Groceries Advertisement with Bargain Prices
An old grocery ad offers 17 pounds sugar for 1.00 12 pounds good coffee for 1.00 48 pounds good flour for 990 and 6 boxes potash for 25c. The notice claims genuine goods and urges customers to buy seed.
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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1899
Page
5
An old grocery ad offers 17 pounds sugar for 1.00 12 pounds good coffee for 1.00 48 pounds good flour for 990 and 6 boxes potash for 25c. The notice claims genuine goods and urges customers to buy seed.
Vienna Georgia readers are invited to Jordan Bros and JT Westbrook for Christmas outfits including hats, shirts, suits, and full dress apparel. Dr M A Simmons Liver Medicine and Dr Tichenor antiseptic are advertised, along with firework stock and a loan operation. Cordele business ads claim wide stock, home deliveries, and promotions for A E Jordan Co and Calhoun & Co.
Purely Personal items list residents and visitors in the Cordele region including A L Powell, J D Taylor, J B E Howell, J D Cobb, Homer Shipp, O M Heard, Dr F Bivins, G B Haslam, Rev O E Crawley, Judge D L Henderson, John B Adkins, Andy M Lane, J S Shipp, Cols W V Harvard and Watts Powell, Prof RO Powell, Representatives Harvard and Tracy, Miss Annie Sheppard, Miss Ida Sumerford, B F Forbes, Mrs J R Horne and daughter, Dr J M Whitehead, Mrs H J Lawrence, Miss Kicklighter, Miss Lucy Belle Harvard, J H Carnes, and local merchants advertise horses, mules, hats, fireworks, and Simmons Squaw Wine.
A Christmas greeting from the Progress notes moving in the county, Shingle mill activity at Calhoun & Co, and local illnesses. Mentions Rev J M Kelley at Unadilla Baptist, Mr McInvale ill near Fuqua, Mrs Belle Patrick moving to Pine Street, Vienna-area students returning home, and a forthcoming half-page next week. Also references Prof T A Murray’s teaching at Richwood and a correction about a recent wedding notice in the Dooly County News.
Mrs Beulah Lewis sister of the Vienna Baptist church dies after a life of faith and service. The obituary commends her devotion to church building, neighborly kindness, and steadfast Christian hope. A church resolution laments her loss and prays for the bereaved family and Saviour guidance.
An advertising claim extols Green's August Flower as the era's top sold medicine for indigestion biliousness and general malaise. It says mothers grandmothers used it before doctors were common, noting it cleanses the system regulates liver function and relieves various aches. A sample bottle is offered at Dr Castovall's Drug Store.
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