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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1891
Page
5
A fragmented price list shows L. L. Raisins and assorted goods with per unit costs. Items include almonds, brazils, walnuts, filberts, citron, currants, apples, oranges, prunes, grapes, cocoanuts, and other fruits priced per pound, peck, box, or barrel. Some figures are garbled but indicate wholesale and retail rates.
Captain Starnes a former Atlanta chief of police now head of a detective agency tracked down the arsonist Richard Hall a young black man accused of setting fire to Mr George Connell's gin house on the October fire night He was brought to Americus and bound over to superior court after a preliminary hearing before Judge Adderton on Thursday night The case was prosecuted on a charge of arson and revenge motive is cited
W S Brown sold his Colton avenue store and bar to Tom Guice. Guice ordered a new bar outfit and plans to fix up a neat, pretty Southwest Georgia bar. W K Harris named in charge. opening room at Council McGarrah’s warehouse to be a popular spot with top goods. Brown considers options and may take other offers.
A posse pursues a negro man who cut a woman named Kate Smith. Officer Feagin abandoned his horse to chase on foot, but the chase ended when a barbed wire fence ensnared them. Feagin and the horse were bruised. the suspect escaped.
The Albany News reports Mrs Mayo at Hotel Mayo now uses three white servant girls from Chicago via a help bureau, replacing several longtime black male servants. Mayo praises their efficiency, discipline, and reliability, noting higher cost but greater output and intent to replace unreliable staff if needed. The piece frames the shift as a potential solution to domestic staff shortages and aims to inform readers.
Public sale of groceries dry goods hardware and general merchandise from Maddox Perkins stock in Lumpkin will be held at sheriff sale on an in January. Sale will continue day to day until all goods are sold. Also notices various patent medicines and teething remedies referenced with prices mentioned.
An old promotion touts Dr. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir as a curative for biliousness constipation indigestion headaches kidney diseases dizziness and fevers. It claims to balance the liver stomach and kidneys and sells for 50 cents to 1 per bottle from Atlanta makers. Also advertised Lemon Hot Drops for coughs colds sore throat and throat illnesses with noted endorsements from a McMinnville bank president.
An impoverished tramp contemplates turkey and rum on New Year Eve after a coin toss decides his fate. A separate report describes Caroline Jenkins, a powerful Black woman who overpowered officers in Freedman’s Town, shattering restraints and gaining notoriety for her strength.
The text presents assorted vows about easier shoes and spectacles, pledges not to read half the ads in Sunday papers, and a goal to seek more money. It includes garbled phrases about soaking tins, a haunting line, and a startled plea from a woman to not be left alone in an old place.
Rambles include a Sardinia partridge misadventure in which Ed Andrews lures a Buffalo journalist to hunt thick woods near Cattaraugus creek costing him $20 and a new suit. A bear encounters a Louisville and Nashville train near Milan Tenn and is killed after riding the cowcatcher. Also notes on a deceptive safety purse, Rider Haggard lore, Edwin Booth health, and Stanislaus Sobrinsky's eye injury suit against a foundry.
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