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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1888
Page
7
Arters Shoe Store promotes extraordinary value with men’s 3.00 lace, button and elastic calf shoes, ladies 2.50 kid button box-toe shoes, and 2.00 planter shoes. Emphasizes fit, quality, and durability, claiming no equal for price and style.
Col Northen, head of the Georgia State Agricultural Society, is in Macon for Col R E Grier's funeral and will speak in Randolph County. A letter from Columbus Exposition asks to move dates to avoid overlap with the State Fair opening October 15. Gen Thomas P Stovall to London as foreign commissioner for immigration and to promote Georgia expositions and immigration.
Janet Rhoda Gaines, a colored woman and niece of Bishop W. J. Gaines, was forcibly ejected from the east-bound Georgia railroad train at Conyers while traveling from Madison toward Monticello. She returned to Atlanta on the fast mail, detailing three men and a crowd pressuring her off, with bundles discarded and her lunch basket left on the tracks. Bishop Gaines and family react, with no immediate legal decision.
New York letter notes Chemical Bank stock at 3600 per share, 160 percent annual dividend, with 3000000 in last year’s dividends and a large surplus. Purchaser named John H. Monning. history traces to 1840s purchase by David Wolfe. Also mentions First National Bank and other banks' per share values. A separate offer promises free recipe for a lung remedy by mail.
A Savannah Augusta Evening News item warns readers about the no-fence vote, noting Augusta’s long exclusion of vagrant stock and Richmond County’s stock law, with no change anticipated. It references a Boston capitalist visiting an Indiana town for a $1,000,000 factory plan, then leaving due to sidewalk livestock.
Advertises 14 acre dwelling lot on College Hill with street frontage, a 25 acre tract with large house near the city outskirts, a $2250 brick store on the main street earning $25 monthly, 800 acre Webster county tract near Richland with 200-300 cleared acres and 500 pine, springs and a creek. value noted higher if Columbus Southern railroad is built. Also a 500 acre farm ten miles from Americus near Shiloh church with possible exchange for city property, and two near-new fire-proof safes offered at a bargain.
Advertiser seeks to acquire store houses or lots and several dwelling building lots on Lee and Taylor streets. Owners are urged to contact the advertiser with proposals or offers.
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