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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1885
Page
4
Observations describe paper production from straw and rags using a boiler beater and calendering in a 19th century plant. It also details stage makeup techniques showing how actors transform faces with chalk, rouge, India ink, and a final transparent layer for stage effect.
Farm reports from J L Styles near Palmetto note 125 bushels of potatoes from a half acre. J Barber in Cobb county reports 50 dollars worth of turnips from one acre, with about fifteen families supplying themselves. The University experimental farm corn won a premium for 50 acres. Nine vah Xuight of Cobb yields five heavy cotton bales from seven acres. Thomas Shaw reports a bale per acre in Cobb. Horstura acid phosphate advert claims relief for impaired nerves, cited by Dr C A Gernald of Boston.
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