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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1889
Page
7
Macon Evening News reports over 4000 in premiums for agricultural exhibits. County displays may win 1200 for top county, 100 for second and third. Individuals can claim 100, 50, and 25 for best displays. Special premiums include sweet peas, field peas, scuppernong and grape wines, and rice exhibits. Over 4000 in cash prizes touted to advertise Georgia resources.
The Cobb County Speaker Clay will not seek re election to the Georgia House citing his heavy law practice. The move surprises supporters who expected him to remain in the speakership, with talk of successors including Fleming of Richmond and Simmons of Sumter, and a possible return by A. O. Bacon of Bibb. The scene opens for the next session as rumors swirl about leadership shifts. Blondin the tight rope walker has a $20,000 bet to walk a cable at Paris expo in under five minutes.
Editor Morning News reports an experiment by Ashmore on a rattlesnake Watermelon weighing 25 pounds. From 11.5 pints of juice, evaporated to syrup, yielding 0.28 pints of syrup per original juice and about 5 percent of juice becoming syrup. The note suggests potential for surplus melons to be used for syrup with cheap labor in the South.
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