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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1884
Page
7
A jumble of notices recounts a receiver's address with accounts due, a deathbed illness of Dawson journalist Urb Weston, a push for estate settlement by B L Oliver, and various arrivals and sales. Warnings of fires, lamplighter duties, eclipse forecasts, and fishing tales fill the page with bustling mid-19th century town life.
The article reviews a reduction in postoffice box rents from four dollars to four cents per year and notes public convenience rising sixty percent while government revenue grew eight percent. It cites Maj. Black and postmaster counts, argues uniform rates, and mentions advocates for further cuts to aid the public. It also covers a suicide, court trials, a dancing school opening, Confederate graves, thanks to firemen, and a firm change for Byrd & Co.
January 14 1834 gathering notes Aldermen Felder Dell Burt Williams Hawkier Cobb present Abseot Allerman Morgan. Adverse ruling on A J Bachwan relief from tax. Steaart Bagley liquor license transfer allowed to successors. Printing contract awarded to C W Hancock at 110. Lamps committee recommends city oil stamps lighting and two lamp lighters. Ashby street opening deferred. Guard house lot sale and Sabbath shops discussed. Bonds accepted. Fire Dept floorings hose cart and engine moves referred. Vigilance elect officers named. Local notes on humor cinema and misused words. Andersonville notes mention stockade hotel bid and ill health.
F M Bragan announces the opening of Gussmith and Tin Shop in the room above G A Turpin's store on Cotton Avenue. The new shop offers acnsmith sng tia services and related metalwork to local customers.
Miss Jeanie Barlow visits Dooly county while Augusta reports four marriages in one week. A Leap Year ball is hinted at. Witty observations on love, fashion, and bachelors fill the column. Fire destroys Mrs James Myers willinery stock. Watts building spared. Vigilance and Annie Bell help extinguish blaze. Receiver Oliver sells Taylor and Willett goods as crowd. McMath to wed Ida Mitchell in city church.
The article surveys the long running belief in universal remedies through history. It traces tar water pine odor celery leaves and strange tonics from mandrake to raw potato and lodestone as charms. It notes royal touches and folk practices as examples of fetichism and the search for healing powers in everyday objects.
Milwaukee Sentinel notes there is no real secret to patent medicines and advertising drives demand. It argues most cures rely on money and nerve, not chemistry, and mocks disguising drugs or rebranding as new remedies. The piece also mentions a Loch Etive double shadow observed by travelers and explains it as sun and reflected lake light.
A partial, unreadable OCR fragment hints at a local notice or brief. Specific names, dates, or places are not readable, leaving only vague references to events or announcements without clear action or outcome.
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