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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1887
Page
4
Local notes reveal a correction on advance subscription rates, a postponed Fourth of July barbecue amid financial shortfalls, church and civic notices, obituaries, family updates, travel, and community events from Americus and surrounding areas.
A fragment from a Delaware Gazette page mentions a rental request for a three or four room house near the square, with contact via W. H. Suow We. The item is embedded among misc ads and notices including references to local brewers and a travel timetable, and a long list of low bargain prices for provisions in Americus, Georgia with items such as flour, sugar, coffee, salt, corn, tallow, hides, chickens, eggs, meal, and bran.
A newspaper letter defends church Sunday train services on the A P L railroad while criticizing Rev A M Williamey for public rebuke. It urges private remonstrance with road directors, cites scripture from Thessalonians, questions civil law authorizing Sunday passenger and mail trains, and ends with a shocking simile about worm infestation in a rosebud garden used to illustrate discipline.
Hill and Schneider announce the arrival of three Stultz and Bauer pianos by next Friday inviting customers to choose among the instruments. The store promotes a ready selection and emphasizes prompt delivery opportunities.
The item lists prices and offers at Hall’s Drug Store including prescriptions from standard materials and a warning against scalping or rebates. It advertises Van Riper offering cabinet photos at reduced prices for thirty days, a gallery near Wheatley’s store, price cuts on patent medicines, and Hill and Schneider selling two second hand pianos.
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