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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1886
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR shows an old issue header and scattered notes about stationery and blank books. Details are incomplete with garbled place names and dates, offering no clear event or full entities to summarize into a complete news item.
Local notes report an artesian well festival planned for May 1 in Waycroes with prep for May 18 events and a centennial celebration. Various ads note traveling depots, grocers IL A McGee & Bro, and Wm Parker family visiting, plus Mrs Waldron traveling to Burkennty for health.
A large funeral assembled in Waycross last Wednesday for Dr. W. B. Folks. The service at the Methodist church, led by Reva Anthony, followed by a procession including Masonic lodges and railroad men, mourned a husband, father and friend. The Headlight notes Folks helped found the paper and urges fidelity to its mission, while the issue also promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and reports on a May 18 festival for an artesian well and local notices.
Advertisement for a skin cure priced at 25 cents per box promises relief from bruises rheum fever sores tetter chap ped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions with money back guarantee if not satisfied. Sold at Folks and Morgan 2
Georgia Chariton County notice states Shean Taylor widow of Wm M Taylor has applied for a year’s support for herself and minor children from the deceased’s estate. Appraisers have filed their report and the Ordinary will rule on it at 11 o’clock a.m. on the first Monday in May, March 29, 1886.
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