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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1884
Page
6
A patchwork OCR text depicts rural life with garbled dialect lines. It mentions a straw in a beak, a basney with a straw, cows wandering, and a taveler. The fragmentary tone hints at a rustic scene or poem rather than a clear news item.
Prudie Warner in a December test of temptation resists a fortune theft, choosing honesty over a $100 reward. With Lee Bryant, Eva Eaton, and Mrs Bryant, Prue’s steadfast character leads to marriage prospects, jewels, and a transformed village image. The tale ends with Prudie accepted as a bride and a joyful engagement ring scene.
The Randolph Manufacturing Company sent 250 bunches of thread on Saturday as a trial lot. The result was a surge in demand, with orders received yesterday for 12,000 bunches totaling 60,008 pounds of thread.
The piece mulls childlike yearning for youth and the universal restlessness of youth. It references a quirked joke about a 6 or 7 year old and ponders childhood desires and punishments. It then shifts to a note on a sudden Mexican travel craze among Americans wintering on the tablelands of the capital, citing Joseph Gay, Charles Dudley Warner, and other travelers. It mentions rail and steamship routes and an remark about Judge Roosevelt.
The Detroit press laments high magazine prices and the drift to English cheap editions. It notes that English magazines like Century and Family Magazine are cheaper abroad and argues American publishers must cut prices to compete. The piece contrasts London costs and American prices.
A Nawab of Surat’s daughter is married. The dowry car procession features elephants, horses, palkees, snow white attendants with trays, rose water de canters, 500 dainty items like bedsteads and sofas, 75 women with sweetmeats, and 100 women with cooking utensils bearing basket fowls and household goods as onlookers observe.
Director Snow den of the Philadelphia mint cites strong demand for silver dime pieces and nickels. He notes 10,000 ounces of silver coined last month into 10-cent pieces and an authorized 10,000 more ounces this month. Nickel production last month reached 11,474,700 coins, while Washington vaults held substantial 5-cent pieces now in circulation. Personal reflection closes the report referencing a birthday novelty.
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