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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1888
Page
7
An old advertisement touts garter style shoes offered at low prices. It highlights a 3.00 dollar shoe made in patent and elastic, seamless vamp, best quality, and a promise of long wear.
A Boston Herald excerpt reflects on vast America from prairie views to a British nobleman and Jeems' quips. It notes a San Francisco type founder winning $5,000 from a Louisiana Lottery prize, and adds brief notes on seedless Smyrna raisins and Baltimore’s well-off Black citizens with scattered names and figures.
A Rochester Democrat recounts Congressman John Wise praising Indiana's John E. Lamb during a Terre Haute trip. Wise faces a heckler who hails Lamb as the greatest man, even superior to Solomon, Grant, Garfield, and others, in a humorous exchange that ends with a boastful comparison. The column also includes an unrelated medical ad.
A verbose reader notes how men and women parade new outfits, delaying public appearances to maximize effect, while discussing a looming corn crop price rise and railway influence. Also promotes a free diet remedy for consumption and a sale pitch for Arnica Salve with testimonials and offers.
A tramp boarded a coal train near La Junta Colorado, paid 50 cents to a brakeman to ride to the next station, then dumped coal along the track for three miles. A wagon picked up the coal. at the station the tramp disembarked and returned to the wagon, having unloaded two wagonloads. Separately, Queen Victoria Iris received a pure white collie from Stratford-on-Avon breeders.
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