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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1887
Page
4
The AmeRicus Recorder reports prohibitionists courting P. T. Barnum for president as twenty agricultural clubs plan to seek a $1,000 premium at the next Georgia State fair. Other items note Armour abandoning cotton seed mills, Liberia envoy appointment for J. H. Taylor, and Pullman defending luxury railway cars as educational and aspirational.
A reader questions universal import taxes on poor people's necessities and calls for a published list of taxed items. The Constitution replies that such a list would show minimal impact, while critics argue tariff taxes are mainly paid through higher prices by US manufacturers and returned to no public treasury. The exchange notes the paper's stance on tariff reduction and shifts in tobacco and whisky taxation.
Some actors fear the interstate commerce bill will end special passenger rates for traveling dramatic troupes. Roads may require full fares, risking disbanding of many itinerant companies while critics call for restraint on weak ensembles.
An advertisement promotes Dr Pierce's Extract of Smart-Weed as a remedy for colds fevers and inflammatory attacks cholera morbus diarrhoea dysentery or bloody flux colic or cramps in the stomach. It lists ingredients grape brandy Smart-Weed water pepper Jamaica ginger and camphor water.
Last Monday Mesers Stokely and Rowland of Crawford received an order from Hamburg Germany for a large lot of oak plank to be delivered at Rotterdam. The order came from Carl Gartner.
An advertisement touts Mas Winaton’s Soormina Syaur as a teething aid for children. It claims to soothe gums ease pain relieve wind colic and act as a general remedy for distrahan with a 25 cents bottle price.
A Hall county resident recalls voting for a candidate in the late county election to be empowered to stop allegedly stealing wool from a citizen. The remarks relate to actions he says would occur if the candidate were elected.
The piece links a constitutional tariff to reform and attacks statutory taxation, urging voters to back a constitutional tariff and honest officeholders. It then details the Louisiana State Lottery drawing of Feb 8 1887, listing prizes of 150000 with prize allocations to various individuals and firms and outlining future drawings and contact points. It also comments on Trotter, the DC Recorder of Deeds, noting ancestry and a claim about his pedigree and linkage to Washington.
Messia, Mahone and John 8. Wise back John Sherman as able to carry Virginia in the nominating convention and on the electoral slate. Ohio’s leader says the solid South may split in the next race and will mingle with Southern voters to shed the notion of lacking warmth. Friends predict thawing reception and growing support from Southern delegates during his southern trip.
Congressmen vie to honor Representative Barnes who is widely seen as the city’s favorite figure in August. Others in Congress envy the attention and opportunity he enjoys from the public display of support.
A traveler's remark describes Milledgeville’s split town plan where a brick block near the station houses nine first floor store rooms and many overhead offices. The block effectively forms a self contained town with farms’ wagons circling the building while most commerce occurs within. Only one other building remains in the new town.
A Georgia map reports ninety bales of cotton on about twenty acres last year. It argues that with three horses and six hands the same crop can be produced on ninety acres, saving labor and stock costs and increasing net profits.
Former Recorder Matthews and Senator Ingalls, once at odds over a confirmation, have since adjournment expressed mutual respect. Ingalls praises Matthews as bright with a clear record, though a victim of political controversy, and they seemingly renew cordial ties.
The Tennessee Supreme Court holds that conditions and contract on blank messages of a telegraph company are not binding on the sender, even if he knows them, as the company cannot contract against its own negligence.
A note endorses hanging a wreath on the door in place of crape as a reform. The item questions grieving for those whose earthly condition improved by death. The Fresno Flat prisoner Indian Jerry recently left a 1000 day sentence for murder and killed another Indian upon return, now jailed awaiting trial.
Two small Black children were burned to passing on Col. Lee Jordan’s route in an incident described in fragmented local notes. The report offers few concrete details beyond the tragedy and the blocked street scene around the residence.
On a rice plantation flooded to nurture germination, the embryo stalk emerges as roots extend. Watering depth, staggered square readiness, and slack water gauge guide growth from two to ten days. Workers manage drills, volunteer rice, and bank flows while overseers monitor temperature and conditions.
A Cleveland Leader commentary notes high divorce rates in Ohio with many cases involving repeat divorces. It likens divorce to a disease feeding on itself and compares chronic marriage breakers to chronic drunks filling police court records.
The Philadelphia Call describes the South Sea ceremony of the duk duk, noting its persistence in New Britain and the Duke of York group. It explains that when A injures B or B causes damage to C, B informs C of the act and its reason, expecting C to settle with A as the first aggressor.
City residents in Paris reportedly ingest 2 000 000 Jarks as part of a local dietary trait. Officials note the figure reflects broad consumption across neighborhoods and age groups, underscoring the cultural prominence of Jarks in daily meals.
The ad claims most diseases originate in impure blood and presents Ayer’s Sarsaparilla as affecting blood at all formation stages. It asserts the medicine adapts to a wide range of complaints and serves as a near universal cure.
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