogey offer cash purchases on stock of groceries. Goods bought by Gubar and now offered to customers for cash. Dec 14, 1885. tf
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scuumpsat & Rogey
Christmas Gratitude From Sumter County Prisoners
Prisoners in Sumter county jail extend thanks to humane supporters. They highlight Sheriff White and Deputy Sheriff Feagin for their Christmas kindness, noting egg nog and a turkey dinner provided by Mrs. Wheeler. They wish continued good health and happiness to the benefactors in affectionate terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumter County
White
Feagin
Advice to Mothers Mus Wixstow Teething Remedy
An advertisement promotes Advice to Mothers Mus Wixstow's Soorman Starr as a teething aid for children. It claims gum soothing, pain relief, wind colic cure, and diarrhoea relief. The product is priced at twenty five cents per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wixstow
Texas Blue Grass Echoes in Alabama Pasture Planting
Letter from Joan A. Conn of Amrarous Georgia to Capt. Carlos Resse in Marion Alabama praises Texas blue grass for winter pasture. She reports planting one thousand sets, rows a foot apart, eight inches in drill, yielding rapid acreage increase and seed savings for future plantings. She foresees cheaper stock raising and valuable forage on land valued at ten dollars per acre, urging farmers to adopt the grass widely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Amrarous
Carlos Resse
Marion
Alabama
Dearwin
Kentucky
Joan A. Conn
Railroad and Buena Vista Schedule Fragments
Schedules list trains on the A P L B and Buena Vista lines with altered start dates. Entries note Preston, Amaric, Awekiens, and May 4 start for Buena Vista service, but many details are truncated in the OCR text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buena Vista
Treime’eili
Borth
Night Mail
Buona Vista
Ellaville
G. Rowny
Mp M
Also Mentioned on This Page
Americus
Benes
Aco
Glessner
J. K. Prince
Prince Bros
George Cook
Hawkins & Taylor
Gus Harris
Speer
Columbus
Savannah
J. M. Stubbs
Dublin
Clark’s Select School
Fougiers
Wheatley’s
Wheatley
Gre
Felder
Dorset
Alex McKenzie
Jim McGarrah
Dr. Minor
Gyles
J. W. Jordan
W. P. Burt
Constitution
Atlanta
Wheatley's
Newmarkets
Walter Furlow
Cleve Davis
Cox & Corbin
Davis
Lumpkin
Speight
Fricker Bros
J. J. Williford
Orm
Georgia
Mr. Henry Black
Rome
Dr. Burt
Agnes Aycock
E. H. Ware
F. C. Ware
Julia Logan
G. M. Stokes
Leesburg
Lillie Moody
Fort Valley
Annie Nobles
Eufaula
Minnie Fricker
Danville
A. Fricker
Jackson Street
M. R. Boren
Stort
Nashville
Messrs
Alex. McKenzie
Henry McCleekey
Albany
J.B. Fenpss
Tang
The
A. T. Rogers
Practical Gunsmith
Lamar Street
Americas
Andersonville High School
Sammary
Conliane
Clark
Prin
Kutaville
Ada
Co Neon
Wall Street
Wilson & Shite
Holiday Trade
Malaga
Fulton Market
Whitman &Son
Wilson &Smith
DON
Rss
Reas
Brunswick Western Railroad
Tolleber
Tral Pollman
Bourne Daskaan
Uckets
Brunswick and Weatern
Priairi Kat
B. Hinela
York
J Waxelbaum
J. Waxelbaum & CO
Americus, GA
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