Auxuries Reconpen and Wrexig Receiver Publication Details
The Auxuries Reconpen appears daily and weekly year round. The Daily Reconpen releases each morning except Mondays with two price options. The Wrexig Receiver comes out Friday mornings at a yearly rate payable in advance. It claims the largest Southwest Georgia circulation across multiple counties and is entered at Americus post office. Communications go to H.C. Storey, publisher.
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Auxuries
Wrexig
Georgia
Sumter, Lee
Terrell
Stewart, Webster, Schley
Marlon
Macon
Dooly and Wilcox
Americus Post
Subscriptions Urgently Requested to Support Paper
Subscribers behind on payments urged to renew or pay up. Publisher pleads for funds to cover debts and buy new material and presses, stressing past efforts and need for support from thousands of readers.
Cotton Market and Local Happenings in Americus
Americus GA market report notes quiet cotton values with good middling and low middling levels and mentions Johnson Harrold handling $10,000 in change. Local items include Miss Mary Haynes returning from Atlanta with new dress styles, electric street railway track progress, and a notice inviting bids for a portable engine and boiler. Chief H D Watts resumes duties at the Americus fire department.
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H. D. Watts
Americus Fire Department
Stock Law Bill Favored by Agricultural Committee
The bill to grant Sumter county a stock law is expected to pass after a favorable Senate Agricultural Committee report. A letter from Hon. Wright Brady explains the situation, and there are local notes on a military company formation, bar opening on Cotton Avenue with free lunch, and recent births and community updates.
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Sumter County
Agricultural Committee
House
Senate
Wright Brady
Atlanta
J. B. Pilabury
Mericus
Wariout Brady
Water Costs for 8. A. M. Railway to City
The 8. A. M. railway began drawing water from the city works in September 1888 and by September 1889 paid an average of $28.37 monthly for all water used in the city. Wilcox Superior Court opened at Abbeville with murder cases on docket. A minor fire on a residence was quickly extinguished by residents. another roof fire caused slight damage.
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Hawkins
Wilcox Superior Court
Abbeville
John Williams
Whigham
S. A
Americas
C. F. Crisp
Peter Androm
Weekly Cotton Report Shows Improved Receipts
Weekly cotton report notes receipts last week totaling 4,003 bales with 3,041 on wagons and 1,052 by rail, up 551 bales from the prior week. Shipments matched receipts closely, indicating buyers supported farmers. A new batch of Rope Embroidered washing silks arrived to close out Monday. Miss Anyren Prexert.
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Anyren Prexert
Hon James Dupree praised for elective agriculture bill
The Hawkinsville Dispatch notes Hon James M Dupree the Senate president pro tem gave a strong case for electing the commissioner of agriculture by the people rather than appointment. Dupree, young yet seasoned, is expected to receive higher honors in time. A serious accident reports Nettie Rutherford injured crossing College street. She and her son fell into a street hole near an electric pole site, injuring back knee arm chin.
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Hawkinsville
James M. Dupree
Senate
Dupree
Nettie Rutherford
College Street
East Americas Sees New Homes and Community Drives
Pretty residences on Mayo street join recent completions as the city plans repairs for its house of worship. Town notices indicate Em broidery silks for orders, yard master changes at Central yards, Fernoline Balsam for sale, and local interest in C R Whitley s stylish buggy. A local plan to support the church renovation prompts donations while residents cheer improvements and new businesses. W K Wheatley departs for Athens to study law. Hall expands with fresh goods as commerce grows.
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East Americas
Poicemen
W. M. Ragan
W. D. Smith
Mayo Street
Ctty
Terry
Macon
City
Jesse Moore
Moore
Serious injury to Mr. Ferguson from runaway wagon
Mr. John Ferguson of Ferguson Chokee district Lee county was returning from De Soto with a loaded wagon. On a steep hill he had to lock the load, exited between the wheels as the wagon ran away, suffering a crushed shoulder, a broken wrist, and three broken ribs. He was carried home and his recovery seems doubtful.
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John Ferguson
Ferguson
Chokee District
Lee County
DeSoto
Lee
Fergusson
Antioch Church
Mr. Ferguson
Ready-to-Pay Ad Reform Boosts Local Business
A veteran merchant credits newspaper ads for orders and renews his space, noting advertising pays. The piece contrasts big salesman salaries with small home paper ads and includes a classified notice from AMERICUS GUANO Company seeking twenty-five able-bodied men for work.
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Recorder
Americus Guano Company
A Serious Fall Injures Mr. A Hirsch on Porch
On a dark Tuesday night Mr. A Hirsch fell eight feet from the back porch while moving a barrel. A physician stated no bones or internal injuries. He returned to light duties but suffered bruises on his right side. Also notes New Residence Lots and Streets details: A Dodson bought Rev A B Campbell’s residence and lot on Lee Street, plans to divide into building lots and run streets, within city limits and near the street railway.
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Mr. A. Hirsch
Hirsch
A. Dodson
A. B. Campbell
F. A. Gyles
Lee Street
Bivins
Change and controversy at the Bank of Southwestern Georgia
Bank officers weighed out ten dollars in half dollars and saw a large deposit of ten thousand dollars in smaller coins last Monday. The Savannah Weekly News prospectus is promoted as the South’s largest weekly. A barber dispute led Gus Turner to draw a razor and injure Geo Powell, with both to face the Mayor.
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Bank of Southwestern Georgia
Savannah Weekly News
South
Gus Turner
Geo. Powell
Tam closing mat tings sale at low New York prices
Tam closing nut mattings on hand at low New York retail prices to make room for splen did stock of new carpeting now arriving and marked at very low figures for cash. J J Grastenny, agent, Medreak Sete Wue Hy Oe.
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New York
J.J. Grastenny
Medreak Sete Wue
Dress Goods Sale Opens with New Paris Fashions
Our unprecedented Dress Goods sale is in full blast with daily openings of over one hundred new sulta in Paris combinations. Exclusive side band novelties, Persian garnitures, and Black Goods in forty styles. Large stock of silks, ingros grain, faille, and Pean de Sole. Kid gloves and 5 button embroidered blacks offered at cut prices. Thornton Wheatley advertises The Leader and Controller Old Homestead. R T Brewer from Albany promotes Southern light. Lamar's Diarrhoaa Mixture touted for bowel relief. Macon Oil Trust pays 20 cents per bushel for cotton seed delivered at Council's Warehouse.
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Paris
Priest- Iey
Faille
Thornton Wheatley
Dangerous street drovers threaten city safety in Americus
A local notice from K Lowe warns that horse drovers pass through Americus streets to market at night. He urges city council action to stop the practice, citing near misses with pedestrians and frightened nursery guests. He notes mercury tonics and a warning on various remedies, and mentions products and suppliers in Georgia.
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Belog
Lamar Street
Personal notices and visits fill local scene
A flurry of names and travels as Dan B Davis and others were seen in the city. Col Butt and Prof Layfield from Richland and Buenayj were noted in Americus. Miss Viola Bell returns from Vienna, Misses Wilmot, Everett visit Lumpkin, Sheriff Holder travels to Abbeville as a state witness. Misses Bell, Ward and Jowers head to Grange for college. Mrs Fort hosts visitors from North Georgia. Pure blackberry cordial advertised for children. Thomas M Goodwin from Cincinnati stops in on his way to Abbeville to view the new military organization uniforms.
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B. W. Davis
Dan
E. M. Butt
Buenayj
Viola Bell
Condens
N. E. Pr
Allen House
Missea
Lizzle Wilmot
Everett
Lumpkin
Our
W. C. Duncan
Colpent
Americus
G. O. Loving
Q Farnum
Dawson
Visi
Maggie Davis
Williford
James Fricker
Daugh
Minnie
Troy Holder
Ste County
Abbeville
Francis Bell
Mamie Ward
Jowers
Webster County
Grange
Judge Fort
North
Gia
Susan Evans
City
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Merics
EL. Glessner
Baan
Sum
Organ of
Reptember
Messrs
Johnson & Harrold
Mary Haynes
Price Place
Americus Guano Co
Geo. Stapleton
Brannew
T. 8. Greene
Friendship Association
Friendship Baptist Association
Bethel Church
Acard
Anniel Pickett
A. Hirsch
Cotton Avenue
W. H. Smaw
Smaw
Willsford, Matthews & Co
Morgan Eldridge
John Fussell
Cook’s Pharmacy
Congress
Lamar
The
Catholic Mirror
Baltimore
Jas. R. Randall
Augusta
Phil Moss
Jim Moss
Jim Boone
Joe Boone
Sim Johnson
Sherman Boone
Louis Harris
Miss Anniel Pickett
Dugent
C. R. Whitley
P. L. Holt
Columbus
Ohio
W. K. Wheatley
Athens
State University
Walt
Hall
John Perguson
D. F. Davenport
Fargee
John W. Masury & Son
LoVegn Williford, Matthews & CO
Bank of Ame
Old Homestead
R. T. Brewer
Albany
Davis Bros
Savannah
Brewer
Macon Oil Trust Co
L. G. Council
K. Lowe
Americus, Ga
Swift
Spescific Company
Athanta
J. W. Shughter
Marion County
Beenaxax & Dune
Sweckel
Dean Dene
Alice Wheatley
Conx's
Unitas
Thos. M. Goodwin
Caelnati
Pettil Manufacturing Co
Ita
Bananes
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