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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1885
Page
8
Local notice lists mail departure times and railroad schedule changes. Key closes include west and south at 12 36 pm, east and north at 2 17 pm, night mail north at 7 00 pm, with various town offices and places given for daily or specific day closures. The schedule will continue with stated adjustments and a May 8 Sunday start for new train times. Lott Warren, Agent.
M M Yolsom is named the duly authorized Collector and Solicitor for the Riverbin and all his business transactions will be recognized and accepted by the proprietor.
Advertisements showcase millinery inventories with hats ostrich plumes and flowers from John R Shaw and J A D Davenport plus McKenzies offers on whiskey cigars and drugs. A sale on sewing machines ends with four units left while J H Black & Son promotes shoes hats and leather.
A May 20 1885 notice from J. R. Writtans offers a $100 reward for arrest and conviction of the person or persons who set fire to his warehouse in Adersonville on the night of May 1, 1885. Copy for newspaper use.
A crowded scene in Albany sees white and Black youths clash as police courts tally about thirty cases. Rome plans a grand fireman tourney and military display for July 4 to 6. Perry seeks a railroad link to the E T V G line. Rome to get a streetcar line within weeks. work to start on the Rome and Carrollton road in five weeks. County finances show Pulaski debt free with 3736 52 in treasury.
In a crowded legislature chamber 61 senators and 153 representatives gathered as Republicans backed John A. Logan for president of the joint session. Democrats abstained or shifted votes, with several switching to Barwell and Lambert Tree. The final roll call declared Logan elected amid loud cheers and confusion.
In New York World, W A Croffut details Edison’s plan using tin foil boards on train cars to receive and send telegraph messages via existing lines. The system, costing about 1000 dollars to equip 300 miles, would make every car a telegraphic station and allow passengers to be contacted by friends. Edison notes no final name yet. The piece also covers goerck street factory trials, electric motors on passenger cars, and Sage's forecast of higher capacity and safety, followed by Roman housing history and a local tragedy in Georgia with two sons killed by their father then a suicide.
A compact notice lists religious gatherings at the Parsnytentian Council and related groups in Atlanta. It notes Sunday services at the church at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., with a Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. and meetings on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Rev. A. leads services. additional council events occur midweek.
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