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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1887
Page
1
Patient recalls illness with heart affection and fainting spells. The speaker mentions prior hospitalization and doctors advising rest and a possible benefit from a call. The passage reflects a personal health account with limited readable details.
Special notices advertise butter at twenty five cents, patent flour, and various goods. Nelson & Co of Savannah sell Green Box coffee, stoves, silverware, and wedding cards. Sirmans offers opera slippers and straw hats. Cash or C O D orders welcomed. stationery and laces promoted.
A compact collection of church announcements and community notices from Harrisburg Illinois. It lists services, sacraments, prayer meetings, Sunday School times, and names of pastors and superintendents for several denominations. It also includes endorsements for medicinal products and a local testimonial.
Town items, arrivals, and church notices fill this page with snippets from Waycross and nearby. Mentions include Miss McDonald of McDonald's mill, Mr. Parker, Lanier and Youmans subscriptions, church activities, fruit crop updates, and a push for local education with an academy planned pending materials.
Last Sunday Rev Loyd preached a forcible sermon on Foreign Missions. After the service the congregation contributed 209 10 to fund missionary work abroad. A milk-peddler employed by H W Reed will visit Baltimore then return this Fall. He says he loves the South and finds it best.
The Georgia State Sunday School Association holds its fourteenth annual session in Americus from April 27 to 29 1887. All county associations are urged to send delegates at a rate of one per every three hundred scholars, with names sent to Rev AJ M Williams Americus and J C Courtney Atlanta. Methodist Church services report continued interest with 15 added to the church during the current meeting, totaling 46 for the year. Miss Jennie Smith of the National Superintendent Railway Department Woman's Christian Temperance Union will participate.
ME. J. FE. B. LOVE resigns his position as local passenger agent after a long tenure to accept another job. He leaves behind many friends who wish him success, and his familiar face will be missed by locals and northern visitors who have benefited from his courtesy at the depot.
Information reports a homicide in Clinch county near the Okefenoke Swamp. Joord Allen Jr. quarreled with Tamblin over burding the woods. Tamblin struck Allen with an ax and he died a week later. Tamblin has escaped arrest. The men were connected by marriage and lived about a mile from each other near Valdasty Time.
A tale from Waycross describes a tenant in a Georgia town killing a horned snake about four feet six inches long with a horn on its tail tip. The creature, dark reddish brown, resembled a chicken snake and attacked with venomous tail strikes. The item reflects local interest and mentions letters from Cedar Falls and Georgia’s climate and opportunities.
A fragment notes wood-saws including cross-cut and dice ton hand-zaws available at Blaghelaer and Dich IP.
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