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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1888
Page
7
Listen at our prices and examine them. you will be astonished to see good goods at 80. Our Man's $3.00 Shoe is made in ce, button and elastic, in the globe and of the best Cal i, without seams in vamp and perfect fitting, and will wear. The finest goods equal to Our $2.00 Planters' Shoe, made specially for the plantation, giving easy fear and strong and dura te. Nothing made to equal it.
The Central railroad weighs a new sleeping car concept to replace traditional berths. A design features 64 foot cars with a kitchen and observation end, a central saloon by day, and ten independent berths raised from floor at night. Berths are larger, with heat and dry pockets, allowing two-minute readiness. The plan also includes heat, plumbing, and structural details, while referencing existing Wagner and Mann cars and a model examined by General Manager Belknap in New York.
A jumble of political chatter and local notes from a period paper. Items include a Republican Democratic exchange at the Treasury, Mayor Kumpf of Kansas City cracking down on streetcar taxes, Phelps’s vice presidential fate under Fiske, and a push by Clarke county Democrats to stop W. A. Pledger’s bid for the legislature. Also recounted are recollections of Gen. John Morgan, watermelon crop movements, a Jamaican engagement ring tale, a Canadian boy’s short composition, and plans for drop-a-nickel opera glasses in New York with Paris orders. Additional notes mention Mr. Cleveland, portable electric readings on trains, Logan medals, and Prince Henry as a watchmaker.
A New Hampshire farmer reports uncovering what is claimed as the skeleton of an Indian killed in the Kilburn fight of 1775. The item joins a reel of varied notes from politics, travel, and local curiosities including a glass-eyed ghost scare in Chicago and a belled buzzard in Illinois.
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