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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1888
Page
7
Fragmentary notice advertises Farte s Shoe Store offerings with prices starting around three dollars. Claims best quality without seams in vamp and tongue and long wear. Mentions button and elastic goods and astonishment at value.
On a Western train a passenger shares a long rambling tale about farmers and farming life. He argues that farmers bear the mortgage burden and that rural prosperity sinks under tariffs and shifting careers, reflecting nostalgic, rural hardship and economic critique. The speaker laments young farmers leaving the land while moneyed interests prosper, and voices a stubborn defense of honest farm labor amid a changing economy.
A collage of old advertisements touts Backson Arnica Salve as a superior cure-all for cuts bruises and skin eruptions with a money-back guarantee. It lists other remedies from Acker’s Blood Pills to Cherokee Remedy, hails bovine and hog exchanges, and cites physicians and druggists offering tonics tonics and cordials. It mentions a Detroit poultry show a Boston doctor and a pigpen rescue in a blizzard and ends with a note on bowel issues and teething remedies.
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