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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1888
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR notes show an ad for Larter's Shoe Store with unclear pricing, offerings, and slogans. The readable bits mention unequaled in the market and possible pricing at eight, but most details are garbled and uncertain.
Farm and stock notes discuss global wheat consumption reaching 2.165 billion bushels, French swine disease risks, and value of stable liquids. Advice covers absorbents, red-top forage, evaporated fruit trade, poultry feeding, and manure use. Incubators aid early broiler production. pleuro pneumonia losses cited, plus orchard laws on yellows and benefits of pomace feeding boosting milk.
Western farmers and Savannah News argue that if a square vote on the tariff issue were held a majority in nearly all Western states would back tariff reduction. They say party spirit weakens and interest drives Western farmers toward lower tariffs.
Ed Huguenin plans to plant about 75 acres of pecans in Lee County using nuts as seed, expecting high yields and solid profits. The piece notes pecan groves as promising, cites Col Nelson Tift’s trees, and urges Arbor Day nut planting. It also explains Georgia Railroad Commission's penny circulation rule changes to allow exact mileage fares and fair pricing for passengers.
Albany News recalls temperance rhetoric equating land value to whisky cost with a remark attributed to General Toombs in Paris after the Civil War. The item shifts to a local incident as a sign for W. T. Wilson Booth and Shoe Maker sign toppled onto Newt Floyd’s plantation near Covington, with speculation it blew from Mount Vernon, D. due to a cyclone.
A humorous column discusses why farm youths depart, contrasting harsh field labor with appealing rural scenes. It notes brutal methods to keep boys on farms, then shifts to Greensburg pa women forming a Frances Cleveland club with white badges and torches. It mentions a massive Russian cotton mill in Kronholm and Ouida agreeing to write a novel about a typical American family.
In a Light Street saloon a quartet bet who could beat a scale that weighs a nickel. One man coated his nickel with mucilage, the coin stuck, and all four learned their weights without another nickel drop.
An unsigned column mixes promotional medical offers and oddities. A physician’s claim promotes a vegetable remedy for lung diseases with free mail delivery, while other notices tout a conjuring Belgian queen, a book offer from Philadelphia doctors, a report on Dakota blizzard deaths, Bucklen’s ArinA Salve ad claiming cure guarantees, and a Plate City alcohol anecdote about telephone-induced dizziness.
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