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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1889
Page
7
A nostalgic piece honors old tramp printers deemed skilled journeymen who drift town to town chasing work. The excerpt recalls their lore, attire, and bunkhouse lives, listing names, dates, and stations to illustrate a fading network of mobile printers and their varied fates.
A series of brief traveler updates dated 1889 list individuals with origins such as Griffin Macon Columbus Camilla Americus and Nashville. Entries mention walking long distances visiting relatives reporting conditions like flat broke weary or plentiful crops in plain, telegraphic style.
A resolution adopted by the Georgia State Agricultural Society honors Capt J F Ross Mollie Rutherford and Sumter County farmers for a grand display of home produced agricultural goods at the Georgia State Fair. The minutes note the county’s premium wins across preserves dried fruit vegetables cotton baskets and more highlighting Sumter’s representation. A true extract from the minutes Rost A Nisbet secretary. Star Gazers discusses November planetary events including a full moon eclipse near Mercury and a rare gathering of Uranus Venus Splos Mercury and Mars in the eastern sky with Jupiter visible in the evening conjunction on the 25th and a note on a $200000 subscription to start an industrial weekly in Birmingham Alabama.
Merchants are urged to watch for a smooth talking swindler who offers five hundred self opening paper bags for 90 cents and promises delivery from Atlanta. He collects payment and vanishes, having duped many small dealers in Augusta last spring as well. nearby towns are warned and readers urged to help capture him.
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