Local notices and ads mix with state meat and health tips
A collection of short items from a Georgia paper: a boy named Johnny Partridge finds a unused cartridge, a Davenport Drug Company plans to organize on September 1, Lamar's Diarrhea Mixture is praised, Mr E P Harris shows a new bicycle, green plums and salt trend as a diet, Shepard's B B Cologne advertised, political year ahead with strong newspapers, Dr Bull's Worm Destroyers urged for children, Miss Susie Taylor moves to Americus due to ill health, kidney disease warns against misuse of Lamar's Extract of Buchu and Juniper, Montezuma editor Chris Christopher boosts town growth, Camphorlin offered as moth repellent and chicken mite preventative from Cook's Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport Drug Company
Lamar
E. P. Harris
Politica
W.T. Christopher
Montezuma Record
Chris
Georgia
Chain Gang Contract Secured by Ocmulgee Brick Co
The Ocmulgee Brick Company in Americus Ga won a contract to employ 150 chain gang prisoners from Sumter County at forty dollars per year each. Previously prisoners from Sumter were sent to Valdosta. A large stockade is being built on the Flint River works to house convicts, with transfers to begin at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ocmulgee Brick Company
Sumter County
Valdosta
Flint River
Thornton Wheatley's opens vast new dress goods stock
Stacks of Swiss Flouncings lace curtains ribbons and trims debut at Thornton Wheatley's. The shop proclaims first class stock of dress goods in the city with black silk grenadine and new trimmings priced from one to one fifty per yard. Bright Nottingham lace curtains and silk sashes join a wide assortment including hosiery gloves and handkerchiefs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thornton Wieatney
Thornton Wheatley's
Sarah
Thornton Wheatley’s
Real Estate Transfers Reported By County Clerk
Real estate transfers filed in the Clerk of Superior Court office over the past week list multiple property parcels with varied buyers and sellers. Notable exchanges include A B Harrold to Mrs Lelia Stapleton on Lee street for 1350 dollars and Annie Wilson to J G Parker on a Lesterville lot for 25 dollars, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Superior Cour
A. B. Harrold
Lelia L. Stapleton
Lee Street
Annie Wilson
J. G. Parker
Lesterville
J. W. Russell
Prince Rees
New Street
Rebecca Foster
Elbert Head
Dozier
Mathews
Kate Callaway
Lawson H. Adkins
Andrew Clark
Tom Guice
W. F. Mims
C. Speer
W. J. Harper
J. J. Williford
Hill Street
In Memoriam for Jas M Rodgers Dear Friend and Husband
A memorial notice honors Jas M Rodgers as a kind husband father brother and friend. It recalls his hospitable home devotion to aged parents and quiet faithful religion. The bereaved wife five children and church mourn an irreparable loss as his consu mption endures with patient faith and hope of meeting again beyond the dark waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. M. Rodgers
Rodgers
Memorial of Henry W. Connor Initiated by Wilson Alliance
Henry W. Connor was initiated into the Wilson Alliance No 366 on April 5. On April 8 at Leslie near the railroad he was crushed while unloading lumber when car standards gave way, dying the same day. He was a young man of vigor and promise, with a record of upright character and industrious life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry W. Connor
Leslie
Florida
Farmers Alliance
Americas
A. Wilson
R. M. Dozier
J. H. Willamns
Recalcitrant burglars return stolen watch lead to conviction
The watch stolen from W. N. Ray at the guano works was recovered the next day. Two youths, Gib and Hudson Evridge, aged sixteen and eighteen, admitted the crime, saying they climbed in a window to steal it and returned it when fearful. They were sentenced to six months on the chain gang. A note from Horse Cave Kentucky praises Bull's Sarsaparilla for a boy with weak lungs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. N. Ray
Guano Works
Ray
Ife
Evridge
Feagin
Duncan
Gib
Hudson Evridge
J. B. Pillsbury
Firemen's Picnic at Coney a Great Success
The Coney Park event drew large crowds and ran smoothly under W. J. Harper and the arrangements committee with W. S. Murray assistance. Train clearance limited setting up, but dancing began early and continued until the approaching train. Excursionists watched Ocmulgee Brick works produce bricks at sixty per minute and plans to clear 25 acres to create picnic grounds between the Flint River and Coney's Mill. Also touts P P P as spring medicine for vigor and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coney Thursday
W. J. Harper
W. S. Murray
Coney Park
Revere
Ocmulgee Brick Company
Flint River
Coney’s Mill
Stockade Sold to the G A R at Andersonville
The old Andersonville stockade has been sold and bought by the G A R for the National organization. Papers and funds completed the transfer yesterday, with plans for future use already formed though details are not yet disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andersonville Prlson
The
Recorder
Andersonville
Georgia
Melon Crop Shipment Set to Begin in Two Weeks
A thousand empty ventilated cars have passed through Americus en route to southern Georgia for watermelon transport. Central railroad prepares for rapid handling as shipments start around June 6 with peak movement by June 15 to 20. Estimated 12,000 cars, 4,000 more than last year, should not disrupt markets due to broader demand in northern, western, and Canada. Freight rates remain, and sworn weights will be accepted by railroads to fix car payments. last year lines reweighed and corrected bills.
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Americus
Central Railroad
Georgia
Canada
Americus Brick Plant Aims To Supply Georgia Fast
Americus forms Americus Brick Company near the Flint River to manufacture brick at a new yard along the S A M road. A two mile tram line brings dirt to a machine that makes up to sixty bricks per minute, with laborers loading, drying, and firing in kilns. Plant plans include three more machines and additional yards along the line, asserting price competitiveness statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americus
Macon
Eufaula
Flint River
S. A.M
Recorder
Americus Brick Company
Americas
Georgia
Weather Prophet Hicks warns of dry June following wet harvests
Rev Ira R Hicks St Louis weather prophet projects June as a dry period after plentiful fall harvests. May forecasts detail moon phases and planetary influences Mars Venus Mercury, predicting shifting winds, storms, then cool spells and possible drought driving long term cycles, urging public attention to climate changes.
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Ira R. Hicks
St. Louis
Bro
Hicks
St. Loui
Mars
Mr. Hicks
Also Mentioned on This Page
Erich, Recorder
Rot
Fancy Grocer
Ansley
Tom
Jersey
Tennessee
E.D. Ansley
the Grocer
Johnny Partridge
Oak Grove
Cook's Pharmacy
Cotton Avenue
Allen House
T. Wheatley’s
Nottingham
Thonton Withathey’s
Memoriam
Wilson Alliance
Bull
John
McGee
Horse Cave
P.P. P
P.P
Furerwoop
HOOD
C. S. Hood & Co
Lowell
Henrietta
Thornton
Wheatley
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