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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1886
Page
6
A street performer in New Orleans hypes a machine selling cough drops for ten cents, amid a shouting crowd. An Illinois man challenges the device, accusing it of fraud, while the vender repeats the pitch and assures the crowd the machine is legitimate.
An advertisement for Bomtoras Acid Phosphate praises its uses for infants and children, claiming soothing effects for teething pain, wind, and diarrhea. The copy references medical professionals and includes a price of twenty five cents per bottle. The quirky phrasing mentions Dr Adolph Ott and promotes Winston’s Soorma as a related remedy.
The passage notes diverse origins of Algiers residents from Spain Italy Malta Germany and Switzerland. It describes occupation trends from farming and trades to urban work and emphasizes mandatory French learning naturalization schooling and steady assimilation into a cosmopolitan, globally influenced society.
A Vienna correspondent compares European warming methods noting England relies on open fires, France uses stoves, Austria uses large high faced stoves, and Russia employs multi flue designs that lose heat before reach the chimney. The writer describes a six foot high white earthenware stove in use, with coal maintaining warmth most of the day.
A first person account describes a perilous ascent in a cable car or mining shaft from darkness to daylight. The narrator recalls terror and exhilaration as they neared the shaft apex with a view of landscape below and the fear of falling.
Fragmentary 19th century vignette centers on a girl named Elizabeth and a doll as tensions rise over a bedtime punishment. The exchange captures childish insistence and a mother’s attempts to enforce discipline amid garbled dialogue and spelling errors.
A New York Cor. report details 5 cent lodging houses where a crowd of lodgers, mainly lower classes, sleep in basements rented for 6 20 a year. Tenants furnish bunks and straw with minimal carpet, paying daily rent and earning $3 or $4 for owners, creating a steady but limited, low-cost lodging system.
A heavy set black woman with a baby in a shawl confronts a circle of men in the Erie depot on the New Jersey side. She denounces crude remarks about black babies and asserts the baby’s humanity and agency, then leaves for her train.
A Nashville audience fled in panic when a staged mock fight in the Park theatre show escalated as a Newfoundland dog attacked a villain and a young man in a proscenium box fired a pistol. The shooter claimed misperception of the dog’s attack and was detained.
A testimonial from Lyon Ga and Howard W Key of Apirew Female College Ga report relief from chronic indigestion and intestinal distress after trying Davenport's and Hall's Drug Stores advertised remedy. The letter claims long term suffering ended and endorses the product.
An elderly woman Mrs. Mattie N. Graves from Providence New Jersey endorses Parker's Tone as the best remedy for weakness debility and pain after forty years of illness. The ad notes Ha Havcox Co. prepares it and druggists sell large bottles for one dollar.
Under an order of the Sumter County Court of Ordinary the guardian will sell at the courthouse door in Americus on the first Tuesday in February next between usual hours the part of lot No 184 in the 27th District west of Muckalee creek excluding the railroad right of way. The property belongs to William F Minnie Rhett and Jesse Green minors guardian L A Catering January 5 1886.
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