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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1888
Page
3
A veteran physician discusses his push for fame and wealth through magazine articles, monographs, and newspaper interviews to secure publicity. He claims income well above 15,000 annually, busy office hours, and high patient load, aided by socializing and media exposure to grow practice. The piece also mentions women’s voting hopes and health ads linked to Florida Exposition.
From Covington to Perry local farms report hog slaughter and weights. Petty’s pigs total 1017 pounds with weights 260 850 and 407 pounds. J F Rusk’s hogs weighed 950 pounds average age 16 months. Captain Coffee’s plantation yielded 5200 pounds, heaviest 300 lightest 210 pounds. lard 715 pounds. Stubbs and Warren hogs ranged 685 and 1844 pounds with ages 14 months to 2 years. Houser’s five hogs weighed 1400 pounds, heaviest 850. Boon’s three hogs weighed 640 pounds, largest 228.
A reader from Marre Creek, Nebraska, asks Ina Vick in Rochester to stop seed gifts to his wife to avoid flowers taking over their home. The Floral Guide ad urges readers to buy a ten cent guide with seed illustrations, three colored plates, and a certificate redeemable for seeds.
Mr G M Bacon near the Dougherty line saved about sixteen tons of well cured hay last summer at 15 dollars a ton and hopes to cut twenty five to thirty tons this year from a fifteen acre melon patch. W C Tuggle of LaGrange Ga extols Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid as a priceless disinfectant and deodorizer. It aids traveling families and helps with nursery care. A few drops in bath water can clear eruptions and chafing and refresh the skin.
The Dawson Journal reports hogs weighing 457 pounds from W H Gammage and 400 pounds by A W Breedlove, plus six hogs totaling 1600 pounds led by a 206 pound individual. Baldwin Co and Geiso slaughtered two eleven month old pigs weighing 700 pounds. An advertisement promotes Advice to Mothers Mrs Wixstows Boornind Up for teething, claiming soothing gums easing pain and curing wind colic, priced at twenty five cents per bottle.
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