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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1888
Page
7
An old advertises prices for men’s shoes with claims of value and material quality. It touts calf leather and styling while promising good value, urging readers to compare with other stores and noting a three dollar price point with various features.
Dr. P H Mell, Chancellor of the University of Georgia, died at his Athens home after months of frail health. Born July 19, 1814 in Liberty County, he rose from humble beginnings to become a professor at Mercer and UGA, later serving as chancellor and leading Baptist bodies. He leaves his wife E E Cooper, and ten surviving children among fifteen, with a legacy as scholar, educator, and church leader.
Albany Journal describes a prank where a brother places a loud alarm clock under a sister and her beau’s sofa to enforce a 10 o clock curfew. The clock rings, the couple flee, and the brother boasts of revenge. The page also notes a Missouri farmer fined $5 after attempting to summon his witnesses for Sunday work.
Samuel Noble argues for a Southern home market and protective tariff to aid farmers and manufacturers, contrasting Norfolk and Northwestern farmers and noting Massachusetts as a manufacturing state with tariff benefits. The piece contends tariffs largely fail to create true home markets and harm other groups.
A bank cashier explains counterfeit detection by sound and touch, describing how to handle a bill to hear a unique noise on genuine notes and a rough sound on fakes. The piece notes experts’ methods and a tale of counterfeits taught by a master who travels across the country and Europe.
Dr D P Diddelee of Huron Dakota writes to Governor Seay urging Alabama to welcome white farmers from the Northwest. He cites blizzard losses driving migration and asks for state immigration literature and active board efforts. Also notes Raleigh N C haunted house tale and tariff debate at Norfolk hosiery firm amid calls for tariff reform. Also mentions a cure claim for consumption and local oddities about a North Carolina man’s whisky death and a Georgia hunter’s squirrel tally.
An OCR fragment touts Backien's Arnica Salve as the best salve for cats, brulees, sores, ulcers, fever sores, salt rheum, chilblains, corns, and skin eruptions, while denying piles and other issues. The text is garbled with misspellings and unclear product claims.
A leading railroad official announced Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe plans to buy 100000 bushels of seed wheat and ship it to western Kansas, especially the southwest, with payment due in one year at 3 percent and no transportation charges. Ida Ohio showed a farmer’s profitable example with 35 bushels per acre on 5.75 acres yielding 142.10 on 98.12 cost, a 44 percent gain.
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