Epidemic of Colds and Local Notices in Americus
The piece notes widespread colds, a local administrator sale at Reviere place with brokers listed, and sales activity. It mentions Halls Cough Syrup advertising, Texas newspaper business plans by George D. Kimbrough and J. S. Kimbrough, Dr J A Fort returning to practice, Cook’s Pharmacy moving, and Americus street railroad delaying electric streetcar service until March with the system to self-power and upgrade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reviere Place
Administrator
Allen Fort
Merrel Callaway
Americus Street Railroad Company
Electric Light Co
Railroad Co
Americus Construction Company
New Unth
Sud
Americus
The Battle of Life and Fortifying Health
The piece urges fortifying the body against fever and influenza with Dr John Bull's Sarsaparilla as a strengthening tonic. It compares health to a battle plan, notes the need for timely precautions, and mentions Luther Hall and Judge Speer in a separate moralistic digression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ambuch
John Bull
Luther Hall
Judge Speer
Emory Speer
Hall
Public Schools in Americus Open After Holidays
Americus public schools reopen after a ten day vacation with attendance up nearly a hundred from the fall. Supt Bizlen reports over 600 pupils in the Jackson street building and observes bustling rooms filled with bright children under capable teachers. Principal Perot Mathis leads grades ten and eleven, focusing on advanced mathematics and geology, while the district lauds Bizlen as a top educator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americus
Jase Wriday
Christian
Jackson Street
Supt. Bizlen
Ghent
Perot
J E. Mathis
Bizlen
Gergeman
Catarrh Remedy Claims Cure for Head Ailment
An 19th century advertisement touts a constitutional remedy for catarrh in the head. It asserts the tonic purifies the blood, strengthens the weak, and restores health, urging readers to try the product now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Caught by Cupid Two Bouls Made Happy on New Year’s Morning
Early New Year morning Rev A B Campbell weds Miss Coroella Thoman and Mr H J Jennings at Campbell’s residence on Taylor street. The private ceremony drew few spectators and marked a runaway marriage amid festive surroundings. Friends celebrate the couple as they begin their life together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Campbell
Misa Coroella Thoman
H. J. Jennings
Vlaina
de. Campbell
Taylor Street
A Good Negro Dead Sunday in Macon Area
Gilbert Jefferson died at his home in Aitseisy after a long life of steady work with Mesara J. W. SleMeld & Co and later the Macon brewing company. Emma Abbutt’s death was reported in yesterday’s papers, with a note of a coincidental death anniversary for her husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Jefferson
Aitseisy
Mesara
J. W. SleMeld & Co
Macon Brewing Company
Emma Abbutt
Yeatertuy
Frisco Free Baths Open to Public at Lick Foundation
A large crowd gathered at the Lick free baths on Tratheissot near Howard for the opening day from 1 to 7 pm. Men and women queued for rooms with tubs, towels, and tickets, while the women’s side remained smaller. The facility, airy and clean, offered free baths with colored admission tickets and towel deposits, serving prominent locals and visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dbmiillionaire Lick
Lick Free
Tratheissot
Howard
Bss
Sonics
San Francisco Chronicle
Greanslog Trolley Wires Fry Coat Greasing Device
Frosty weather interferes with trolley wire contact as ice forms on the conductor. A device with a grooved wooden wheel spreads grease from a pan inside a box to coat the wire and improve adhesion, assisted by a belt or chain to move the lubricant.
Fragmented 19th century extract on sermons and crowd dialogue
A garbled passage from a periodical recounts a minister in a seminary setting and a mute hearing afflicted speaker. It shifts to an Insurance Journal note and then to a Pittsburg Bulletin insert about American appetite, daily consumption, and output estimates of chow and related goods.
George W. Childs on Vocations and Following One Line
George W. Childs states his rule is to pursue the line of business he feels suited for the newspaper trade. He recounts turning down bankers who offered $100,000 a year for his name, stressing the danger of straying from one’s true calling and noting a banker’s lack of aptitude. An interview in the Cincinnati Enquirer anchors the reflection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New
New Orleans Picayune
Editora
Darky
New York Tribune
George W. Childs
Cincinnati Enquirer
Made of Clay and the Nineveh Clay Books
A historical note surveys Nineveh and its clay tablets from the palace of Kanyunjik describing how the Mesopotamian library was buried and unearthed. It explains tablet construction, numbering, and the process of baking tablets after writing. The piece then shifts to a debate on mispronunciation of letters and English usage illustrated by a theatre anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesopotamia
Tigris
Nineves
Assyria
Kanyunjik
St. Lunia Republic
A Trertbin Task From A Fragmented Dialogue
A clipped dialogue reveals Dolly and Cholly discussing parental engagement and autonomy. Cholly recounts his father’s refusal to help a person who cannot think for himself, noting thinking as common and basic labor. A bulletin adds a note on water purity and nitrate of silver indicating color change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolly
Papa
Cholly
Mayor Sargent argues city ownership of utilities and transit
In his inaugural message New Haven Mayor Joseph B. Sargent urges municipal ownership and operation of electric lighting gas water works and street railways. He cites Americus as an example and asks readers for opinions while noting potential civic benefits and easier urban living. The piece also touches on a separate legal note about Confederate bonds and mentions the force bill’s demise by free coasted senators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph B. Sargent
New Haven
Conn
Recorder
Americus
Ayetem
Americas
Bank of Southwest Georgia Stockholders Meeting Notice
The Annual Meeting of Stockholders of The Bank of Southwest Georgia will be held at the office in Americus Georgia at 10 o'clock on Wednesday January 1st 1801. End of notice.
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The
Bank of Southwestern Georgia
Ste
Americus
Welt-Da-T
Bank of Americus
Bell
Merpstey
Castles
Georgia
Sumter County
B.c.clarke
Annes
Senora Ho Olirke
Court of Ordinary
Taelve Montussu
Heorgia
Wrusrek
Christian
W. A. Christian
Webater
Peel
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J. A. Fort
Thin Ality
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K. J. O'Connor
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