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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1888
Page
3
Calvin Carter & Son advertise affordable footwear with Our Man's $3.00 Shoes in calfskin and elastic, Ladies' $2.50 Kid Button Box-Toe, and $2.00 Planters' Shoe. Claim superior fit and lasting wear across styles, urging readers to shop now at their store.
Dawson reports a humorous exchange between Capt. Dillon and the narrator over tariff theory. While the Captain argues tobacco, whisky, and the tariff, the narrator obsesses over debt drafts and bank timings as three barrooms nearby echo with life and struggle, ending with a weary reflection on the tariff.
A prominent grain and pork dealer from Change steals bat livers at the Fifth district police station. He claims the bat liver brings more luck in business than hundreds of rabbit's feet, a superstition he shares with other regional beliefs. The tale comes from a local anecdote about bats, superstition, and luck.
John Trimble of Aurora Illinois owns four thousand ninety five dollars from a Louisiana State Lottery investment. A ticket drawn fifty thousand dollars was number seventy three thousand one hundred eighty five. He plans to use the prize to buy the cut stone business from Isaac Edwards.
Albany News and Advertiser recalls Capt. R Hobbs of Albany who saved a White Confederate line at Boonsboro in 1862. After two weeks in pain and isolation, he received a draft for 180 dollars from William Tryer, a German Jew, who had struggled to rejoin his unit. Tryer’s efforts were misread as desertion, yet Hobbs kept the memory and finally cashed the San Francisco endorsement in 1874, grateful for the act of sacrifice.
By order of Judge Allen Fort a sale of the entire stock at the Wooten & Ford store on Lamar and Forest streets Americus is scheduled for Saturday March Sixt inst between eleven and four and will continue daily until exhausted. The stock includes dry goods groceries farmers supplies shoes hardware and one iron safe. Sale is under a mortgage to People's National Bank and will be in Bumter Superior Court proceedings with costs to be borne.
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