Fragmentary Public Notice on Cotton Avenue Price
The readable portion mentions a price on Cotton Avenue in a public notice. No further context or entities are legible to identify parties, dates, or actions.
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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1885
Page
1
The readable portion mentions a price on Cotton Avenue in a public notice. No further context or entities are legible to identify parties, dates, or actions.
A historical overview highlights Americus Sumter County Georgia as a thriving commercial hub on the Bonth Road, boasting a 6000 population, scenic streets, schools, libraries, newspapers, theaters, and a robust mercantile sector. It cites cotton yields near 180000 bales and notes railroad expansion improving trade prospects with Preston and Lampkin. The piece emphasizes hospitality to migrants and opportunities for tradesmen, capitalists, and farmers. It lists local merchants, professionals, and services in a dense business directory.
An 19th century style advertisement lists symptoms including headache indigestion dyspepsia nervous prostration alaria chills tired feel in general senility pain in the back and sides impure blood constipation female infirmities return euralgia kidney and liver troubles. It promotes sale by all druggists with a genuine aered trade mark and cromed red no other.
The article recounts President Cleveland’s careful, case by case review of appointments, with Pugh criticizing his fitness for office and the President adjusting the process to consult cabinet officials. It notes the labor of examining papers, the private secretary handling confidential mail, and the shift from broad cabinet-driven appointments to individual assessment, affecting late-night work and delayed confirmations.
A Health Board statement from Dr E H Jones of New York endorses Alfred Speer Port and Burgundy Claret from Passaic New Jersey as superior wines for the sick and debilitated. The claret is reportedly used in a smallpox hospital with advanced patients and is offered for sale by J B Bosworth.
A fragment notes a demand for a quota to Cleveland, plus a description of the tombs of Esther and Mordecai in Hamadan Persia. The shrine, visited by Hebrew pilgrims, sits under a 50 foot dome on red brick walls with blue tiled dome.
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