26 Jan 1888
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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1888
Page
1
Classified rate card notes 10 cent per line for locals and 5 cents per line for subsequent insertions. Special rates for contracts negotiable with the publisher. Obituary and personal notices charged at half the regular rate if under six lines. no discrimination in pricing.
Americus Georgia sits as county seat of Sumter County on the Southwestern Railroad, boasting 6000 residents, multiple newspapers, an opera house, water works, banks, and growing rail connections. The piece highlights its climate, agriculture, trade role, and opportunities for immigrants and business, urging railroads to boost immigration and development in Georgia.
Directors listed include Elda Hee sonasoi and J W Wheat stroy with J W Wheat as President and Asa Cashier. The fragmentary note appears to be a corporate or organizational roster with roles, lacking full clarity on organization name or context.
Talladega Parson Cook recounts one day when young attorney John Morgan criticized the school methods and provoked a porch confrontation. Cook’s stick blessed the boy, who fled toward the Battle House, leaving Morgan to later claim the thrashing shaped his rise to the Senate.
A mixed item notes good advice to girls on tone, manners, and cultivation of restraint, urging low clear voice and attentive listening. It also reports great distress in southern Kansas due to crop failure, plus miscellaneous notes on recent sales and literary misattributions.
Fragmented OCR fragment mentions imagined financial gains and broad names while advertising cures and chemical products. The text appears garbled with references to debts, royalties, and a Boston company promoting Mephinen Boas style remedies amid nonsensical inserts.
Old testimonial from L. D. Bixby of Bartonarillo and Alonzo P. Daggett of Smyrna Mill, Maine, touts Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral as a cure for pulmonary ailments. Bixby claims four months bedridden with a severe cough improved after half a bottle and later remained well. Daggett recalls six years of travel exhaustion and illness prior to using the remedy.
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