28 Jan 1886
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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1886
Page
1
Attorney J W Brady of Barlow Block handles legal matters while local craftsman NOREW DUDLEY offers Bulls and shoe making with quick repairs. A stray note mentions a church site, a Presbyterian address, and a pharmacist degist O. P J Aldrich in Rsimxo Bux with unclear context.
A fragmentary column blends a humorous Willow Titwillow verse with a Syracuse street scene. Roscoe Conkling and Col Ingersoll visit eateries, interact with a beggar, and a brief post office note from Washington reports Griffin postmaster bids, noting Thurmond and Bowdoin as contenders and possible Senate mediation.
A boy implores a well dressed man on Pennsylvania avenue for help at a D street lunch hall. The man feeds him and buys items to take home as charity. A bystander suspects the boy and his father are professional beggars who live off the child’s begging, claiming a Maryland farm was acquired this way.
A early Monday fire on Oak Street in Macon destroyed the upper floors of a two story residence owned by Macklebe, with Mrs Cole and Miss Lula Cole among the occupants narrowly escaping. Firemen saved neighboring property but the Coles and Johnsons lost furniture and jewelry valued in the thousands. insurance covered part of the loss. A stark warning on marriage with strangers follows, citing a Nebraskan case of forgery and bigamy.
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